What Are The Criteria For Long Words Phobia?

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is perhaps the longest word in the word reference - and, in an ironic twist, is the name for a fear of long words phobia. Sesquipedalophobia is one more term for phobia.

The American Psychiatric Association doesn't authoritatively perceive this phobia. All things being equal, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is viewed as a social long words phobia.

The most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) traces a quite certain definition for social long words phobia.

As per the DSM-5, criteria for long words phobia includes:

The fear or anxiety is unbalanced to the social circumstance

The fear or anxiety is relentless and the social circumstance is unnecessarily kept away from

The fear, anxiety, or evasion causes clinical misery