Phobias

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Here is a list of phobias. Please note that some phobias have two or more names.

 


Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing

Acarophobia - Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching

Acerophobia - Fear of sourness

Acribophobia - Fear of not being able to understand what you´re reading

Achievemephobia - Fear of success

Achluophobia - Fear of darkness

Achondroplasiaphobia - Fear of midgets

Acousticophobia - Fear of noise

Acrophobia - Fear of heights

Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places

Aeronausiphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness

Aerophobia - Fear of flying

Agateophobia - Fear of insanity

Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces, mobs or crowds or leaving a safe place

Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals

Agyrophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street

Aichmophobia - Fear of needles, pins or pointed objects

Ailurophobia - Fear of cats

Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease

Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens

Algophobia - Fear of pain

Alliumphobia - Fear of garlic

Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions

Amathophobia - Fear of dust

Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car

Amnesiphobia - Fear of amnesia

Amychophobia - Fear of scratches or being scratched

Anablephobia - Fear of looking up

Anatidaephobia - Fear of ducks

Ancraophobia - Fear of wind

Androphobia - Fear of men

Anemophobia - Fear of air drafts or wind

Anginophobia - Fear of angina, narrowness or choking

Anglophobia - Fear of England or English culture, etc...

Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry

Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint

Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers

Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society

Antlophobia - Fear of floods

Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single

Apeirophobia - Fear of infinity /heaven

Apiphobia - Fear of bees

Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched

Apotemnophobia - Fear of persons with amputations

Aquaphobia - Fear of water

Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter

Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders

Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers

Arsonphobia - Fear of fire

Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness

Astraphobia - Fear of thunder, storms and lightning

Astrophobia - Fear of stars or celestial space

Ataxiophobia - Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination)

Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness

Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection

Atephobia - Fear of ruin or ruins

Athazagoraphobia - Fear of being forgotten or ignored

Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions

Atychiphobia - Fear of failure

Aulophobia - Fear of flutes

Aurophobia - Fear of gold

Auroraphobia - Fear of Northern lights

Autodysomophobia - Fear of one that has a vile odour

Automatonophobia - Fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being

Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty

Autophobia - Fear of being alone and abandoned 

 

B

Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes

Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria

Ballistophobia - Fear of missiles or bullets

Bananaphobia - Fear of bananas

Barophobia - Fear of gravity

Basiphobia - Fear of falling

Basophobia - Fear of not being able to stand or to walk

Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes

Bathophobia - Fear of depths (lakes, tunnels, caves)

Batophobia - Fear of heights or being close to high buildings

Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians

Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles

Bibliophobia - Fear of books

Botanophobia - Fear of plants

Bromidrosiphobia - Fear of body smells

Bufonophobia - Fear of toads

 

C

Cacomorphobia - Fear of fat people

Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness

Cainophobia or Cainotophobia - Fear of newness, novelty

Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer

Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart

Carnophobia - Fear of meat

Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed

Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places

Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting

Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors

Cenophobia or Centophobia - Fear of new things or ideas

Chaetophobia - Fear of hair

Chairophobia- Fear of laughing in an appropriate environment

Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals

Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety, fun, joy or happiness

Chionophobia - Fear of snow

Chirophobia - Fear of hands

Chiroptophobia - Fear of bats

Chorophobia - Fear of dancing

Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia - Fear of money

Chromophobia - Fear of colours

Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks

Chronophobia - Fear of time

Chronophobia - Fear of the future

Cibophobia - Fear of food or eating

Claustrophobia - Fear of confined/enclosed spaces

Climacophobia - Fear of stairs, climbing, or falling downstairs

Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed

Cnidophobia - Fear of stings

Coasterphobia - Fear of roller coasters

Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries

Cometophobia - Fear of comets

Consecotaleophobia - Fear of chopsticks

Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse

Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns

Crystallophobia - Fear of crystals

Cyberphobia - Fear of computers

Cyclophobia - Fear of bicycles

Cymophobia or Kymophobia - Fear of waves or wave like motions

Cynophobia - Fear of dogs

Cyprianophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease

 

