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PHOBIAS

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Phobia

Description

Ablutophobia

washing or bathing

Acarophobia

itching or of the insects that cause itching

Acerophobia

sourness

Achluophobia

darkness

Acousticophobia

noise

Acrophobia

heights

Aeroacrophobia

open high places

Aeronausiphobia

vomiting secondary to airsickness

Aerophobia

drafts air swallowing or airbourne noxious substances

Agliophobia

pain

Agoraphobia

open spaces or of being in crowded public places like markets leaving a safe place

Agraphobia

sexual abuse

Agrizoophobia

wild animals

Agyrophobia

streets or crossing the street

Aichmophobia

needles or pointed objects

Ailurophobia

cats

Albuminurophobia

kidney disease

Alektorophobia

chickens

Algophobia

pain

Alliumphobia

garlic

Allodoxaphobia

opinions

Altophobia

heights

Amathophobia

dust

Amaxophobia

riding in a car

Ambulophobia

walking

Amnesiphobia

amnesia

Amychophobia

scratches or being scratched

Anablephobia

looking up

Ancraophobia or Anemophobia

wind

Androphobia

men

Anemophobia

drafts or wind

Anginophobia

angina choking or narrowness

Anglophobia

England English culture etc

Angrophobia

becoming angry

Ankylophobia

immobility of a joint

Anthrophobia or Anthophobia

flowers

Anthropophobia

people or society

Antlophobia

floods

Anuptaphobia

staying single

Apeirophobia

infinity

Aphenphosmphobia

being touched (Haphephobia)

Apiphobia

bees

Apotemnophobia

persons with amputations

Arachibutyrophobia

peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia

spiders

Arithmophobia

numbers

Arrhenphobia

men

Arsonphobia

fire

Asthenophobia

fainting or weakness

Astraphobia or Astrapophobia

thunder and lightning

Astrophobia

stars and celestial space

Asymmetriphobia

asymmetrical things

Ataxiophobia

ataxia (muscular incoordination)

Ataxophobia

disorder or untidiness

Atelophobia

imperfection

Atephobia

ruin or ruins

Athazagoraphobia

being forgotton or ignored or forgetting

Atomosophobia

atomic explosions

Atychiphobia

failure

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Aulophobia

flutes

Aurophobia

gold

Auroraphobia

Northern lights

Autodysomophobia

one that has a vile odor

Automatonophobia

ventriloquist's dummies animatronic creatures wax statues anything that falsly represents a sentient being

Automysophobia

being dirty

Autophobia

being alone or of oneself

Aviophobia or Aviatophobia

flying

Bacillophobia

microbes

Bacteriophobia

bacteria

Ballistophobia

missles or bullets

Barophobia

gravity

Basophobia or Basiphobia

Inability to stand walking or falling

Bathophobia

depth

Batonophobia

plants

Batophobia

heights or being close to high buildings

Batrachophobia

amphibians such as frogs newts salamanders etc

Belonephobia

pins and needles (Aichmophobia)

Bibliophobia

books

Blennophobia

slime

Bogyphobia

bogies or the bogeyman

Bolshephobia

Bolsheviks

Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia

body smells

Brontophobia

thunder and lightning

Bufonophobia

toads

Cacophobia

ugliness

Cainophobia or Cainotophobia

newness novelty

Caligynephobia

beautiful women

Cancerophobia

cancer

Carcinophobia

cancer

Cardiophobia

the heart

Carnophobia

meat

Catagelophobia

being ridiculed

Catapedaphobia

jumping from high and low places

Cathisophobia

sitting

Catoptrophobia

mirrors

Cenophobia or Centophobia

new things or ideas

Ceraunophobia

thunder

Chaetophobia

hair

Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia

cold

Chemophobia

chemicals or working with chemicals

Cherophobia

gaiety

Chionophobia

snow

Chiraptophobia

being touched

Cholerophobia

anger or the cholera

Chorophobia

dancing

Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia

money

Chromophobia or Chromatophobia

colours

Chronomentrophobia

clocks

Chronophobia

time

Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia

food

Claustrophobia

confined spaces

Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia

being locked in an enclosed place

Cleptophobia

stealing

Climacophobia

stairs climbing or of falling downstairs

Clinophobia

going to bed

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Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia

being enclosed

Cnidophobia

strings

Coimetrophobia

cemeteries

Coitophobia

coitus

Cometophobia

comets

Contreltophobia

sexual abuse

Coprastasophobia

constipation

Coprophobia

feces

Coulrophobia

clowns

Counterphobia

The preference by a phobic for fearful situations

Cremnophobia

precipices

Cryophobia

extreme cold ice or frost

Crystallophobia

crystals or glass

Cyberphobia

computers or working on a computer

Cyclophobia

bicycles

Cymophobia

waves or wave like motions

Cynophobia

dogs or rabies

Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia

prostitutes or venereal disease

Decidophobia

making decisions

Defecaloesiophobia

painful bowels movements

Deipnophobia

dining and dinner conversations

Dementophobia

insanity

Demonophobia or Daemonophobia

demons

Demophobia

crowds (Agoraphobia)

