Panphobia

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Panphobia (from Greek πᾶν - pan, neuter of "πᾶς" - pas, "all"[1] and φόβος - phobos, "fear"[2]) also called omniphobia, pantophobia, or panophobia, is a phobia known as a "non-specific fear" or "the fear of everything" and is described as "a vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil". It has most famously been mentioned by Lucy Van Pelt in the Peanuts special, A Charlie Brown Christmas.

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  1. ^ πᾶς, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
  2. ^ φόβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
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