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Squeamish vs Phobia - What's the difference?

squeamish | phobia |

As an adjective squeamish

is easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous.

As a noun phobia is

an irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular.

squeamish

English

Alternative forms

* sweamish, swaimish (dialectal) * squeimish, squemish, squeamous (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • easily bothered or upset; tending to be nauseated or nervous
    • He might have made a good doctor, had he not been so squeamish about the sight of blood.

    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

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    * See .

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