List of phobias

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Phobias are irrational fears of things and situations which can be a danger but most are not harmful. There are many kinds of phobias. Here are listed more than 100 of them.

A

• Achluophobia – fear of darkness
• Acrophobia – fear of heights
• Agliophobia - fear of pain
• Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals
• Agyrophobia – fear of cross the road.
• Aichmophobia – fear of sharp and pointy things (needle, knife..)
• Ailurophobia – fear of cats
• Altophobia - fear of height
• Androphobia – fear of men
• Anthophobia – fear of flowers
• Apiphobia - fear of bees
• Arachnophobia – fear of spiders
• Aurophobia - fear of gold
• Automatonophobia - fear of inanimate object look as living creature (statue, figure, robot..)
• Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying

B

• Bacillophobia - fear of microbe, bacillus, infection
• Bacteriophobia - fear of bacteria, infection
• Bananaphobia - fear of bananas
• Belomophobia - fear of needles
• Batrachophobia - fear of amphibian
• Bibliophobia - fear of books
• Botanophobia - fear of plants
• Bufonophobia - fear of toads
• Buttonphobia - fear of buttons

C

• Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia - fear of cancer
• Carnophobia - fear of meat
• Catoptrophobia - fear of mirrors
• Chaetophobia, Hypertrichophobia, Trichopathophobia - fear of hair
• Chelonaphobia - fear of turtles
• Chionophobia - fear of snow
• Chiroptophobia - fear of bats (type zoophobia)
• Chorophobia - fear of dancing
• Claustrophobia - fear of closed room, impossible escape
• Cleptophobia, Kleptophobia - fear of steal and rob
• Coitophobia, Genophobia - fear of sexual intercourse
• Coulrophobia – fear of clowns
• Cryophobia - fear of large cold, ice, frost
• Cyberphobia - fear of computers and working on them
• Cynophobia – fear of dogs (type zoophobia)
• Cypridophobia, Cyprianophobia, Cypriphobia - fear of prostitutes or venereal disease

D

• Decidophobia - fear decide
• Demophobia, Enochlophobia - fear of crowds
• Dendrophobia - fear of trees
• Dentophobia - fear of dentists
• Dermatosiophobia, Dermatophobia - fear of skin disease
• Dextrophobia - fear of objects at the right side of the body
• Diabetophobia - fear of diabetes
• Dipsophobia - fear of drinking

E

• Ecclesiophobia - fear of church
• Electrophobia - fear of electricity, electrical appliance
• Emetophobia - fear of vomit
• Entomophobia, Insectophobia - fear of insects
• Ephebiphobia - fear of teenagers
• Ergophobia - fear of work
• Euphobia - fear of hearing good news
• Europhobia - fear of Europe, Europe people

F

• Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Pyrexiophobia - fear of fevers
• Ferrumphobia - fear of iron, objects of iron
• Friggatriskaidekaphobia, Paraskavedekatriaphobia - fear of friday 13 (is said that is no lucky)

G

• Gamophobia - fear of marriage, commitment
• Galeophobia - fear of sharks
• Geliophobia - fear of laughter
• Gerontophobia – fear or hatred of old people
• Gymnophobia – fear of nude
• Gynophobia, Gynephobia – fear of women

H

• Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood
• Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666
• Hippophobia, Equinophobia – fear of horses (type zoophobia)
• Homophobia – fear of same sex love
• Hylophobia – fear of trees or wood

I

• Islamophobia - fear of muslims

N

• Necrophobia – fear of death and dead
• Neophobia, Cainophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia – fear of novelty
• Nomophobia – fear of losing contact with mobile phone
• Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals
• Nosophobia – fear of transfer diseases
• Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia – fear of darkness

O

• Odynophobia - fear of pain
• Octophobia - fear of number 8
• Ornitophobia - fear of birds (type zoophobia)
• Ophidiophobia – fear of snakes (type zoophobia)

P

• Pedophobia, Pediophobia – fear of children
• Peristerophobia - fear of pigeons
• Pharmacophobia – fear of tablets
• Philophobia – fear of love
• Pyrophobia – fear of fire

S

• Seismophobia - fear of earthquakes
• Shiyamphobia - fear of fight
• Sathyarphobia - fear of sivaraj
• Saravanaphobia - fear of open love to other
• Social phobia or Sociophobia - fear of contact with people (eat, drink, speak, read from others, etc.), expects own failure

T

• Taphophobia, Taphephobia – fear of grave and/or buried alive
• Traumatophobia – fear of injure itself
• Transphobia - fear of transgender
• Triskaidekaphobia – fear of the number 13
• Xenophobia – fear of foreign people

Z

• Zoophobia – fear of animals

Funny and fictional phobias

• Anatidaephobia - fear that a duck, somewhere, is watching you
• Arachibutyrophobia - fear of peanut butter stuck to the roof of the mouth
• Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - fear of long words
• Venustraphobia - fear of pretty women

Other websites

• list of phobias (en)
• http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/phobias.htm

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