Phobia Dictionary - a list of Phobia Names and Definitions

 

The following Phobia directory was collated from several sources across the internet. Whether your phobia is listed here or not I believe that here at PlanetNLP I have a cure for you.

Read the article Weird Phobias - how do you cure a strange or unusual phobia? for an explanation why, and to start the journey towards curing your phobia read the articles NLP for Phobias - Can you cure a phobia with NLP? and NLP Phobia Cure - how do I use NLP to cure a Phobia?

To cure a phobia use the NLP Fast Phobia Cure.

In the meantime, here is the Phobia Directory:

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A

  • Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing.
  • Acarophobia - Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
  • Acerophobia - Fear of sourness.
  • Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.
  • Achluophobia (also Lygophobia, Nyctophobia, Scotophobia) - Fear of darkness.
  • Acousticophobia - Fear of noise.
  • Acrophobia (also Altophobia) - Fear of heights.
  • Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places.
  • Aeronausiphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
  • Aerophobia - Fear of drafts, air swallowing or airborne noxious substances.
  • Agateophobia (also Dementophobia, Maniaphobia) - Fear of insanity.
  • Agliophobia (also Algophobia, Odynophobia, Odynephobia) - Fear of pain.
  • Agoraphobia - Fear of the outdoors, crowds or uncontrolled social conditions. Fear of leaving a safe place.
  • Agraphobia (also Contreltophobia) - Fear of sexual abuse.
  • Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals.
  • Agyrophobia (also Dromophobia) - Fear of streets or crossing the street.
  • Aibohphobia - Fear of palindromes.
  • Aichmophobia (also Belonephobia, Enetophobia) - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
  • Ailurophobia (also Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia) - Fear of cats.
  • Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease.
  • Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
  • Algophobia - Fear of pain.
  • Alliumphobia - Fear of garlic.
  • Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.
  • Altophobia - Fear of heights.
  • Amathophobia (also Koniophobia) - Fear of dust.
  • Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
  • Ambulophobia (also Stasibasiphobia, Stasiphobia) - Fear of walking or standing.
  • Amerophobia (also Columbophobia) - Fear of the United States, American culture.
  • Amnesiphobia - Fear of amnesia.
  • Amychophobia - Fear of scratches or being scratched.
  • Anablephobia - Fear of looking up.
  • Ancraophobia (also Anemophobia) - Fear of wind.
  • Androphobia (also Arrhenphobia, Hominophobia) - Fear of men.
  • Anemophobia - Fear of air drafts or wind.
  • Anginophobia - Fear of angina, choking of narrowness.
  • Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture.
  • Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
  • Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint.
  • Anthrophobia (also Anthophobia) - Fear of flowers.
  • Anthropophobia - Fear of people of society.
  • Antlophobia - Fear of floods.
  • Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single.
  • Apeirophobia - Fear of infinity.
  • Aphenphosmphobia (also Chiraptophobia, Haphephobia, Haptephobia) - Fear of being touched.
  • Apiphobia (also Melissaphobia, Melissophobia) - Fear of bees.
  • Apotemnophobia - Fear of persons with amputations.
  • Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
  • Arachnophobiba - Fear of spiders.
  • Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
  • Arrhenophobia - Fear of men.
  • Arsonphobia (also Pyrophobia) - Fear of fire.
  • Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness.
  • Astraphobia (also Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia) - Fear of thunder and lightning.
  • Astrophobia - Fear of stars and celestial space.
  • Asymmetriphobia - Fear of asymmetry.
  • Ataxiophobia - Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination).
  • Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
  • Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
  • Atephobia - Fear of ruin or ruins.
  • Athazagoraphobia - Fear of being forgotten, ignored or forgetting.
  • Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions.
  • Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
  • Aulophobia - Fear of flutes.
  • Aurophobia - Fear of gold.
  • Auroraphobia - Fear of Northern Lights.
  • Australophobia (also Novahollandiaphobia) - Fear of Australia, Australians, Australian culture.
  • Autodysomophobia - Fear that one has a vile odour.
  • Automatonophobia - Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
  • Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty.
  • Autophobia - Fear of being alone or of oneself.
  • Aviophobia (also Aviatophobia) - Fear of flying.

