Ablutophobia | Fear of washing, or cleaning bathing |
Acarophobia |
Fear of itching or of the insects that causing itching |
Acerophobia | Fear of sourness |
Achluophobia | Fear of darkness |
Acousticophobia | Fear of noise |
Acrophobia | Fear of heights |
Aerophobia | Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances or Fear of flying or draughts |
Aeroacrophobia | Fear of open high places |
Aeronausiphobia | Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness |
Agateophobia | Fear of insanity |
Agliophobia | Fear of pain |
Agoraphobia
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Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place or fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable. |
Agraphobia | Fear of sexual abuse |
Agrizoophobia | Fear of wild animals |
Agyrophobia or Agyiophobia | Fear of streets or crossing the busy street/road |
Aibohphobia | Fear of palindromes |
Aichmophobia | Fear of needles or sharp/pointed objects(such as a needle or knife) |
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 |
Altophobia | Fear of heights |
Amathophobia | Fear of dust |
Amaxophobia | Fear of riding in a car |
Ambulophobia | Fear of walking |
Amnesiphobia | Fear of amnesia |
Amychophobia | Fear of scratches or being scratched |
Anablephobia | Fear of looking up |
Ancraophobia | Fear of wind. (Anemophobia) |
Androphobia | Fear of men |
Anemophobia | Fear of air drafts or wind.(Ancraophobia) |
Anginophobia | Fear of angina, choking or narrowness |
Anglophobia | Fear of England or English culture, etc |
Angrophobia | Fear of anger or of becoming angry |
Ankylophobia | Fear of immobility of a joint |
Anthophobia | Fear of flowers |
Anthrophobia | Fear of humans |
Anthropophobia | Fear of people or society or the company of people, a form of social phobia |
Antlophobia | Fear of floods |
Anuptaphobia | Fear of staying single |
Apeirophobia | Fear of infinity |
Aphenphosmphobia | Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia) |
Apiphobia | Fear of bees |
Apotemnophobia | Fear of persons with amputations |
Aquaphobia | fear of water. Distinct from Hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies |
Arachibutyrophobia | Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth |
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia | Fear of spiders |
Arithmophobia | Fear of numbers |
Arrhenphobia | Fear of men |
Ascendophobia | Fear of moving upwards |
Arsonphobia | Fear of fire |
Asthenophobia | Fear of fainting or weakness |
Astraphobia | Fear of being struck by lightning |
Astrapophobia | Fear of thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia) |
Astrophobia | Fear of stars or celestial space |
Asymmetriphobia | Fear of asymmetrical things |
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 forgotton or ignored or forgetting |
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 odor |
Automatonophobia | Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues – anything that falsely represents a sentient being |
Automysophobia | Fear of being dirty |
Autophobia | Fear of being alone or isolated or of oneself or Fear of solitude |
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia | Fear of flying |
Bacillophobia | Fear of microbes |
Bacteriophobia | Fear of bacteria |
Ballistophobia | Fear of missiles or bullets |
Bolshephobia | Fear of Bolsheviks |
Barophobia | Fear of gravity |
Basophobia or Basiphobia | Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling |
Bathmophobia | Fear of stairs or steep slopes |
Bathophobia | Fear of depth or Fear of falling from a high place |
Batophobia | Fear of heights or being close to high buildings |
Batrachophobia | Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, toads,newts, salamanders, etc |
Belonephobia | Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia) |
Bibliophobia | Fear of books |
Blennophobia | Fear of slime |
Blood-injection-injury type phobia – | a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias |
Bogyphobia | Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman |
Botanophobia | Fear of plants |
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia | Fear of body smells |
Brontophobia | Fear of thunder and lightning |
Bufonophobia | Fear of toads |
Cacophobia | Fear of ugliness |
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia | Fear of newness, novelty |
Caligynephobia | Fear of beautiful women |
Cancerophobia or 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 | Fear of empty spaces |
Centophobia | Fear of new things or ideas |
Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia | Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia) |
