The following is a
list of phobias or more accurately,
fears that have been given names. The article on
phobias discusses the different kinds of phobias in more detail. In most instances the words listed here are
neologisms (made-up words) coined to demonstrate a grasp of Greek word roots rather than descriptions of an actual condition. Only a few of the following terms occur in the medical literature.
Most of these terms were devised by adding the suffix -phobia to a Greek word for the object of the fear (some use a combination of a Latin root with the Greek suffix, which some consider linguistically impure).
Modern psychiatry groups phobias as "agoraphobia", "social phobia", or "simple phobia", avoiding coined words other than those which have been established by long use.
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- Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing.
- Acarophobia - Fear of itching or of insects whose bites cause itching.
- Acerophobia - Fear of sourness.
- Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Nyctophobia, Scotophobia - Fear of darkness.
- Acousticophobia - Fear of noise.
- Acrophobia, Altophobia - Fear of heights.
- Aerophobia - Fear of drafts, air swallowing or airborne noxious substances.
- Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places.
- Aeronausiphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
- Agateophobia, Dementophobia, Maniaphobia - Fear of insanity.
- Agliophobia, Algophobia, Odynophobia, Odynephobia - Fear of pain.
- Agoraphobia - Fear of the outdoors, crowds or uncontrolled social conditions.
- Agraphobia, Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse.
- Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals.
- Agyrophobia, Dromophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street.
- Aibohphobia - Fear of palindromes
- Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
- Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia - Fear of cats.
- Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease[?].
- Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
- Alliumphobia - Fear of garlic.
- Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.
- Amathophobia, Koniophobia - Fear of dust.
- Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
- Ambulophobia[?], Stasibasiphobia[?], Stasiphobia[?] - Fear of walking or standing.
- Amnesiphobia[?] - Fear of amnesia.
- Amychophobia[?]- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
- Anablephobia[?] - Fear of looking up.
- Ancraophobia[?], Anemophobia - Fear of wind.
- Androphobia[?], Arrhenphobia[?], Hominophobia[?] - Fear of men.
- Anginophobia[?] - Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
- Anglophobia - Fear of England, English culture, etc.
- Angrophobia[?] - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
- Ankylophobia[?] - Fear of immobility of a joint.
- Anthrophobia[?], Anthophobia[?] - Fear of flowers.
- Anthropophobia[?] - Fear of people or society.
- Antlophobia[?] - Fear of floods.
- Anuptaphobia[?] - Fear of staying single.
- Apeirophobia[?] - Fear of infinity.
- Aphenphosmphobia[?], Chiraptophobia[?], Haphephobia[?], Haptephobia[?] - Fear of being touched.
- Apiphobia[?], Melissophobia[?] - Fear of bees.
- Apotemnophobia[?] - Fear of persons with amputations.
- Arachibutyrophobia[?] - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
- Arithmophobia[?] - Fear of numbers.
- Arsonphobia, Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.
- Asthenophobia[?] - Fear of fainting or weakness.
- Astraphobia[?], Astrapophobia[?], Brontophobia[?], Keraunophobia[?] - Fear of thunder and lightning.
- Astrophobia[?] - Fear of stars and celestial space.
- Asymmetriphobia[?] - Fear of asymmetry.
- Ataxiophobia[?] - Fear of ataxia.
- Ataxophobia[?] - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
- Atelophobia[?] - Fear of imperfection.
- Atephobia[?] - Fear of ruin or ruins.
- Athazagoraphobia[?] - Fear of being forgotten, ignored or forgetting.
- Atomosophobia[?] - Fear of atomic explosions.
- Atychiphobia[?], Kakorrhaphiophobia[?] - Fear of failure.
- Aulophobia[?]- Fear of flutes.
- Aurophobia[?] - Fear of gold.
- Auroraphobia[?] - Fear of the Northern Lights.
- Autodysomophobia[?] - Fear that one has a vile odour.
- Automatonophobia[?] - Fear of any inanimate object that represents a sentient being, eg. statues, dummies, robots, etc.
- Automysophobia[?] - Fear of being dirty.
- Autophobia[?], Eremophobia[?], Isolophobia[?], Monophobia[?] - Fear of being alone or fear of oneself.
- Aviophobia[?], Aviatophobia[?], Pteromerhanophobia[?] - Fear of flying.
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- Cacophobia[?] - Fear of ugliness.
- Cainophobia[?], Cainotophobia[?], Cenophobia[?], Centophobia[?], Kainolophobia[?], Kainophobia[?], Neophobia[?] - Fear of newness, novelty.
