List of phobias

Phobias are irrational fears of things and situations which can be a danger but most are not harmful. There are many kinds of phobias. Here are listed more than 200 of them. Phobias are most known to cause panic attacks and shock and epileptic fits, with phobias that have loneliness, spiders, fumes, and maybe heights.

A

Ablutophobia - fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Acrophobia, Altophobia, Hypsophobia - fear of heights
Agrizoophobia - fear of wild animals
Agyrophobia - fear of crossing the road.
Aibohphobia - fear of palindromes
Aichmophobia - fear of sharp and pointy things (needles, knives, etc.)
Ailurophobia - fear of cats
Algophobia, Odynophobia - fear of pain
Amphiblestronophobia - fear of nets
Androphobia - fear of men
Anthophobia - fear of flowers
Apiphobia - fear of bees
Arachnophobia - fear of spiders
Astraphobia - fear of thunder and lightning
Aurophobia - fear of gold
Automatonophobia - fear of inanimate objects that look like living creature (statue, figure, robot..)
Aviophobia, Aviatophobia - fear of flying
Ancraophobia, Anemophobia - fear of wind

B

Bacillophobia - fear of microbes, bacilli, infection
Bacteriophobia - fear of bacteria, infection
Bananaphobia - fear of bananas
Belomophobia - fear of needles
Batrachophobia - fear of amphibians
Bibliophobia - fear of books
Bogyphobia - fear of jokes
Botanophobia - fear of plants
Bufonophobia - fear of toads
Buttonphobia - fear of buttons

C

Cacophobia, - fear of ugliness
Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia - fear of cancer
Carnophobia - fear of meat
Catoptrophobia - fear of mirrors
Chelonaphobia - fear of turtles
Chionophobia - fear of snow
Chiroptophobia - fear of bats (a type of zoophobia)
Chorophobia - fear of dancing
Claustrophobia - fear of a closed room
Clavicophobia - fear of collar bones
Cleptophobia, Kleptophobia - fear of theft
Coitophobia, Genophobia - fear of sexual intercourse
Coulrophobia - fear of clowns
Cryophobia - fear of cold (ice, frost, etc.)
Cyberphobia - fear of computers and working on them
Cynophobia - fear of dogs (a type of zoophobia)
Cypridophobia, Cyprianophobia, Cypriphobia - fear of prostitutes or venereal disease

D

Decidophobia - fear of making a decision
Dementophobia - fear of dementia or losing one's mind
Demophobia, Enochlophobia - fear of crowds
Dendrophobia - fear of trees
Dentophobia - fear of dentists
Dermatosiophobia, Dermatophobia - fear of skin disease
Dextrophobia - fear of objects at the right side of the body
Diabetophobia - fear of diabetes
Dipsophobia - fear of drinking

E

Electrophobia - fear of electricity, electrical appliances
Emetophobia - fear of vomit
Entomophobia, Insectophobia - fear of insects
Ephebiphobia - fear of teenagers
Ergophobia - fear of work
Euphobia - fear of hearing good news
Europhobia - fear of Europe, European people

F

Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Pyrexiophobia - fear of fevers
Ferrumphobia - fear of iron, objects of iron
Friggatriskaidekaphobia, Paraskavedekatriaphobia - fear of Friday the 13th

G

Gamophobia - fear of marriage, commitment
Galeophobia - fear of sharks
Geliophobia - fear of laughter
Gerontophobia - fear of old people
Gymnophobia - fear of nudity
Gynophobia, Gynephobia - fear of women
Gingerphobia - fear of Gingers

H

Hemophobia, Haemophobia - fear of blood
Heterophobia, - fear/dislike of heterosexuality
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - fear of the number 666
Hippophobia, Equinophobia - fear of horses (a type of zoophobia)
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, Sesquipedalophobia - fear of long words
Homophobia - fear of same-sex love
Hylophobia - fear of trees or wood

I

Ipovlopsychophobia - fear of having one's picture taken
Indophobia - fear of Indians

J

Japanophobia - fear of Japanese
Judeophobia - fear of Jews

K

Kainolophobia - fear of novelty
Kainophobia - fear of anything new, novelty
Kakorrhaphiophobia - fear of failure or defeat
Katagelophobia - fear of ridicule
Kathisophobia - fear of sitting down
Kenophobia - fear of voids or empty spaces
Keraunophobia - fear of thunder and lightning
Kinemortophobia - fear of zombies
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia - fear of movement or motion
Kleptophobia - fear of stealing
Koinoniphobia - fear of rooms
Kolpophobia - fear of genitals, particularly female
Koniophobia - fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
Kopophobia - fear of fatigue
Kosmikophobia - fear of cosmic phenomenon
Kymophobia - fear of waves
Kynophobia - fear of rabies
Kyphophobia - fear of stooping