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B

  • Bacillophobia (also Microbiophobia) - Fear of microbes.
  • Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
  • Balenephobia - Fear of pins and needles.
  • Ballistophobia - Fear of missiles or bullets.
  • Bananaphobia - Fear of bananas.
  • Barleyphobia - Fear of barley.
  • Barophobia - Fear of gravity/Loss of gravity.
  • Basophobia (also Basiphobia) - Fear of walking or falling, or an inability to stand.
  • Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
  • Bathophobia - Fear of depth.
  • Batonophobia - Fear of plants.
  • Batophobia - Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
  • Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
  • Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles.
  • Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
  • Blennophobia (also Myxophobia) - Fear of slime.
  • Bogyphobia - Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
  • Bolshephobia - Fear of Bolsheviks.
  • Botanophobia - Fear of plants.
  • Briophobia- Fear of the human foot.
  • Bromidrosiphobia (also Bromidrophobia) - Fear of body odours.
  • Brontophobia (also Tonitrophobia) - Fear of thunder.
  • Bufonophobia - Fear of toads.

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C

  • Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
  • Cainophobia (also Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia, Neophobia) - Fear of newness, novelty.
  • Caligynephobia (also Venustraphobia) - Fear of beautiful women.
  • Cancerophobia (also Carcinophobia) - Fear of cancer.
  • Carbophobia - Fear of carbohydrates.
  • Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer.
  • Cardiophobia - Fear of heart disease.
  • Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart.
  • Carnophobia - Fear of meat.
  • Catagelophobia (also Katagelophobia) - Fear of being ridiculed.
  • Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places.
  • Cathisophobia (Kathisophobia, Thaasophobia) - Fear of sitting.
  • Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
  • Cenophobia (also Centophobia) - Fear of new things or ideas.
  • Ceraunophobia - Fear of thunder.
  • Chaetophobia (also Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, Hypertrichophobia) - Fear of hair.
  • Cheimaphobia (also Cheimatophobia) - Fear of cold.
  • Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
  • Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety.
  • Chinophobia - Fear of Chinese people, Chinese customs
  • Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
  • Chiraptophobia - Fear of being touched.
  • Chirophobia - Fear of hands.
  • Chiroptophobia- Fear of bats.
  • Chlorophobia - Fear of the colour green.
  • Cholerophobia - Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
  • Chorophobia - Fear of dancing.
  • Christophobia - Fear of Christianity
  • Chromatophobia - Fear of colors.
  • Chrometophobia (also Chrematophobia) - Fear of money.
  • Chromophobia (also Chromatophobia) - Fear of colors.
  • Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
  • Chronophobia - Fear of time.
  • Chrysophobia - Fear or the color orange.
  • Cibophobia (also Sitophobia, Sitiophobia) - Fear of food.
  • Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
  • Cleithrophobia (also Cleisiophobia) - Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
  • Cleptophobia (also Kleptophobia) - Fear of stealing.
  • Climacophobia - Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs.
  • Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed.
  • Clithrophobia (also Cleithrophobia) - Fear of being enclosed.
  • Cnidophobia - Fear of stings.
  • Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries.
  • Coitophobia (also Genophobia) - Fear of coitus.
  • Cometophobia - Fear of comets.
  • Consecotaleophobia - Fear of chopsticks.
  • Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse.
  • Coprastasophobia - Fear of constipation.
  • Coprophobia (also Scatophobia) - Fear of feces.
  • Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
  • Counterphobia - The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
  • Cremnophobia - Fear of precipices.
  • Cryophobia - Fear fo extreme cold, ice or frost.
  • Crystallophobia - Fear of crystals or glass.
  • Cyanophobia - Fear of the colour blue.
  • Cyberphobia (also Logizomechanophobia) - Fear of computers or working on a computer.
  • Cyclophobia - Fear of bicycles.
  • Cymophobia (also Kymophobia) - Fear of waves or wave-like motions.
  • Cynophobia - Fear of dogs or rabies.
  • Cypridophobia (also Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, Cyprinophobia) - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.