Dendrophobia

trees

Dentophobia

dentists

Dermatophobia

skin lesions

Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia

skin disease

Dextrophobia

objects at the right side of the body

Diabetophobia

diabetes

Didaskaleinophobia

going to school

Dikephobia

justice

Dinophobia

dizziness or whirlpools

Diplophobia

double vision

Dipsophobia

drinking

Dishabiliophobia

undressing in front of someone

Domatophobia or Oikophobia

houses or being in a house

Doraphobia

fur or skins of animals

Dromophobia

crossing streets

Dutchphobia

the Dutch

Dysmorphophobia

deformity

Dystychiphobia

accidents

Ecclesiophobia

church

Ecophobia

home

Eicophobia or Oikophobia

home surroundings

Eisoptrophobia

mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror

Electrophobia

electricity

Eleutherophobia

freedom

Elurophobia

cats (Ailurophobia)

Emetophobia

vomiting

Enetophobia

pins

Enochlophobia

crowds

Enosiophobia or Enissophobia

having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism

Entomophobia

insects

Eosophobia

dawn or daylight

Epistaxiophobia

nosebleeds

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Epistemophobia

knowledge

Equinophobia

horses

Eremophobia

being oneself or of lonliness

Ereuthrophobia

blushing

Ergasiophobia

work or functioning or Surgeon's operating

Ergophobia

work

Erotophobia

sexual love or sexual questions

Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia

redlights or Blushing or Red

Euphobia

hearing good news

Eurotophobia

female genitalia

Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia

fever

Felinophobia

cats (Ailurophobia Elurophobia Galeophobia Gatophobia)

Francophobia

France or French culture (Gallophobia Galiophobia)

Frigophobia

cold cold things

Galeophobia or Gatophobia

cats

Gallophobia or Galiophobia

France or French culture (Francophobia)

Gamophobia

marriage

Geliophobia

laughter

Geniophobia

chins

Genophobia

sex

Genuphobia

knees

Gephyrophobia Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia

crossing bridges

Gerascophobia

growing old

Germanophobia

Germany German culture etc

Gerontophobia

old people or of growing old

Geumaphobia or Geumophobia

taste

Glossophobia

speaking in public or of trying to speak

Gnosiophobia

knowledge

Graphophobia

writing or handwriting

Gymnophobia

nudity

Gynephobia or Gynophobia

women

Hadephobia

hell

Hagiophobia

saints or holy things

Hamartophobia

sinning

Haphephobia or Haptephobia

being touched

Harpaxophobia

being robbed

Hedonophobia

feeling pleasure

Heliophobia

the sun

Hellenologophobia

Greek terms or complex scientific terminology

Helminthophobia

being infested with worms

Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia

blood

Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia

challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation

Herpetophobia

reptiles or creepy crawly things

Heterophobia

the opposite sex (Sexophobia)

Hierophobia

priests or sacred things

Hippophobia

horses

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

long words

Hobophobia

bums or beggars

Hodophobia

road travel

Homichlophobia

fog

Homilophobia

sermons

Hominophobia

men

Homophobia

sameness monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual

Homophobia

Homosexuales

Hoplophobia

firearms

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Hormephobia

shock

Hydrargyophobia

mercurial medicines

Hydrophobia

water or of rabies

Hydrophobophobia

rabies

Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia

glass

Hygrophobia

liquids dampness or moisture

Hylephobia

materialism OR the epilepsy

Hylophobia

forests

Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia

responsibility

Hypnophobia

sleep or of being hypnotized

Hypsiphobia

height

Iatrophobia

going to the doctor or of doctors

Ichthyophobia

fish

Ideophobia

ideas

Illyngophobia

veritgo or feeling dizzy when looking down

Insectophobia

insects

Iophobia

poison

Isolophobia

solitude being alone

Isopterophobia

termites insects that eat wood

Ithyphallophobia

seeing thinking about or having an erect penis

Japanophobia

Japanese

Judeophobia

Jews

Kainolophobia

novelty

Kainophobia

anything new novelty

Kakorrhaphiophobia

failure or defeat

Katagelophobia

ridicule

Kathisophobia

sitting down

Kenophobia

voids or empty spaces

Keraunophobia

thunder and lightning

Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia

movement or motion

Kleptophobia

stealing

Koinoniphobia

rooms

Kolpophobia

genitals particularly female

Koniophobia

dust (Amathophobia)

