Phobias




Here are some strange phobias. They are listed alphabetically for your convenience.



A


Acarophobia -- fear of skin infestation by mites or ticks

Acousticophobia -- fear of noise

Acrophobia -- fear of heights

Aerophobia -- fear of fresh air (cf. ancraophobia, batophobia, hypsophobia)

Agoraphobia -- fear of being in crowded, public places (cf. demophobia)

Agyrophobia -- fear of crossing streets

Aichmophobia -- fear of pointed objects

Ailurophobia, Aelurophobia, Elurophobia -- fear of cats

Algophobia -- fear of pain (cf. odynophobia)

Amathophobia, Koniophobia -- fear of dust

Amaxophobia -- fear of being or riding in vehicles

Ancraophobia -- fear of wind

Androphobia -- fear of men

Anginophobia -- fear of quinsy or other forms of sore throat

Ankylophobia -- dread of stiff or immobile joints

Anthophobia -- fear of flowers

Anthropophobia -- fear of people, especially in groups

Antlophobia -- fear of floods

Apeirophobia -- fear of infinity

Apiphobia, Apiophobia -- intense fear of bees

Arachnephobia -- fear of spiders

Asthenophobia -- fear of weakness

Astraphobia, Astrapophobia -- fear of lightning

Ataxiophobia, Ataxophobia -- fear of disorder

Atelophobia -- fear of imperfection

Atephobia -- fear of ruin

Aulophobia -- fear of flutes

Aurophobia -- dislike of gold

Autmysophobia -- fear or dislike of being dirty (cf. misophobia)

Autophobia -- fear of being egotistical, of referring to oneself; Fear of being by oneself

B


Bacillophobia -- fear of missiles

Bacteriophobia -- fear of bacteria

Barophobia -- fear of gravity

Bathmophobia -- dislike or fear of walking

Bathophobia -- intense dislike of bathing; fear of depth

Batophobia -- fear of passing high buildings

Batrachophobia -- fear of frogs and toads

Belonephobia -- fear of pins and needles

Bibliophobia -- dislike for books

Blennophobia, Myxophobia -- fear or dislike of slime

Bogyphobia -- dread of demons and goblins

Bromidrosiphobia -- fear of having unpleasant body odor

Brontophobia -- fear of thunder and thunderstorms (cf. astraphobia, keraunophobia)

C


Cainophobia -- fear or dislike of novelty

Carcinophobia -- fear of cancer

Cardiophobia -- fear of heart disease

Cathisophobia -- fear or dislike of sitting down

Catoptrophobia -- fear of mirrors

Celtophobia -- intense dislike of Celts

Cenophobia, Kenophobia -- fear of a void or of open spaces

Chaetophobia, Trichophobia -- fear of hair

Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia -- fear or dislike of cold (cf. cryophobia sychrophobia)

Cherophobia -- fear of gaiety

Chinophobia -- fear or dislike of snow

Cholerophobia -- fear of cholera

Chrematophobia -- fear or dislike of wealth

Chrometophobia -- fear or dislike of money

Chromophobia -- fear of colors

Chronophobia -- discomfort concerning time

Cibophobia -- fear of food (cf. phagophobia)

Claustrophobia -- fear of enclosed spaces

Clinophobia -- fear or dislike of going to bed

Cnidophobia -- insect stings

Coitophobia -- fear of sexual intercourse

Cometophobia -- fear of comets

Coprophobia -- fear of excrement/feces

Cremnophobia -- fear of precipices

Cryophobia -- fear of ice or frost (cf. cheimaphobia)

Crystallophobia -- fear of glass, crystals

Cymophobia -- fear of waves

Cynophobia -- dread of dogs

Cypridophobia -- fear of veneral disease

D


Deipnophobia -- fear or dislike of dining and dinner conversation

Demonophobia -- fear of spirits, demons

Demophobia -- dislike of crowds (cf. agoraphobia)

