The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (of Greek origin: ÏÏÎ²Î¿Ï/ÏÎ¿Î²Î¯Î±) occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia). In common usage they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject. The suffix is antonymic to -philia, -philic, -phile (e.g. cibophobia, fear of food, and cibophilia, love of food).