Is there an actual phobia from the fear of electric shavers?

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Maybe it's related to the electrical sound or the fear of being cut while shaving?
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Hello! There probably is but the name for it does not seem to have been invented yet. Am sure that, if you are scared of electric shavers, then you are not the only one. Maybe it is the insecurity that it will slip that is the problem? Or indeed that you are afraid that you will cut yourself? Maybe because it is electric, you fear you do not have control over it yet it is still your hand using it and you are directing it? It is not a robot and it will "obey" you. Are you scared of any other electric appliances? I used to be scared of electric mowing-machines. Think I once saw a scary movie about it :o) . Maybe just enter "fear of electric shavers" on a search engine? Good luck!

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I don't think there is specifically a word invented for the fear of electric shavers, but the closest thing I know of is mechanophobia, which is fear of machinery. Since a phobia is an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion of something, if someone is scared of electric shavers then that is in fact a phobia. It's just not common enough to have been named yet. So yes, there is an actual phobia. Anything you are scared of, especially unusually scared of, is a phobia.
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http://www.indianchild.com/phobias.htm

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