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PHOBIAS
in Phobia Order
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Phobia |
Description |
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Ablutophobia |
washing or bathing |
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Acarophobia |
itching or of the insects that cause itching |
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Acerophobia |
sourness |
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Achluophobia |
darkness |
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Acousticophobia |
noise |
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Acrophobia |
heights |
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Aeroacrophobia |
open high places |
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Aeronausiphobia |
vomiting secondary to airsickness |
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Aerophobia |
drafts air swallowing or airbourne noxious substances |
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Agliophobia |
pain |
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Agoraphobia |
open spaces or of being in crowded public places like markets leaving a safe place |
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Agraphobia |
sexual abuse |
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Agrizoophobia |
wild animals |
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Agyrophobia |
streets or crossing the street |
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Aichmophobia |
needles or pointed objects |
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Ailurophobia |
cats |
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Albuminurophobia |
kidney disease |
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Alektorophobia |
chickens |
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Algophobia |
pain |
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Alliumphobia |
garlic |
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Allodoxaphobia |
opinions |
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Altophobia |
heights |
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Amathophobia |
dust |
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Amaxophobia |
riding in a car |
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Ambulophobia |
walking |
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Amnesiphobia |
amnesia |
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Amychophobia |
scratches or being scratched |
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Anablephobia |
looking up |
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Ancraophobia or Anemophobia |
wind |
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Androphobia |
men |
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Anemophobia |
drafts or wind |
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Anginophobia |
angina choking or narrowness |
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Anglophobia |
England English culture etc |
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Angrophobia |
becoming angry |
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Ankylophobia |
immobility of a joint |
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Anthrophobia or Anthophobia |
flowers |
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Anthropophobia |
people or society |
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Antlophobia |
floods |
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Anuptaphobia |
staying single |
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Apeirophobia |
infinity |
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Aphenphosmphobia |
being touched (Haphephobia) |
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Apiphobia |
bees |
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Apotemnophobia |
persons with amputations |
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Arachibutyrophobia |
peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth |
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Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia |
spiders |
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Arithmophobia |
numbers |
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Arrhenphobia |
men |
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Arsonphobia |
fire |
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Asthenophobia |
fainting or weakness |
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Astraphobia or Astrapophobia |
thunder and lightning |
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Astrophobia |
stars and celestial space |
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Asymmetriphobia |
asymmetrical things |
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Ataxiophobia |
ataxia (muscular incoordination) |
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Ataxophobia |
disorder or untidiness |
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Atelophobia |
imperfection |
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Atephobia |
ruin or ruins |
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Athazagoraphobia |
being forgotton or ignored or forgetting |
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Atomosophobia |
atomic explosions |
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Atychiphobia |
failure |
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Aulophobia |
flutes |
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Aurophobia |
gold |
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Auroraphobia |
Northern lights |
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Autodysomophobia |
one that has a vile odor |
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Automatonophobia |
ventriloquist's dummies animatronic creatures wax statues anything that falsly represents a sentient being |
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Automysophobia |
being dirty |
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Autophobia |
being alone or of oneself |
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Aviophobia or Aviatophobia |
flying |
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Bacillophobia |
microbes |
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Bacteriophobia |
bacteria |
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Ballistophobia |
missles or bullets |
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Barophobia |
gravity |
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Basophobia or Basiphobia |
Inability to stand walking or falling |
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Bathophobia |
depth |
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Batonophobia |
plants |
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Batophobia |
heights or being close to high buildings |
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Batrachophobia |
amphibians such as frogs newts salamanders etc |
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Belonephobia |
pins and needles (Aichmophobia) |
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Bibliophobia |
books |
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Blennophobia |
slime |
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Bogyphobia |
bogies or the bogeyman |
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Bolshephobia |
Bolsheviks |
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Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia |
body smells |
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Brontophobia |
thunder and lightning |
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Bufonophobia |
toads |
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Cacophobia |
ugliness |
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Cainophobia or Cainotophobia |
newness novelty |
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Caligynephobia |
beautiful women |
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Cancerophobia |
cancer |
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Carcinophobia |
cancer |
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Cardiophobia |
the heart |
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Carnophobia |
meat |
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Catagelophobia |
being ridiculed |
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Catapedaphobia |
jumping from high and low places |
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Cathisophobia |
sitting |
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Catoptrophobia |
mirrors |
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Cenophobia or Centophobia |
new things or ideas |
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Ceraunophobia |
thunder |
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Chaetophobia |
hair |
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Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia |
cold |
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Chemophobia |
chemicals or working with chemicals |
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Cherophobia |
gaiety |
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Chionophobia |
snow |
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Chiraptophobia |
being touched |
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Cholerophobia |
