An irrational fear of being robbed or of robbery.
From Greek 'harpazein' (to snatch/rob) combined with 'phobos' (fear). This clinical term was primarily used in 19th-century psychological literature to describe obsessive anxieties about theft.
Victorian-era psychiatrists named dozens of hyper-specific phobias, many now forgotten—harpaxophobia captures how industrial societies created new mental illnesses around property anxiety and urban crime fears.
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