Kopophobia

fatigue

Kosmikophobia

cosmic phenomenon

Kymophobia

waves

Kynophobia

rabies

Kyphophobia

stooping

Lachanophobia

vegetables

Laliophobia or Lalophobia

speaking

Leprophobia or Lepraphobia

leprosy

Leukophobia

the color white

Levophobia

things to the left side of the body

Ligyrophobia

loud noises

Lilapsophobia

tornadoes and hurricanes

Limnophobia

lakes

Linonophobia

string

Liticaphobia

lawsuits

Lockiophobia

childbirth

Logizomechanophobia

computers

Logophobia

words

Luiphobia

lues syphillis

Lutraphobia

otters

Lygophobia

darkness

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Lyssophobia

rabies or of becoming mad

Macrophobia

long waits

Mageirocophobia

cooking

Maieusiophobia

childbirth

Malaxophobia

love play (Sarmassophobia)

Maniaphobia

insanity

Mastigophobia

punishment

Mechanophobia

machines

Medomalacuphobia

losing an erection

Medorthophobia

erect penis

Megalophobia

large things

Melanophobia

the color black

Melissophobia

bees

Melophobia

music or hatred of

Meningitophobia

brain disease

Menophobia

menstruation

Merinthophobia

being bound or tied up

Metallophobia

metal

Metathesiophobia

changes

Meteorophobia

meteors

Methyphobia

alcohol

Metrophobia

poetry or hatred of

Microbiophobia

microbes (Bacillophobia)

Microphobia

small things

Misophobia

being contaminated with dirt of germs

Mnemophobia

memories

Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia

dirt or contamination

Monopathophobia

definite disease

Monophobia

solitude or being alone

Motorphobia

automobiles

Mottephobia

moths

Musophobia or Murophobia

mice

Mycophobia

mushrooms or aversion to

Mycrophobia

small things

Myctophobia

darkness

Myrmecophobia

ants

Mysophobia

germs or contamination or dirt

Mythophobia

myths or stories or false statements

Myxophobia

slime (Blennophobia)

Nebulaphobia

fog (Homichlophobia)

Necrophobia

death or dead things

Nelophobia

glass

Neopharmaphobia

new drugs

Neophobia

anything new

Nephophobia

clouds

Noctiphobia

the night

Nomatophobia

names

Nosocomephobia

hospitals

Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia

becoming ill

Nostophobia

returning home

Novercaphobia

your step-mother

Nucleomituphobia

nuclear weapons

Nudophobia

nudity

Numerophobia

numbers

Nyctohylophobia

dark wooded areas of forests at night

Nyctophobia

the dark or of night

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Obesophobia

gaining weight(Pocrescophobia)

Ochlophobia

crowds or mobs

Ochophobia

vehicles

Octophobia

the figure 8

Odontophobia

teeth or dental surgery

Odynophobia or Odynephobia

pain (Algophobia)

Oenophobia

wines

Oikophobia

home surroundings house

Olfactophobia

smells

Ombrophobia

rain or of being rained on

Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia

eyes

Oneirogmophobia

wet dreams

Oneirophobia

dreams

Onomatophobia

hearing a certain word or of names

Ophidiophobia

snakes (Snakephobia)

Ophthalmophobia

being stared at

Optophobia

opening one's eyes

Ornithophobia

birds

Orthophobia

property

Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia

smells or odors

Ostraconophobia

shellfish

Ouranophobia

heaven

Pagophobia

ice or frost

Panophobia or Pantophobia

everything

Panthophobia

suffering and disease

Papaphobia

the Pope

Papyrophobia

paper

Paralipophobia

neglecting duty or responsibility

Paraphobia

sexual perversion

Parasitophobia

parasites

Paraskavedekatriaphobia

Friday the 13th

Parthenophobia

virgins or young girls

Parturiphobia

childbirth

Pathophobia

disease

Patroiophobia

heredity

Peccatophobia

sinning (imaginary crime)

Pediculophobia

lice

Pediophobia

dolls

Pedophobia

children

Peladophobia

bald people

Pellagrophobia

pellagra

Peniaphobia

poverty

Pentheraphobia

mother-in-law (Novercaphobia)

Phagophobia

swallowing or of eating or of being eaten

Phalacrophobia

becoming bald

Phallophobia

penis esp erect

Pharmacophobia

taking medicine

Pharmacophobia

drugs

Phasmophobia

ghosts

Phengophobia

daylight or sunshine

Philemaphobia or Philematophobia

kissing

Philophobia

falling in love or being in love

Philosophobia

philosophy

Phobophobia

phobias

Phonophobia

noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones

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Photoaugliaphobia

glaring lights

Photophobia

light

Phronemophobia

thinking

Phthiriophobia

lice (Pediculophobia)

