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What is the difference between phobia and philia?

phobia | philia | Antonyms |

Philia is a antonym of phobia.



As nouns the difference between phobia and philia

is that phobia is an irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular while philia is friendship (translating Greek φιλία in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

phobia

English

Noun

  • An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular.
    • I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.

    Related terms

    * -phobe * -phobia * -phobic

    Derived terms

    Hyponyms

    * See .

    See also

    * *

    philia

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia philia)
  • friendship (translating Greek'' )
  • liking
  • (countable) a psychological disorder characterized by an irrational favorable disposition towards something

    • Antonyms

    * (in psychology ): phobia

    References

    * OED 2006