Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@???> writes:
> On Thursday 04 July 2024 at 17:42:02, Rainer Weikusat via Dng wrote:
>> xyzphobe is a pattern for forming terms supposed to suggest that people
>> critical of opinions one happens to favour really suffer from mental
>> health problems ("phobias").
>
> I thought such words were based on the Greek suffix for "aversion" (in contrast
> to the suffix "philia" meaning "love / attraction") and exist not only to
> describe people but also things, for example in chemistry "hydrophobic" means
> something that does not mix with water whereas "hydrophilic" means something
> attracted to water.

Arachnophobe denotes someone suffering ftom arachnophobia,
claustrophobe someone suffering from claustrophobia and mysophobe
someone suffering from mysophobia. These are all well-established,
medical terms (and there are more of this kind for other phobias).