A LIST OF PHOBIAS (352 LISTED SO FAR) |
1. Acarophobia - Fear of small insects
2. Acrophobia - Fear of heights
3. Agliophobia - Fear of pain
4. Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces
5. Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse/rape
6. Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals
7. Agyrophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street
8. Aichmophobia - Fear of needles and/or sharp pointed objects
9. Ailurophobia - Fear of cats
10. Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease
11. Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens
12. Algophobia - Fear of pain
13. Amathophobia - Fear of dust
14. Androphobia- Fear of men
15. Anglophobia - Fear of England or what is English
16. Anthropophobia - Fear of mankind
17. Anthophobia - Fear of flowers
18. Anuptaphobia - Fear of never getting married. Fear of remaining single
19. Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter being stuck to the top of ones mouth
20. Astraphobia - Fear of being hit by lightning
21. Asymmetriphobia - Fear of asymmetrical items
22. Ataxiophobia - Fear of ataxia
23. Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or of untidy things
24. Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection
25. Atephobia - Fear of ruins
26. Athazagoraphobia - Fear of being forgotten or of forgetting
27. Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions
28. Atychiphobia - Fear of failure
29. Aulophobia - Fear of flutes
30. Aurophobia - Fear of gold
31. Autodysomophobia - Fear of one that has a vile odor
32. Automatonophobia - Fear of the dummies used by ventriloquist's
33. Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty
34. Autophobia - Fear of being on ones own
35. Aviophobia - Fear of flying
36. Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes or bacteria
37. Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria
38. Ballistophobia - Fear of missiles/projectiles
39. Batrachophobia - Fear of frogs
40. Blennophobia - Fear of slime41. Bolshephobia - Fear of Bolsheviks
42. Botanophobia - Fear of plants
43. Bromidrosiphobia - Fear of body odours
44. Brontophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning
45. Bufonophobia - Fear of toads (but not necessarily frogs)
46. Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness
47. Caligynephobia - Fear of attractive women
48. Cancerophobia - Fear of cancer
49. Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer
50. Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart
51. Carnophobia - Fear of meat or meat products
52. Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed
53. Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high places
54. Cathispphobia - Fear of sitting
55. Charminphobia - Fear of being squeezed
56. Chrematophobia - Fear of money
57. Chronomentrophobia - Fear of Clocks (thanks Niels)
58. Chorophobia - Fear of Cholera
59. Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces - (thanks Christine)
60. Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed
61. Cnidophobia - Fear of string/s
62. Cometophobia - Fear of comets
63. Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries
64. Coitophobia - Fear of coitus
65. Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse/rape
66. Coprastasophobia - Fear of being constipated
67. Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns
