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| Genuphobia | |
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| Specialty | Psychology |
Genuphobia (from Latin word genu meaning "knee") is the fear of one's own knees or someone else's knees or the act of kneeling.[1][2]
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Helen Saul (2001). "Phobias: Fighting the Fear". Arcade Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 9781559706476. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
We may not know anyone with taphophobia (fear or being buried alive), antophobia (flowers), genuphobia (knees), metrophobia (poetry), or zoophobia (animals), but all these do exist.
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Hannah Wood (2009-03-13). "The woman who is so scared of knees she's lost friends and can't go swimming". The Mirror (UK). Retrieved 2015-06-08.
She was just 15 at the time and, now 19, her life is severely hampered by a fear of knees, known medically as genuphobia.