Fans of horror, rejoice: A new study suggests that books are more attuned to fear than they used to be. Researchers, led by Alberto Acerbi and Vasileios Lampos, combed through a Google database of ...
It’s certainly oddly fitting that the fear of long words is named with one of the longest words in the English language: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. This 36-letter word is practically a ...
Kakorrhaphiophobia is one such word. It describes a kind of fear that silently influences one's behaviour, decisions, and ...