The fear of long words is called sesquipedalophobia.

[eShirl]

http://phobialist.com/

[Chan790]

1. The person who coined the name of that condition was a smartass. n/t

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. Sesquipedalophobia would have made Noah Webster fearful! n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

3. And here I sit without enough tiles to spell it in Scrabble.

[ohiosmith]

4. AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

[pink-o]

5. Sesqui as a prefix means 150...

Is that how many letters there needs to be in a long word to make us fear it?

[Dash87]

6. The fear of short words is called 'sphobia'

[graywarrior]

7. Gee, I don't know anyone who has this, do you?

Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions