Aibohphobia

Irrational fear of palindromes: 

aibohphobia: (humorous, nonce word) A humorous term for the irrational fear of palindromes, which is a palindrome itself.  

Deliberately constructed to be a palindrome, combining the suffix -phobia with its reversed spelling. 

Appears first as a response to National Challenge #36 - in a newspaper column written by J Baxter Newgate. 

The challenge was to invent a phobia. 

The column did not identify the entrant. (Source: Orlando Sentinel, Oct 22, 1977). 

The term is a piece of computer humor entered into the 1981 The Devil's DP Dictionary.

Antonym: ailihphilia

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