Phobia : Name it!

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


X-rays, radiation
radiophobia


yellow (colour or the word)
xanthophobia

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