D

Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions

Deipnophobia - Fear of dining or dinner conversations

Dementophobia - Fear of insanity

Demonophobia - Fear of demons

Dendrophobia - Fear of trees

Dentophobia - Fear of dentists

Dermatophobia - Fear of skin disease

Dextrophobia - Fear of objects at the right side of the body

Diabetophobia - Fear of diabetes

Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of school

Dikephobia - Fear of justice

Dinophobia - Fear of dizziness or whirlpools

Diplophobia - Fear of double vision

Dipsophobia - Fear of drinking

Dishabiliophobia - Fear of undressing in front of someone

Disposophobia - Fear of getting rid of stuff 

Domatophobia - Fear of houses

Doraphobia - Fear of fur or skins of animals

Dorophobia - Fear of receiving or making gifts

Doxophobia - Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise

Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets

Dutchphobia - Fear of the Dutch

Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity

Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents

 

E

Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church

Ecophobia - Fear of the home

Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror

Electrophobia - Fear of electricity

Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom

Elurophobia - Fear of cats

Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting 

Emojiphobia - Fear of being misunderstood using emoji’s

Enosiophobia or Enissophobia - Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism

Entomophobia - Fear of insects

Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers

Epistaxiophobia - Fear of nosebleeds

Epistemophobia - Fear of knowledge

Equinophobia - Fear of horses

Ereuthrophobia - Fear of blushing

Ergasiophobia - Fear of functioning or Surgeon's fear of operating

Ergophobia - Fear of work

Erotophobia - Fear of sexual love or sexual questions

Erythrophobia - Fear of red lights or the colour red

Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news

 

F

Febriphobia - Fear of fever

Francophobia - Fear of France or French culture

 Frigophobia - Fear of cold or cold thing

 

G

Galeophobia - Fear of sharks

Gamophobia - Fear of commitment (marriage or relationships)

Geliophobia - Fear of laughter

Gelotophobia - Fear of being laughed at

Geniophobia - Fear of chins

Genophobia - Fear of sex

Genuphobia - Fear of knees

Gephyrophobia - Fear of bridges

Gerascophobia - Fear of getting old

Germanophobia - Fear of Germany or German culture

Gerontophobia - Fear of old people or of growing old

Geumophobia - Fear of taste

Gnosophobia - Fear of knowledge

Globophobia - Fear of balloons

Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public

Graphophobia - Fear of writing or handwriting

Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity

Gynophobia - Fear of women

 

H

Hadephobia - Fear of hell

Hagiophobia - Fear of saints or holy things

Hamartophobia - Fear of sinning

Haphephobia - Fear of intimacy (touched and love)

Harpaxophobia - Fear of being robbed

Hedonophobia - Fear of feeling pleasure

Heliophobia - Fear of the sun

Hellenologophobia - Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology

Helminthophobia - Fear of being infested with worms

Hemophobia - Fear of blood

Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles

Heterophobia - Fear of the opposite sex

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666

Hierophobia - Fear of priests or sacred things

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words

Hobophobia - Fear of beggars

Hodophobia - Fear of road travel

Homichlophobia - Fear of fog

Homilophobia - Fear of sermons

Homophobia - Fear of sameness, homosexuality or of becoming homosexual

Hoplophobia - Fear of firearms

Hormephobia - Fear of shock

Hydrargyophobia - Fear of mercurial medicines

Hydrophobia - Fear of water

Hyrosophobia - Fear of sweating and catching a cold

Hydrophobophobia - Fear of rabies

Hyelophobia - Fear of glass

Hygrophobia - Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture

Hylephobia - Fear of materialism or Fear of epilepsy

Hylophobia - Fear of forests

Hypengyophobia - Fear of responsibility

Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized

Hypochonria - Fear of illness

 

I

Iatrophobia - Fear of doctors

Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish

Ideophobia - Fear of ideas

Ignorophobia - Fear that the message was viewed, but not responded to 

Illyngophobia - Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down

Insectophobia - Fear of insects/bugs

Iophobia - Fear of poison or of being accidentally poisoned

Isopterophobia - Fear of termites

Ithyphallophobia - Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis

 

J

Japanophobia - Fear of Japanese

Judeophobia - Fear of Jews

 

K

Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure or defeat

Katsaridaphobia - Fear of cockroaches

Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces

Kinemortophobia - Fear of zombies

Kinesophobia - Fear of movement or motion

Kleptophobia - Fear of stealing

Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms

Kosmikophobia - Fear of cosmic phenomenon

Koumpounophobia - Fear of buttons

Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping

 