68. Counterphobia - The preference by a phobic for fearful situations
69. Cremnophobia - Fear of cliffs
70. Cryophobia - Fear of coldness71. Crystallophobia - Fear of crystals or glass
72. Cyberphobia - Fear of computers or using on a computer
73. Cyclophobia - Fear of bicycles
74. Cymophobia - Fear of waves
75. Cynophobia - Fear of dogs and/or rabies
76. Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions
77. Defecaloesiophobia - Fear of violent or painful bowel movements
78. Deipnophobia - Fear of dinner conversations
79. Dementophobia - Fear of insanity
80. Daemonophobia - Fear of demons
81. Demophobia - Fear of crowds
82. Dendrophobia - Fear of trees
83. Dentophobia - Fear of dentists
84. Dermatophobia - Fear of skin lesions or dermatitis
85. Dermatopathophobia - Fear of skin disease or dermatitis
86. Dextrophobia - Fear of objects on the right
87. Diabetophobia - Fear of diabetes
88. Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of going to school
89. Dikephobia - Fear of justice
90. Dishabiliophobia - Fear of disrobing in front of someone
91. Doraphobia - Fear of fur, hair or the skins of animals
92. Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets
93. Dutchphobia - Fear of the Dutch or of Dutch items
94. Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity or of being deformed
95. Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents
96. Ecophobia - Fear of home
97. Eicophobia - Fear of home
98. Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors or reflections
99. Electrophobia - Fear of electricity
100. Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom
101. Elurophobia - Fear of cats
102. Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting
103. Enetophobia - Fear of pins
104. Entophobic - Fear of Insects (thanks Tim)
105. Eosophobia - Fear of dawn
106. Ergasiophobia - Fear of work
107. Euphobia - Fear of receiving good news
108. Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia
109. Febriphobiaor Fibriophobia - Fear of fever
110. Felinophobia - Fear of cats
111. Francophobia - Fear of France or French items
112. Friendorphobia - Fear of forgetting a password
113. Galeophobia - Fear of cats
114. Gallophobia - Fear of France or French items
115. Gamophobia - Fear of marriage
116. Geniophobia - Fear of chins
117. Gephyrophobia - Fear of bridges
118. Gmynophobia - Fear of nudity (sometimes spelt Gymnophobia)
119. Graphophobia - Fear of the written word/s
120. Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity (sometimes spelt Gmynophobia)
121. Gynephobia - Fear of women
122. Hagiophobia - Fear of religious objects, people and ideas
123. Hamartophobia - Fear of sinning. Fear of being seen to sin
124. Haphephobia - Fear of being touched
125. Harpaxophobia - Fear of being robbed
126. Hedonophobia - Fear of feeling pleasure
127. Heliophobia - Fear of the sun
128. Hellenologophobia - Fear of complex terminology
129. Helminthophobia - Fear of being infested with worms "they're crawling up my legs all over my body, they're inside of me"
130. Hemophobia - Fear of blood
131. Heresyphobia - Fear of large deviations
132. Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles or small crawling things
133. Heterophobia - Fear of the opposite sex
134. Hierophobia - Fear of priests or sacred objects
135. Hippophobia - Fear of horses
136. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words (my favourite phobia)
