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Gerascophobia is an abnormal or incessant fear of growing older or ageing (senescence).[1] Fear is characterised as an unpleasant emotion experienced as a result of some perceived threat or source of danger, in the case of gerascophobia that threat is ageing. This fear is irrational and disproportionate to any threat posed and persists even in the case that the individual is in perfect health.[1]
Gerascophobia is an abnormal or incessant fear of growing older or ageing (senescence). Fear is characterised as an unpleasant emotion experienced as...
Gerontophobia is the fear of age-related self-degeneration (similar to Gerascophobia), or a hatred or fear of the elderly due to memento mori.[citation needed]...
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(acrophobia), lightning and thunderstorms (astraphobia), or aging (gerascophobia). Situational type – Including the fear of small confined spaces (claustrophobia)...
expressing the memento mori philosophy, most famously Gestaþáttr number 77: Gerascophobia (fear of aging) Gerontophobia (fear of elderly people) Carpe diem Et...
Fear of growing old may refer to: Gerascophobia Gerontophobia This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fear of growing old. If...
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overprotective nature. A gay screenwriter suffering from writer's block and gerascophobia reaches out to Sipowicz for help recovering his stolen Oscar. Note Guest...
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