entheomania: An obsessive zeal for religion or demonomania; religious insanity. This is also said to be a mania in which the subject considers himself inspired by God.
entomomania: A compulsive fascination with insects.
entomophobia: A dread of insects of all kinds; including those out in nature, and in one's residence; especially, when they are found in one's bed.
entonophobia: A pathological fear of ticks.
eosophobia: An abnormal fear of the dawn; a depression caused by a fear of the dawn, in some cases, because such phobics are afraid of being seen by others or they fear criticism about their appearance or their actions.
ephebiphobia: An abnormal fear of teenagers.
Teenagers hardly ever hang up anything;
particularly telephones.
-Anonymous
epilepsy: See hylephobia, hylophobia
epistaxiophobia: A phobia of having a nosebleed for fear of bleeding to death or an anxiety when seeing others with a bleeding nose.
When seeing anyone with a nose bleed, he/she may have a lowering of blood pressure, a reduction of breathing rate, and a feeling of weakness or even a fainting spell.
epistemophobia: An unreasonable fear of knowledge.
epomania: A rage for writing epics.
equinomania: An exaggerated fascination or compulsion to be with horses and to even have horses when such possession is impractical.
equinophobia: An abnormal fear of horses, perhaps resulting from the sight of such powerful animals up close or a terror of being harmed by them.
erasionomania: A compulsion to work.
eremikophobia: A fear of deserts or sands.
eremiomania: Irresistible craving for quiet or solitude.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides
of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone, and it has
created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Tillich
eremiophobia, eremitophobia, eremophobia, ermitophobia: An abnormal fear of solitude, of being alone, of quiet places, or of being in deserted places.
When we can not bear to be alone, it means
we do not properly value the only companion
we will have from birth to death: ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
eretodromomania: A compulsion to wander.
ereuthrophobia, erythrophobia: An excessive fear of blushing.
ergasiomania: 1. A compulsion to work or to be active; a morbid need to work. 2. Undue eagerness to perform surgery.
ergasiophobia, ergasophobia: 1. An excessive fear or hatred of work or a reference to the fear of surgical operations. 2. A pathological fear of functioning or acting generally associated with an underlying dread that if movement takes place something disastrous will happen; related to the magical feeling that what happens to oneself also happens to the environment. A patient may believe that if he stops functioning or moving, the world will do the same.
The world is filled with willing people;
some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-Robert Frost
