Fear of
(A - L) | Phobia | | Fear of
(M - Z) | Phobia |
| 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 | | | |
| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| clouds | nephophobia | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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 | |
| spermatophobia |
| dust | amathophobia | | sermons | homilophobia |
| Dutch | dutchphobia | |
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| duty or responsibility (neglect of) | paralipophobia | |
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| electricity | electrophobia | |
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| emetics, vomiting | emetophobia | |
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| empty rooms/spaces or voids | kenophobia | |
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| 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 |
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| | 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 |
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| | sunlight | heliophobia |
| germs | spermatophobia or spermophobia | | surgery | tomophobia |
| Germany, Germans | Germanophobia | | swallowing or of eating or of being eaten | phagophobia |
| ghosts | phasmophobia | | symbols | symbolophobia |
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| | 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 |
| 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 | |
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| 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 |
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| | walloons | walloonphobia |
| knees | genuphobia | | war | traumatophobia (see also injury (physical)) ablutophobia |
| 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 |