Fear
of
(A - L) |
Phobia |
|
Fear
of
(M - Z) |
Phobia |
| accidents |
dystychiphobia |
|
machinery |
mechanophobia |
| ageing |
gerascophobia |
|
madness |
maniaphobia
(see also insanity) |
| air
sickness |
aeronausiphobia |
|
magic |
rhabdophobia
(see also beaten, being) |
| air
(fresh), draughts |
aerophobia
(see also flying) |
|
making
changes or moving |
trophophobia |
| alcohol |
methyphobia |
|
many
things |
polyphobia |
| alcohol
(drinking) |
dipsophobia |
|
marriage |
gamophobia |
| alone
(being) or oneself or loneliness |
autophobia |
|
materialism |
hylephobia
(see also woods) |
| amphibians,
such a frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc |
batrachophobia |
|
meat |
carnophobia |
| amnesia |
amnesiophobia |
|
medicine
(taking) |
pharmacophobia |
| animals |
zoophobia |
|
memories |
mnemophobia |
| animals
(wild) |
agrizoophobia |
|
men |
androphobia |
| angry
(becoming) |
angrophobia |
|
meningitis |
meningitophobia |
| animal
skin, fur |
doraphobia |
|
menstruation |
menophobia |
| ants |
Pmyrmecophobia |
|
mercuruial
medicines |
hydrargyophobia |
| asymmetrical
things |
asymmetriphobia |
|
metal |
metallophobia |
| ataxia |
ataxiophobia |
|
meteors |
meteorophobia |
| atomic
energy |
nucleomitophobia |
|
mice |
musophobia |
| atomic
explosions |
atomosophobia |
|
microbes |
microbiophobia |
| attack |
scelerophobia |
|
mind |
psychophobia |
| auroral
lights |
auroraphobia |
|
mirrors |
catoptrophobia |
| automobiles |
motorphobia |
|
missiles |
ballistrophobia
(see also bullets) |
| bad
mens, burglars |
scelerophibia |
|
mites,
ticks |
acarophobia |
| bacteria |
bacillophobia |
|
mole
rat (great) |
zemmiphobia |
| bald
(becoming) |
phalacrophobia |
|
money
(touching) |
chrematophobia |
| baldness |
peladophobia |
|
monsters
(or giving birth to monster) |
teratophobia |
| bathing |
bathophobia
(see also depth) |
|
moon |
selenophobia |
| beards |
pogonophobia |
|
mother-in-law |
pentheraphobia |
| beaten
(being) |
rhabdophobia
(see also magic) |
|
moths |
mottephobia |
| bed
(going to) |
clinophobia |
|
motion
or movement |
kinesophobia |
| bees |
apiphobia |
|
motor
vehicles |
motophobia |
| beggars |
hobophobia |
|
mushroom
(aversion to) |
mycophobia |
| bearing
a deformed child or deformed people |
teratophobia |
|
music |
musicophobia |
| being
evaluated negatively in social situations |
social
phobia |
|
myths,
stories and lying |
mythophobia |
| bicycles |
ornithophobia |
|
name
(a particular name or word) |
onomatophobia |
| birds |
melanophobia |
|
narrowness |
anginaphobia |
| black
(colour) |
scotomaphobia |
|
needles |
enetophobia |
| blindness
in visual field |
cyclophobia |
|
needles,
pins |
belonephobia |
| blood |
hemaphobia |
|
|
|
| blushing |
erythrophobia
(see also red) |
|
new
things or ideas |
cenophobia
or centophobia |
| body
odour |
bromhidrosiphobia |
|
night |
noctiphobia |
| bogies
or the bogeyman |
bogyphobia |
|
noise |
acoustiphobia |
| Bolsheviks |
Bolshephobia |
|
nosebleeds |
epistaxiophobia |
| books |
bibliophobia |
|
novelty,
newness |
cainophobia |
| bound
(being) or tied up |
merinthophobia |
|
nuclear
weapons |
nucleomituphobia |
| bowel
movements (painful) |
defecaloesiophobia |
|
|
|
| brain
disease |
meningitophobia |
|
numbers |
arithmophobia |
| bridges
(crossing) |
gephyrophobia |
|
number
13 |
triskaidekaphobia |
| buildings
(high) |
batophobia |
|
objects
