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Fears and Phobias: What are you afraid of?

Name of Phobia
Ablutophobia
Acarophobia
Acerophobia
Achluophobia
Acousticophobia
Acrophobia
Aeroacrophobia
Aeronausiphobia
Aerophobia
Agateophobia
Agliophobia
Agoraphobia

Agraphobia
Agrizoophobia
Agyrophobia
Aichmophobia
Ailurophobia
Albuminurophobia
Alektorophobia
Algophobia
Alliumphobia
Allodoxaphobia
Altophobia
Amathophobia
Amaxophobia
Ambulophobia
Amnesiphobia
Amychophobia
Anablephobia
Ancraophobia
Androphobia
Anemophobia
Anginophobia
Anglophobia
Angrophobia
Ankylophobia
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia
Anthropophobia
Antlophobia
Anuptaphobia

What you are afraid of


washing or bathing.
itching or insects that cause itching.
sourness.
darkness.
noise.
heights.
open high places.
vomiting secondary to airsickness.
drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne
noxious substances.
insanity.
pain.
open spaces or of being in crowded,
public places like markets. leaving a
safe place.
sexual abuse.
wild animals.
streets or crossing the street.
needles or pointed objects.
cats.
kidney disease.
chickens.
pain.
garlic.
opinions.
heights.
dust.
riding in a car.
walking.
amnesia.
scratches or being scratched.
looking up.
wind.
men.
air drafts or wind.
angina, choking or narrowness.
England or English culture, English
language, etc.
anger or of becoming angry.
immobility of a joint.
flowers.
people or society.
floods.
staying single.

Apeirophobia
Aphenphosmphobia
Apiphobia
Apotemnophobia
Arachibutyrophobia
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia
Arithmophobia
Arrhenphobia
Arsonphobia
Asthenophobia
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia
Astrophobia
Asymmetriphobia
Ataxiophobia
Ataxophobia
Atelophobia
Atephobia
Athazagoraphobia
Atomosophobia
Atychiphobia
Aulophobia
Aurophobia
Auroraphobia
Autodysomophobia
Automatonophobia

Automysophobia
Autophobia
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia
Bacillophobia
Bacteriophobia
Ballistophobia
Barophobia
Basophobia or Basiphobia
Bathmophobia
Bathophobia
Batophobia
Batrachophobia
Belonephobia
Bibliophobia
Blennophobia
Bogyphobia
Bolshephobia
Botanophobia
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia

infinity.
being touched.
bees.
persons with amputations.
peanut butter sticking to the roof of the
mouth.
spiders.
numbers.
men.
fire.
fainting or weakness.
thunder and lightning.
stars or celestial space.
asymmetrical things.
ataxia.
disorder or untidiness.
imperfection.
ruin or ruins.
being forgotton or ignored or
forgetting.
atomic explosions.
failure.
flutes.
gold.
Northern lights.
one that has a vile odor.
ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic
creatures, wax statues - anything that
falsly represents a sentient being.
being dirty.
being alone or of oneself.
flying.
microbes.
bacteria.
missiles or bullets.
gravity.
walking or falling. Inability to stand.
stairs or steep slopes.
depth.
heights or being close to high buildings.
amphibians, such as frogs, newts,
salamanders, etc.
pins and needles.
books.
slime.
bogeys or the bogeyman.
Bolsheviks.
plants.
body smells.

Brontophobia
Bufonophobia
Cacophobia
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia
Caligynephobia
Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia
Cardiophobia
Carnophobia
Catagelophobia
Catapedaphobia
Cathisophobia
Catoptrophobia
Cenophobia or Centophobia
Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia
Chaetophobia
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia
Chemophobia
Cherophobia
Chionophobia
Chiraptophobia
Chirophobia
Chiroptophobia
Cholerophobia
Chorophobia
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia
Chronomentrophobia
Chronophobia
Cibophobia
Claustrophobia
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia
Cleptophobia
Climacophobia
Clinophobia
Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia
Cnidophobia
Coimetrophobia
Coitophobia
Cometophobia
Consecotaleophobia
Contreltophobia
Coprastasophobia
Coprophobia
Coulrophobia
Cremnophobia
Cryophobia
Crystallophobia
Cyberphobia
Cyclophobia

thunder and lightning.