- Caligynephobia[?], Venustraphobia[?] - Fear of beautiful women.
- Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia[?] - Fear of cancer.
- Cardiophobia[?] - Fear of heart disease.
- Carnophobia[?] - Fear of meat.
- Catagelophobia[?], Katagelophobia[?] - Fear of being ridiculed.
- Catapedaphobia[?] - Fear of jumping from high and low places.
- Cathisophobia[?], Kathisophobia[?], Thaasophobia[?] - Fear of sitting.
- Catoptrophobia[?] - Fear of mirrors.
- Ceraunophobia[?], Tonitrophobia[?] - Fear of thunder.
- Chaetophobia[?], Trichopathophobia[?], Trichophobia[?], Hypertrichophobia[?] - Fear of hair.
- Cheimaphobia[?], Cheimatophobia[?], Psychrophobia[?] - Fear of cold.
- Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
- Cherophobia[?] - Fear of gaiety.
- Chionophobia[?] - Fear of snow.
- Chirophobia[?] - Fear of hands.
- Cholerophobia[?] - Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
- Chorophobia[?] - Fear of dancing.
- Chrometophobia[?], Chrematophobia[?] - Fear of money.
- Chromophobia[?], Chromatophobia[?] - Fear of colours.
- Chronophobia[?] - Fear of time.
- Chronomentrophobia[?] - Fear of clocks.
- Cibophobia[?], Sitophobia[?], Sitiophobia[?] - Fear of food.
- Claustrophobia[?] - Fear of confined spaces.
- Cleithrophobia[?], Cleisiophobia[?] - Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
- Cleptophobia[?], Kleptophobia[?] - Fear of stealing.
- Climacophobia[?] - Fear of stairs or of climbing or falling down stairs.
- Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed.
- Clithrophobia[?], Cleithrophobia[?] - Fear of being enclosed.
- Cnidophobia[?] - Fear of stings.
- Cometophobia[?] - Fear of comets.
- Coimetrophobia[?] - Fear of cemeteries.
- Coitophobia[?], Genophobia[?] - Fear of coitus.
- Coprastasophobia[?] - Fear of constipation.
- Coprophobia[?], Scatophobia[?] - Fear of feces.
- Coulrophobia[?] - Fear of clowns.
- Counterphobia[?] - The preference by a phobic person for fearful situations.
- Cremnophobia[?] - Fear of precipices.
- Cryophobia[?] - Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
- Crystallophobia[?] - Fear of crystals or glass.
- Cyberphobia[?], Logizomechanophobia[?] - Fear of computers or working on a computer.
- Cyclophobia[?] - Fear of bicycles.
- Cymophobia[?], Kymophobia[?] - Fear of waves or wave-like motions.
- Cynophobia[?] - Fear of dogs or rabies.
- Cypridophobia[?], Cypriphobia[?], Cyprianophobia[?], Cyprinophobia[?] - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.
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- Hadephobia[?], Stygiophobia[?], Stigiophobia[?] - Fear of hell.
- Hagiophobia[?] - Fear of saints or holy things.
- Hamartophobia[?], Peccatophobia[?] - Fear of sinning.
- Harpaxophobia[?] - Fear of being robbed.
- Hedonophobia[?] - Fear of feeling pleasure.
- Heliophobia[?] - Fear of the sun.
- Hellenologophobia[?] - Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
- Helminthophobia[?] - Fear of being infested with worms.
- Hemophobia[?], Hemaphobia[?], Hematophobia[?] - Fear of blood.
- Heresyphobia[?], Hereiophobia[?] - Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
- Herpetophobia[?] - Fear of reptiles.
- Heterophobia, Sexophobia[?] - Fear of the opposite sex.
- Hierophobia[?] - Fear of priests or sacred things.
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia[?], Sesquipedalophobia[?] - Fear of long words.
- Hobophobia[?] - Fear of bums or beggars.
- Hodophobia[?] Fear of road travel.
- Hormephobia[?] - Fear of shock.
- Homichlophobia[?], Nebulaphobia[?] - Fear of fog.
- Homilophobia[?] - Fear of sermons.
- Homophobia - Fear of sameness, monotony, homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
- Hoplophobia[?] - Fear of firearms.
- Hydrargyophobia[?] - Fear of mercurial medicines.
- Hydrophobia - Fear of water or of rabies.
- Hydrophobophobia[?], Kynophobia[?] - Fear of rabies.