Chaetophobia | Fear of hair |
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia | Fear of cold.(Frigophobia, Psychophobia) |
Chemophobia | Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals |
Cherophobia | Fear of gaiety |
Chionophobia | Fear of .snow |
Chiraptophobia | Fear of being touched |
Chirophobia | Fear of hands |
Chiroptophobia | Fear of bats |
Cholerophobia | Fear of anger or the fear of cholera |
Chorophobia | Fear of dancing |
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia | Fear of money |
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia | Fear of bright colors |
Chronophobia | Fear of time passing and time moving forward. It is often found mostly in prison inmates or the elderly but it can also occur in people who experience a lot of stress and anxiety |
Chronomentrophobia | Fear of clocks |
Cibophobia | Fear of or distaste or aversion for food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia), synonymous to Anorexia nervosa |
Claustrophobia | Fear of confined/closed spaces and having no escape |
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia | Fear of being locked in an enclosed place |
Cleptophobia | Fear of stealing |
Climacophobia | Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs |
Clinophobia | Fear of going or staying in bed |
Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia | Fear of being enclosed |
Cnidophobia | Fear of stings |
Cometophobia | Fear of comets |
Coimetrophobia | Fear of cemeteries |
Coitophobia | Fear of coitus |
Contreltophobia | Fear of sexual abuse |
Coprastasophobia | Fear of constipation |
Coprophobia | Fear of feces |
Consecotaleophobia | Fear of chopsticks |
Coulrophobia | Fear of clowns |
Counterphobia | The preference by a phobic for fearful situations |
Cremnophobia | Fear of cliffs and precipices |
Cryophobia | Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost. |
Crystallophobia | Fear of crystals or glass |
Cyberphobia | Fear of or aversion to computers or working on a computer. /Learning new technologies |
Cyclophobia | Fear of bicycles |
Cymophobia or Kymophobia | Fear of waves or wave like motions |
Cynophobia | Fear of dogs or rabies |
Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia | Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease |
Decidophobia | Fear of making decisions |
Defecaloesiophobia | Fear of painful bowels movements |
Deipnophobia | Fear of dining or dinner conversations |
Dementophobia | Fear of insanity |
Demonophobia or Daemonophobia | Fear of demons |
Demophobia | Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia) |
Dendrophobia | Fear of trees |
Dentophobia | Fear of dentists and dental procedures |
Dermatophobia | Fear of skin lesions |
Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia | Fear of skin disease |
Descendophobia | Fear of walking downstairs |
Dextrophobia | Fear of objects at the right side of the body. |
Diabetophobia | Fear of diabetes |
Didaskaleinophobia | Fear of going to 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 throwing stuff out or fear of getting rid of or losing things – sometimes wrongly defined as “compulsive hoarding |
Domatophobia | Fear of houses or being in a house.(Eicophobia, Oikophobia) |
Doraphobia | Fear of fur or skins of animals |
Doxophobia | Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise |
Dromophobia | Fear of crossing streets |
Dutchphobia | Fear of the Dutch |
Dysmorphophobia | Fear of physical deformity or a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect |
Dystychiphobia | Fear of accidents |
Ecclesiophobia | Fear of church |
Ecophobia | Fear of home |
Eicophobia | Fear of home surroundings.(Domatophobia, Oikophobia) |
Eisoptrophobia | Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror |
Electrophobia | Fear of electricity |
Eleutherophobia | Fear of freedom |
Elurophobia | Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia) |
Emetophobia | Fear of vomiting |
Enetophobia | Fear of pins |
Enochlophobia | Fear of crowds |
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia | Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism |
Entomophobia | Fear of insects |
Eosophobia | Fear of dawn or daylight |
Ephebiphobia | Fear of teenagers |
Epistaxiophobia | Fear of nosebleeds |
Epistemophobia | Fear of knowledge |
Equinophobia | Fear of horses |
Eremophobia | Fear of being oneself or of lonliness |
Ereuthrophobia | Fear of blushing |
Ergasiophobia | 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon’s fear of operating |
Ergophobia | Fear of work. or functioning /workplace environment. And Fears such as failing at assigned tasks, social anxiety, and public speaking.
