Fears & Phobias: A to Z
Here's a list of some of the most popular and unusual phobias:
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Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing
Acarophobia - Fear of small objects
Achluophobia - Fear of darkness (also known as Lygophobia and Nyctophobia)
Acousticophobia - Fear of noise
Acrophobia - Fear of heights (also known as Altophobia)
Aelurophobia - Fear of cats (also known as Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia and Galeophobia)
Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open, high places
Aeronausiphobia - Fear of airplanes; vomiting due to airsickness
Aerophagia - Fear of swallowing air
Aerophobia - Fear of air, drafts, gases, and harmful fumes
Agoraphobia - Fear of the outdoors and open spaces
Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse (also known as Contreltophobia)
Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals
Aichmophobia - Fear of needles and pins (also know as Belonophobia)
Aichurophobia - Fear of being touched by pointed objects
Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease
Alchyiphobia - Fear of failure
Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens
Algophobia - Fear of pain (also know as Odynophobia )
Alinunphobia - Fear of garlic
Allodoxophobia - Fear of opinions
Amathophobia - Fear of dust
Amnesiphoia - Fear of amnesia
Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in vehicles
Ambulophobia - Fear of walking
Amychophobia - Fear of being scratched
Androphobia - Fear of men (also known as Arrhenphobia and Hominophobia)
Anglophobia - Fear of England, the English language, or the English culture
Anthophobia - Fear of flowers
Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single
Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched
Apiphobia - Fear of bees
Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth
Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders
Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers
Asthenaphobia - Fear of weakness
Ataxiophobia - Fear of disorder
Aurophobia - Fear of gold
Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty
Autophobia - Fear of being alone or of oneself (also known as Eremiphobia, Eremophobia and Monophobia)
Aviatophobia - Fear of flying
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Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes
Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria
Ballistrophobia - Fear of being shot
Barophobia - Fear of gravity
Basophobia - Fear of standing (also known as Stasiphobia)
Bathophobia - Fear of depth
Batophobia - Fear of being close to high buildings
Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, etc.
Bibliophobia - Fear of books
Blenophobia - Fear of pins and needles
Blenuophobia - Fear of slime
Bogyphobia - Fear of demons and goblins
Botonophobia - Fear of plants
Bromidrosiphobia - Fear of body smells (also known as Osphresiophobia)
Brontophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning
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Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness
Cainophobia - Fear of novelty
Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women (also known as Venustaphobia)
Cancerophobia - Fear of cancer
Cardiophobia - Fear of heart disease
Carnophobia - Fear of meat
Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed
Catapedophobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places
Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting
Catophtrophobia - Fear of mirrors
Cheimaphobia - Fear of the cold, being cold, cold things, or of cold air
Cherophobia - Fear of happiness
Chionophobia - Fear of snow
Chiraptophobia - Fear of being touched
Chorophobia - Fear of dancing
Chrematophobia - Fear of wealth
Chromophobia - Fear of colours
Chronophobia - Fear of time
Cibophobia - Fear of food
Claustrophobia - Fear of enclosed/confined spaces
Cleptophobia - Fear of stealing
Climacophobia - Fear of staircases
Clinophobia - Fear of beds or going to bed
Coitophobia - Fear of coitus
Coprophobia - Fear of excrement/feaces (Also known as Scatophobia)
Cremnophobia - Fear of precipices
Crystallophobia - Fear of glass
Cybergphobia - Fear of computers
Cyclophobia - Fear of bicycles
Cynophobia - Fear of dogs or rabies
Cyprianophobia - Fear of prostitutes or sexually transmitted diseases (also known as Cypridophobia)
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Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions
Dementophobia - Fear of insanity (also known as Maniaphobia)
Demophobia - Fear of crowds
Dendrophobia - Fear of trees
Dentophobia - Fear of dentists
Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of going to school
Dikephobia - Fear of justice
Diplopiaphobia - Fear of double vision
Diplychiphobia - Fear of accidents
Dipsophobia - Fear of drinking
Dishabillophobia - Fear of undressing in front of someone
Domatophobia - Fear of being in a house
Doraphobia - Fear of animal skins
Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets
Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity
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Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church
Ecophobia - Fear of home
Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors, or of seeing yourself in a mirror
Electrophobia - Fear of electricity
Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting
Enissophobia - Fear of sin
Enochlophobia - Fear of crowds
Entomophobia - Fear of insects
Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or daylight (also known as Esophobia)
Epistaxiophobia - Fear of nosebleeds
Equinophobia - Fear of horses
Ergasophobia - Fear of work
Erotophobia - Fear of sexual feelings
Ereuthrophobia - Fear of blushing or the colour red (also known as Erythrophobia and Erytophobia)
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Febriphobia - Fear of fever
Frigophobia - Fear of the cold, or cold things
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Gallophobia - Fear of France/French, etc.