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D

  • Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions.
  • Defecaloesiophobia - Fear of painful bowel movements.
  • Deipnophobia - Fear of dining and dinner conversation.
  • Dematophobia - Fear of skin lesions.
  • Dementophobia - Fear of insanity.
  • Demonophobia (also Daemonophobia) - Fear of demons.
  • Demophobia (also Enochlophobia, Ochlophobia) - Fear of crowds.
  • Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
  • Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.
  • Dermatophathophobia - Fear of skin disease.
  • Dermatophobia - Fear of skin lesions.
  • Dermatosiophobia - Fear of skin disease.
  • Dextrophobia - Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
  • Diabetophobia - Fear of diabetes.
  • Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of going to school.
  • Diderodromophobia - Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
  • Dikephobia - Fear of justice.
  • Dinophobia - Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
  • Diplophobia - Fear of double vision.
  • Dipsophobia - Fear of drinking.
  • Dishabiliophobia - Fear of undressing in front of someone.
  • Domatophobia (also Eicophobia, Oikophobia) - Fear of houses or being in a house.
  • Doraphobia - Fear of fur or the skins of animals.
  • Doxophobia - Fear of expressing opinions or receiving praise.
  • Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets.
  • Dutchphobia - Fear of the Dutch.
  • Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity.
  • Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.

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E

  • Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church.
  • Ecophobia - Fear of home.
  • Editophobia - Fear of being edited or deleted.
  • Eicophobia - Fear of home surroundings.
  • Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
  • Electrophobia - Fear of electricity.
  • Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom.
  • Elurophobia - Fear of cats.
  • Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting.
  • Enetophobia - Fear of pins.
  • Enochlophobia - Fear of crowds.
  • Enosiophobia (also Enissophobia) - Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
  • Entomophobia - Fear of insects.
  • Entomophobia, Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
  • Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or daylight.
  • Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.
  • Epistaxiophobia - Fear of nosebleeds.
  • Epistemophobia (also Gnosiophobia) - Fear of knowledge.
  • Epistolophobia - Fear of writing letters
  • Equinophobia (also Hippophobia) - Fear of horses.
  • Eremophobia - Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
  • Ereuthrophobia (also Erythrophobia, Erytophobia) - Fear of blushing, red lights, or the colour red.
  • Ergasiophobia - Fear of work or functioning. Surgeon's fear of operating.
  • Ergophobia - Fear of work.
  • Ermitophobia - Fear of being alone, loneliness.
  • Erotophobia - Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
  • Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.
  • Europhobia - Fear of Europe, Europeans, or alternatively, the European Union.
  • Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia.

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F

  • Fearaphobia (also Fearophobia) - fear of developing fears
  • Febriphobia (also Fibriphobia, Fibriophobia, Pyrexiophobia) - Fear of fever.
  • Felinophobia (also Galeophobia, Gatophobi) - Fear of cats.
  • Ferrumphobia - Fear of Iron and objects made of iron.
  • Francophobia (also Gallophobia, Galiophobia) - Fear of France, French culture.
  • Frigophobia - Fear of very cold objects.

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G

  • Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.
  • Geliophobia - Fear of laughter.
  • Gelotophobia- Fear of being laughed at.
  • Geniophobia - Fear of chins.
  • Genophobia - Fear of sex.
  • Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
  • Gephyrophobia (also Gephydrophobia, Gephyrdrophobia, Gephysrophobia) - Fear of crossing bridges.
  • Gerascophobia - Fear of growing old.
  • Germanophobia (also Teutophobia) - Fear of Germany, German culture.
  • /Gerontophobia - Fear of old people or of growing old.
  • Geumaphobia (also Geumophobia) - Fear of taste.
  • Globophobia - Fear of balloons
  • Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
  • Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
  • Graphophobia - Fear of writing or handwriting.
  • Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity.
  • Gynephobia (also Gynophobia) - Fear of women.