(large) |
megalophobia |
| bullets |
ballistophobia
(see also missiles) |
|
objects
(pointed) |
aichmophobia |
| bulls |
taurophobia |
|
objects
(sacred) |
hierophobia |
| buried
alive (being) |
taphephobia |
|
objects
(small) |
tapinophobia |
| cancer |
carcinomophobia |
|
objects
(at the right side of the body) |
dextrophobia |
| cats |
ailurophobia |
|
odour
(one that has vile) |
autodysomophobia |
| Celts,
Celtic |
Celtophobia |
|
old
(growing) |
gerascophobia |
| cemeteries |
coimetrophobia |
|
old
(people) |
gerontophobia |
| certain
places |
topophobia
(see also performing) |
|
open
spaces, crowded public places like markets, leaving a safe place |
agoraphobia |
| challenges
to official doctrine or of radical deviation |
heresyphobia
or hereiophobia |
|
opinions
(others') |
allodoxaphobia |
| changes |
metathesiophobia |
|
opposite
sex |
sexophobia |
| changes
(making) |
tropophobia |
|
otters |
lutraphobia |
| chemicals
or working with chemicals |
chemophobia |
|
outer
space |
spacephobia |
| chickens |
alektorophobia |
|
overworking |
ponophobia |
| childbirth
or pregnancy |
tocophobia |
|
pain |
algophobia |
| China,
Chinese |
Sinophobia
|
|
paper |
papyrophobia |
| chins |
geniophobia |
|
parasites |
parasitophobia |
| choking
or of being smothered |
pnigophobia |
|
parents-in-law |
soceraphobia |
| cholera |
cholerophobia |
|
peanut
butter sticking to the roof of the mouth |
arachibutyrophobia |
| clocks |
chronomentrophobia |
|
pellagra |
pellagrophobia |
| clothes |
vestiophobia |
|
|
|
| clouds |
nephophobia |
|
|
|
| clowns |
coulrophobia |
|
people |
anthropophobia
(see also society) |
| church |
ecclesiophobia |
|
performing
(stagefright) |
topophobia
(see also places (certain)) |
| coitus |
coitophobia |
|
persons with
amputations
|
apotemnophobia |
| cold |
cheimaphobia |
|
philosophy,
philosophers |
philosophobia |
| colours |
chromophobia |
|
phobias |
phobophobia |
| comets |
cometophobia |
|
physical
injury |
traumatophobia
(see also war) |
| complex
scientific or (Greek) terms |
Hellenologophobia |
|
pins,
needles |
belonephobia |
| computers |
computerphobia |
|
places
(certain) |
topophobia
(see also performing) |
| constipation |
coprostasophobia |
|
places
(steep) |
cremnophobia |
| contagious
(being) |
tapinophobia |
|
plants |
botanophobia |
| cooking |
mageirocophobia |
|
pleasure |
hedonophobia |
| cosmic |
kosmikophobia |
|
poetry |
metrophobia |
| crossing
streets |
agiophobia |
|
pointed
objects |
aichmophobia |
| crowded
rooms |
koinoniphobia |
|
poison
or of being accidently poisoned |
toxiphobia |
| crowds |
demophobia |
|
poisons |
iophobia
(see also rust) |
| crucifixes
or crosses |
staurophobia |
|
poliomyelitis
(contracting) |
poliosophobia |
| crystals
or glass |
crystallophobia |
|
politicians
or abnormal dislike |
politicophobia |
| dampness,
liquids or moisture |
hygrophobia |
|
pope |
papaphobia |
| dancing |
chorophobia |
|
poverty |
peniaphobia |
| darkness |
nyctophobia |
|
precipices |
cremnophobia |
| dawn |
eosophobia |
|
progress |
prosophobia |
| daylight |
phengophobia |
|
property |
orthophobia |
| death,
corpses |
necrophobia |
|
|
|
| decaying
matter |
septophobia |
|
pseudo-rabies |
kynophobia
(see also rabies) |
| decisions
(making) |
decidophobia |
|
punishment |
poinephobia |
| defecation
(painful) |
defecalgesiophobia |
|
purple |
porphyrophobia |
| deformity |
