Because it wants to be a long word
The word hippopoto monstrose squippedalio phobia refers to the fear of long words. The word is actually put together, and not broken up into four parts. This ironic phobia is painful towards those who fear long words, as well as those who are not classified as having the phobia.
Hippopotomonstrosesqippedaliophobia is the fear of long words which is funny because the phobia is a long word!
Any irrational fear - and it MUST be irrational - is a phobia and will have a long word ending in ~phobia as its medical term. A fear of snakes is not a phobia, it's perfectly proper to be afraid of snakes, but to be afraid of them in a place where they don't exist, or are most unlikely to be found, would be a phobia.
ArachnophobiaArachno is the prefix or stem of the word, while phobia is the suffix.
If you included the dashes, it would be a real word. It means the fear of long words, yet i is the longest phobia word.
Yes, the fear of long words does exist.There are two names for this phobia. The first is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. The second, a shorter version, is sesquipedalophobia.Ironically they are both long words.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia Note: The word above is correct and means a fear of long words!
Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women. Panphobia - Fear of everything Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words (who created the word is an idiot) Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is not a real phobia, it was internet created. There's also Phobiphobia - fear of obtaining a phobia.
fear of long words ironic isn't it?
Of or pertaining to extremely long words
it means the phobia of long words surprisingly
The word phobia is a noun, and -phobia is the common suffix for the names of many fears.