137. Homichlophobia - Fear of fog
138. Homilophobia - Fear of sermons
139. Homophobia - Fear of sameness or homosexuality (homosexuals)
140. Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms
141. Hydrophobophobia - Fear of "hydrophobia".
142. Hydrophobia - Fear of water (Hydrophobia is also the medical word for "Rabies")
143. Hygrophobia - Fear of liquids
144. Hypegiaphobia - Fear of responsibilities
145. Hypnophobia - Fear of sleeping or of being hypnotized
146. Hypsiphobia - Fear of heights
147. Iatrophobia - Fear of visiting a doctor
148. Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish
149. Ideophobia - Fear of ideas
150. Illyngophobia - Fear of getting vertigo
151. Iophobia - Fear of poison or of being poisoned
152. Insectophobia - Fear of insects
153. Isolophobia - Fear of solitude
154. Isopterophobia - Fear of termites
155. Ithyphallophobia - Fear of having an erect penis
156. Japanophobia - Fear of Japanese or items coming from Japan
157. Kainolophobia - Fear of novelties
158. Kainophobia - Fear of anything new
159. Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure
160. Katagelophobia - Fear of ridicule
161. Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down
162. Kenophobia - Fear of empty spaces
163. Keraunophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning. Fear of storms.
164. Kinetophobia - Fear of movement or motion
165. Kleptophobia - Fear of stealing. Fear of being accused of stealing
166. Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms
167. Kolpophobia - Fear of genitals
168. Kopophobia - Fear of fatigue
169. Koniophobia - Fear of dust
170. Kymophobia - Fear of waves
171. Kynophobia - Fear of rabies
172. Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping
173. Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables
174. Laliophobia - Fear of talking
175. Latrophobia - Fear of visiting a doctor
176. Leprophobia - Fear of getting leprosy
177. Leukophobia - Fear of the colour white
178. Levophobia - Fear of things to the left side of the body
179. Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises
180. Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and cyclones
181. Limnophobia - Fear of lakes
182. Linonophobia - Fear of string
183. Liticaphobia - Fear of lawsuits ( a very 80s/90/s type of thing)
184. Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth
185. Logizomechanophobia - Fear of computers
186. Logophobia - Fear of words
187. Luiphobia- Fear getting syphilis
188. Lutraphobia - Fear of otters
189. Lygophobia - Fear of darkness
190. Lyssophobia - Fear of catching rabies
191. Latrophobia - Fear of visiting a doctor
192. Macrophobia - Fear of prolonged waiting
193. Mechanophobia - Fear of machines
194. Medomalacuphobia - Fear of losing an erection
195. Medorthophobia - Fear of an erect penis
196. Megalophobia - Fear of large things
197. Melissophobia - Fear of bees
198. Melanophobia - Fear of the colour black
199. Melophobia - Fear or hatred of music
200. Meningitophobia - Fear of brain disease
201. Menophobia - Fear of menstruation
202. Merinthophobia - Fear of being tied up (by rope etc.)
203. Metallophobia - Fear of metal
204. Metathesiophobia - Fear of changes
205. Meteorophobia - Fear of meteors
206. Methyphobia - Fear of alcohol
207. Microbiophobia - Fear of microbes
208. Microphobia - Fear of small things
209. Misophobia - Fear of being contaminated with dirt of germs
210. Mnemophobia - Fear of memories
211. Molysmophobia - Fear of dirt or contamination
212. Monophobia - Fear of being alone
213. Monopathophobia - Fear of definite disease
214. Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles
215. Mottephobia - Fear of moths
216. Musophobia - Fear of mice
217. Myophobia - Fear of mice
218. Mysophobia - Fear of dirt
219. Mythophobia - Fear of myths/lies
220. Myxophobia - Fear of slime
221. Nebulaphobia - Fear of fog/clouds
222. Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things
223. Nelophobia - Fear of glass
224. Neopharmaphobia - Fear of new drugs
225. Neophobia - Fear of anything new
226. Nephophobia - Fear of clouds
227. Noctiphobia - Fear of the night
228. Nomatophobia - Fear of names
229. Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals
230. Nosophobia - Fear of becoming ill
231. Nostopathy - Morbid fear of returning to a familiar place (or places)
232. Nostophobia - Fear of returning home
233. Novercaphobia - Fear of your step-mother
234. Nucleomituphobia - Fear of nuclear weapons
235. Nudophobia - Fear of nudity
236. Numerophobia - Fear of numbers
237. Nyctohylophobia - Fear of dark wooded areas, of forests at night
238. Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark or of night
239. Obesophobia - Fear of putting on weight
240. Ochlophobia - Fear of mobs
241. Ochophobia - Fear of vehicles
242. Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8
243. Odontophobia - Fear of teeth or dental surgery
