Phobias

accidents dystychiphobia machinery mechanophobia

ageing gerascophobia madness maniaphobia (see also insanity)

air sickness aeronausiphobia magic rhabdophobia (see also beaten, being)

air (fresh), draughts aerophobia (see also flying) making changes or moving

trophophobia

alcohol methyphobia many things polyphobia

alcohol (drinking) dipsophobia marriage gamophobia

alone (being) or oneself or loneliness autophobia materialism hylephobia

(see also woods)

amphibians, such a frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc batrachophobia

meat carnophobia

amnesia amnesiophobia medicine (taking) pharmacophobia

animals zoophobia memories mnemophobia

animals (wild) agrizoophobia men androphobia

angry (becoming) angrophobia meningitis meningitophobia

animal skin, fur doraphobia menstruation menophobia

ants Pmyrmecophobia mercuruial medicines hydrargyophobia

asymmetrical things asymmetriphobia metal metallophobia

ataxia ataxiophobia meteors meteorophobia

atomic energy nucleomitophobia mice musophobia

atomic explosions atomosophobia microbes microbiophobia

attack scelerophobia mind psychophobia

auroral lights auroraphobia mirrors catoptrophobia

automobiles motorphobia missiles ballistrophobia (see also bullets)

bad mens, burglars scelerophibia mites, ticks acarophobia

bacteria bacillophobia mole rat (great) zemmiphobia

bald (becoming) phalacrophobia money (touching) chrematophobia

baldness peladophobia monsters (or giving birth to monster) teratophobia

bathing bathophobia (see also depth) moon selenophobia

beards pogonophobia mother-in-law pentheraphobia

beaten (being) rhabdophobia (see also magic) moths mottephobia

bed (going to) clinophobia motion or movement kinesophobia

bees apiphobia motor vehicles motophobia

beggars hobophobia mushroom (aversion to) mycophobia

bearing a deformed child or deformed people teratophobia music

musicophobia

being evaluated negatively in social situations social phobia myths,

stories and lying mythophobia

bicycles ornithophobia name (a particular name or word) onomatophobia

birds melanophobia narrowness anginaphobia

black (colour) scotomaphobia needles enetophobia

blindness in visual field cyclophobia needles, pins belonephobia

blood hemaphobia Negroes negrophobia

blushing erythrophobia (see also red) new things or ideas cenophobia or

centophobia

body odour bromhidrosiphobia night noctiphobia

bogies or the bogeyman bogyphobia noise acoustiphobia

Bolsheviks Bolshephobia nosebleeds epistaxiophobia

books bibliophobia novelty, newness cainophobia

bound (being) or tied up merinthophobia nuclear weapons nucleomituphobia

bowel movements (painful) defecaloesiophobia nudity gymnophobia

brain disease meningitophobia numbers arithmophobia

bridges (crossing) gephyrophobia number 13 triskaidekaphobia

buildings (high) batophobia objects (large) megalophobia

bullets ballistophobia (see also missiles) objects (pointed) aichmophobia

bulls taurophobia objects (sacred) hierophobia

buried alive (being) taphephobia objects (small) tapinophobia

cancer carcinomophobia objects (at the right side of the body) dextrophobia

cats ailurophobia odour (one that has vile) autodysomophobia

Celts, Celtic Celtophobia old (growing) gerascophobia

cemeteries coimetrophobia old (people) gerontophobia

certain places topophobia (see also performing) open spaces, crowded

public places like markets, leaving a safe place agoraphobia

challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation heresyphobia or

hereiophobia opinions (others') allodoxaphobia

changes metathesiophobia opposite sex sexophobia

changes (making) tropophobia otters lutraphobia

chemicals or working with chemicals chemophobia outer space spacephobia

chickens alektorophobia overworking ponophobia

childbirth or pregnancy tocophobia pain algophobia

China, Chinese Sinophobia

paper papyrophobia

chins geniophobia parasites parasitophobia

choking or of being smothered pnigophobia parents-in-law soceraphobia

cholera cholerophobia peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

arachibutyrophobia

clocks chronomentrophobia pellagra pellagrophobia

clothes vestiophobia penis (contour of, visible through clothes)

medectophobia

clouds nephophobia penis (seeing, thinking about or having an erect)

ithyphallophobia

clowns coulrophobia people anthropophobia (see also society)

church ecclesiophobia performing (stagefright) topophobia (see also

places (certain))

coitus coitophobia persons with amputations

apotemnophobia

cold cheimaphobia philosophy, philosophers philosophobia

colours chromophobia phobias phobophobia

comets cometophobia physical injury traumatophobia (see also war)

complex scientific or (Greek) terms Hellenologophobia pins, needles

belonephobia

computers computerphobia places (certain) topophobia (see also performing)

constipation coprostasophobia places (steep) cremnophobia

contagious (being) tapinophobia plants botanophobia

cooking mageirocophobia pleasure hedonophobia

cosmic kosmikophobia poetry metrophobia

crossing streets agiophobia pointed objects aichmophobia

crowded rooms koinoniphobia poison or of being accidently poisoned

toxiphobia

crowds demophobia poisons iophobia (see also rust)