toads.
ugliness.
newness, novelty.
beautiful women.
cancer.
the heart.
meat.
being ridiculed.
jumping from high and low places.
sitting.
mirrors.
new things or ideas.
thunder and lightning.
hair.
cold.
chemicals or working with chemicals.
gaiety.
snow.
being touched.
hands.
bats.
anger or the cholera.
dancing.
money.
colors.
clocks.
time.
food.
confined spaces.
being locked in an enclosed place.
stealing.
stairs, climbing, or of falling
downstairs.
going to bed.
being enclosed.
stings.
cemeteries.
coitus.
comets.
chopsticks.
sexual abuse.
constipation.
feces.
clowns.
precipices.
extreme cold, ice or frost.
crystals or glass.
computers or working on a computer.
bicycles.

Cymophobia or Kymophobia
Cynophobia
Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or
Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia
Decidophobia
Defecaloesiophobia
Deipnophobia
Dementophobia
Demonophobia or Daemonophobia
Demophobia
Dendrophobia
Dentophobia
Dermatophobia
Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or
Dermatopathophobia
Dextrophobia
Diabetophobia
Didaskaleinophobia
Dikephobia
Dinophobia
Diplophobia
Dipsophobia
Dishabiliophobia
Disposophobia
Domatophobia
Doraphobia
Doxophobia
Dromophobia
Dutchphobia
Dysmorphophobia
Dystychiphobia
Ecclesiophobia
Ecophobia
Eicophobia
Eisoptrophobia
Electrophobia
Eleutherophobia
Elurophobia
Emetophobia
Enetophobia
Enochlophobia
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia
Entomophobia
Eosophobia
Ephebiphobia
Epistaxiophobia
Epistemophobia
Equinophobia

waves or wave like motions.


dogs or rabies.
prostitutes or venereal disease.
making decisions.
painful bowels movements.
dining or dinner conversations.
insanity.
demons.
crowds.
trees.
dentists.
skin lesions.
skin disease.
objects at the right side of the body.
diabetes.
going to school.
justice.
dizziness or whirlpools.
double vision.
drinking.
undressing in front of someone.
throwing stuff out. Hoarding.
houses or being in a house.
fur or skins of animals.
expressing opinions or of receiving
praise.
crossing streets.
the Dutch.
deformity.
accidents.
church.
home.
home surroundings.
mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
electricity.
freedom.
cats.
vomiting.
pins.
crowds.
having committed an unpardonable sin
or of criticism.
insects.
dawn or daylight.
teenagers.
nosebleeds.
knowledge.
horses.

Eremophobia
Ereuthrophobia
Ergasiophobia
Ergophobia
Erotophobia
Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or
Ereuthophobia
Euphobia
Eurotophobia
Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia
Felinophobia
Francophobia
Frigophobia
Galeophobia or Gatophobia
Gallophobia or Galiophobia
Gamophobia
Geliophobia
Gelotophobia
Geniophobia
Genophobia
Genuphobia
Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or
Gephysrophobia
Gerascophobia
Germanophobia
Gerontophobia
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia
Glossophobia
Gnosiophobia
Graphophobia
Gymnophobia
Gynephobia or Gynophobia
Hadephobia
Hagiophobia
Hamartophobia
Haphephobia or Haptephobia
Harpaxophobia
Hedonophobia
Heliophobia
Hellenologophobia
Helminthophobia
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or
Hematophobia
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia
Herpetophobia
Heterophobia

being oneself or of lonliness.


blushing.
work or functioning, operating (for a
surgeon) .
work.
sexual love or sexual questions.
redlights, blushing, or red colour.
hearing good news.
female genitalia.
fever.
cats.
France or French culture.
cold or cold things.
cats.
Fear France or French culture.
marriage.
laughter.
being laughed at.
chins.
sex.
knees.
crossing bridges.
growing old.
Germany or German culture.
old people or of growing old.
taste.
speaking in public or of trying to speak.
knowledge.
writing or handwriting.
nudity.
women.
hell.
saints or holy things.
sinning.
being touched.
being robbed.
feeling pleasure.
the sun.
Greek terms or complex scientific
terminology.
being infested with worms.
blood.
challenges to official doctrine or of
radical deviation.
reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
the opposite sex.

