LIST OF PHOBIAS

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)

scripttophobia

lying, myths and stories

mythophobia

wrongdoing

peccatiphobia

X-rays, radiation

radiophobia

yellow (colour or the word)

xanthophobia