heliomania: An uncontrollable craving, or desire, for being in the sun.
A fool can no more see his own folly
than he can see his ears.
-William M. Thackeray
Making mistakes isn't stupid;
disregarding them is.
-Anonymous
heliophobia: 1. An abnormal sensitivity to the effects of sunlight; a strong aversion to sunlight. In some cases, it may be based on the many warnings that one may get skin cancer from exposure to the sun. 2. In biology, plants that are intolerant to high light intensity; shade-loving.
hell: See hadephobia, strychninophobia, stygiophobia.
Hellenomania [actually, this should be Hellenologomania]: 1. Said to be an impulse or tendency to use complicated, cumbersome terms, frequently Greek or Latin, instead of what is considered to be readily "understandable English words".
Dr. Robert J. Campbell in his Psychiatric Dictionary says, "The impulse is rampant in the field of psychiatric writing, as witness the list of (generally undesirable) terms under fear of."
Dr. Campbell goes on to say, "Interestingly enough, hellenomania is itself a pseudoerudite misnomer since literally it means a pathological love of Greeks or their country. The correct term for what is defined above is hellenologomania."
Hellenophobia [actually, this should be Hellenologophobia]: An irrational fear or avoidance of Greek (and Latin) words or of any complex scientific or "pseudoscientific" terminology.
helminthophobia: A morbid fear of worm infestations. Some people fear eating certain foods; especially pork, fish, etc., because consuming such edibles could infest the phobic with worms.
hemaphobia, haematophobia, hematophobia, hemophobia: An abnormal fear of the sight of blood or of transfusions.
Phobics of blood may recoil, close their eyes, or even faint when faced with the sight of their own or another's blood. Victims of this phobia may experience more nausea and faintness than fear or anxiety. With hemaphobics, there is often a sharp drop in heart rate and blood pressure.
When the natural mild fear of blood or injury is magnified to phobic severity, it can lead to substantial handicaps. Sufferers may avoid essential medical procedures, preferring to endure a remediable disease even if it threatens their lives. They may also avoid otherwise attractive careers as doctors or nurses.
heresyphobia, heresophobia: An excessive fear of challenges to official doctrine, or a fear of radical deviations from the "orthodox" view.
heredity: See patroiophobia.
heroinomania: An addiction to heroin.
herpetomania, herptomania: An abnormal fondness for snakes and other reptiles.
Without Contraries
is no progression.
Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy,
Love and Hate,
are necessary
to Human Existence.
-William Blake, English poet, artist
He who hath been bitten
by a serpent is afraid
of a rope.
-English Proverb