anger or the cholera |
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Chorophobia |
dancing |
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Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia |
money |
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Chromophobia or Chromatophobia |
colours |
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Chronomentrophobia |
clocks |
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Chronophobia |
time |
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Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia |
food |
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Claustrophobia |
confined spaces |
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Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia |
being locked in an enclosed place |
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Cleptophobia |
stealing |
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Climacophobia |
stairs climbing or of falling downstairs |
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Clinophobia |
going to bed |
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Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia |
being enclosed |
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Cnidophobia |
strings |
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Coimetrophobia |
cemeteries |
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Coitophobia |
coitus |
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Cometophobia |
comets |
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Contreltophobia |
sexual abuse |
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Coprastasophobia |
constipation |
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Coprophobia |
feces |
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Coulrophobia |
clowns |
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Counterphobia |
The preference by a phobic for fearful situations |
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Cremnophobia |
precipices |
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Cryophobia |
extreme cold ice or frost |
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Crystallophobia |
crystals or glass |
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Cyberphobia |
computers or working on a computer |
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Cyclophobia |
bicycles |
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Cymophobia |
waves or wave like motions |
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Cynophobia |
dogs or rabies |
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Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia |
prostitutes or venereal disease |
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Decidophobia |
making decisions |
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Defecaloesiophobia |
painful bowels movements |
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Deipnophobia |
dining and dinner conversations |
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Dementophobia |
insanity |
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Demonophobia or Daemonophobia |
demons |
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Demophobia |
crowds (Agoraphobia) |
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Dendrophobia |
trees |
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Dentophobia |
dentists |
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Dermatophobia |
skin lesions |
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Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia |
skin disease |
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Dextrophobia |
objects at the right side of the body |
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Diabetophobia |
diabetes |
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Didaskaleinophobia |
going to school |
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Dikephobia |
justice |
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Dinophobia |
dizziness or whirlpools |
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Diplophobia |
double vision |
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Dipsophobia |
drinking |
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Dishabiliophobia |
undressing in front of someone |
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Domatophobia or Oikophobia |
houses or being in a house |
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Doraphobia |
fur or skins of animals |
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Dromophobia |
crossing streets |
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Dutchphobia |
the Dutch |
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Dysmorphophobia |
deformity |
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Dystychiphobia |
accidents |
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Ecclesiophobia |
church |
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Ecophobia |
home |
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Eicophobia or Oikophobia |
home surroundings |
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Eisoptrophobia |
mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror |
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Electrophobia |
electricity |
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Eleutherophobia |
freedom |
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Elurophobia |
cats (Ailurophobia) |
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Emetophobia |
vomiting |
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Enetophobia |
pins |
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Enochlophobia |
crowds |
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Enosiophobia or Enissophobia |
having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism |
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Entomophobia |
insects |
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Eosophobia |
dawn or daylight |
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Epistaxiophobia |
nosebleeds |
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Epistemophobia |
knowledge |
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Equinophobia |
horses |
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Eremophobia |
being oneself or of lonliness |
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Ereuthrophobia |
blushing |
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Ergasiophobia |
work or functioning or Surgeon's operating |
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Ergophobia |
work |
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Erotophobia |
sexual love or sexual questions |
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Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia |
redlights or Blushing or Red |
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Euphobia |
hearing good news |
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Eurotophobia |
female genitalia |
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Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia |
fever |
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Felinophobia |
cats (Ailurophobia Elurophobia Galeophobia Gatophobia) |
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Francophobia |
France or French culture (Gallophobia Galiophobia) |
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Frigophobia |
cold cold things |
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Galeophobia or Gatophobia |
cats |
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Gallophobia or Galiophobia |
France or French culture (Francophobia) |
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Gamophobia |
marriage |
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Geliophobia |
laughter |
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Geniophobia |
chins |
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Genophobia |
sex |
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Genuphobia |
knees |
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Gephyrophobia Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia |
crossing bridges |
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Gerascophobia |
growing old |
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Germanophobia |
Germany German culture etc |
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Gerontophobia |
old people or of growing old |
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Geumaphobia or Geumophobia |
taste |
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Glossophobia |
speaking in public or of trying to speak |
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Gnosiophobia |
knowledge |
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Graphophobia |
writing or handwriting |
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Gymnophobia |
nudity |
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Gynephobia or Gynophobia |
women |
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Hadephobia |
hell |
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Hagiophobia |
saints or holy things |
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Hamartophobia |
sinning |
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Haphephobia or Haptephobia |
