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SCHOOL PHOBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does school phobia mean?
• SCHOOL PHOBIA (noun)
The noun SCHOOL PHOBIA has 1 sense:
1. a child's sudden fear of attending school
Familiarity information: SCHOOL PHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A child's sudden fear of attending school
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("school phobia" is a kind of...):
social phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with situations in which you are subject to criticism by others (as fear of eating in public or public speaking etc))
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