dysmorphophobia |
|
rabies |
hydrophobia
(see also pseudo-rabies) |
| demons,
goblins |
bogyphobia |
|
radiation,
X-rays |
radiophobia
|
| dentists |
dentophobia |
|
railways |
siderodromophobia |
| dependence
on others |
soteriophobia |
|
rain |
ombrophobia |
| depth |
bathophobia
(see also bathing) |
|
|
|
| devils,
evil spirits |
demonophobia |
|
red |
erythrophobia
(see also blushing) |
| diabetes |
diabetophobia |
|
relatives |
syngenesophobia |
| dining,
dinner conversation |
deipnophobia |
|
religious
ceremonies |
teletophobia |
| dirt,
germs |
mysophobia |
|
reptiles
or creepy, crawly things |
herpetophobia |
| dirt
(on oneself) |
automysophobia |
|
responsibility |
hypengyophobia |
| disease |
bisiogibua |
|
ridicule |
katagelophobia |
| disease
(hereditary) |
patriophobia |
|
riding
in vehicles |
amaxophobia |
| disease,
illness |
pathophobia |
|
right-hand
side of the body (objects on) |
dextrophobia |
| disease
(particular) |
monopathophobia |
|
rivers
or running water |
potamophobia |
| disease
(rectal or rectum) |
proctophobia
or rectophobia |
|
robbers |
harpaxophobia |
| disease
(skin) |
dermatosiophobia |
|
rooms
(empty) |
kenophobia |
| dizziness
or whirlpools |
dinophobia |
|
rooms
(crowded) |
koinoniphobia |
| doctors |
iatrophobia |
|
ruin
or ruins |
atephobia |
| dogs |
cynophobia |
|
Russia,
Russian |
Russophobia |
| dolls
and children |
pedophobia |
|
rust |
iophobia
(see also poisons) |
| double
vision |
diplopiaphobia |
|
sacred
objects or priests |
hierophobia |
| draughts,
fresh air, air swallowing |
aerophobia
(see also flying) |
|
saints |
hagiophobia |
| draughts,
winds |
anemophobia |
|
Satan |
Satanophobia |
| dreams |
oneirophobia |
|
scabies |
scabiophobia |
| dreams
(wet) |
oneirogmophobia |
|
school
(of going to) |
didaskaleinophobia |
| drink
(usually alcohol) |
potophobia |
|
scientific
terms (complex) or Greek terms |
Hellenologophobia |
| drugs |
pharmacophobia |
|
scratched
(being) |
amychophobia |
| drugs
(new) |
neopharmaphobia |
|
sea |
thalassophobia |
| dryness |
xerophobia |
|
|
spermatophobia |
| dust |
amathophobia |
|
sermons |
homilophobia |
| Dutch |
dutchphobia |
|
|
|
| duty
or responsibility (neglect of) |
paralipophobia |
|
|
|
| electricity |
electrophobia |
|
|
|
| emetics,
vomiting |
emetophobia |
|
|
|
| empty
rooms/spaces or voids |
kenophobia |
|
|
|
| enclosed
spaces |
clithrophobia |
|
shadows |
sciophobia |
| England,
English |
Anglophobia |
|
shellfish |
ostraconophobia |
| everything |
panophobia |
|
shock |
hormephobia |
| evil
spirits, devils |
demonophobia |
|
sin |
hamartophobia |
| excrement |
coprophobia |
|
single
(staying) |
anuptaphobia |
| eyes |
ommatophobia |
|
sitting
down |
thaasophobia |
| eyes
(opening one's) |
optophobia |
|
sitting
still |
cathisophobia |
|
|
|
skin
lesions |
dermatophobia |
| fabrics
(particular) |
textophobia |
|
skin
disease |
dermatosiophobia |
| failure
or defeat |
kakorrhaphiophobia |
|
Slavs,
Slavic |
Slavophobia |
| fat
(becoming) |
obesophobia |
|
sleep |
somniphobia |
| fatigue |
kopophobia |
|
slime |
blennophobia |
| fear |
phobophobia |
|
small
objects |
tapinophobia |
| feathers
(tickled by) |
pteronophobia |
|
smells |
olfactophobia |
| fecal
matter |
scatophobia |
|
snakes |
ophidiophobia |
| feces |
coprophobia |
|
snow |
chionophobia |
| fever |
pyrexiphobia |
|
society
or people in general |
anthropophobia |
| figure
8 |
