  panphobia (from greek Ïá¾¶Î½ - pan, neuter of "Ïá¾¶Ï" - pas, "all"Ïá¾¶Ï, henry george liddell, robert scott, a greek-english lexicon, on perseus and ÏÏÎ²Î¿Ï - phobos, "fear"ÏÏÎ²Î¿Ï, henry george liddell, robert scott, a greek-english lexicon, on perseus) also called omniphobia, pantophobia, or panophobia, is a phobia known as a "non-specific fear" or "the fear of everything", and is described as "a vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil." panphobia is not registered as a type of phobia in medical references. ==history== the term panphobia was first coined by thÃ©odule-armand ribot in his 1911 work the psychology of the emotions and is eloquently defined as âa state in which a patient fears everything or nothing, where anxiety, instead of being riveted on one object, floats as in a dream, and only becomes fixed for an instant at a time, passing from one object to another, as circumstances may determine.â it has been argued that pantophobia may actually be considered the more accurate name to describe the non-specificity associated with a fear of all. ==origin== the significance of the root word pan (ex. pan-ic) comes from the greek language and describes "the unpleasant state inflicted by the intervention of the god pan." pan is characterized as a human-animal hybrid who "appeared as the agent of "panic" fear (that collective, animal-like disorder that seizes military camps at rest, especially at night) and of a form of individual possession (panolepsy).â according to herodotus, it was pan who was able to lead the athenians to victory in the battle of marathon, forcing the âflight" of the persians, and sourcing the more colloquial phrase âfight or flightâ as it refers to oneâs fear response being to either facing or avoidance of fear. pan was also considered a shepherd, whi
Phobias