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H

  • Hadephobia (also Stygiophobia, Stigiophobia) - Fear of hell.
  • Haemophobia - Fear of blood and bleeding.
  • Hagiophobia - Fear of saints or holy things.
  • Hamartophobia (also Peccatophobia) - Fear of sinning.
  • Haphephobia (also Haptephobia) - Fear of being touched.
  • Haptephobia - Fear of being touched.
  • Harpaxophobia - Fear of being robbed.
  • Hedonophobia - Fear of feeling pleasure.
  • Hegelophobia - Fear of Hegel.
  • Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
  • Hellenologophobia - Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
  • Helminthophobia - Fear of being infested with worms.
  • Hemophobia (also Hemaphobia, Hematophobia) - Fear of blood or bleeding.
  • Heresyphobia (also Hereiophobia) - Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
  • Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.
  • Heterophobia (also Sexophobia) - Fear of the opposite sex.
  • Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666.
  • Hierophobia - Fear of priest or sacred things.
  • Hippophobia - Fear of horses.
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (also Sesquipedalophobia) - Fear of long words.
  • Hobophobia - Fear of bums or beggars.
  • Hodophobia - Fear of road travel.
  • Homichlophobia (also Nebulaphobia) - Fear of fog.
  • Homilophobia - Fear of sermons.
  • Hominophobia - Fear of men.
  • Homophobia - Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
  • Hoplophobia - Fear of firearms.
  • Hormephobia - Fear of shock.
  • Hydrargyophobia - Fear of mercuial medicines.
  • Hydrophobia - Fear of water of of rabies.
  • Hydrophobophobia (also Kynophobia) - Fear of rabies.
  • Hyelophobia (also Hyalophobia, Nelophobia) - Fear of glass.
  • Hygrophobia - Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
  • Hylephobia - Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
  • Hylophobia - Fear of forests.
  • Hynophobia - Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
  • Hypengyophobia (also Hypegiaphobia) - Fear of responsibility.
  • Hypertrichophobia - Fear of hair.
  • Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
  • Hypsiphobia - Fear of height.

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I

  • Iatrophobia - Fear of going to the doctor or doctors.
  • Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish.
  • Iconophobia - Fear of images or icons.
  • Ideophobia - Fear of ideas.
  • Illyngophobia - Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
  • Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
  • Insulaphobia - Fear of being isolated, or alternatively, fear of islands
  • Iophobia - Fear of poison.
  • Islamophobia - Fear of Islam.
  • Islandophobia - Fear of Iceland, Icelandic culture.
  • Isolophobia - Fear of solitude, being alone.
  • Isopterophobia - Fear of termites or other insects that eat wood.
  • Ithyphallophobia - Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

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J

  • Japanophobia (also Nipponophobia) - Fear of the Japanese.
  • Judeophobia - Fear of Jews.

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K

  • Kainolophobia (also Kainophobia) Fear of anything new, novelty.
  • Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure or defeat.
  • Katagelophobia - Fear of ridicule.
  • Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down.
  • Katikomindicaphobia - Fear of the RNI (Resident Non-Indian).
  • Katsaridaphobia- Fear of cockroaches.
  • Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces.
  • Keraunophobia (also Ceraunophobia) - Fear of thunder and lightning.
  • Kinetophobia (also Kinesophobia) - Fear of movement or motion.
  • Kleptophobia - Fear of movement or motion.
  • Klismaphobia - Fear of Enemas.
  • Kneemaphobia - Fear of the knee bending backwards.
  • Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.
  • Kolpophobia - Fear of genitals, particularly female.
  • Koniophobia - Fear of dust.
  • Kopophobia - Fear of fatigue.
  • Kosmikophobi - Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
  • Kymophobia - Fear of waves.
  • Kynophobia - Fear of rabies.
  • Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping.

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L

  • Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables.
  • Laliophobia (also Lalophobia) - Fear of speaking.
  • Lalophobia - Fear of speaking.
  • Leprophobia (also Lepraphobia) - Fear of leprosy.
  • Leukophobia - Fear of the color white.
  • Levophobia - Fear of things to the left side of the body.
  • Librophobia - Fear of having to balance.
  • Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises.
  • Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
  • Limnophobia - Fear of lakes.
  • Linonophobia - Fear of string.
  • Liticaphobia - Fear of lawsuits.
  • Lockiophobia - Fear fo childbirth.
  • Logizomechanophobia - Fear of computers.
  • Logophobia - Fear of words.
  • Luiphobia - Fear of lues, syphillis.
  • Lutraphobia - Fear of otters.
  • Lygophobia - Fear of darkness.
  • Lysssophobia - Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.

