List of phobias

List of fear of different things or objects

"-phobia" redirects here. For the class of psychological disorders, see Phobia.

The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g., agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g., hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g., acidophobia), and in medicine to describe hypersensitivity to a stimulus, usually sensory (e.g., photophobia). In common usage, they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject (e.g., homophobia). The suffix is antonymic to -phil-.

For more information on the psychiatric side, including how psychiatry groups phobias such as agoraphobia, social phobia, or simple phobia, see phobia. The following lists include words ending in -phobia, and include fears that have acquired names. In some cases, the naming of phobias has become a word game, a notable example being a 1998 humorous article published by BBC News.[1] In some cases, a word ending in -phobia may have an antonym with the suffix -phil-, e.g., Germanophobe/Germanophile.

Many -phobia lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name. Sometimes it leads to bizarre results, such as suggestions to cure "prostitute phobia".[2] Such practice is known as content spamming and is used to attract search engines.

An article published in 1897 in the American Journal of Psychology noted, "the absurd tendency to give Greek names to objects feared (which, as Arndt says, would give us such terms as klopsophobia – fear of thieves and triakaidekaphobia [sic] – fear of the number 13 ...)".[3]

## Psychological conditions

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Specialists may prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms such as personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and avoidant personality disorder. Terms should strictly have a Greek prefix, although many are irregularly formed with Latin or even English prefixes. Many use inaccurate or imprecise prefixes, such as aerophobia (fear of air) for fear of flying.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2014)

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### A

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Phobia  | Condition

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Achluophobia | fear of darkness
Acousticophobia | fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia
Acrophobia | fear of heights
Aerophobia | fear of aircraft or flying
Agoraphobia | fear of certain inescapable/unsafe situations
Agyrophobia | fear of crossing streets
Aichmophobia | fear of sharp or pointed objects such as needles, pins or knives
Ailurophobia | fear/dislike of cats, a zoophobia
Alektorophobia | fear/dislike of chickens, a zoophobia
Anatidaephobia | fear/dislike of ducks, a zoophobia
Algophobia | fear of pain
Ancraophobia | fear of wind or drafts
Androphobia  | fear of adult men[4]
Anthropophobia | fear of human beings[4]
Apeirophobia | excessive fear of infinity, eternity, and the uncountable
Aphenphosmphobia | fear of being touched
Apiphobia | fear of bees, a zoophobia
Apotemnophobia  | fear of amputees, and/or of becoming an amputee[5][6]
Aquaphobia | fear of water. Distinct from hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies.
Arachnophobia | fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions, a zoophobia
Astraphobia | fear of thunder and lightning
Atelophobia | fear of imperfection; a synonym of perfectionism
Athazagoraphobia | fear of forgetting, forgetfulness and/or being forgotten[7][8]
Atychiphobia | fear of failure[9] or negative evaluations of others
Autophobia | fear of isolation[10]

### B

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Phobia  | Condition

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Bacteriophobia | fear of bacteria
Basophobia, basiphobia  | fear associated with astasia-abasia (fear of walking/standing erect) and a fear of falling
Batrachophobia | fear/dislike of frogs and other amphibians, a zoophobia
Belonephobia | fear of needles or pins[11][12]
Bibliophobia | fear of books
Blood-injection-injury type phobia | a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias

### C

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Phobia  | Condition

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Cacophobia, aschimophobia  | fear of ugliness
Carcinophobia | fear of cancer
Catoptrophobia | fear of mirrors
Cephalalgiaphobia | fear of headaches
Chemophobia | fear of chemicals
Cherophobia | fear of happiness
Chionophobia  | fear of snow[13]
Chromophobia, chromatophobia  | fear of colors
Chronophobia | fear of time and time moving forward
Cibophobia, sitophobia  | aversion to food, synonymous with anorexia nervosa
Claustrophobia | fear of having no escape and being closed in
Coprophobia | fear of feces or defecation[4]
Coulrophobia | fear of clowns[14]
Cyberphobia | fear of computers
Cynophobia | fear/dislike of dogs, a zoophobia

### D

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Phobia  | Condition

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Dendrophobia | fear of trees[15][16]
Dental fear, odontophobia  | fear of dentists and dental procedures
Dentophobia | fear of dentists
Domatophobia | fear of houses
Driving phobia, driving anxiety  | fear of driving
Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia  | a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect
Dystichiphobia  | fear of being involved in an accident[17]