L

Lachanophobia - fear of vegetables
Laliophobia or Lalophobia - fear of speaking or talking (Glossophobia)
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia - fear of leprosy
Leukophobia - fear of the color white
Levophobia - fear of objects to the left side of the body (Sinistrophobia)
Ligyrophobia - fear of sharp or loud noises (Acousticophobia, Phonophobia)
Lilapsophobia - fear of tornadoes and hurricanes
Limnophobia - fear of marshes or lakes
Linonophobia - fear of string
Liticaphobia or Litigaphobia - fear of lawsuits
Lockiophobia - fear of childbirth (Maieusiophobia, Parturiphobia, Tocophobia, Tokophobia, Teratophobia)
Logizomechanophobia - fear of computers (Cyberphobia)
Logophobia - fear of words (Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, Sesquipedalophobia, Onomatophobia, Verbophobia)
Luiphobia - fear of lues (syphillis) (Syphiliphobia, Syphilophobia)
Lutraphobia - fear of otters
Lyssophobia - fear of going insane or getting rabies

M

Macrophobia - fear of long waits
Mageirocophobia - fear of cooking
Maieusiophobia - fear of childbirth
Malaxophobia - fear of love play, (Sarmassophobia)
Maniaphobia - fear of insanity
Mastigophobia - fear of punishment
Mechanophobia - fear of machines
Medomalacuphobia - fear of losing an erection
Medorthophobia - fear of an erect penis
Megalophobia - fear of large things
Melanophobia - fear of the color black
Melissophobia - fear of bees
Melophobia - fear of music
Meningitophobia - fear of brain disease
Menophobia - fear of menstruation
Merinthophobia - fear of being bound or tied up
Metallophobia - fear of metal
Metathesiophobia - fear of changes
Meteorophobia - fear of meteors
Methyphobia - fear of alcohol
Metrophobia - fear of poetry
Microbiophobia - fear of microbes, (Bacillophobia)
Microphobia - fear of small things
Misophobia - fear of being contaminated
Mnemophobia - fear of memories
Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia - fear of dirt or being contaminated
Monopathophobia - fear of disease
Monophobia - fear of isolation
Motorphobia - fear of automobiles
Mottephobia - fear of moths
Musophobia or Murophobia - fear of mice
Mycophobia - fear of mushrooms
Myrmecophobia - fear of ants
Mythophobia - fear of myths, stories, or false statements
Myxophobia - fear of slime,(Blennophobia)

N

Necrophobia - fear of death and the dead
Neophobia, Cainophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia - fear of novelty
Nomophobia - fear of losing contact with mobile phone
Nosocomephobia - fear of hospitals
Nosophobia - fear of transferring diseases
Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia - fear of darkness

O

Octophobia - fear of the number 8
Ombrophobia - fear of rain
Omphalophobia - fear of the navel
Ornitophobia - fear of birds (a type of zoophobia)
Ophidiophobia - fear of snakes (a type of zoophobia)

P

Papaphobia - fear of the pope
Pedophobia, Pediophobia - fear of children
Peristerophobia - fear of pigeons
Pharmacophobia - fear of tablets
Phengophobia - fear of daylight (from the Greek phengos).^[1]
Philophobia - fear of love
Pyrophobia - fear of fire
Paraskividekatriaphobia -- a fear of Friday 13th

R

Radiophobia - fear of radiation
Ranidaphobia - fear of frogs
Rectophobia - fear of rectum or rectal diseases
Rhabdophobia - fear of rods or being beaten
Rhypophobia - fear of defecation
Rhytiphobia - fear of getting wrinkles
Rupophobia - fear of dirt
Russophobia - fear of Russians

S

Seismophobia - fear of earthquakes
Shiyamphobia - fear of fighting
Sathyarphobia - fear of sivaraj
Saravanaphobia - fear of open love to other
Social phobia or Sociophobia - fear of contact with people (eat, drink, speak, read from others, etc.)
Spheksophobia fear of wasps

T

Thalassophobia - fear of deep bodies of water
Trypophobia - fear of clustered holes
Turophobia - fear of cheese
Transphobia - fear of transgender or transsexual people
Trichophobia, Chaetophobia, Hypertrichophobia, Trichopathophobia - fear of hair
Trypanophobia - fear of needles or injections
Trudoculophobia fear of objects touching or harming eyes
Triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13

U

Unnamed - fear of siezures
Uranophobia - fear of heaven

V

Vaccinophobia - fear of vaccination
Verbophobia - fear of words
Verminophobia - fear of germs
Vestiphobia - fear of clothing
Virginitiphobia - fear of rape
Vitricophobia - fear of step-father

W

Walloonphobia - fear of Walloons
Wiccaphobia - fear of witches and witchcraft

X

Xanthophobia - fear of the color yellow
Xenophobia - fear of foreign people

Z

Funny and fictional phobias

Anatidaephobia - fear that a duck, somewhere, is watching you
Arachibutyrophobia - fear of peanut butter stuck to the roof of the mouth
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - fear of long words
Uranophobia - fear of heaven
Venustraphobia - fear of pretty women

References

↑ Ronald Manual Doctor, Ada P. Kahn, Christine A. Adamec (2009). The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties (third ed.). Infobase Publishing. p. 383. ISBN 9781438120980.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Other websites

[1] Ronald Manual Doctor, Ada P. Kahn, Christine A. Adamec (2009). The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties (third ed.). Infobase Publishing. p. 383. ISBN 9781438120980.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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