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M

  • Macrophobia - Fear of long waits.
  • Macroxenoglossophobia - Fear of long, strange words.
  • Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
  • Maieusiophobia - Fear of childbirth.
  • Malaxophobia (also Sarmassophobia) - Fear of love play.
  • Maniaphobia - Fear of insanity.
  • Mastigophobia (also Poinephobia) - Fear of punishment.
  • Mechanophobia - Fear of machines.
  • Medomalacuphobia - Fear of losing an erection.
  • Medorthophobia - Fear of an erect penis.
  • Megalophobia - Fear of large objects.
  • Melanophobia - Fear of the color black.
  • Melissophobia - Fear of bees.
  • Melophobia - Fear of hatred or music.
  • Meningitiophobia - Fear of brain disease.
  • Menophobia - Fear of menstruation.
  • Merinthophobia - Fear of being bound or tied up.
  • Mertophobia - Fear or hatred of poetry.
  • Metallophobia - Fear of metal.
  • Metathesiophobia - Fear of changes.
  • Meteorophobia - Fear of meteors.
  • Methyphobia (also Potophobia) - Fear of alcohol.
  • Metrophobia - Fear or hatred of poetry.
  • Microbiophobia - Fear of microbes.
  • Microphobia (also Mycrophobia) - Fear of small objects.
  • Misophobia - Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
  • Misophobia (also Molysmophobia, Molysomophobia, Mysophobia, Verminophobia) - Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
  • Mnemophobia - Fear of memories.
  • Monopathophobia - Fear of a specific disease.
  • Monophobia - Fear of being alone, or of feeling alone.
  • Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles.
  • Mottephobia - Fear of moths.
  • Musicophobia - Fear of music.
  • Musophobia (also Murophobia, Suriphobia) - Fear of mice and/or rats.
  • Mycophobia - Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
  • Mycrophobia - Fear of small things.
  • Myctophobia - Fear of darkness.
  • Myrmecophobia - Fear of ants.
  • Mysophobia - Fear of dirt.
  • Mysophobia - Fear of germs or contamination or dirt.
  • Mythophobia - Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
  • Myxophobia - Fear of slime.

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N

  • Namatophobia - Fear of names.
  • Nebulaphobia - Fear of fog.
  • Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
  • Nelophobia - Fear of glass.
  • Neopharmaphobia - Fear of new drugs.
  • Neophobia - Fear of the new.
  • Nephophobia - Fear of clouds.
  • Nihilophobia - Fear of (absolutely) nothing.
  • Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.
  • Nomatophobia - Fear of names.
  • Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.
  • Nosophobia (also Nosemaphobia) - Fear of becoming ill.
  • Nostophobia - Fear of returning home.
  • Novercaphobia - Fear of one's stepmother.
  • Nucleomituphobia - Fear of nuclear weapons.
  • Nudophobia - Fear of nudity.
  • Numerophobia - Fear of numbers.
  • Nyctohylophobia - Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night
  • Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark, of night, or of nightfall.

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O

  • Obesophobia (also Pocrescophobia) - Fear of gaining weight.
  • Ochlophobia - Fear of crowds or mobs.
  • Ochophobia - Fear of vehicles.
  • Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
  • Odontophobia - Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
  • Odynephobia - Fear of pain.
  • Oenophobia - Fear of wine.
  • Oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings, house.
  • Olfactophobia (also Osmophobia, Osphresiophobia) - Fear of smells.
  • Ombrophobia (also Pluviophobia) - Fear of rain or of being rained on.
  • Ommetaphobia (also Ommatophobia) - Fear of eyes.
  • Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons.
  • Oneirogmophobia - Fear of wet dreams.
  • Oneirophobia - Fear of dreams.
  • Onomatophobia - Fear of hearing a certain word or names.
  • Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes.
  • Ophthalmophobia - Fear of being stared at.
  • Opiophobia - a medical doctor's fear of prescribing pain medications for patients.
  • Opthalmophobia - Fear of being stared at.
  • Optophobia - Fear of opening one's eyes.
  • Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.
  • Orthophobia - Fear of property.
  • Osmophobia (also Osphresiophobia) - Fear of smells or odors.
  • Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish.
  • Ouranophobia (Uranophobia) - Fear of heaven.