Gamophobia - Fear of marriage
Gatophobia - Fear of cats
Geliophobia - Fear of laughter
Geniophobia - Fear of chins
Genophobia - Fear of sex
Genuphobia - Fear of knees
Gephyrophobia - Fear of bridges
Gerascophobia - Fear of growing old
Germanophobia - Fear of Germany/Germans, etc.
Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public
Graphophobia - Fear of writing
Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity
Gynophobia - Fear of women
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Hadephobia - Fear of hell
Hagiophobia - Fear of saints and the holy
Halophobia - Fear of speaking
Hamatophobia - Fear of error or sin
Haphephobia - Fear of being touched
Harbaxophobia - Fear of being robbed
Hedonophobia - Fear of feeling pleasure
Heliophobia - Fear of sunlight
Hellenologophobia - Fear of Greek terms
Helminthophobia - Fear of worms
Hemophobia - Fear of blood (also known as Hematophobia)
Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles
Heterophobia - Fear of the opposite sex (also known as Sexophobia)
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words!
Hodophobia - Fear of travel
Homichlophobia - Fear of fog
Homilophobia - Fear of sermons
Homophobia - Fear of homosexuality
Hoplophobia - Fear of firearms
Hormephobia - Fear of shock
Hydrophobia - Fear of water
Hydrophobophobia - Fear of rabies
Hygrophobia - Fear of dampness, or of humidity
Hylephobia - Fear of epilepsy
Hylophobia - Fear of forests
Hypengyophobia - Fear of responsibility (also known as Paralipophobia)
Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep, or of being hypnotised
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Iatrophobia - Fear of going to the doctor, or of doctors
Icthyophobia - Fear of fish
Insectophobia - Fear of insects
Iophobia - Fear of poisons or rust
Isolophobia - Fear of solitude
Isopterophobia - Fear of termites
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None we could find.
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K
Kainophobia - Fear of anything new
Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure or defeat
Kenophobia - Fear of large, empty spaces
Kinesophobia - Fear of motion
Kopophobia - Fear of mental or physical examination
Kymophobia - Fear of waves
Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping
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Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables
Laliophobia - Fear of talking/speaking
Lenkophobia - Fear of the colour white
Lepraphobia - Fear of leprosy
Levophobia - Fear of things at the left side of the body
Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises
Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoe and hurricanes
Limnophobia - Fear of lakes
Linonaphobia - Fear of string
Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth (also known as Maieusiophobia, Parturiphobia and Tocophobia)
Lyssophobia - Fear of going insane
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M
Macrophobia - Fear of long waits
Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking
Mehalophobia - Fear of large things
Melissophobia - Fear of bees or insects
Meningitophobia - Fear of brain disease
Merinthophobia - Fear of being bound
Metallophobia - Fear of metals
Methyphobia - Fear of alcohol
Metrophobia - Fear of poetry
Mnemophobia - Fear of memories
Molysomophobia - Fear of infection
Monophobia - Fear of being alone
Motorphobia - Fear of motor vehicles
Murophobia - Fear of mice
Musicophobia - Fear of music
Myrecophobia - Fear of ants
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Necrophobia - Fear of corpses
Nephophobia - Fear of clouds
Noctiphobia - Fear of night
Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals
Nosophobia - Fear of becoming ill
Novercaphobia - Fear of stepmothers
Nucleomitophobia - Fear of nuclear weapons
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O
Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight
Ochlophobia - Fear of crowds (also known as Demophobia)
Odontophobia - Fear of teeth, especially animal teeth
Oenophobia - Fear of wine
Olfactophobia - Fear of smells
Ombrophobia - Fear of rain
Ommatophobia - Fear of eyes
Oneirophobia - Fear of dreams
Onomatophobia - Fear of a certain word or name
Onranophobia - Fear of heaven
Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes
Opthalmophobia - Fear of being stared at
Ornithophobia - Fear of birds
Orthophobia - Fear of property
Osmophobia - Fear of smells
Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish