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Hierophobia
Hippophobia
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Hobophobia
Hodophobia
Homichlophobia
Homilophobia
Hominophobia
Homophobia

Hoplophobia
Hormephobia
Hydrargyophobia
Hydrophobia
Hydrophobophobia
Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia
Hygrophobia
Hylephobia
Hylophobia
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia
Hypnophobia
Hypsiphobia
Iatrophobia
Ichthyophobia
Ideophobia
Illyngophobia
Insectophobia
Iophobia
Isolophobia
Isopterophobia
Ithyphallophobia
Japanophobia
Judeophobia
Kainolophobia or Kainophobia
Kakorrhaphiophobia
Katagelophobia
Kathisophobia
Katsaridaphobia
Kenophobia
Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia
Kleptophobia
Koinoniphobia
Kolpophobia
Koniophobia
Kopophobia

the number 666.


priests or sacred things.
horses.
long words.
bums or beggars.
road travel.
fog.
sermons.
men.
sameness, monotony or of
homosexuality or of becoming
homosexual.
firearms.
shock.
mercurial medicines.
water or of rabies.
rabies.
glass.
liquids, dampness, or moisture.
materialism or the epilepsy.
forests.
responsibility.
sleep or of being hypnotized.
height.
going to the doctor or of doctors.
fish.
ideas.
vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking
down.
insects.
poison.
solitude, being alone.
termites, insects that eat wood.
seeing, thinking about or having an
erect penis.
Japanese.
Jews.
anything new, novelty.
failure or defeat.
ridicule.
sitting down.
cockroaches.
voids or empty spaces.
thunder and lightning.
movement or motion.
stealing.
rooms.
genitals, particularly female.
dust.
fatigue.

Kosmikophobia
Kymophobia
Kynophobia
Kyphophobia
Lachanophobia
Laliophobia or Lalophobia
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia
Leukophobia
Levophobia
Ligyrophobia
Lilapsophobia
Limnophobia
Linonophobia
Liticaphobia
Lockiophobia
Logizomechanophobia
Logophobia
Luiphobia
Lutraphobia
Lygophobia
Lyssophobia
Macrophobia
Mageirocophobia
Maieusiophobia
Malaxophobia
Maniaphobia
Mastigophobia
Mechanophobia
Medomalacuphobia
Medorthophobia
Megalophobia
Melanophobia
Melissophobia
Melophobia
Meningitophobia
Menophobia
Merinthophobia
Metallophobia
Metathesiophobia
Meteorophobia
Methyphobia
Metrophobia
Microbiophobia
Microphobia
Misophobia or Mysophobia
Mnemophobia
Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Monopathophobia
Monophobia
Motorphobia

cosmic phenomenon.
waves.
rabies.
stooping.
vegetables.
speaking.
leprosy.
the color white.
things to the left side of the body.
loud noises.
tornadoes and hurricanes.
lakes.
string.
lawsuits.
childbirth.
computers.
words.
lues, syphillis.
otters.
darkness.
rabies or of becoming mad.
long waits.
cooking.
childbirth.
love play.
insanity.
punishment.
machines.
losing an erection.
an erect penis.
large things.
the color black.
bees.
Fear or hatred of music.
brain disease.
menstruation.
being bound or tied up.
metal.
changes.
meteors.
alcohol.
Fear or hatred of poetry.
microbes.
small things.
being contaminated with dirt or germs.
memories.
dirt or contamination.
definite disease.
solitude or being alone.
automobiles.