octophobia |
|
solitude |
autophobia |
| filth |
rhypophobia |
|
sourness |
acerophobia |
| fire |
pyrophobia |
|
space
(outer) |
spacephobia |
| firearms |
hoplophobia |
|
spaces
(enclosed) |
clithrophobia |
| fish |
chthyphobia |
|
spaces
(open) |
agoraphobia |
| flashes
of light |
selaphobia |
|
speaking |
laliohobia
or lalophobia |
| flavours |
geumophobia |
|
speaking
aloud |
phonophobia |
| floods |
antlophobia |
|
spectres |
spectrophobia |
| flowers |
anthophobia |
|
speed |
tachophobia |
| flutes |
aulophobia |
|
spiders |
arachnophobia |
| flying |
aerophobia
(see also air (fresh), draughts) |
|
stage
fright |
topophobia
(see also places (certain)) |
| fog |
homichlophobia |
|
stairs,
climbing or of falling down stairs |
climacophobia |
| food
or eating |
cibophobia |
|
standing |
stasiphobia |
| foreigners
or strangers |
xenophobia |
|
standing
and walking |
stasibasiphobia |
| forests |
hylophobia |
|
stars |
siderophobia |
| forgotten
(being), forgetting |
athazagoraphobia
(see also ignored) |
|
staying
single |
anuptaphobia |
| France,
French |
Francophobia |
|
stealing |
cleptophobia |
| freedom |
eleutherophobia |
|
stepfather |
vitricophobia |
| fresh
air, draughts |
aerophobia
(see also flying) |
|
stepmother |
novercaphobia |
| Friday
the 13th |
paraskavedekatriaphobia |
|
stooping |
kyphophobia |
| frost,
ice, extreme cold |
cryophobia |
|
stories,
myths and lying |
mythophobia |
| fur,
animal skin |
doraphobia |
|
streets
(crossing) |
agiophobia |
| gaiety |
cherohobia |
|
strings |
cnidophobia |
| garlic |
alliumphobia |
|
stuttering |
psellismophobia |
|
|
|
sunlight |
heliophobia |
| germs |
spermatophobia
or spermophobia |
|
surgery |
tomophobia |
| Germany,
Germans |
Germanophobia |
|
swallowing
or of eating or of being eaten |
phagophobia |
| ghosts |
phasmophobia |
|
symbols |
symbolophobia |
|
|
|
symmetry |
symmetrophobia |
| glass |
hyelophobia
or hyalophobia |
|
syphilis |
syphiliphobia |
| goblins,
demons |
bogyphobia |
|
taking
tests |
testophobia |
| God
or religion |
theophobia |
|
talking |
laliophobia |
| gold |
aurophobia |
|
tapeworms |
taeniophobia |
| good
news (hearing) |
euphobia |
|
taste |
geumaphobia
or geumophobia |
| gravity |
barophobia |
|
technology |
technophobia |
| Greek
(or complex scientific) terms |
Hellenologophobia |
|
teeth
and dental surgery |
odontophobia |
| hair |
chaetophobia |
|
teleology |
teleophobia |
| hair
disease |
trichinophobia |
|
telephones |
telephonophobia |
| halloween |
samhainophobia |
|
termites,
insects that eat wood |
isopterophobia |
| heart
attack |
angionophobia |
|
tests
(taking) |
testophobia |
| heart
disease |
cardiophobia |
|
tetanus
(lockjaw) |
tetanophobia |
| heat |
thermophobia |
|
theatres |
theatrophobia |
| heaven |
uranophobia |
|
theology |
theologicophobia |
| heights |
acrophobia |
|
thieves |
kleptophobia |
| hell |
hadephobia |
|
thinking |
phronemophobia |
| high
buildings |
batophobia |
|
thunder
and lightning |
keraunophobia |
| high
places (looking up at) |
anablephobia |
|
ticks,
mites |
acarophobia |
| high
places (open) |
aeroacrophobia |
|
time |
chronophobia |
| home,
house or being in a house |
domatophobia |
|
toads,
frogs |
batrachophobia |
| home
(returning to) |
nostophobia |
|
tombstones |
placophobia |
|
homophobia |
|
touching,
being touched |
aphephobia |
| horses |
hippophobia |
|
touching
money |
chrematophobia |
| hospitals |
nosocomephobia |
|
trains,
railroads or train travel |
siderodromophobia |
| hurricanes
& tornadoes |
lilapsophobia |
|
travel |
hodophobia |
| hypnotized |
hypnophobia |
|
trembling |
tremophobia |
| ice,
frost |
cryophobia |
|
trees |
dendrophobia |
| ideas |
ideophobia |
|
trichinosis |
trichinohobia |
| ignored
(being) |
athazagoraphobia |
|
tuberculosis |
phthisiophobia |
| illness,
disease |
pathophobia |
|
tyrants |
tyrannophobia |
| immobility
(of a joint) |
ankylophobia |
|
ugliness |
cacophobia |
| imperfection |
atelophobia |
|
undressing
(in front of someone) |
dishabillophobia |
| infection |
molysomophobia |
|
untidiness |
ataxiophobia |
| infinity |
apeirophobia |
|
urine
or urinating |
urophobia |
| injections |
trypanophobia |
|
vaccination,
vaccines |
vaccinophobia |
| injury
(physical) |
traumatophobia
(see also war) |
|
vegetables |
lachanophobia |
| insanity |
lyssophobia
(see also madness) |
|
vehicles,
riding in |
amaxophobia |
| insects |
entomophobia |
|
venereal
disease |
cypridophobia |
| insect
stings |
cnidophobia |
|
ventriloquist's
dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues : anything that
falsely represents a sentient being |
automatonophobia |
| itching
or of the insects that cause itching |
acarophobia |
|
vertigo
or feeling dizzy when looking down |
illyngophobia |
| Japan,
Japanese |
Japanophobia |
|
|
|
| jealousy |
zelophobia |
|
vision
(double) |
diplophobia |
| Jews,
Judaism |
Judaeophobia |
|
vomiting,
emetics |
emetophobia |
| jumping
(from both high and low places) |
jcatapedaphobia |
|
walking |
basiphobia |
| justice |
dikephobia |
|
walking
and standing |
stasibasiphobia |
|
|
|
walloons |
walloonphobia |
| knees |
genuphobia |
|
war |
traumatophobia
(see also injury (physical)) ablutophobia |
| kidney
desease |
albuminurophobia |
|
washing
oneself |
ablutophobia |
| knowledge |
epistemophobia |
|
wasps |
spheksophobia |
| lakes |
limnophobia |
|
wasting
sickness |
tabophobia |
| large
objects |
megalophobia |
|
water |
hydrophobia |
| laughter |
gelophobia |
|
waves
(sea), of wavelike motion |
cymophobia |
| lawsuits |
liticaphobia |
|
weakness
or fainting |
asthenophobia |
| learning |
sophophobia |
|
weight
(gaining) |
obesophobia
or pocrescophobia |
| lefthanded,
things to the left |
sinistrophobia |
|
wealth |
plutophobia |
| left
hand side of the body (objects on) |
levophobia |
|
white
(colour) |
leukophobia |
| leprosy |
leprophobia |
|
wine |
oenophobia |
| lice |
pediculophobia |
|
witches
and witchcraft |
wiccaphobia |
| light |
photophobia |
|
women |
gynaephobia |
| light
(flashes of) |
selaphobia |
|
women
(beautiful) |
venustaphobia |
| lightning |
astraphobia |
|
woods |
hylephobia
(see also materialism) |
| lights
(glaring) |
photaugiophobia |
|
wooden
objects |
xylophobia |
| lights
(northern) |
auroraphobia |
|
work
or functioning/surgeon's fear of operating |
ergasiophobia |
| locked
in (being), confined spaces |
claustrophobia |
|
worms |
scoleciphobia |
| long
waits |
macrophobia |
|
worms
(being infested with) |
helminthophobia |
| looked
at (being) |
scopophobia |
|
wrinkles
(getting) |
rhytiphobia |
| love
(falling or being in) |
philophobia |
|
writing |
graphophobia |
| love
play |
malaxophobia
(sarmassophobia) |
|
writing
(in public) |
scriptophobia |
| lying,
myths and stories |
mythophobia |
|
wrongdoing |
peccatiphobia |
