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