List of Phobias
Phobia is simply defined as an irrational and excessive fear of any object or situation. Almost 10% of the adults develop phobias due to any environmental causes, personal experiences or evolutionary causes. This mental disorder involves a fear of harm.
Below is the alphabetical list of all phobias.
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A
- Acrophobia - Fear of heights.
- Agliophobia - Fear of pain.
- Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds.
- Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
- Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
- Androphobia - Fear of men.
- Anginophobia - Fear of angina or choking.
- Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.
- Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
- Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched.
- Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
- Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
- Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightening.
- Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
- Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
- Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
- Autophobia - Fear of being alone.
- Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
- Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
- Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
B
- Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
- Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
- Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
- Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians.
- Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles.
- Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
- Botanophobia - Fear of plants.
C
- Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
- Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
- Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
- Chromophobia - Fear of colors.
- Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
- Cometophobia- Fear of comets.
- Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.
- Cremnophobia- Fear of precipices.
- Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
- Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
- Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
- Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
- Cyberphobia - Fear of computers.
- Cynophobia - Fear of dogs.
D
- Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
- Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.
- Domatophobia - Fear of houses.
- Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.
- Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals.
- Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
- Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
- Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
- Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity
E
- Ecophobia - Fear of the home.
- Elurophobia - Fear of cats.
- Entomophobia - Fear of insects.
- Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.
- Equinophobia - Fear of horses.
- Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
- Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.
- Enetophobia- Fear of pins.
- Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
- Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
F
- Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
- Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture.
G
- Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.
- Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
- Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public.
- Gynophobia - Fear of women.
- Geliophobia - Fear of laughter.
- Geniophobia - Fear of chins.
- Genophobia - Fear of sex.
- Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity.
H
- Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
- Hemophobia - Fear of blood.
- Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.
- Hippophobia - Fear of horses.
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.
- Hobophobia - Fear of bums or beggars.
- Hodophobia - Fear of road travel.
- Hormephobia - Fear of shock.
- Homichlophobia - Fear of fog.
- Homilophobia - Fear of sermons.
- Hominophobia - Fear of men.
- Hydrophobia - Fear of water.
I
- Iatrophobia - Fear of doctors.
- Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
- Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
- Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish.
J
K
- Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.
- Katagelophobia - Fear of ridicule.
- Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down.
- Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces.
- Kopophobia - Fear of fatigue.
- Koniophobia - Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
- Kosmikophobia - Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
- Kymophobia - Fear of waves. (Cymophobia)
- Kynophobia - Fear of rabies.
- Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping.
L
- Leukophobia - Fear of the color white.
- Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises.
- Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
- Limnophobia - Fear of lakes.
- Linonophobia - Fear of string.
- Liticaphobia - Fear of lawsuits.
M
- Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
- Melanophobia - Fear of the color black.
- Microphobia - Fear of small things.
- Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs.
- Misophobia or Mysophobia - Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
- Mnemophobia - Fear of memories.
- Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia - Fear of dirt or contamination.
- Monophobia - Fear of solitude or being alone.
- Monopathophobia - Fear of definite disease.
- Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles.
- Mottephobia - Fear of moths.
- Musophobia or Muriphobia - Fear of mice.
N
- Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
- Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.
- Novercaphobia - Fear of your step-mother.
- Nucleomituphobia - Fear of nuclear weapons.
- Nudophobia - Fear of nudity.
- Numerophobia - Fear of numbers.
- Nephophobia - Fear of clouds.
- Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.
O
- Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight.
- Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
- Ombrophobia - Fear of rain.
- Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.
- Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams.
- Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
- Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes.
- Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.
- Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
- Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles.
P
- Papyrophobia - Fear of paper.
- Pathophobia - Fear of disease.
- Pedophobia - Fear of children.
- Philophobia - Fear of love.
- Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.
- Podophobia - Fear of feet.
- Patroiophobia- Fear of heredity.
- Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth.
- Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple.
- Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns.
- Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.
- Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.
R
- Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs.
- Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
- Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation.
- Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
- Rupophobia- Fear of dirt.
S
- Scolionophobia - Fear of school.
- Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
- Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation.
- Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation.
- Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.
- Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness in visual field.
- Scotophobia- Fear of darkness.
- Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
- Selachophobia- Fear of sharks.
- Selaphobia- Fear of light flashes.
- Selenophobia- Fear of the moon.
- Seplophobia- Fear of decaying matter.
- Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words.
- Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite sex.
- Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others.
- Spacephobia- Fear of outer space.
- Spectrophobia- Fear of specters or ghosts.
- Spermatophobia - Fear of germs.
- Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.
- Stasibasiphobia - Fear of standing or walking.
- Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
- Stenophobia- Fear of narrow things or places.
- Stygiophobia - Fear of hell.
- Suriphobia- Fear of mice.
- Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism.
- Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
- Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
T
- Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
- Technophobia - Fear of technology.
- Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.
- Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.
- Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms.
- Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
- Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious.
- Taurophobia- Fear of bulls.
- Theatrophobia- Fear of theatres.
- Theologicophobia- Fear of theology.
- Theophobia- Fear of gods or religion.
- Thermophobia- Fear of heat.
- Tocophobia- Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
- Tomophobia- Fear of surgical operations.
- Tuberculophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
- Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.
U
- Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.
- Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear of heaven.
- Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.
V
- Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
- Verminophobia - Fear of germs.
- Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination.
- Verbophobia- Fear of words.
- Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing.
- Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
- Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.
W
X
- Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners.
- Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
- Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
- Xyrophobia-Fear of razors.
- Xerophobia- Fear of dryness.
Z
- Zoophobia - Fear of animals.
- Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
- Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
- Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods.
- Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
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- Common Phobias
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- Treatment of Phobia
- Conquering Phobias
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