Phthisiophobia

tuberculosis

Placophobia

tombstones

Plutophobia

wealth

Pluviophobia

rain or of being rained on

Pneumatiphobia

spirits

Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia

choking of being smothered

Pocrescophobia

gaining weight (Obesophobia)

Pogonophobia

beards

Poinephobia

punishment

Poliosophobia

contracting poliomyelitis

Politicophobia

politicians or an abnormal dislike of

Polyphobia

many things

Ponophobia

overworking or of pain

Porphyrophobia

the color purple

Potamophobia

rivers or running water

Potophobia

alcohol

Proctophobia

rectum

Prosophobia

progress

Psellismophobia

stuttering

Psychophobia

mind

Psychrophobia

cold

Pteromerhanophobia

flying

Pteronophobia

being tickled by feathers

Pupaphobia

puppets Pyrexiophobia

Pyrophobia

fire

Radiophobia

radiation x-rays

Ranidaphobia

frogs

Rectophobia

rectum or rectal diseases

Rhabdophobia

being severely punished or beaten by a rod or of being severely criticized Also magic(wand)

Rhypophobia

defecation

Rhytiphobia

getting wrinkles

Rupophobia

dirt

Russophobia

Russians

Samhainophobia

Halloween

Sarmassophobia

love play (Malaxophobia)

Satanophobia

Satan

Scabiophobia

scabies

Scatophobia

fecal matter

Scelerophibia

bad men burglars

Sciophobia Sciaphobia

shadows

Scoleciphobia

worms

Scolionophobia

school

Scopophobia or Scoptophobia

being seen or stared at

Scotomaphobia

blindness in visual field

Scotophobia

darkness (Achluophobia)

Scriptophobia

writing in public

Selaphobia

light flashes

Selenophobia

the moon

Seplophobia

decaying matter

Sesquipedalophobia

long words

Sexophobia

the opposite sex (Heterophobia)

Siderodromophobia

trains railroads or train travel

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Siderophobia

stars

Sinistrophobia

things to the left left-handed

Sinophobia

Chinese Chinese culture

Sitophobia or Sitiophobia

food or eating (Cibophobia)

Snakephobia

snakes (Ophidiophobia)

Soceraphobia

parents-in-law

Social Phobia

being evaluated negatively in social situations

Sociophobia

society or people in general

Somniphobia

sleep

Sophophobia

learning

Soteriophobia

dependence on others

Spacephobia

outer space

Spectrophobia

specters or ghosts

Spermatophobia or Spermophobia

germs

Spheksophobia

wasps

Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia

standing or walking (Ambulophobia)

Staurophobia

crosses or the crucifix

Stenophobia

narrow things or places

Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia

hell

Suriphobia

mice

Symbolophobia

symbolism

Symmetrophobia

symmetry

Syngenesophobia

relatives

Syphilophobia

syphilis

Tachophobia

speed

Taeniophobia or Teniophobia

tapeworms

Taphephobia or Taphophobia

being buried alive or of cemeteries

Tapinophobia

being contagious

Taurophobia

bulls

Technophobia

technology

Teleophobia

definate plans or Religious ceremony

Telephonophobia

telephones

Teratophobia

bearing a deformed child or monsters or deformed people

Testophobia

taking tests

Tetanophobia

lockjaw tetanus

Teutophobia

German or German things

Textophobia

certain fabrics

Thaasophobia

sitting

Thalassophobia

sea

Thanatophobia or Thantophobia

death or dying

Theatrophobia

theatres

Theologicophobia

theology

Theophobia

gods or religion

Thermophobia

heat

Tocophobia

pregnancy or childbirth

Tomophobia

surgical operations

Tonitrophobia

thunder

Topophobia

certain places or situations such as stage fright

Toxiphobia, Toxophobia or Toxicophobia

poison or of being accidently poisoned

Traumatophobia

injury

Tremophobia

trembling

Trichinophobia

trichinosis

Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia or Hypertrichophobia

hair (Chaetophobia)

Triskaidekaphobia

the number 13

Tropophobia

moving or making changes

Trypanophobia

injections

Tuberculophobia

tuberculosis

Tyrannophobia

tyrants

Uranophobia

heaven

Urophobia

urine or urinating

Vaccinophobia

vaccination

Venustraphobia

beautiful women

Verbophobia

words

Verminophobia

germs

Vestiphobia

clothing

Virginitiphobia

rape

Vitricophobia

step-father

Walloonphobia

the Walloons

Wiccaphobia

witches and witchcraft

Xanthophobia

the color yellow or the word yellow

Xenophobia

strangers or foreigners

Xerophobia

dryness

Xylophobia

wooden objects or Forests

Zelophobia

jealousy

Zemmiphobia

great mole rat

Zeusophobia

God or gods

Zoophobia

animals

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