### E

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Phobia  | Condition

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Ecophobia | fear of cataclysmic environmental change
Eisoptrophobia  | fear of mirrors or seeing one's reflection in a mirror[18][19] (not to be confused with catoptrophobia)
Emetophobia | fear of vomiting
Enochlophobia | fear of crowds
Entomophobia | fear/dislike of insects, a zoophobia
Ephebiphobia | fear of youth; inaccurate, exaggerated and sensational characterization of young people
Equinophobia | fear of horses
Ergophobia, ergasiophobia  | fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating
Erotophobia | fear of sexual love or sexual abuse
Eurotophobia | aversion to female genitals

### F

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Phobia  | Condition

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Frigophobia | fear of becoming too cold

### G

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Phobia  | Condition

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Galeophobia | fear of sharks
Gamophobia | fear of marriage
Gelotophobia | fear of being laughed at
Gephyrophobia | fear of bridges
Genophobia, coitophobia  | fear of sexual intercourse
Genuphobia | fear of knees or the act of kneeling
Gerascophobia | fear of growing old or aging
Gerontophobia | fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
Globophobia | fear of balloons
Glossophobia | fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
Gymnophobia | fear of nudity[20]
Gynophobia | fear of adult women

### H

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Phobia  | Condition

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Halitophobia | fear of bad breath
Haphephobia | fear of being touched
Heptadekaphobia, heptadecaphobia  | fear of the number 17
Hedonophobia | fear of obtaining pleasure
Heliophobia | fear of the sun or sunlight
Vermiphobia, elminthophobia, scoleciphobia  | fear of worms,[21] a zoophobia
Hemophobia, haemophobia  | fear of blood
Herpetophobia | fear/dislike of reptiles or amphibians, a zoophobia
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | fear of the number 666
Hippophobia | fear/dislike of horses,[22] a zoophobia
Hodophobia | fear of travel
Hypnophobia, somniphobia  | fear of sleep or nightmares[23]
Hypochondria | fear of illness

### I

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Phobia  | Condition

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Ichthyophobia | fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish, a zoophobia
Insectophobia | fear of insects, a zoophobia

### K

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Phobia  | Condition

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Katsaridaphobia  | fear of cockroaches[24]
Koumpounophobia | fear of buttons on clothing[25]

### L

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Phobia  | Condition

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Lilapsophobia | fear of tornadoes or hurricanes
Lepidopterophobia | fear of butterflies and moths, a zoophobia

### M

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Phobia  | Condition

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Mageiricophobia | fear of cooking
Masklophobia | fear of people in masks, costumes and mascots
Melissophobia, apiphobia  | fear/dislike of bees, a zoophobia
Monophobia | fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self
Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia  | fear/dislike of mice or rats, a zoophobia
Mycophobia  | fear of mushrooms[26]
Myrmecophobia | fear of ants, a zoophobia
Mysophobia, germophobia  | fear of germs, contamination or dirt

### N

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Phobia  | Condition

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Necrophobia | fear of corpses or things associated with death (not to be confused with death anxiety)
Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia, metathesiophobia, prosophobia  | fear of newness, novelty, change or progress
Noctiphobia | fear of the night
Nomophobia | fear of being out of mobile phone contact
Nosocomephobia | fear of hospitals
Nosophobia | fear of contracting a disease
Numerophobia | fear of numbers
Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia  | fear of darkness

### O

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Phobia  | Condition

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Odontophobia | dental fear
Ommetaphobia | fear of eyes
Oneirophobia | fear of dreams
Ophidiophobia | fear/dislike of snakes, a zoophobia
Ophthalmophobia, spotligectophobia, scopophobia, scoptophobia  | fear of being stared at
Ornithophobia | fear/dislike of birds, a zoophobia
Osmophobia, olfactophobia  | fear of odors
Ostraconophobia | fear/dislike of shellfish, a zoophobia

### P

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Phobia  | Condition

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Panphobia | fear of everything or constant generalised fear of an unknown cause
Pedophobia, paedophobia, pediaphobia  | fear of babies and children
Phagophobia | fear of swallowing
Phallophobia | fear of erections or penises
Pharmacophobia | fear of medications
Phasmophobia | fear of ghosts or phantoms
Philophobia | fear of love
Phyllophobia  | fear of leaves[27][28][29][30]
Phobophobia | fear of fear itself or of having a phobia
Phonophobia | fear of loud sounds or voices
Pogonophobia | fear of beards
Pornophobia | dislike or fear of pornography; may be used in reference to the opposition to visual nudity
Porphyrophobia | fear of the color purple, a chromophobia
Pteromerhanophobia | fear of flying
Pyrophobia | fear of fire

