cacodemonomania, cacodaemonomania: Obsession that one is controlled by demonic or evil spirits. A condition in which the patient believes he/she is inhabited with, or possessed by, a devil or some other bad spirit.
cacohydrophobia: A fear of drinking or of being contaminated in some way with bad water.
News Item: "Water from the faucet could
contain molecules that dinosaurs drank."
The news on the water pollution front
Is hardly a shining gem.
We drink the same water the dinosaurs drank—
And look what happened to them!
-E.B. de Vito
cacophobia: An excessive fear of being ugly or of seeing ugliness in others.
cacorrhaphiaphobia: A fear of failure; literally, bad + planning + dread.
Psychiatry enables us to correct
our faults by confessing.
our parents' shortcomings.
-Laurence J. Peter
cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, cenophobia, kainophobia, kainotophobia: An exaggerated fear of novelty or newness in general. Many people feel secure in their lives by doing things in the same way (and place) every day. They are very insecure and anxious when they are required to do something in a different way.
calciphobia: In botany, the inability of some plants to grow in limerich soil.
caligynephobia: An abnormal fear of seeing beautiful women.
callomania: 1. A pathologic attraction to people or objects because of their beauty alone, without regard for other qualities. 2. The delusion that one is beautiful.
Beauty is only skin deep,
and the world is full of thin-skinned people.
-Richard Armour
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.
That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?
-Jean Kerr
It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep,
or I'd be rotten to the core.
-Phyllis Diller
cancerphobia, cancerophobia, carcinomatophobia, carcinophobia: An excessive fear of cancer.
capnomania: An obsessive or uncontrollable desire or habit of smoking one or more tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, etc.) which may also be defined as an addiction. Also see fumimania
capnophobia: 1. An intense hatred, or fear, of smoking or having anyone around who is polluting the air in the immediate vicinity with tobacco smoke; whether from cigarettes, cigars, pipe, or from any similar process of tobacco-smoke distribution. 2. Also a fear of smoke exhausts from motor vehicles which are blamed for causing so much pollution in the air.
Such a phobia is considered justified especially when cigarette ads include warnings; such as, "Tobacco seriously damages health" [Source: EU Council Directive 89/622/EC] which is required on any tobacco-product advertisement in the Euro Union.
Other non-European countries have the following warnings:
Australia: "Smoking causes lung cancer, Smoking is addictive, Smoking kills, Smoking causes heart disease, Smoking when pregnant harms your baby, and Your smoking can harm others."
Canada: "Cigarettes cause fatal lung disease, Cigarettes cause strokes and heart disease, Tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in non-smokers, Cigarettes are addictive, Tobacco use can make you impotent, Don't poison us, Cigarettes cause mouth diseases."
The United States: Besides strong warnings about cigarettes, there are the following: "Cigar smoking represents a significant health risk and is not a safe alternative to cigarette smoking," according to the American Cancer Society (of the U.S.). "Teenagers and young adults may be particularly vulnerable because of the mistaken idea that cigars are safer than cigarettes."
"Smoking three to four cigars per day increases the risk of oral cancer to more than eight times that of a nonsmoker, and smoking more than five cigars daily raises the oral cancer risk to 16 times that of nonsmokers, said officials of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Additional U.S. warnings include the following:
"SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: Cigar Smoking Can Cause Cancers, Of The Mouth And Throat, Even If You Do Not Inhale."
"SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: Cigar Smoking Can Cause Lung, Cancer And Heart Disease."
"SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: Tobacco Use Increases The Risk Of Infertility, Stillbirth And Low Birth Weight."
"SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: Cigars Are Not A Safe Alternative To Cigarettes."
"SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: Tobacco Smoke Increases The Risk Of Lung Cancer And Heart Disease, Even In Nonsmokers."
With all of the warnings, one wonders why there aren't more capnophobics among us.
carcinophobia: See cancerphobia for information.
cardiophobia: An excessive fear of heart disease.
This phobia may include any perceived disorder or defect that one fears will interfere with the normal functioning of the heart.
