phobism

English

Noun

phobism (countable and uncountable, plural phobisms)

1. (dated) A phobia.
   • 1968, Pathogenesis of mental disease in childhood, page 39:

     Those pathological experiences of adults that have been and still are diagnosed as hysteria are, in the child, primarily phobisms.

   • 1998, MacKay L. Smith, The Jews of Montréal and Their Judaisms: A Voyage of Discovery:

     When personal stress rises and when these problems attain some significance, every group exhibits some degree of phobism. The level of protection needed for the family, or for the group itself, creates, or recreates, tribalism.