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Pagophobia - Fear of ice or frost
Panphobia - Fear of anything and everything
Papaphobia - Fear of the pope or the papacy
Papyrophobia - Fear of paper
Paraphobia - Fear of sexual perversion
Parthenophobia - Fear of young girls
Patroiophobia - Fear of heredity
Peccatiphobia - Fear of sinning
Pediaphobia - Fear of dolls
Pedophobia - Fear of children
Peladophobia - Fear of bald people or of becoming bald
Peniaphobia - Fear of poverty
Pentheraphobia - Fear of mothers -in -law
Phengophobia - Fear of daylight
Phagophobia - Fear of eating or swallowing
Phallophobia - Fear of a penis
Pharmacophobia - Fear of drugs
Phasmophobia - Fear of ghosts
Phengophobia - Fear of daylight
Philemophobia - Fear of kissing
Philophobia - Fear of falling in love or being loved
Phobophobia - Fear of fear
Phonophobia - Fear of noise
Photophobia - Fear of light
Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking
Phthiriophobia - Fear of lice or parasites
Phthisiophobia - Fear of tuberculosis
Pluviophobia - Fear of rain
Pnigophobia - Fear of choking or being smothered
Pogonophobia - Fear of beards or men with beards
Poinephobia - Fear of punishment
Ponophobia - Fear of fatigue
Porphyrophobia - Fear of the colour purple
Potomophobia - Fear of rivers
Proctophobia - Fear of the rectum, or of rectal diseases (also known as Rectophobia)
Prosophobia - Fear of progress
Pryexiophobia - Fear of having fevers
Psellismophobia - Fear of stuttering
Pteronophobia - Fear of feathers
Pyrophobia - Fear of fire
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None we could find.
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R
Rhabdophobia - Fear of criticism, punishment, or being beaten
Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles
Rupophobia - Fear of dirt (also known as Rhypophobia)
Russophobia - Fear of Russia/Russian, etc.
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Satanophobia - Fear of Satan
Scriptophobia - Fear of writing in public
Selaphobia - Fear of flashing light
Selenophobia - Fear of the moon
Siderodromophobia - Fear of trains, or of train travel
Siderophobia - Fear of the stars
Sinophobia - Fear of China/Chinese, etc.
Skiaphobia - Fear of shadows
Soceraphobia - Fear of parents -in -law
Sociophobia - Fear of society, or of people in general
Somniphobia - Fear of sleep
Sophophobia - Fear of knowledge and learning
Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others
Spectrophobia - Fear of looking in the mirror
Spheksophobia - Fear of wasps
Staurophobia - Fear of crosses or crucifixes
Stenophobia - Fear of narrow places
Stygiophobia - Fear of hell
Suriphobia - Fear of mice
Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry
Syngenesophobia - Fear of relatives
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T
Tacophobia - Fear of speed
Taeniophobia - Fear of tapeworms
Taphephobia - Fear of cemeteries
Taphophobia - Fear of being buried alive
Tapinophobia - Fear of small things
Teleophobia - Fear of religious ceremonies
Telephonophobia - Fear of using telephones
Tetmophobia - Fear of lockjaw or tetanus
Thalassophobia - Fear of the sea
Thanatophobia - Fear of death, dying
Thassophobia - Fear of sitting idle
Theatrophobia - Fear of theaters
Theophobia - Fear of God
Thermophobia - Fear of heat
Tomophobia - Fear of surgical operations
Topophobia - Fear of certain places
Tremophobia - Fear of trembling
Trichophobia - Fear of hair (Trichotillomania is the urge to pull your own hair out)
Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the number 13
Tropophobia - Fear of changes
Trypanophobia - Fear of injections
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Uranophobia - Fear of heaven
Urophobia - Fear of urine, or of urinating
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Vaccinophobia - Fear of vaccines
Verbaphobia - Fear of words
Verminophobia - Fear of germs
Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing
Virginitiphobia - Fear of rape
Vitricophobia - Fear of stepfathers
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None we could find.
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X
Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners
Xerophobia - Fear of dry places, like deserts
Xylophobia - Fear of forests
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None we could find.
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Z
Zelophobia - Fear of jealousy
Zoophobia - Fear of animals
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