In psychology, neophobia is defined as the persistent and abnormal fear of anything new.

Having persistent but unreasonable fear of a situation that involves unfamiliar people or being judged by others.

The reason: persistent fears about what Washington might do to insure a recovery.

America's most persistent fear, evidently, is the specter of growing up.

A phobia is a persistent, excessive fear of a specific object or situation.

An irrepressible persistent fear of an object, activity or situation esp.

I have a persistent fear that others will think I'm not giving 100 per cent.

Little wonder that throughout the war and post-war period there was a persistent fear of inflation.

Abnormal and persistent fear of childbirth is known as tokophobia.

Millions of people suffer from persistent irrational fears called phobias.