being touched |
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Harpaxophobia |
being robbed |
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Hedonophobia |
feeling pleasure |
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Heliophobia |
the sun |
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Hellenologophobia |
Greek terms or complex scientific terminology |
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Helminthophobia |
being infested with worms |
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Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia |
blood |
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Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia |
challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation |
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Herpetophobia |
reptiles or creepy crawly things |
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Heterophobia |
the opposite sex (Sexophobia) |
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Hierophobia |
priests or sacred things |
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Hippophobia |
horses |
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia |
long words |
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Hobophobia |
bums or beggars |
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Hodophobia |
road travel |
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Homichlophobia |
fog |
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Homilophobia |
sermons |
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Hominophobia |
men |
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Homophobia |
sameness monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual |
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Homophobia |
Homosexuales |
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Hoplophobia |
firearms |
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Hormephobia |
shock |
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Hydrargyophobia |
mercurial medicines |
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Hydrophobia |
water or of rabies |
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Hydrophobophobia |
rabies |
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Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia |
glass |
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Hygrophobia |
liquids dampness or moisture |
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Hylephobia |
materialism OR the epilepsy |
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Hylophobia |
forests |
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Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia |
responsibility |
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Hypnophobia |
sleep or of being hypnotized |
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Hypsiphobia |
height |
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Iatrophobia |
going to the doctor or of doctors |
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Ichthyophobia |
fish |
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Ideophobia |
ideas |
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Illyngophobia |
veritgo or feeling dizzy when looking down |
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Insectophobia |
insects |
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Iophobia |
poison |
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Isolophobia |
solitude being alone |
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Isopterophobia |
termites insects that eat wood |
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Ithyphallophobia |
seeing thinking about or having an erect penis |
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Japanophobia |
Japanese |
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Judeophobia |
Jews |
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Kainolophobia |
novelty |
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Kainophobia |
anything new novelty |
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Kakorrhaphiophobia |
failure or defeat |
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Katagelophobia |
ridicule |
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Kathisophobia |
sitting down |
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Kenophobia |
voids or empty spaces |
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Keraunophobia |
thunder and lightning |
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Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia |
movement or motion |
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Kleptophobia |
stealing |
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Koinoniphobia |
rooms |
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Kolpophobia |
genitals particularly female |
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Koniophobia |
dust (Amathophobia) |
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Kopophobia |
fatigue |
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Kosmikophobia |
cosmic phenomenon |
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Kymophobia |
waves |
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Kynophobia |
rabies |
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Kyphophobia |
stooping |
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Lachanophobia |
vegetables |
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Laliophobia or Lalophobia |
speaking |
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Leprophobia or Lepraphobia |
leprosy |
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Leukophobia |
the color white |
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Levophobia |
things to the left side of the body |
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Ligyrophobia |
loud noises |
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Lilapsophobia |
tornadoes and hurricanes |
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Limnophobia |
lakes |
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Linonophobia |
string |
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Liticaphobia |
lawsuits |
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Lockiophobia |
childbirth |
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Logizomechanophobia |
computers |
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Logophobia |
words |
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Luiphobia |
lues syphillis |
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Lutraphobia |
otters |
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Lygophobia |
darkness |
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Lyssophobia |
rabies or of becoming mad |
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Macrophobia |
long waits |
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Mageirocophobia |
cooking |
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Maieusiophobia |
childbirth |
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Malaxophobia |
love play (Sarmassophobia) |
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Maniaphobia |
insanity |
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Mastigophobia |
punishment |
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Mechanophobia |
machines |
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Medomalacuphobia |
losing an erection |
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Medorthophobia |
erect penis |
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Megalophobia |
large things |
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Melanophobia |
the color black |
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Melissophobia |
bees |
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Melophobia |
music or hatred of |
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Meningitophobia |
brain disease |
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Menophobia |
menstruation |
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Merinthophobia |
being bound or tied up |
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Metallophobia |
metal |
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Metathesiophobia |
changes |
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Meteorophobia |
meteors |
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Methyphobia |
alcohol |
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Metrophobia |
poetry or hatred of |
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Microbiophobia |
microbes (Bacillophobia) |
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Microphobia |
small things |
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Misophobia |
being contaminated with dirt of germs |
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Mnemophobia |
memories |
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Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia |
dirt or contamination |
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Monopathophobia |
definite disease |
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Monophobia |
solitude or being alone |
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Motorphobia |
automobiles |
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Mottephobia |
moths |