### R

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Phobia  | Condition

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Radiophobia | fear of radioactivity or X-rays
Ranidaphobia | fear/dislike of frogs, a zoophobia

### S

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Phobia  | Condition

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Scopophobia, scoptophobia, ophthalmophobia, spotligectophobia  | fear of being looked at or stared at
Sexophobia | fear of sexual organs or sexual activities
Siderodromophobia | fear of trains or railroads
Social phobia | fear of people or social situations
Spectrophobia | fear of mirrors
Spheksophobia | fear of wasps, a zoophobia
Stasiphobia | fear of standing or walking
Submechanophobia | fear of partially or fully submerged man-made objects[31][32]

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Phobia  | Condition

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Taphophobia, taphephobia  | fear of graves, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
Technophobia | fear of advanced technology (see also Luddite)
Telephone phobia | fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls
Teratophobia  | fear of giving birth to a monster[33] or a disfigured foetus[34]
Tetraphobia | fear of the number 4
Thalassophobia | fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean
Thanatophobia | fear of dying, a synonym of death anxiety; not to be confused with necrophobia
Thermophobia | fear of intolerance to high temperatures
Tokophobia | fear of childbirth or pregnancy
Tomophobia | fear of invasive medical procedures[35]
Tonitrophobia | fear of thunder
Toxiphobia, toxophobia, iophobia  | fear of being poisoned
Traumatophobia | a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury
Trichophobia  | delusional fear of something in the roots of the hair that stops it from growing,[36] or fear of hair loss
Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia  | fear of the number 13
Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia  | fear of needles or injections
Trypophobia | fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes[37]

### V

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Phobia  | Condition

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Vehophobia | fear of driving
Veloxrotaphobia | fear of roller coasters
Verminophobia | fear of germs

### Z

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Phobia  | Condition

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Zoophobia | fear of animals

## Cultural prejudices and discrimination

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Phobia  | Condition

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Acephobia | fear/dislike of asexual people
Aporophobia | fear/dislike of people without resources
Arophobia | fear/dislike of aromantic people
Biphobia | fear/dislike of bisexuality or bisexuals
Ephebiphobia | fear/dislike of youth
Gayphobia | fear/dislike of gay men (specifically)
Gerontophobia | fear/dislike of aging or the elderly
Gerascophobia | fear/dislike of aging
Heterophobia | fear/dislike of heterosexuals
Homophobia | fear/dislike of homosexuality, homosexuals, or gays (as opposed to lesbians)
Lesbophobia | fear/dislike of lesbians
Paedophobia | fear/dislike of babies or children
Psychophobia | fear/dislike of mental illness or the mentally ill
Transphobia | fear/dislike of transgender people

### Ethnic/national/religious prejudices and discrimination

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The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti-ethnic or anti-demographic sentiment, such as Americanophobia, Europhobia, Francophobia, Hispanophobia, and Indophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix "anti-" already exists (e.g. Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism). Anti-religious sentiments are expressed in terms such as Christianophobia and Islamophobia.

Phobia  | Condition

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Afrophobia | fear/dislike of Africans
Albanophobia | fear/dislike of Albanians
Anglophobia | fear/dislike of England or English culture
Arabophobia | fear/dislike of Arabs
Catalanophobia | fear/dislike of Catalans, Catalonia, Catalan culture and the Catalan language
Christianophobia | fear/dislike of Christians
Germanophobia | fear/dislike of Germans
Hibernophobia | fear/dislike of Irish people
Hinduphobia | fear/dislike of Hindus
Hispanophobia | fear/dislike of Hispanic people, Hispanic culture and the Spanish language
Hungarophobia | fear/dislike of Hungarians
Indophobia | fear/dislike of India or Indian culture
Indonesiaphobia | fear/dislike of Indonesia or Indonesian culture
Iranophobia | fear/dislike of Iran or Iranian culture
Islamophobia | fear/dislike of Muslims
Italophobia | fear/dislike of Italians
Judeophobia | fear/dislike of Jews
Koryophobia | fear/dislike of Koreans
Kurdophobia | fear/dislike of Kurdish people
Latinophobia | fear/dislike of Latin people
Lusophobia | fear/dislike of the Portuguese, Portuguese culture and the Portuguese language
Malayophobia | fear/dislike of the Malays
Negrophobia | fear/dislike of Black people
Nipponophobia | fear/dislike of the Japanese
Polonophobia | fear/dislike of the Polish
Russophobia | fear/dislike of Russians
Serbophobia | fear/dislike of Serbs
Shiaphobia | fear/dislike of Shiites
Sinophobia | fear/dislike of Chinese people
Theophobia | fear/dislike of God or religion
Turcophobia | fear/dislike of Turks
Ukrainophobia | fear/dislike of Ukrainians
Xenophobia | fear/dislike of foreigners