Dermatophobia -- fear of skin disease

Dextrophobia -- fear of objects on the right side of the body

Dikephobia -- fear or dislike of justice

Dinophobia -- fear of whirlpools

Diplopiaphobia -- fear of double vision

Dipsophobia -- fear of drinking

Domatophobia -- fear of being in a house

Doraphobia -- fear of contact with animal fur or skin

Dysmorphophobia -- dread of deformity, usually in others

E


Ecclesiophobia -- fear or dislike of church

Ecophobia, Oecophobia, Oikophobia -- fear of or aversion to home surroundings

Eisoptrophobia -- fear of mirrors

Eleutherophobia -- fear of freedom

Emetophobia -- fear of vomiting

Enetophobia -- fear of needles or pins

Entomophobia -- fear of insects

Eosophobia -- fear of the dawn

Ergasiophobia -- fear or dislike of work

Ergophobia -- hatred of work

Erotophobia -- fear of sexual feelings and their physical expression

Eurotophobia -- fear of the color red; fear of blushing

F


Febriphobia -- fear of fever

G


Galeophobia -- fear of sharks

Gamophobia, Gametophobia -- fear or dislike of marriage

Gephyrophobia -- fear of crossing a bridge

Gerascophobia -- fear of growing old

Geumophobia -- fear of tastes or flavors

Glossophobia -- fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak

Graphophobia -- dislike of writing

Gymnophobia, Nudophobia -- fear of nudity

Gynephobia, Gynophobia -- fear or hatred of women

H


Hadeophobia, Stygiophobia -- fear of hell

Hagiophobia -- dislike for saints and the holy

Hamartophobia -- fear of error or sin

Haptophobia, Haphophobia, Thixophobia -- fear of touch

Harpaxophobia -- fear of robbers

Hedonophobia -- fear of pleasure

Heliophobia, Solophobia -- fear of sunlight; abnormal sensitivity to the effects of sunlight

Helminthophobia -- fear of being infested with worms

Hemaphobia, Hematophobia, Haemaphobia, Hemophobia -- fear of the sight of blood

Herpetophobia -- fear of reptiles

Hierophobia -- fear or dislike of sacred objects, fear of priests

Hippophobia -- fear or horses

Hodophobia -- fear or dislike of travel

Homichlophobia -- fear of fog

Homilophobia -- hatred of sermons

Homophobia -- fear of homosexuality (same-sex affection)

Hydrophobia -- fear of water

Hydrophophobia -- fear of rabies (cf. kynophobia)

Hygrophobia -- fear of liquids in any form, especially wine and water

Hylephobia -- dislike for wood or woods

Hypengyophobia -- fear of responsibility

Hypnophobia -- fear of sleep

I


Iatrophobia -- fear of going to the doctor

Ichthyophobia -- fear of fish

Iophobia -- fear of poisons

Isopterophobia -- fear of termites

K


Kakorrhaphiophobia -- fear of failure or defeat

Katagelophobia -- fear or dislike of ridicule

Keraunophobia, Ceraunophobia -- fear of thunder and lightning (cf. astraphobia, brontophobia)

Kinetophobia -- fear or dislike of motion

Kleptophobia, Cleptophobia -- fear of thieves or loss through thievery

Kopophobia -- fear of fatigue

Kopophobia -- fear of mental or physical examination

L


Laliophobia -- fear of talking

Lepraphobia -- fear of leprosy

Levophobia -- fear of objects on the left side of the body (cf. dextrophobia)

Limnophobia -- fear of lakes

Linonophobia -- fear of string

Logophobia -- fear or dislike of words

Lunaphobia -- fear of the moon

Lyssophobia -- fear of becoming insane

M


Mechanophobia -- aversion to or fear of machinery

Merinthophobia -- fear of being bound

Metallophobia -- fear of metals

Meteorophobia -- fear of meteors or meteorites

Microphobia, Microbiophobia -- fear of microorganisms

Misanthropy -- a hatred of mankind; pessimistic distrust of human nature expressed in thought and behaviour

Misophobia -- fear of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt (cf. automysophobia, rhypophobia)

Misogynism, Misogyny -- extreme dislike of females

Misosophy -- hatred of wisdom

Molysomophobia -- fear of infection

Monopathophobia -- fear of sickness in a specific part of the body

Monophobia -- fear of one thing

Musicophobia -- dislike of music

Musophobia -- fear of mice

Mythophobia -- fear of making false statements

N


Necrophobia -- fear of death; fear of corpses

Neophobia -- fear of new things

Nephophobia -- fear of clouds

Noctiphobia -- fear of the night

Nosophobia -- fear of contracting a disease

Nychtophobia, Achluophobia, Scotophobia -- fear of darkness or the night

O


Ochlophobia -- fear of crowds

Ochophobia -- fear of vehicles

Odontophobia -- fear of teeth, expecially those of animals

Odynophobia -- fear of pain (cf. algophobia)

