aibohphobia.
An irrational fear of palindromes.
Meaning & usage
An irrational fear of palindromes.
Where this word comes from
Deliberately constructed to be a palindrome, combining the suffix -phobia with its reversed spelling. First appeared as a response to National Challenge #36, in a newspaper column written by J Baxter Newgate. The challenge was to invent a phobia. The column did not identify the entrant. (Source: Orlando Sentinel, Oct 22, 1977)
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