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Erotophobia | Fear of sexual love or sexual questions or sexual abuse |
Euphobia | Fear of hearing good news |
Eurotophobia | Fear of female genitalia. |
Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia | 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red |
Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia | Fear of fever |
Felinophobia | Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia) |
Francophobia | Fear of France or French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia) |
Friggatriskaidekaphobia, paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia | fear of Friday the 13th |
Frigophobia | Fear of coldor becoming too cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia) |
Galeophobia or Gatophobia | Fear of cats |
Gallophobia or Galiophobia | Fear France or French culture. (Francophobia) |
Gamophobia | Fear of marriage, commitment |
Geliophobia | Fear of laughter |
Gelotophobia | Fear of being laughed at |
Geniophobia | Fear of chins |
Genophobia | Fear of sex |
Genuphobia | Fear of knees |
Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia | Fear of crossing bridges and rivers |
Germanophobia | Fear of Germany or German culture |
Gerascophobia | Fear of growing old or aging |
Gerontophobia | Fear of old people or of growing old or a hatred or fear of the elderly |
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia | Fear of taste |
Glossophobia | Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak |
Gnosiophobia | Fear of knowledge |
Graphophobia | Fear of writing or handwriting |
Gymnophobia | Fear of nudity |
Gynephobia or Gynophobia | Fear of women. |
Hadephobia (also stigiophobia and stygiophobia) | Fear of hell |
Hagiophobia | Fear of saints or holy things |
Halitophobia | Fear of bad breath |
Hamartophobia | Fear of sinning |
Haphephobia or Haptephobia | Fear of being touched |
Harpaxophobia | Fear of being robbed |
Hedonophobia | Fear of feeling pleasure |
Heliophobia | Fear of the sunlight |
Hellenologophobia | Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology. |
Helminthophobia | Fear of being infested with worms. |
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia | Fear of blood |
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia | Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation |
Herpetophobia | Fear of snakes or reptiles or creepy, crawly things |
Heterophobia | Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia) |
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | Fear of the number 666. |
Hierophobia | Fear of priests or sacred things |
Hippophobia | Fear of horses |
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia | Fear of long words |
Hobophobia | Fear of bums or beggars |
Hodophobia | Fear of road travel |
Hormephobia | Fear of shock |
Homichlophobia | Fear of fog |
Homilophobia | Fear of sermons |
Hominophobia | Fear of men |
Homophobia | Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual |
Hoplophobia | Fear of weapons, specifically firearms |
Hydrargyophobia | Fear of mercurial medicines |
Hydrophobia | Fear of water or of rabies |
Hydrophobophobia | Fear of rabies |
Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia | Fear of glass |
Hygrophobia | Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture |
Hylephobia | Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy |
Hylophobia | Fear of trees, forests or wood |
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia | Fear of responsibility |
Hypnophobia or somniphobia | Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized |
Hypsiphobia | Fear of height. |
Hypsophobia | Fear of high places |
Iatrophobia | Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors |
Ichthyophobia | Fear of fish. including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish |
Iconophobia | Fear or hatred of images |
Ideophobia | Fear of ideas |
Illyngophobia | Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down |
Iophobia | Fear of poison |
Ipovlopsychophobia | Fear of having one’s photograph taken |
Insectophobia | Fear of insects |
Isolophobia | Fear of solitude, being alone |
Isopterophobia | Fear of termites, insects that eat wood |
Ithyphallophobia | Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis |
Japanophobia | Fear of Japanese |
Judeophobia | Fear of Jews |
Kainolophobia or Kainophobia | Fear of anything new, novelty |
Kainotophobia | Fear of change |
Kakorrhaphiophobia | Fear of failure or defeat |
Katagelophobia | Fear of ridicule |
Kathisophobia | Fear of sitting down |
Katsaridaphobia | Fear of cockroaches |
Kenophobia | Fear of voids or empty spaces |
Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia | Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia) |
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia | Fear of movement or motion |
Kleptophobia | Fear of stealing |
Koinoniphobia | Fear of rooms |
Kolpophobia | Fear of genitals, particularly female. |
Kopophobia | Fear of fatigue |
Koniophobia | Fear of dust. (Amathophobia) |
Kosmikophobia | Fear of cosmic phenomenon. |
Kymophobia | Fear of waves. (Cymophobia) |
Kynophobia | Fear of rabies |
Kyphophobia | Fear of stooping, becoming stopped |
Lachanophobia | Fear of vegetables |
Laliophobia or Lalophobia | Fear of speaking |
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia | Fear of leprosy |
Leukophobia | Fear of the color white. |
Levophobia | Fear of things to the left side of the body |
Ligyrophobia | Fear of loud noises |
Lilapsophobia | Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes |
Limnophobia | Fear of lakes |
Linonophobia | Fear of string |
Lipophobia | Fear/avoidance of fats in food |
Liticaphobia | Fear of lawsuits |
Lockiophobia | Fear of childbirth |
Logizomechanophobia | Fear of computers |
Logophobia | Fear of words |
Luiphobia | Fear of lues, syphillis |
Luposlipaphobia |
This joke phobia has become somewhat of a pop culture phenomenon. It involves the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. |
Lutraphobia | Fear of otters |
Lygophobia | Fear of darkness |
Lyssophobia | Fear of rabies or of becoming mad or of hydrophobia |
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 |
Melissophobia | Fear of bees |
Melanophobia | Fear of the color black |
Melophobia | Fear or hatred 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 |
Metrophobia | Fear of poetry |
Methyphobia | Fear of alcohol |
Metrophobia | Fear or hatred of poetry |
Microbiophobia | Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia) |
Microphobia | Fear of small things |
Misophobia or Mysophobia | Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs |
Mnemophobia | Fear of memories |
Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia | Fear of dirt or contamination |
Monophobia | Fear of solitude or being alone |
Monopathophobia | Fear of definite disease |
Motorphobia | Fear of automobiles |
Mottephobia | Fear of moths |
Musophobia or Muriphobia | Fear of mice or rats |
Mycophobia | Fear or aversion to mushrooms |
Mycrophobia | Fear of small things |
Myctophobia | Fear of darkness |
Myophobia | Fear of mice |
Myrmecophobia | Fear of ants |
Mysophobia | Fear of germs, contamination or dirt |
Mythophobia | Fear of myths or stories or false statements |
Myxophobia | Fear of slime. (Blennophobia) |
Nebulaphobia | Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia) |
Necrophobia | Fear of death or dead things/ corpses |
Negrophobia | Fear of blacks |
Nelophobia | Fear of glass |
Neopharmaphobia | Fear of new drugs |
Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia | Fear of anything new or novelty and in its milder form consists of an unwillingness to part with old habits. |
Nephophobia | Fear of clouds |
Noctiphobia | Fear of the night |
Nomatophobia | Fear of names |
Nomophobia | Fear of being out of mobile phone contact, no mobile phone phobia |
Nosocomephobia | Fear of hospitals |
Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia | Fear of contracting a disease or becoming ill |
Nostophobia | Fear of returning home |
Novercaphobia | Fear of one’s step-mother |
Nucleomituphobia | Fear of nuclear weapons |
Nudophobia | Fear of nudity |
Numerophobia | Fear of numbers |
Nyctohylophobia | Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night |
Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia | Fear of the dark or of night |
Obesophobia | Fear of gaining weight or of obesity (Pocrescophobia) |
Ochlophobia | Fear of crowds or mobs |
Ochophobia | Fear of vehicles |
Octophobia | Fear of the figure 8 |
Odontophobia | Fear of teeth or dental surgery |
Odynophobia or Odynephobia | Fear of pain. (Algophobia) |
Oenophobia | Fear or hatred of wines |
Oikophobia | Fear of home surroundings, and household appliances you own.(Domatophobia, Eicophobia) |
Olfactophobia | Fear of smells |
Ombrophobia | Fear of rain or of being rained on |
Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia | Fear of eyes |
Omphalophobia | Fear of belly buttons |
Oneirophobia | Fear of dreams |
Oneirogmophobia | Fear of wet dreams |
Onomatophobia | Fear of hearing a certain word or of names |
Ophidiophobia | Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia) |
Ophthalmophobia | Fear of being stared at. |
Opiophobia | Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients |
Optophobia | Fear of opening one’s eyes |