244. Odynophobia - Fear of pain.
245. Oenophobia - Fear of wine
246. Oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings, fear of houses
247. Olfactophobia - Fear of smells
248. Ombrophobia - Fear of rain
249. Ommetaphobia (or Ommatophobia) - Fear of eyes
250. Oneirophobia - Fear of dreams
251. Oneirogmophobia - Fear of wet dreams.
252. Onomatophobia - Fear of a certain word or phrase
253. Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes
254. Ophthalmophobia - Fear of being stared at
255. Optophobia - Fear of opening one's eyes
256. Ornithophobia - Fear of birds
257. Orthophobia - Fear of property
258. Osmophobia - Fear of (certain) odours
259. Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish
260. Ouranophobia - Fear of heaven
261. Paedophobia - Fear of children
262. Pagophobia - Fear of ice or frost
263. Panthophobia - Fear of suffering
264. Panophobia - Fear of everything
265. Papaphobia - Fear of the Pope
266. Papyrophobia - Fear of paper
267. Paraphobia - Fear of sexual perversion
268. Parasitophobia - Fear of parasites
269. Parthenophobia - Fear of virgins
270. Pathophobia - Fear of disease or bacteria
271. Pediophobia - Fear of dolls and/or mannequins
272. Phobophobia - Fear of fear
273. Placophobia - Fear of tombstones
274. Pogonophobia - Fear of beards
275. Polyphobia - Fear of many things
276. Porphyrophobia - Fear of beards (see above)
277. Prosophobia - Fear of progress
278. Psellismophobia - Fear of stuttering (which tends to make sufferers stutter)
279. Psychrophobia - Fear of the cold
280. Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying
281. Pteronophobia - Fear of being tickled by feathers
282. Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets
283. Pyrexiophobia - Fear of catching a fever
284. Pyrophobia - Fear of fire
285. Radiophobia - Fear of radiation
286. Ranidaphobia - Fear of frogs
287. Rectophobia - Fear of the rectum and/or rectal diseases
288. Rhabdophobia - Fear of magic wands (think AD&D)
289. Rhypophobia - Fear of defecation
290. Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles
291. Rupophobia - Fear of dirt
292. Russophobia - Fear of Russians or things made in Russia
293. Samhainophobia - Fear of Halloween
294. Sarmassophobia - Fear of sex
295. Satanophobia - Fear of Satan
296. Sciaphobia - Fear of shadows
297. Scoleciphobia - Fear of worms
298. Scolionophobia - Fear of school
299. Scopophobia - Fear of being stared at
300. Scotophobia - Fear of darkness
301. Selenophobia - Fear of the moon
302. Sesquipedalophobia - Fear of long words
303. Sexophobia - Fear of the opposite sex
304. Siderophobia - Fear of stars
305. Sinistrophobia - Fear of things to the left, left-handed
306. Sinophobia - Fear of China, Chinese culture
307. Sitophobia - Fear of food or eating
308. Snakephobia - Fear of snakes
309. Stenophobia - Fear of narrow spaces
310. Stygiophobia - Fear of hell
311. Suriphobia - Fear of mice
312. Symbolophobia - Fear of symbolism
313. Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry
314. Syngenesophobia - Fear of relatives
315. Syphilophobia - Fear of syphilis
316. Tachophobia - Fear of speed
317. Taphephobia - Fear of being buried alive
318. Taurophobia - Fear of bulls
319. Technophobia - Fear of technology (a new-ish type word)
320. Telephonophobia - Fear of phones
321. Teratophobia - Fear of bearing a deformed child
322. Testophobia - Fear of taking tests
323. Tetanophobia - Fear of tetanus
324. Teutophobia - Fear of Germany or German things
325. Textophobia - Fear of certain fabrics
326. Thaasophobia - Fear of sitting
327. Tocophobia - Fear of pregnancy
328. Tomophobia - Fear of surgical procedures + surgery itself
329. Topophobia - Fear of performing in front of others (intense stage fright)
330. Trichotillomania – Hair Pulling
331. Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the number 13
332. Tropophobia - Fear of making a change
333. Trypanophobia - Fear of injections
334. Tuberculophobia - Fear of tuberculosis
335. Uranotophobia - Fear of being from another planet
336. Uranophobia - Fear of heaven
337. Urophobia - Fear of urine
338. Vaccinophobia - Fear of vaccinations
339. Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women
340. Verbophobia - Fear of words
341. Verminophobia - Fear of germs
342. Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing
343. Virginitiphobia - Fear of being raped
344. Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft
345. Xanthophobia - Fear of the colour yellow
346. Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners
347. Xerophobia - Fear of dryness
348. Xylophobia - Fear of wooden objects
349. Zelophobia - Fear of jealousy
350. Zeusophobia - Fear of God/s
351. Zoophobia - Fear of animals
352. Zooophobia - Fear of being kept in a zoo - A rare word with three of the same letter next to each other. (the "o"s)
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