Mottephobia
Musophobia or Muriphobia
Mycophobia
Mycrophobia
Myctophobia
Myrmecophobia
Mythophobia
Myxophobia
Nebulaphobia
Necrophobia
Nelophobia
Neopharmaphobia
Neophobia
Nephophobia
Noctiphobia
Nomatophobia
Nosocomephobia
Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia
Nostophobia
Novercaphobia
Nucleomituphobia
Nudophobia
Numerophobia
Nyctohylophobia
Nyctophobia
Obesophobia
Ochlophobia
Ochophobia
Octophobia
Odontophobia
Odynophobia or Odynephobia
Oenophobia
Oikophobia
Olfactophobia
Ombrophobia
Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia
Omphalophobia
Oneirogmophobia
Oneirophobia
Onomatophobia
Ophidiophobia
Ophthalmophobia
Opiophobia

Optophobia
Ornithophobia
Orthophobia
Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia
Ostraconophobia

moths.
mice.
Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
small things.
darkness.
ants.
myths or stories or false statements.
slime.
fog.
death or dead things.
glass.
new drugs.
anything new.
clouds.
the night.
names.
hospitals.
becoming ill.
returning home.
your step-mother.
nuclear weapons.
nudity.
numbers.
dark wooded areas or of forests at night
the dark or of night.
gaining weight.
crowds or mobs.
vehicles.
the figure 8.
teeth or dental surgery.
pain.
wines.
home surroundings, house.
smells.
rain or of being rained on.
eyes.
belly buttons.
wet dreams.
dreams.
hearing a certain word or of names.
snakes.
being stared at.
Fear medical doctors experience of
prescribing needed pain medications for
patients.
opening one's eyes.
birds.
property.
smells or odors.
shellfish.

Ouranophobia or Uranophobia
Pagophobia
Panophobia or Pantophobia
Panthophobia
Papaphobia
Papyrophobia
Paralipophobia
Paraphobia
Parasitophobia
Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Parthenophobia
Parturiphobia
Pathophobia
Patroiophobia
Peccatophobia
Pediculophobia
Pediophobia
Pedophobia
Peladophobia
Pellagrophobia
Peniaphobia
Pentheraphobia
Phagophobia
Phalacrophobia
Phallophobia
Pharmacophobia
Pharmacophobia
Phasmophobia
Phengophobia
Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
Philophobia
Philosophobia
Phobophobia
Phonophobia
Photoaugliaphobia
Photophobia
Phronemophobia
Phthiriophobia
Phthisiophobia
Placophobia
Plutophobia
Pluviophobia
Pneumatiphobia
Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia
Pocrescophobia
Pogonophobia
Poinephobia
Poliosophobia

heaven.
ice or frost.
everything.
suffering and disease.
the Pope.
paper.
neglecting duty or responsibility.
sexual perversion.
parasites.
Friday the 13th.
virgins or young girls.
childbirth.
disease.
heredity.
sinning or imaginary crimes.
lice.
dolls.
children.
bald people.
pellagra.
poverty.
mother-in-law.
swallowing or of eating or of being
eaten.
becoming bald.
a penis, esp erect.
taking medicine.
drugs.
ghosts.
daylight or sunshine.
kissing.
falling in love or being in love.
philosophy.
phobias.
noises or voices or one's own voice; of
telephones.
glaring lights.
light.
thinking.
lice.
tuberculosis.
tombstones.
wealth.
rain or of being rained on.
spirits.
choking of being smothered.
gaining weight.
beards.
punishment.
contracting poliomyelitis.