Ornithophobia | Fear of birds |
Orthophobia | Fear of property |
Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia, Olfactophobia | Fear of smells or of bad odors |
Ostraconophobia | Fear of shellfish. |
Ouranophobia or Uranophobia | Fear of heaven |
Paedophobia | Fear of children; fear of dolls |
Pagophobia | Fear of ice or frost |
Panthophobia | Fear of suffering and disease |
Panophobia or Pantophobia or Panphobia | Fear of everything. or constant fear of an unknown cause or melancholia marked by groundless fears and is often described as constantly dreading some “vague and persistent unknown evil”. |
Papaphobia | Fear of the Pope |
Papyrophobia | Fear of paper |
Paralipophobia | Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility |
Paraphobia | Fear of sexual perversion |
Parasitophobia | Fear of parasites |
Paraskavedekatriaphobia | Fear of Friday the 13th |
Parthenophobia or Parthophobia | Fear of virgins or young girls |
Pathophobia | Fear of disease |
Patroiophobia | Fear of heredity |
Parturiphobia | Fear of childbirth |
Peccatophobia | Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes |
Pediculophobia | Fear of lice |
Pediophobia | Fear of dolls. (a branch of automatonophobia: fear of humanoid figures) |
Pedophobia | Fear of children |
Peladophobia | Fear of bald people |
Pellagrophobia | Fear of pellagra |
Peniaphobia | Fear of poverty |
Pentheraphobia | Fear or hatred of one’s mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia) |
Phagophobia | Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten, and in some cases it can actually lead to weight loss and malnutrition |
Phalacrophobia | Fear of becoming bald |
Pharmacophobia | Fear of taking medicine or of medications |
Phasmophobia | Fear of ghosts |
Phengophobia | Fear of daylight or sunshine |
Philemaphobia or Philematophobia | Fear of kissing |
Philophobia | Fear of falling in love or being in love. They end up living a life of solitude and fear of commitment |
Philosophobia | Fear of philosophy |
Phobophobia | Fear of light |
Photoaugliaphobia | Fear of phobias or of fear |
Photophobia | Fear of glaring lights |
Phonophobia | Fear of noises or voices or one’s own voice; of telephones or fear of loud sounds/speaking loud |
Phronemophobia | Fear of thinking |
Phthiriophobia | Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia) |
Phthisiophobia | Fear of tuberculosis |
Placophobia | Fear of tombstones |
Plutophobia | Fear of wealth |
Pluviophobia | Fear of rain or of being rained on |
Pneumatiphobia | Fear of spirits |
Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia | Fear of choking of being smothered |
Pocrescophobia | Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia) |
Pogonophobia | Fear of beards |
Poliosophobia | Fear of contracting poliomyelitis |
Politicophobia | Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians |
Polyphobia | Fear of many things |
Poinephobia | Fear of punishment |
Ponophobia | Fear of overworking or of pain |
Porphyrophobia | Fear of the color purple |
Potamophobia | Fear of rivers or running water |
Potophobia | Fear of alcohol |
Pharmacophobia | Fear of drugs |
Proctophobia | Fear of rectums |
Prosophobia | Fear of progress |
Psellismophobia | Fear of stuttering |
Psychophobia | Fear of mind |
Psychrophobia | Fear of cold |
Pteromerhanophobia | Fear of flying |
Pteronophobia | Fear of being tickled by feathers |
Pupaphobia | Fear of puppets |
Pyrexiophobia | Fear of Fever |
Pyrophobia | Fear of fire |
Radiophobia | Fear of radiation/ radioactivity, x-rays |
Ranidaphobia | Fear of frogs |
Rectophobia | Fear of rectum or rectal diseases |
Rhabdophobia | Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand) |
Rhypophobia | Fear of defecation |
Rhytiphobia | Fear of getting wrinkles |
Rupophobia | Fear of dirt |
Russophobia | Fear of Russians |
Samhainophobia | Fear of Halloween |
Sarmassophobia | Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia) |
Satanophobia | Fear of Satan/ devil |
Scabiophobia | Fear of scabies |
Scatophobia | Fear of fecal matter |
Scelerophibia | Fear of bad men, burglars |
Sciophobia Sciaphobia | Fear of shadows |
Scoleciphobia | Fear of worms |
Scolionophobia | Fear of school |
Scopophobia or Scoptophobia | Fear of being seen or stared/looked at |
Scotomaphobia | Fear of blindness in visual field |
Scotophobia | Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia) |
Scriptophobia | Fear of writing in public |
Selachophobia | Fear of sharks |
Selaphobia | Fear of light flashes |
Selenophobia | Fear of the moon |
Seplophobia | Fear of decaying matter |
Sesquipedalophobia | Fear of long words |
Sexophobia | Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia) |