L

Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables

Lepidopterophobia - Fear of winged insects

Leukophobia - Fear of the colour white

Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises

Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes

Limnophobia - Fear of lakes

Linonophobia - Fear of string

Liticaphobia - Fear of lawsuits

Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth

Logophobia - Fear of words

Lunaediesophobia - Fear of Mondays

 

M

Macrophobia - Fear of long waits

Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking

Maniaphobia - Fear of insanity

Mastigophobia - Fear of punishment

Mechanophobia - Fear of machines

Megalophobia - Fear of large things

Melanophobia - Fear of the colour black

Melophobia - Fear or hatred of music

Meningitophobia - Fear of brain disease

Menophobia - Fear of period

Merinthophobia - Fear of being bound or tied up

Metallophobia - Fear of metal

Metathesiophobia - Fear of change

Meteorophobia - Fear of meteors

Methyphobia - Fear of drinking alcohol or becoming an alcoholic

Metrophobia - Fear or hatred of poetry

Microphobia - Fear of small things

Mnemophobia - Fear of memories

Monopathophobia - Fear of definite disease

Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles

Mottephobia - Fear of moths

Musophobia - Fear of mice

Mycophobia - Fear or aversion to mushrooms

Myrmecophobia - Fear of ants

Mysophobia - Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs

Mythophobia - Fear of myths, stories, or false statements

Myxophobia - Fear of slime

 

N

Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things

Neopharmaphobia - Fear of new drugs

Neophobia - Fear of anything new

Nephophobia - Fear of clouds

Noctiphobia - Fear of the night

Nomatophobia - Fear of names

Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals

Nosophobia - Fear of becoming ill

Nostophobia - Fear of returning home

Novercaphobia - Fear of your stepmother

Novinophobia - Fear of running out of wine or having no wine

Nucleomituphobia - Fear of nuclear weapons

Numerophobia - Fear of numbers 

Nyctohylophobia - Fear of dark wooded areas or forests at night

Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark(ness)

 

O

Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight

Ochophobia - Fear of vehicles

Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8

Odontophobia - Fear of teeth or dental surgery

Oenophobia - Fear of wines

Oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings, house

Ombrophobia - Fear of rain or of being rained on

Ommatophobia - Fear of eyes

Omphalophobia - Fear of belly buttons

Oneirophobia - Fear of dreams

Onomatophobia - Fear of hearing a certain word or of names

Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes

Opiophobia - Fear medical doctor’s experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients

Optophobia - Fear of opening one's eyes

Ornithophobia - Fear of birds

Orthophobia - Fear of property

Osmophobia - Fear of smells or odours

Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish

 

P

Pagophobia - Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost

Panophobia - Fear of everything (terrible things)

Panthophobia - Fear of suffering and disease

Papaphobia - Fear of the Pope

Papyrophobia - Fear of paper

Paralipophobia - Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility

Parasitophobia - Fear of parasites

Paraskevidekatriaphobia - Fear of Friday the 13th

Parthenophobia - Fear of virgins or young girls

Pathophobia - Fear of disease

Patroiophobia - Fear of heredity

Peccatophobia - Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes

Pediculophobia - Fear of lice

Pediophobia - Fear of dolls

Pedophobia - Fear of children

Peladophobia - Fear of bald people

Peniaphobia - Fear of property

Pentheraphobia - Fear of mother in law

Phagophobia - Fear of swallowing, eating, or being eaten

Phalacrophobia - Fear of becoming bald

Pharmacophobia - Fear of taking medicine

Pharmacophobia - Fear of Drums

Phasmophobia - Fear of Ghosts

Phengophobia - Fear of daylight, dawn or sunshine

Philemaphobia - Fear of kissing

Philophobia - Fear of falling in love or being in love

Philosophobia - Fear of Philosophy

Phobophobia - Fear of phobias (fear)

