Words at Play : Top 10 Unusual Phobias, Vol. 1
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What It Is:
A morbid fear of being touched.
Word History:
Haptein is a Greek word that means to fasten (that is, to bring two things together).
Bonus Points:
Haptics is the English word for "a science concerned with the sense of touch," used in technologies like touch-screen displays that let users feel clicks.
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