Siderodromophobia | Fear of trains, railroads or train travel. |
Siderophobia | Fear of stars |
Sinistrophobia | Fear of things to the left or left-handed. |
Sinophobia | Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture |
Sitophobia or Sitiophobia | Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia) |
Snakephobia | Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia) |
Soceraphobia | Fear of parents-in-law |
Social Phobia | Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations |
Sociophobia | Fear of society or people in general. or social situations |
Somniphobia | Fear of sleep |
Sophophobia | Fear of learning |
Soteriophobia | Fear of dependence on others |
Spacephobia | Fear of outer space |
Spectrophobia | Fear of specters or ghosts and phantoms |
Spermatophobia or Spermophobia | Fear of germs |
Spheksophobia | Fear of wasps |
Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia | Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia) |
Staurophobia | Fear of crosses or the crucifix |
Stenophobia | Fear of narrow things or places |
Stigiophobia or Stygiophobia | Fear of hell. |
Suriphobia | Fear of mice |
Symbolophobia | Fear of symbolism |
Symmetrophobia | Fear of symmetry |
Syngenesophobia | Fear of relatives |
Syphilophobia | Fear of syphilis |
Tachophobia | Fear of speed |
Taeniophobia or Teniophobia | Fear of tapeworms |
Taphephobia, Taphophobia | Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries or fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave |
Tapinophobia | Fear of being contagious |
Taurophobia | Fear of bulls |
Technophobia | Fear of technology |
Teleophobia | 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony |
Telephonophobia | Fear of telephones, fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls |
Teratophobia | Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people |
Testophobia | Fear of taking tests |
Tetanophobia | Fear of lockjaw, tetanus |
Tetraphobia | Fear of the number 4 |
Teutophobia | Fear of German or German things |
Textophobia | Fear of certain fabrics |
Thaasophobia | Fear of sitting |
Thalassophobia | Fear of the sea or fear of being in the ocean |
Thanatophobia or Thantophobia | Fear of death or dying |
Theatrophobia | Fear of theatres |
Theologicophobia | Fear of theology |
Theophobia | Fear of gods or religion |
Thermophobia | Fear of heat |
Tocophobia or Tokophobia | Fear of childbirth or pregnancy |
Tomophobia | Fear of surgical operations |
Tonitrophobia | Fear of thunder |
Topophobia | Fear of performing ;certain places or situations, such as stage fright |
Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia | Fear of poison or being poisoning or of being accidently poisoned |
Traumatophobia | a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury. |
Tremophobia | Fear of trembling |
Trichinophobia | Fear of trichinosis |
Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia | Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia, Hypertrichophobia) |
Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia | Fear of the number 13 |
Tropophobia | Fear of moving or making changes |
Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia | Fear of needles or injections |
Tuberculophobia | Fear of tuberculosis |
Trypophobia | Fear of holes or someone scared of clustered holes usually found on various biological organisms |
Tyrannophobia | Fear of tyrants |
Uranophobia or Ouranophobia | Fear of heaven |
Urophobia | Fear of urine or urinating |
Vaccinophobia | Fear of vaccination |
Venustraphobia | Fear of beautiful women |
Verbophobia | Fear of words |
Verminophobia | Fear of germs |
Vestiphobia | Fear of clothing |
Virginitiphobia | Fear of rape |
Vitricophobia | Fear of step-father |
Walloonphobia | Fear of the Walloons |
Wiccaphobia: | Fear of witches and witchcraft |
Workplace phobia | Fear of the workplace |
Xanthophobia | Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow |
Xenoglossophobia | Fear of foreign languages |
Xenophobia | Fear of strangers, foreigners or aliens |
Xerophobia | Fear of dryness |
Xylophobia Hylophobia, Ylophobia | 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests 3) Trees |
Xyrophobia | Fear of razors |
xeroxophobia | Fear of paper copies (Joke) |
Zelophobia | Fear of jealousy. |
Zeusophobia | Fear of God or gods |
Zemmiphobia | Fear of the great mole rat |
Zoophobia | Fear of animals |
Having read this I thought it was extremely enlightening. I appreciate you taking the time and energy to put this short article together. I once again find myself spending a significant amount of time both reading and posting comments. But so what, it was still worth it!
Thank you so much Bret Almgren.