Triskaphobia, also known as triphobia and triophobia (from Greek tria "three"), is the fear of number three. People may fear that three represents the limited number of warnings till they are penalized or resulted in other bad outcome, like 'three strikes, you're out'. Sufferers would often avoid situations where three is used, like getting to be part of three. Three can sometimes be considered an unlucky number because of the three different superstitions: the middle person in the photograph will die first; third light, meaning the third person to light a cigarette from the same match or lighter, which originated during World War I when a sniper might see the first light, takes aim on the second and fire on the third; and bad luck often come in threes.
Notable people with Triskaphobia[]
- Gabe Newell, director of video game development at Valve Software, is afraid of the number three. It's the reason why he doesn't attempt developing third installments of any Valve franchise, such as Half-Life 3, Portal 3, Left 4 Dead 3 or Team Fortress 3.
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Oudenophobia (fear of 0) · Henophobia (fear of 1) · Dyophobia (fear of 2) · Triskaphobia (fear of 3) · Tetraphobia (fear of 4) · Pentaphobia (fear of 5) · Hexaphobia (fear of 6) · Heptaphobia (fear of 7) · Octophobia (fear of 8) · Enneaphobia (fear of 9) · Decaphobia (fear of 10) · Hendecaphobia (fear of 11) · Dodecaphobia (fear of 12) · Triskaidekaphobia (fear of 13) · Tetradecaphobia (fear of 14) · Dekapentophobia (fear of 15) Hexadecaphobia (fear of 16) · Heptadecaphobia (fear of 17) · Octodecaphobia (fear of 18) · Enneadecaphobia (fear of 19) · Eikosiphobia (fear of 20) · Eikosihenaphobia (fear of 21) · Eikosidyophobia (fear of 22) · Eikositriophobia (fear of 23) · Eikositetraphobia (fear of 24) · Eikosipentaphobia (fear of 25) · Eikosihexaphobia (fear of 26) · Eikosiheptaphobia (fear of 27) · Eikosioctaphobia (fear of 28) · Eikosienneaphobia (fear of 29) · Trigintiphobia (fear of 30) · Triacontahenphobia (fear of 31) · Triantadyophobia (fear of 32) · Triantatriaphobia (fear of 33) · Triantatesseraphobia (fear of 34) Triantapentaphobia (fear of 35) · Triantahexaphobia (fear of 36) · Triakontenneaphobia (fear of 39) · Tessarakontadyophobia (fear of 42) · Tessarakontaheptaphobia (fear of 47) · Pentekontoctophobia (fear of 58) · Hexekontadyophobia (fear of 62) · Hexekontenneaphobia (fear of 69) · Hebdomekontahenophobia (fear of 71) · Ogdokontaheptaphobia (fear of 87) · Enenekontenneaphobia (fear of 99) · Hekatophobia (fear of 100) · Hekatohendecaphobia (fear of 111) · Hekatenenekontahenophobia (fear of 191) · Diakosioihekkaidekaphobia (fear of 216) · Diakosioipentekontaphobia (fear of 250) · Triakosioitriakontatriophobia (fear of 333) · Tetrakosioeikosiphobia (fear of 420) · Pentakosioipentekontahenophobia (fear of 551) · Hexakosioihekkaidekaphobia (fear of 616) · Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (fear of 666) · Heftakosioitessarakontaheptaphobia (fear of 747) · Enniakosioihendecaphobia (fear of 911) · Enniakosioenenekontenneaphobia (fear of 999) · Quattuormiliasescentoruphobia·(fear of 4600) · Tessarakontadyochilahexekontenneaphobia (fear of 42069) Nongentiseptuagintatrestrillionsescentiquinquagintanovemmiliacentumtredecimdeciesoctingentivigintiquattuormiliatrecentiphobia(fear of 973,659,113,824,315) · Compustitusnumerophobia (fear of composite numbers) · Meganumerophobia (fear of large numbers) · Imparnumerophobia (fear of odd numbers) · Omalonumerophobia (fear of even numbers) · Piphobia (fear of pi) · Phiphobia (fear of the golden ratio) · Primonumerophobia (fear of prime numbers) · Paranumerophobia (fear of irrational numbers) · Neganumerophobia (fear of negative numbers) · Decadisophobia (fear of decimals) |