crucifixes or crosses staurophobia poliomyelitis (contracting) poliosophobia

crystals or glass crystallophobia politicians or abnormal dislike

politicophobia

dampness, liquids or moisture hygrophobia pope papaphobia

dancing chorophobia poverty peniaphobia

darkness nyctophobia precipices cremnophobia

dawn eosophobia progress prosophobia

daylight phengophobia property orthophobia

death, corpses necrophobia prostitutes cyprianophobia

decaying matter septophobia pseudo-rabies kynophobia (see also rabies)

decisions (making) decidophobia punishment poinephobia

defecation (painful) defecalgesiophobia purple porphyrophobia

deformity dysmorphophobia rabies hydrophobia (see also pseudo-rabies)

demons, goblins bogyphobia radiation, X-rays radiophobia

 

dentists dentophobia railways siderodromophobia

dependence on others soteriophobia rain ombrophobia

depth bathophobia (see also bathing) rape virginitiphobia

devils, evil spirits demonophobia red erythrophobia (see also blushing)

diabetes diabetophobia relatives syngenesophobia

dining, dinner conversation deipnophobia religious ceremonies teletophobia

dirt, germs mysophobia reptiles or creepy, crawly things herpetophobia

dirt (on oneself) automysophobia responsibility hypengyophobia

disease bisiogibua ridicule katagelophobia

disease (hereditary) patriophobia riding in vehicles amaxophobia

disease, illness pathophobia right-hand side of the body (objects on)

dextrophobia

disease (particular) monopathophobia rivers or running water potamophobia

disease (rectal or rectum) proctophobia or rectophobia robbers harpaxophobia

disease (skin) dermatosiophobia rooms (empty) kenophobia

dizziness or whirlpools dinophobia rooms (crowded) koinoniphobia

doctors iatrophobia ruin or ruins atephobia

dogs cynophobia Russia, Russian Russophobia

dolls and children pedophobia rust iophobia (see also poisons)

double vision diplopiaphobia sacred objects or priests hierophobia

draughts, fresh air, air swallowing aerophobia (see also flying) saints

hagiophobia

draughts, winds anemophobia Satan Satanophobia

dreams oneirophobia scabies scabiophobia

dreams (wet) oneirogmophobia school (of going to) didaskaleinophobia

drink (usually alcohol) potophobia scientific terms (complex) or Greek

terms Hellenologophobia

drugs pharmacophobia scratched (being) amychophobia

drugs (new) neopharmaphobia sea thalassophobia

dryness xerophobia semen spermatophobia

dust amathophobia sermons homilophobia

Dutch dutchphobia sex (opposite) sexophobia

duty or responsibility (neglect of) paralipophobia sexual abuse agraphobia

electricity electrophobia sexual feelings erotophobia

emetics, vomiting emetophobia sexual intercourse coitophobia

empty rooms/spaces or voids kenophobia sexual perversion paraphobia

enclosed spaces clithrophobia shadows sciophobia

England, English Anglophobia shellfish ostraconophobia

everything panophobia shock hormephobia

evil spirits, devils demonophobia sin hamartophobia

excrement coprophobia single (staying) anuptaphobia

eyes ommatophobia sitting down thaasophobia

eyes (opening one's) optophobia sitting still cathisophobia

erection (losing one) medomalacuphobia skin lesions dermatophobia

fabrics (particular) textophobia skin disease dermatosiophobia

failure or defeat kakorrhaphiophobia Slavs, Slavic Slavophobia

fat (becoming) obesophobia sleep somniphobia

fatigue kopophobia slime blennophobia

fear phobophobia small objects tapinophobia

feathers (tickled by) pteronophobia smells olfactophobia

fecal matter scatophobia snakes ophidiophobia

feces coprophobia snow chionophobia

fever pyrexiphobia society or people in general anthropophobia

figure 8 octophobia solitude autophobia

filth rhypophobia sourness acerophobia

fire pyrophobia space (outer) spacephobia

firearms hoplophobia spaces (enclosed) clithrophobia

fish chthyphobia spaces (open) agoraphobia

flashes of light selaphobia speaking laliohobia or lalophobia

flavours geumophobia speaking aloud phonophobia

floods antlophobia spectres spectrophobia

flowers anthophobia speed tachophobia

flutes aulophobia spiders arachnophobia

flying aerophobia (see also air (fresh), draughts) stage fright topophobia

(see also places (certain))