## Medical conditions

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Phobia  | Condition

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Osmophobia | hypersensitivity causing aversion to odors
Phonophobia | hypersensitivity causing aversion to sounds
Photophobia | hypersensitivity causing aversion to light

## Cultural phenomena

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Phobia  | Condition

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Bibliophobia | fear or hatred of books, as a cultural phenomenon[38]
Lipophobia  | avoidance of fats in food[39][40][41] (see also Lipophobicity)
Coronaphobia | fear of COVID-19[42]

## -phobia in the natural sciences

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In the natural sciences, words with the suffix -phobia/-phobic generally describe a predisposition for avoidance and/or exclusion. For antonyms, see here

Phobia  | Condition

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Acidophobia | preference for non-acidic conditions
Heliophobia | aversion to sunlight
Hydrophobia | the property of being repelled by water
Lipophobicity | the property of fat rejection (sometimes also called lipophobia)
Oleophobicity | the property of oil rejection
Photophobia (biology) | a negative phototaxis or phototropism response, or a tendency to stay out of the light
Ultrahydrophobicity | the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet
Thermophobia | aversion to heat

## Jocular and fictional phobias

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* Aibohphobia – a humorous term for the fear of palindromes, which is a palindrome itself. The term is a piece of computer humor entered into the 1981 The Devil's DP Dictionary.[43]
* Anatidaephobia – the fictional fear that one is being watched by a duck. The word comes from the name of the family Anatidae, and was used in Gary Larson's The Far Side.[44]
* Anoraknophobia – a portmanteau of "anorak" and "arachnophobia". It was used in the Wallace and Gromit comic book Anoraknophobia. Also the title of an album by Marillion.
* Arachibutyrophobia – fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth, from Latin arachis "peanut" and butyrum "butter".[45] The word is used by Charles M. Schulz in a 1982 installment of his Peanuts comic strip,[46] and by Peter O'Donnell in his 1985 Modesty Blaise adventure novel Dead Man's Handle.
* Charlophobia – the fictional fear of any person named Charlotte or Charlie, mentioned in the comedic book A Duck is Watching Me: Strange and Unusual Phobias (2014), by Bernie Hobbs. The phobia was created to mock name bias, a form of discrimination studied by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago.[47]
* Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – fear of long words,[48] from the root word sesquipedalophobia combined with monstrum and hippopotamus. This was mentioned on the first episode of Brainiac Series Five as a Tickle's Teaser.
* Keanuphobia – fear of Keanu Reeves, portrayed in the Dean Koontz book, False Memory, where a woman has an irrational fear of Reeves and has to see her psychiatrist, Mark Ahriman, each week, unaware that she only has the fear in the first place because Ahriman implanted it via hypnotic suggestion to amuse himself. He calls her "Keanuphobe" in his head.
* Luposlipaphobia – fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. Coined humorously by cartoonist Gary Larson for his comic The Far Side.
* Nihilophobia – fear of nothingness, from Latin nihil and "nothing, none", as described by the Doctor in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Night". Voyager's morale officer and chef Neelix has this condition, having panic attacks while the ship was traversing a dark expanse of space known as the Void. It is also the title of a 2008 album by Neuronium.
* Robophobia – irrational fear of robots and/or androids, also known as "Grimwade's Syndrome". It was first used in "The Robots of Death",[49] the fifth serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
* Semaphobia – fear of average web developers to use Semantic Web technologies.[50]
* Venustraphobia – fear of beautiful women, according to a 1998 humorous article published by BBC News.[1]

## See also

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* List of paraphilias
* List of manias
* Childhood phobia
* Specific phobia

Portals:

* Psychology
* Lists

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## Further reading

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* Aldrich C (2 December 2002). The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families. Trafford Publishing. pp. 224–236\. ISBN 1-55369-886-X.
* Summerscale K (6 October 2022). The Book of Phobias and Manias. Profile Books. ISBN 9781788162814.

## External links

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For a list of words relating to various phobias not found in wikipedia, see the English terms suffixed with -phobia category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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