Phonophobia - Fear of noises, voices, or one's own voice

Photophobia - Fear of light 

Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking

Pistanthrophobia - Fear of trusting people due to past experiences

Placophobia - Fear of tombstones

Plutophobia - Fear of wealth

Pneumatiphobia - Fear of spirits

Pocrescophobia - Fear of gaining weight

Podophobia - Fear of feet

Pogonophobia - Fear of beards 

Poinephobia - Fear of punishment

Politicophobia - Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians

Polyphobia - Fear of many things

Ponophobia - Fear of overworking or of pain

Porphyrophobia - Fear of the colour purple

Potamophobia - Fear of rivers or running water

Potophobia - Fear of alcohol

Proditiophobia - Fear of betrayal

Prosophobia - Fear of progress

Psellismophobia - Fear of stuttering

Pseudodysphagia - Fear of choking

Psychophobia - Fear of mind

Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns

Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying

Pteronophobia - Fear of being tickled by feathers

Punctumophobia - Fear of getting a message with a dot at the end

Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets

Pyrexiophobia - Fear of fever

Pyrophobia - Fear of fire

 

Q

Quadraphobia - Fear of the number four

Quintaphobia - Fear of the number five

 

R

Radiophobia - Fear of radiation, x - rays

Ranidaphobia - Fear of frogs

Reterophobia - Fear of making a mistake in a word or not noticing an autocorrect

Rhabdophobia - Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic

Russophobia - Fear of Russians

 

S

Samhainophobia - Fear of Halloween

Scelerophibia - Fear of bad men, burglars

Scelerophobia - Fear of crime

Scoleciphobia - Fear of worms

Scolionophobia - Fear of school

Scopophobia - Fear of being seen or stared at

Scoptophobia - Fear of being stared at

Scotomaphobia - Fear of blindness in the visual field

Scriptophobia - Fear of writing in public

Selaphobia - Fear of light flashes

Selenophobia - Fear of the moon

Selfiphobia - Fear of bad selfies

Seplophobia - Fear of decaying matter

Siderodromophobia - Fear of trains, railroads or train travel

Siderophobia - Fear of stars

Sidonglobophobia - Fear of cotton balls

Sinistrophobia - Fear of things to the left or left-handed

Sinophobia - Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture

Snakephobia - Fear of snakes

Soceraphobia - Fear of parents in law

Sociophobia - Fear of being evaluated negatively in social evaluation

Somniphobia - Fear of sleep

Sophophobia - Fear of learning

Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others

Spacephobia - Fear of outer space

Spheksophobia - Fear of wasp

Stasibasiphobia - Fear of standing or walking

Staurophobia - Fear of crosses or the crucifix

Stenophobia - Fear of narrow things or places

Symbolophobia - Fear of symbolism

Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry

Syngenesophobia - Fear of relatives

 

T

Tachophobia - Fear of speed

Taphophobia - Fear of being buried alive

Tapinophobia - Fear of being contagious

Taurophobia - Fear of bulls

Technophobia - Fear of technology

Teleophobia - Fear of definite plans or Religious ceremony

Telephonophobia - Fear of talking on the phone

Teratophobia - Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people

Testophobia - Fear of taking tests

Textophobia - Fear of certain fabrics

Thaasophobia - Fear of sitting

Thalassophobia - Fear of the ocean

Thanatophobia - Fear of death

Theatrophobia - Fear of theatres

Theophobia - Fear of god or religion

Thermophobia - Fear of heat

Tokophobia - Fear of pregnancy or childbirth

Tomophobia - Fear of surgical operations

Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder

Topophobia - Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright

Traumatophobia - Fear of injury

Tremophobia - Fear of trembling

Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the number 13 (or bad luck)

Tropophobia - Fear of moving or making changes

Trypanophobia - Fear of injections/needles

Trypophobia - Fear of holes

 

U

Urophobia - Fear of urine or urinating

 

V

Vaccinophobia - Fear of vaccination

Vehophobia - Fear of driving

Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women

Verminophobia - Fear of germs

Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing

 

W

Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft

 

X

Xanthophobia - Fear of the colour yellow or the word yellow

Xenoglossophobia - Fear of foreign languages

Xenophobia - Fear of the unknown (strangers or foreigners)

Xerophobia - Fear of dryness

Xylophobia - Fear of wooden objects or Forests

Xyrophobia - Fear of razors

 

Z

Zelophobia - Fear of jealousy

Zemmiphobia - Fear of the great mole rat

Zeusophobia - Fear of God or gods

Zoophobia - Fear of animals