how to pronounce phobia

/ˈfəʊ.bi.ə/

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phobia is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of phobia in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… it's beneficial that a phobia is passed …”

meaning of phobia

Phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that is characterized by an intense, irrational fear of a specific object or situation.

phobia frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word phobia occurs in english on average 1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics phobia can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that phobia can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;