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P

  • Pagophobia - Fear of ice or frost.
  • Panophobia (also Pantophobia) - Fear of everything.
  • Panthophobia - Fear of suffering and disease.
  • Pantophobia - Fear of everything.
  • Papaphobia - Fear of the Pope.
  • Papyrophobia - Fear of paper.
  • Paralipophobia - Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
  • Paraphobia - Fear of sexual perversion.
  • Parasitophobia - Fear of parasites.
  • Paraskavedekatriaphobia - Fear of Friday the 13th.
  • Parthenophobia - Fear of virgins or young girls.
  • Parturiphobia - Fear of childbirth.
  • Pathophobia - Fear of disease.
  • Patroiophobia - Fear of heredity.
  • Peccatophobia - Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
  • Pediculophobia (also Phthiriophobia) - Fear of lice.
  • Pediophobia - Fear of dolls.
  • Pediphobia (also Pedophobia) - Fear of children.
  • Peladophobia - Fear of bald people.
  • Pellagrophobia - Fear of pellagra.
  • Peniaphobia - Fear of poverty.
  • Pentheraphobia - Fear of mother-in-law.
  • Phagophobia - Fear of swallowing or eating or of being eaten.
  • Phalacrophobia - Fear of becoming bald.
  • Phallophobia - Fear of a penis, esp. erect.
  • Pharmacophobia - Fear of drugs, taking medicine
  • Phasmophobia (also Spectrophobia) - Fear of ghosts.
  • Phengophobia - Fear of daylight or sunshine.
  • Philemaphobia (also Philematophobia) - Fear of kissing.
  • Philophobia - Fear of falling in love or being in love.
  • Philosophobia - Fear of philosophy.
  • Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.
  • Phonophobia - Fear of noises, voices, one's own voice or of telephones.
  • Photoaugliaphobia - Fear of glaring lights.
  • Photophobia - Fear of light.
  • Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking.
  • Phthiriophobia - Fear of lice.
  • Phthisiophobia - Fear of tuberculosis.
  • Placophobia - Fear of tombstones.
  • Plutophobia - Fear of wealth.
  • Pluviophobia - Fear of rain or of being rained on.
  • Pneumatiphobia - Fear of spirits.
  • Pnigophobia (also Pnigerophobia) - Fear of choking or being smothered.
  • Pnumonomicroscopicsilicovolcanocoviosophobia - Fear of a lung desease caused by coal dust
  • Pocrescophobia - Fear of gaining weight.
  • Pogonophobia (also Pognophobia) - Fear of beards.
  • Poinephobia - Fear of punishment.
  • Poliosophobia - Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
  • Politicophobia - Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
  • Polyphobia - Fear of many things.
  • Ponophobia - Fear of overworking or of pain.
  • Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple.
  • Potamophobia - Fear of rivers or running water.
  • Potophobia - Fear of alcohol.
  • Proctophobia - Fear or rectum.
  • Prosophobia - Fear of progress.
  • Psellismophobia - Fear of stuttering.
  • Psychophobia - Fear of mind.
  • Psychrophobia - Fear of cold.
  • Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.
  • Pteronophobia - Fear of being tickled by feathers.
  • Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
  • Pyrexiophobia - Fear of fever.
  • Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.

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Q

  • Quadraphobia - Fear of quartets or of being drawn and quartered
  • Quadrataphobia - Fear of quadratic equations

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R

  • Radiophobia - Fear of radiation or X-rays.
  • Ranidaphobia - Fear of frogs.
  • Rectophobia - Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
  • Retterophobia - Fear of wrongly chosen letters.
  • Rhabdophobia - Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.
  • Rhinophobia - Fear of noses.
  • Rhodophobia - Fear of the colour red.
  • Rhypophobia - Fear of defecation.
  • Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles.
  • Rupophobia - Fear of dirt.
  • Russophobia - Fear of Russians.