- Hyelophobia[?], Hyalophobia[?], Nelophobia[?] - Fear of glass.
- Hygrophobia[?] - Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
- Hylephobia[?] - Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
- Hylophobia[?] - Fear of forests.
- Hypengyophobia[?], Hypegiaphobia[?] - Fear of responsibility.
- Hypnophobia[?] - Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
- Hypsiphobia[?] - Fear of height.
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- Macrophobia[?] - Fear of long waits.
- Mageirocophobia[?] - Fear of cooking.
- Malaxophobia[?], Sarmassophobia[?] - Fear of love play.
- Mastigophobia[?], Poinephobia[?] - Fear of punishment.
- Mechanophobia[?] - Fear of machines.
- Medomalacuphobia[?] - Fear of losing an erection.
- Medorthophobia[?] - Fear of an erect penis.
- Megalophobia[?] - Fear of large objects.
- Melanophobia[?] - Fear of the colour 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.
- Methyphobia[?], Potophobia[?] - Fear of alcohol.
- Metrophobia[?] - Fear or hatred of poetry.
- Microphobia, Mycrophobia[?] - Fear of small objects.
- Misophobia[?], Molysmophobia[?], Molysomophobia[?], Mysophobia[?], Verminophobia[?] - Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
- Mnemophobia[?] - Fear of memories.
- Monopathophobia[?] - Fear of a specific disease.
- Motorphobia[?] - Fear of automobiles[?].
- Mottephobia[?] - Fear of moths.
- Musophobia[?], Murophobia[?], Suriphobia[?]- Fear of mice.
- Mycophobia[?] - Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
- Myrmecophobia[?] - Fear of ants.
- Mythophobia[?] - Fear of myths, stories or false statements.
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- Pagophobia[?] - Fear of ice or frost.
- Panthophobia[?] - Fear of suffering and disease.
- Panophobia[?], Pantophobia[?] - Fear of everything.
- 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[?] - Fear of virgins or young girls.
- Pathophobia[?] - Fear of disease.
- Patroiophobia[?] - Fear of heredity.
- Pediculophobia[?], Phthiriophobia[?] - Fear of lice.
- Pediophobia[?] - Fear of dolls.
- Pedophobia[?] - Fear of children.
- Peladophobia[?] - Fear of bald people.
- Pellagrophobia[?] - Fear of pellagra[?].
- Peniaphobia[?] - Fear of poverty.
- Pentheraphobia[?] - Fear of one's mother-in-law.
- Phagophobia[?] - Fear of swallowing, eating or of being eaten.
- Phalacrophobia[?] - Fear of becoming bald.
- Phallophobia[?] - Fear of a penis, esp. erect.
- Pharmacophobia[?] - Fear of taking medicine.
- Phasmophobia[?], Spectrophobia[?] - Fear of ghosts.
- Phengophobia[?] - Fear of daylight or sunshine.
- Philemaphobia[?], Philematophobia[?] - Fear of kissing.
- Philophobia[?] - Fear of falling in love or being in love.
- Philosophobia[?] - Fear of philosophy.
- Phobophobia[?] - Fear of phobias.
- Photoaugliaphobia[?] - Fear of glaring lights.
- Photophobia[?] - Fear of light.
- Phonophobia[?] - Fear of noises, voices, one's own voice or of telephones.
- Phronemophobia[?] - Fear of thinking.
- Phthisiophobia[?], Tuberculophobia[?] - Fear of tuberculosis.
- Placophobia[?] - Fear of tombstones.
- Plutophobia[?] - Fear of wealth.
- Pneumatiphobia[?] - Fear of spirits.
- Pnigophobia[?], Pnigerophobia[?] - Fear of choking or being smothered.
- Pogonophobia - Fear of beards.
- Poliosophobia[?] - Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
- Politicophobia[?] - Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
- Polyphobia[?] - Having many phobias.
- Ponophobia[?] - Fear of overworking or of pain.
- Porphyrophobia[?] - Fear of the colour purple.
- Potamophobia[?] - Fear of rivers or running water.
- Pharmacophobia[?] - Fear of drugs.
- Proctophobia[?], Rectophobia[?] - Fear of the rectum or of rectal diseases.
- Prosophobia[?] - Fear of progress.
- Psellismophobia[?] - Fear of stuttering.
- Psychophobia[?] - Fear of the mind.
- Pteronophobia[?] - Fear of being tickled by feathers.
- Pupaphobia[?] - Fear of puppets.
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