fog homichlophobia stairs, climbing or of falling down stairs climacophobia

food or eating cibophobia standing stasiphobia

foreigners or strangers xenophobia standing and walking stasibasiphobia

forests hylophobia stars siderophobia

forgotten (being), forgetting athazagoraphobia (see also ignored) staying

single anuptaphobia

France, French Francophobia stealing cleptophobia

freedom eleutherophobia stepfather vitricophobia

fresh air, draughts aerophobia (see also flying) stepmother novercaphobia

Friday the 13th paraskavedekatriaphobia stooping kyphophobia

frost, ice, extreme cold cryophobia stories, myths and lying mythophobia

fur, animal skin doraphobia streets (crossing) agiophobia

gaiety cherohobia strings cnidophobia

garlic alliumphobia stuttering psellismophobia

genitals (female) eurotophobia sunlight heliophobia

germs spermatophobia or spermophobia surgery tomophobia

Germany, Germans Germanophobia swallowing or of eating or of being eaten

phagophobia

ghosts phasmophobia symbols symbolophobia

girls (young) or virgins parthenophobia symmetry symmetrophobia

glass hyelophobia or hyalophobia syphilis syphiliphobia

goblins, demons bogyphobia taking tests testophobia

God or religion theophobia talking laliophobia

gold aurophobia tapeworms taeniophobia

good news (hearing) euphobia taste geumaphobia or geumophobia

gravity barophobia technology technophobia

Greek (or complex scientific) terms Hellenologophobia teeth and dental

surgery odontophobia

hair chaetophobia teleology teleophobia

hair disease trichinophobia telephones telephonophobia

halloween samhainophobia termites, insects that eat wood isopterophobia

heart attack angionophobia tests (taking) testophobia

heart disease cardiophobia tetanus (lockjaw) tetanophobia

heat thermophobia theatres theatrophobia

heaven uranophobia theology theologicophobia

heights acrophobia thieves kleptophobia

hell hadephobia thinking phronemophobia

high buildings batophobia thunder and lightning keraunophobia

high places (looking up at) anablephobia ticks, mites acarophobia

high places (open) aeroacrophobia time chronophobia

home, house or being in a house domatophobia toads, frogs batrachophobia

home (returning to) nostophobia tombstones placophobia

homosexuality, of becoming homosexual, sameness or of monotony homophobia

touching, being touched aphephobia

horses hippophobia touching money chrematophobia

hospitals nosocomephobia trains, railroads or train travel siderodromophobia

hurricanes & tornadoes lilapsophobia travel hodophobia

hypnotized hypnophobia trembling tremophobia

ice, frost cryophobia trees dendrophobia

ideas ideophobia trichinosis trichinohobia

ignored (being) athazagoraphobia tuberculosis phthisiophobia

illness, disease pathophobia tyrants tyrannophobia

immobility (of a joint) ankylophobia ugliness cacophobia

imperfection atelophobia undressing (in front of someone) dishabillophobia

infection molysomophobia untidiness ataxiophobia

infinity apeirophobia urine or urinating urophobia

injections trypanophobia vaccination, vaccines vaccinophobia

injury (physical) traumatophobia (see also war) vegetables lachanophobia

insanity lyssophobia (see also madness) vehicles, riding in amaxophobia

insects entomophobia venereal disease cypridophobia

insect stings cnidophobia ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures,

wax statues : anything that falsely represents a sentient being

automatonophobia

itching or of the insects that cause itching acarophobia vertigo or feeling

dizzy when looking down illyngophobia

Japan, Japanese Japanophobia virginity, losing one's primeisodophobia

jealousy zelophobia vision (double) diplophobia

Jews, Judaism Judaeophobia vomiting, emetics emetophobia

jumping (from both high and low places) jcatapedaphobia walking basiphobia

justice dikephobia walking and standing stasibasiphobia

kissing philemaphobia walloons walloonphobia

knees genuphobia war traumatophobia (see also injury (physical))

kidney desease albuminurophobia washing oneself ablutophobia

knowledge epistemophobia wasps spheksophobia

lakes limnophobia wasting sickness tabophobia

large objects megalophobia water hydrophobia

laughter gelophobia waves (sea), of wavelike motion cymophobia

lawsuits liticaphobia weakness or fainting asthenophobia

learning sophophobia weight (gaining) obesophobia or pocrescophobia

lefthanded, things to the left sinistrophobia wealth plutophobia

left hand side of the body (objects on) levophobia white (colour)

leukophobia

leprosy leprophobia wine oenophobia

lice pediculophobia witches and witchcraft wiccaphobia

light photophobia women gynaephobia

light (flashes of) selaphobia women (beautiful) venustaphobia

lightning astraphobia woods hylephobia (see also materialism)

lights (glaring) photaugiophobia wooden objects xylophobia

lights (northern) auroraphobia work or functioning/surgeon's fear of

operating ergasiophobia

locked in (being), confined spaces claustrophobia worms scoleciphobia

long waits macrophobia worms (being infested with) helminthophobia

looked at (being) scopophobia wrinkles (getting) rhytiphobia

love (falling or being in) philophobia writing graphophobia

love play malaxophobia (sarmassophobia) writing (in public) scriptophobia

lying, myths and stories mythophobia wrongdoing peccatiphobia

yellow (colour or the word) xanthophobia X-rays, radiation radiophobia

 

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