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Musophobia or Murophobia |
mice |
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Mycophobia |
mushrooms or aversion to |
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Mycrophobia |
small things |
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Myctophobia |
darkness |
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Myrmecophobia |
ants |
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Mysophobia |
germs or contamination or dirt |
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Mythophobia |
myths or stories or false statements |
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Myxophobia |
slime (Blennophobia) |
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Nebulaphobia |
fog (Homichlophobia) |
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Necrophobia |
death or dead things |
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Nelophobia |
glass |
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Neopharmaphobia |
new drugs |
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Neophobia |
anything new |
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Nephophobia |
clouds |
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Noctiphobia |
the night |
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Nomatophobia |
names |
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Nosocomephobia |
hospitals |
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Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia |
becoming ill |
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Nostophobia |
returning home |
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Novercaphobia |
your step-mother |
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Nucleomituphobia |
nuclear weapons |
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Nudophobia |
nudity |
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Numerophobia |
numbers |
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Nyctohylophobia |
dark wooded areas of forests at night |
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Nyctophobia |
the dark or of night |
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Obesophobia |
gaining weight(Pocrescophobia) |
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Ochlophobia |
crowds or mobs |
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Ochophobia |
vehicles |
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Octophobia |
the figure 8 |
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Odontophobia |
teeth or dental surgery |
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Odynophobia or Odynephobia |
pain (Algophobia) |
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Oenophobia |
wines |
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Oikophobia |
home surroundings house |
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Olfactophobia |
smells |
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Ombrophobia |
rain or of being rained on |
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Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia |
eyes |
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Oneirogmophobia |
wet dreams |
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Oneirophobia |
dreams |
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Onomatophobia |
hearing a certain word or of names |
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Ophidiophobia |
snakes (Snakephobia) |
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Ophthalmophobia |
being stared at |
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Optophobia |
opening one's eyes |
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Ornithophobia |
birds |
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Orthophobia |
property |
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Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia |
smells or odors |
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Ostraconophobia |
shellfish |
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Ouranophobia |
heaven |
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Pagophobia |
ice or frost |
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Panophobia or Pantophobia |
everything |
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Panthophobia |
suffering and disease |
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Papaphobia |
the Pope |
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Papyrophobia |
paper |
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Paralipophobia |
neglecting duty or responsibility |
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Paraphobia |
sexual perversion |
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Parasitophobia |
parasites |
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Paraskavedekatriaphobia |
Friday the 13th |
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Parthenophobia |
virgins or young girls |
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Parturiphobia |
childbirth |
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Pathophobia |
disease |
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Patroiophobia |
heredity |
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Peccatophobia |
sinning (imaginary crime) |
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Pediculophobia |
lice |
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Pediophobia |
dolls |
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Pedophobia |
children |
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Peladophobia |
bald people |
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Pellagrophobia |
pellagra |
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Peniaphobia |
poverty |
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Pentheraphobia |
mother-in-law (Novercaphobia) |
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Phagophobia |
swallowing or of eating or of being eaten |
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Phalacrophobia |
becoming bald |
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Phallophobia |
penis esp erect |
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Pharmacophobia |
taking medicine |
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Pharmacophobia |
drugs |
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Phasmophobia |
ghosts |
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Phengophobia |
daylight or sunshine |
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Philemaphobia or Philematophobia |
kissing |
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Philophobia |
falling in love or being in love |
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Philosophobia |
philosophy |
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Phobophobia |
phobias |
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Phonophobia |
noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones |
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Photoaugliaphobia |
glaring lights |
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Photophobia |
light |
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Phronemophobia |
thinking |
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Phthiriophobia |
lice (Pediculophobia) |
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Phthisiophobia |
tuberculosis |
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Placophobia |
tombstones |
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Plutophobia |
wealth |
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Pluviophobia |
rain or of being rained on |
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Pneumatiphobia |
spirits |
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Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia |
choking of being smothered |
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Pocrescophobia |
gaining weight (Obesophobia) |
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Pogonophobia |
beards |
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Poinephobia |
punishment |
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Poliosophobia |
contracting poliomyelitis |
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Politicophobia |
politicians or an abnormal dislike of |
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Polyphobia |
many things |
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Ponophobia |
overworking or of pain |
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Porphyrophobia |
the color purple |
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Potamophobia |
rivers or running water |
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Potophobia |
alcohol |
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Proctophobia |
rectum |
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Prosophobia |
progress |
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Psellismophobia |
stuttering |
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Psychophobia |
mind |
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Psychrophobia |
cold |
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Pteromerhanophobia |
flying |
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Pteronophobia |
being tickled by feathers |
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Pupaphobia |