Politicophobia
Polyphobia
Ponophobia
Porphyrophobia
Potamophobia
Potophobia
Proctophobia
Prosophobia
Psellismophobia
Psychophobia
Psychrophobia
Pteromerhanophobia
Pteronophobia
Pupaphobia
Pyrexiophobia
Pyrophobia
Radiophobia
Ranidaphobia
Rectophobia
Rhabdophobia

Rhypophobia
Rhytiphobia
Rupophobia
Russophobia
Samhainophobia
Sarmassophobia
Satanophobia
Scabiophobia
Scatophobia
Scelerophibia
Sciophobia Sciaphobia
Scoleciphobia
Scolionophobia
Scopophobia or Scoptophobia
Scotomaphobia
Scotophobia
Scriptophobia
Selachophobia
Selaphobia
Selenophobia
Seplophobia
Sesquipedalophobia
Sexophobia
Siderodromophobia
Siderophobia
Sinistrophobia
Sinophobia

Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.


many things.
overworking or of pain.
the color purple.
rivers or running water.
alcohol.
rectums.
progress.
stuttering.
mind.
cold.
flying.
being tickled by feathers.
puppets.
Fever.
fire.
radiation, x-rays.
frogs.
rectum or rectal diseases.
being severely punished or beaten by a
rod, or of being severely criticized.
Also magic or the magic wand
defecation.
getting wrinkles.
dirt.
Russians.
Halloween.
love play.
Satan.
scabies.
fecal matter.
bad men, burglars.
shadows.
worms.
school.
being seen or stared at.
blindness in visual field.
darkness.
writing in public.
sharks.
light flashes.
the moon.
decaying matter.
long words.
the opposite sex.
trains, railroads or train travel.
stars.
things to the left or left handed.
Chinese, Chinese culture, Chinese
language, etc.

Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Snakephobia
Soceraphobia
Social Phobia
Sociophobia
Somniphobia
Sophophobia
Soteriophobia
Spacephobia
Spectrophobia
Spermatophobia or Spermophobia
Spheksophobia
Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia
Staurophobia
Stenophobia
Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia
Suriphobia
Symbolophobia
Symmetrophobia
Syngenesophobia
Syphilophobia
Tachophobia
Taeniophobia or Teniophobia
Taphephobia Taphophobia
Tapinophobia
Taurophobia
Technophobia
Teleophobia
Telephonophobia
Teratophobia
Testophobia
Tetanophobia
Teutophobia
Textophobia
Thaasophobia
Thalassophobia
Thanatophobia or Thantophobia
Theatrophobia
Theologicophobia
Theophobia
Thermophobia
Tocophobia
Tomophobia
Tonitrophobia
Topophobia
Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia

food or eating.
snakes.
parents in law.
being evaluated negatively in social
situations.
society or people in general.
sleep.
learning.
dependence on others.
outer space.
specters or ghosts.
germs.
wasps.
standing or walking.
crosses or the crucifix.
narrow things or places.
hell.
mice.
symbolism.
symmetry.
relatives.
syphilis.
speed.
tapeworms.
being buried alive or cemeteries.
being contagious.
bulls.
technology.
definite plans or of religious
ceremonies.
telephones.
bearing a deformed child or monsters or
deformed people.
taking tests.
lockjaw, tetanus.
German or German things.
certain fabrics.
sitting.
the sea.
death or dying.
theatres.
theology.
gods or religion.
heat.
pregnancy or childbirth.
surgical operations.
thunder.
certain places or situations, such as
stage fright.
poison or of being accidently poisoned.

Traumatophobia
Tremophobia
Trichinophobia
Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia
Triskaidekaphobia
Tropophobia
Trypanophobia
Tuberculophobia
Tyrannophobia
Uranophobia or Ouranophobia
Urophobia
Vaccinophobia
Venustraphobia
Verbophobia
Verminophobia
Vestiphobia
Virginitiphobia
Vitricophobia
Walloonphobia
Wiccaphobia
Xanthophobia
Xenoglossophobia
Xenophobia
Xerophobia
Xylophobia
Xyrophobia
Zelophobia
Zemmiphobia
Zeusophobia
Zoophobia

injury.
trembling.
trichinosis.
hair.
the number 13.
moving or making changes.
injections.
tuberculosis.
tyrants.
heaven.
urine or urinating.
vaccination.
beautiful women.
words.
germs.
clothing.
rape.
step-father.
the Walloons.
witches and witchcraft.
the color yellow or the word yellow.
foreign languages.
strangers or foreigners.
dryness.
wooden objects or forests.
razors.
jealousy.
the great mole rat.
God or gods.
animals.

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