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S

  • Samhainophobia - Fear of Halloween.
  • Sarmassophobia - Fear of love play.
  • Satanophobia - Fear of Satin.
  • Scabiophobia - Fear of scabies.
  • Scatophobia - Fear of fecal matter.
  • Scelerophibia - Fear of bad men, burglars.
  • Sciophobia (also Sciaphobia) - Fear of shadows.
  • Scoionophobia - Fear of school.
  • Scoleciphobia (also Vermiphobia) - Fear of worms.
  • Scolionophobia - Fear of school.
  • Scopophobia - Fear of being seen or stared at.
  • Scopophobia (also Scoptophobia) - Fear of being seen or stared at.
  • Scotomaphobia - Fear of blindness in visual field.
  • Scotophobia - Fear of darkness.
  • Scriptophobia - Fear of writing in public.
  • Sedatephobia - Fear of silence.
  • 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 opposit sex.
  • Siderodromophobia - Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
  • Siderophobia - Fear of stars.
  • Sinistrophobia - Fear of things to the left, left-handed.
  • Sinophobia - Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
  • Sitiophobia - Fear of food or eating.
  • Snakephobia - Fear of snakes.
  • Soceraphobia - Fear of parents-in-law.
  • Social Phobia - Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
  • Sociophobia - Fear of society or people in general.
  • Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.
  • Sophophobia - Fear of learning.
  • Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others.
  • Spacephobia - Fear of outer space.
  • Spectrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
  • Spectrophobia - Fear of specters or ghosts.
  • Spermatophobia (also Spermophobia) - Fear of germs.
  • Spermophobia - Fear of germs.
  • Spheksophobia - Fear of wasps.
  • Stasibasiphobia (also Stasiphobia) - Fear of standing or walking.
  • Staurophobia - Fear of crosses or crucifixes.
  • Stenophobia - Fear of narrow things or places.
  • Stygiophobia (also Stigiophobia) - Fear of hell.
  • Suriphobia - Fear of mice.
  • Symbolophobia - Fear of symbolism.
  • Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry.
  • Syngenesophobia - Fear of relatives.
  • Syphiliphobia - Fear of syphilis.

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T

  • Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
  • Taeniophobia (also Teniophobia) - Fear of tapeworms.
  • Taphephobia (also Taphophobia) - Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
  • Tapinophobia - Fear of being contagious.
  • Taurophobia - Fear of bulls.
  • Technophobia - Fear of technology.
  • Teleophobia - Fear of definite plans or of religious ceremony.
  • Telephonophobia - Fear of telephones.
  • Teniophobia - Fear of tapeworms.
  • Teratophobia - Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.
  • Teratrophobia - Fear of monsters.
  • Testophobia - Fear of taking tests.
  • Tetanophobia - Fear of lockjaw, tetnus.
  • Teutophobia - Fear of German or German things.
  • Textophobia - Fear of certain fabrics.
  • Thaasophobia - Fear of sitting.
  • Thalassophobia - Fear of the sea.
  • Thanatophobia (also Thantophobia) - Fear of death or dying.
  • 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.
  • Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.
  • Tonsurephobia - Fear of haircuts.
  • Topophobia - Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
  • Toxiphobia (also Toxophobia, Toxicophobia) - Fear of poison or of being accidentally poisoned.
  • Traumatophobia - Fear of injury.
  • Tremophobia - Fear of trembling.
  • Trichinophobia - Fear of trichinosis.
  • Trichopathophobia (also Trichophobia) - Fear of hair.
  • Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the number 13.
  • Tropophobia - Fear of moving or making changes.
  • Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.
  • Tuberculophobia - Fear of tuberculosis.
  • Tyrannophobia - Fear of tyrants.

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U

  • Uranophobia (also Ouranophobia) - Fear of heaven.
  • Urophobia - Fear of urine or urinating.

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V

  • Vaccinophobia - Fear of vaccination.
  • Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
  • Verbophobia - Fear of words.
  • Verminophobia - Fear of germs.
  • Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing.
  • Virginitiphobia - Fear of rape.
  • Vitricophobia - Fear of one's stepfather.

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W

  • Walloonphobia - Fear of the Walloon people or their languages.
  • Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft.

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X

  • Xanthophobia - Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
  • Xenoglossophobia - Fear of foreign languages.
  • Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners.
  • Xerophobia - Fear of dryness.
  • Xylophobia - Fear of wooden objects or fear of forests.
  • Xyrophobia - Fear of razors.

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Y

  • Ymophobia - Fear of contrariety.

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Z

  • Zelophobia - Fear of jelousy.
  • Zemmiphobia - Fear of the great mole rat.
  • Zeusophobia - Fear of God or gods.
  • Zoophobia - Fear of animals.

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