puppets Pyrexiophobia |
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Pyrophobia |
fire |
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Radiophobia |
radiation x-rays |
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Ranidaphobia |
frogs |
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Rectophobia |
rectum or rectal diseases |
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Rhabdophobia |
being severely punished or beaten by a rod or of being severely criticized Also magic(wand) |
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Rhypophobia |
defecation |
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Rhytiphobia |
getting wrinkles |
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Rupophobia |
dirt |
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Russophobia |
Russians |
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Samhainophobia |
Halloween |
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Sarmassophobia |
love play (Malaxophobia) |
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Satanophobia |
Satan |
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Scabiophobia |
scabies |
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Scatophobia |
fecal matter |
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Scelerophibia |
bad men burglars |
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Sciophobia Sciaphobia |
shadows |
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Scoleciphobia |
worms |
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Scolionophobia |
school |
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Scopophobia or Scoptophobia |
being seen or stared at |
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Scotomaphobia |
blindness in visual field |
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Scotophobia |
darkness (Achluophobia) |
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Scriptophobia |
writing in public |
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Selaphobia |
light flashes |
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Selenophobia |
the moon |
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Seplophobia |
decaying matter |
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Sesquipedalophobia |
long words |
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Sexophobia |
the opposite sex (Heterophobia) |
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Siderodromophobia |
trains railroads or train travel |
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Siderophobia |
stars |
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Sinistrophobia |
things to the left left-handed |
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Sinophobia |
Chinese Chinese culture |
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Sitophobia or Sitiophobia |
food or eating (Cibophobia) |
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Snakephobia |
snakes (Ophidiophobia) |
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Soceraphobia |
parents-in-law |
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Social Phobia |
being evaluated negatively in social situations |
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Sociophobia |
society or people in general |
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Somniphobia |
sleep |
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Sophophobia |
learning |
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Soteriophobia |
dependence on others |
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Spacephobia |
outer space |
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Spectrophobia |
specters or ghosts |
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Spermatophobia or Spermophobia |
germs |
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Spheksophobia |
wasps |
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Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia |
standing or walking (Ambulophobia) |
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Staurophobia |
crosses or the crucifix |
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Stenophobia |
narrow things or places |
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Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia |
hell |
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Suriphobia |
mice |
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Symbolophobia |
symbolism |
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Symmetrophobia |
symmetry |
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Syngenesophobia |
relatives |
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Syphilophobia |
syphilis |
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Tachophobia |
speed |
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Taeniophobia or Teniophobia |
tapeworms |
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Taphephobia or Taphophobia |
being buried alive or of cemeteries |
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Tapinophobia |
being contagious |
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Taurophobia |
bulls |
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Technophobia |
technology |
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Teleophobia |
definate plans or Religious ceremony |
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Telephonophobia |
telephones |
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Teratophobia |
bearing a deformed child or monsters or deformed people |
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Testophobia |
taking tests |
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Tetanophobia |
lockjaw tetanus |
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Teutophobia |
German or German things |
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Textophobia |
certain fabrics |
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Thaasophobia |
sitting |
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Thalassophobia |
sea |
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Thanatophobia or Thantophobia |
death or dying |
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Theatrophobia |
theatres |
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Theologicophobia |
theology |
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Theophobia |
gods or religion |
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Thermophobia |
heat |
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Tocophobia |
pregnancy or childbirth |
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Tomophobia |
surgical operations |
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Tonitrophobia |
thunder |
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Topophobia |
certain places or situations such as stage fright |
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Toxiphobia, Toxophobia or Toxicophobia |
poison or of being accidently poisoned |
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Traumatophobia |
injury |
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Tremophobia |
trembling |
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Trichinophobia |
trichinosis |
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Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia or Hypertrichophobia |
hair (Chaetophobia) |
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Triskaidekaphobia |
the number 13 |
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Tropophobia |
moving or making changes |
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Trypanophobia |
injections |
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Tuberculophobia |
tuberculosis |
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Tyrannophobia |
tyrants |
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Uranophobia |
heaven |
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Urophobia |
urine or urinating |
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Vaccinophobia |
vaccination |
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Venustraphobia |
beautiful women |
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Verbophobia |
words |
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Verminophobia |
germs |
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Vestiphobia |
clothing |
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Virginitiphobia |
rape |
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Vitricophobia |
step-father |
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Walloonphobia |
the Walloons |
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Wiccaphobia |
witches and witchcraft |
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Xanthophobia |
the color yellow or the word yellow |
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Xenophobia |
strangers or foreigners |
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Xerophobia |
dryness |
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Xylophobia |
wooden objects or Forests |
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Zelophobia |
jealousy |
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Zemmiphobia |
great mole rat |
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Zeusophobia |
God or gods |
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Zoophobia |
animals |
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