Oenophobia, Oinophobia -- dislike of or hatred for wine

Olfactophobia -- fear or dislike of smells (cf. geumophobia)

Ombrophobia -- fear of rain

Ommetaphobia -- fear of eyes

Onomatophobia -- fear of a certain name (or a set of names)

Ophidiophobia -- fear of snakes (cf. herpetophobia)

Ornithophobia -- fear of birds

P


Panphobia, Pantophobia -- a nonspecific fear; a state of general anxiety; fear of everything

Papaphobia -- fear or dislike of the pope or the papacy

Paralipophobia -- fear of neglect of some duty

Paraphobia -- fear of sexual perversion

Parasitophobia -- fear of parasites

Parthenophobia -- aversion to young girls

Pathophobia -- fear of disease

Peccatiphobia -- fear of sinning

Pediculophobia -- fear of lice

Pedophobia -- fear or dislike of children

Peladophobia -- dread of baldness

Peniaphobia -- fear of poverty

Phagophobia -- fear of eating

Pharmacophobia -- fear of drugs

Phasmophobia -- fear of ghosts

Phenogophobia -- fear of daylight

Philosophobia -- fear or dislike of philosophy or philosophers

Phobophobia -- fear of fear itself

Phonophobia -- fear or dislike of noise

Photalgiophobia -- fear of photalgin, pain in the eyes caused by light

Photophobia -- fear of light

Phonemophobia -- fear of thinking

Pneumatophobia -- fear of incorporeal beings, spirits

Pnigophobia, Pnigerophobia -- fear of choking or smothering

Pogonophobia -- fear or dislike of beards

Poinephobia -- fear of punishment

Politicophobia -- dislike or fear of politicians

Polyphobia -- fear of many things

Ponophobia -- fear of fatigue, especially through overworking

Potamophobia -- fear or rivers

Potophobia -- fear of drinks (beverages)

Psychophobia -- fear of the mind

Psychophobia -- fear of the cold (cf. cheimaphobia)

Pteronophobia -- fear of feathers

Pyrexiophobia -- fear of fever (cf. thermophobia)

Pyrophobia -- fear of fire

R


Rectophobia -- fear of rectum

Rhabdophobia -- fear of being eaten; fear of magic

Rhypophobia -- fear of filth

S


Sciophobia -- fear of shadows

Scoleciphobia -- fear of worms (cf. helminthophobia)

Scopophobia -- fear of being looked at

Scotophobia -- fear of the dark

Selaphobia -- fear or dislike of flashes of light

Siderophobia -- fear of the stars

Specrophobia -- fear of specters or phantoms (cf. phanmophobia, pneumatophobia)

Spermophobia, Spermatophobia -- fear of germs

Stasibphobia -- fear or standing or walking; conviction that one cannot stand or walk

Symmetrophobia -- fear or dislike of symmetry

T


Tabophobia -- fear of a wasting sickness

Tachophobia -- fear of speed

Taphephobia -- fear of being buried alive

Tapinophobia -- fear of small things

Taurophobia -- fear of bulls

Telephonophobia -- fear of the telephone

Teratophobia -- fear of monster or of giving birth to a monster

Thaasophobia -- fear or dislike of being idle

Thalassophobia -- fear of the sea

Theatrophobia -- fear of theatres

Theophobia -- fear of God

Thanatophobia -- fear of death

Thermophobia -- fear or dislike of heat

Tocophobia, Tokophobia -- fear of childbirth

Tomophobia -- fear of surgical operations

Topophobia -- fear of certain places

Toxiphobia, Toxicophobia -- fear of being poisoned

Traumatophobia -- excessive or disabling fear of war or physical injury

Tremophobia -- fear of trembling

Triskaidekaphobia -- fear of the number 13

Tyrannophobia -- fear or hatred of tyrants

U


Urophobia -- fear of urine

V


Vaccinophobia -- fear of vaccines and vaccination

Venereophobia -- fear of venereal disease

Vermiphobia -- fear of worms (earthworms, not intestinal, cf. helminthophobia)

W


Walloonphobia -- fear of the walloons

Wicaphobia -- fear of witches and witchcraft

X


Xanthophobia -- fear of the color yellow or the word yellow

Xenophobia -- fear or hatred of foreigners and strange things

Xerophobia -- fear of dryness and dry places, like deserts

Xylophobia -- fear of wooden objects, forests

Z


Zelophobia -- fear of jealousy

Zemmiphobia -- fear of the great mole rat

Zoophobia -- fear of animals


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