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Sensitive; Proverb

fools rush in where angels fear to tread; the blind don't fear snakes

Colloquial

fear of having blank days (e.g. for a freelancer); fear of not having anything planned

scary story; horror story

mysophobia; germophobia

feelings of dread and aversion

Medicine

hemophobia; haemophobia; fear of blood

dysmorphophobia; body dysmorphic disorder; cacophobia

house of horrors

Finance

fear index; volatility index

social phobias

coulrophobia; fear of clowns

Medicine

entomophobia; fear of insects

Medicine

nosophobia; disease phobia

Psychiatry

eremophobia; monophobia

Medicine

specific phobia

xenophobia

Medicine

olfactory reference syndrome; ORS; autodysomophobia; fear of having an unpleasant body odour

Medicine

fear of flying; aviophobia; aerophobia

Military

shock and awe

Psychiatry

pathological fear of passing wind

Islamophobia

Proverb

if everyone crosses against the red light together, there's nothing to be afraid of; there's no reason to feel guilty about doing something bad if everyone does it

Proverb

when you are in a state of fear, the smallest thing will startle you; a fleeing soldier takes fright even from a head of silver grass

Proverb

once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake)