LIST OF PHOBIAS

CA Madhukiran Reddy (CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT) (12714 Points)

25 August 2010  

 

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

Monophobia

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 s*x

s*xophobia

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

flaashes 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 (flaashes 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)

scriptttophobia

lying, myths and stories

mythophobia

 

wrongdoing

peccatiphobia

 

 

 

X-rays, radiation

radiophobia

 

 

yellow (colour or the word)

xanthophobia

 

 

 

 

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