The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong
is to let him have his own way.
-Josh Billings (1818-1885), American humorist
counterphobia: Searching for what is feared; preferring that which one is afraid of or seeking fearful situations.
Probably the basic component of the pleasure derived from counterphobia is the gratification that the person takes in the fact that indulging in the particular pleasure is now possible without anxiety.
counting: arithmomania, arithmophobia
cratomania: An obsession, or a monomania, for power, pre-eminence, and superiority.
creatures, animated-nonliving: automatonophobia
cremnomania: A compulsion to climb cliffs.
cremnophobia: An abnormal fear of steep cliffs (precipices). This phobia is probably related to fears of heights and falling. Some people feel as if they have suddenly found themselves on the edge of a precipice in a roaring wind.
cremophobia: An abnormal fear of being alone.
The great thing about marriage is that it
enables one to be alone without feeling loneliness.
-Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season
cresomania: 1. An obsession for obtaining great wealth. 2. The delusion that one is rich or possesses great wealth.
crowds: See these word groups; agoramania, agoraphobia, demomania, demophobia, enochlophobia, ochlomania, ochlophobia
criticism: See these words; allodoxaphobia, catagelophobia, emissophobia, katagelophobia, koinoniphobia
cryophobia: An excessive fear of extremely cold temperatures, ice, or frost.
crystallophobia [see hyalophobia for more information]: An abnormal fear of glass or crystal.
cyberphobia: A pathological fear of computers, computerization, or anything related to computers because of the fear that they might replace human intelligence and so control human beings.
Some people who are faced with learning to work with computers show symptoms of classic phobia; such as, nausea, dizziness, cold sweat, and high blood pressure.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new
functions, including the consumption of homework
formerly eaten by the dog.
-Doug Larson
cyclomania: An exaggerated desire for bicycling.
cyclophobia: An abnormal fear of bicycles.
cymophobia, kymophobia: An abnormal fear of sea swells, or waves which is related to a strong apprehension of motion, a terror of water, or a dread of landscapes in which water and leaves are prominent.
cynomania: An intense enthusiasm or obsession for dogs.
cynophobia, kynophobia: An excessive fear or intense dread of dogs or of rabies.
Some people see dogs as fearsome, unpleasant, and dangerous when walking by them on a sidewalk or pathway. Some dogs intensify this fear by barking or lunging at strangers who may walk near them when they are taken out for a walk by their owners.
Cynophobia is considered a morbid mental state, usually hysterical in character, sometimes precipitated by the attack and bite of a dog.
cypridophobia: 1. Morbid fear of venereal disease. 2. An abnormal fear of the sexual act. 3. False belief of having a venereal disease.
cyprinomania: An abnormal desire to be with prostitutes or immoral women instead of one's wife or a so-called "straight" woman.
cyprinophobia, cyprianophobia: A fear of lewd, immoral women; fear of prostitutes.
Some men fear getting diseases from prostitutes, while others think they are evil and should be avoided. Since prostitution is often associated with other criminal activities, men may fear violence, theft, blackmail, and arrest; if they have anything to do with a prostitute.
cypripareuniamania: An uncontrollable desire to be with lewd and immoral women; especially, with prostitutes.
cypriphobia, cypridophobia: An abnormal or intensive fear of participating in sexual activities or of getting a venereal disease. From a Greek element kypris, a reference to Aphrodite, the goddess of love.
cytheromania: Another term for nymphomania [an abnormal sexual desire of a woman for men].
