N.O.R.F Posted April 24, 2007 Fears & Phobias: A to Z Here's a list of some of the most popular and unusual phobias: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top A Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing Acarophobia - Fear of small objects Achluophobia - Fear of darkness (also known as Lygophobia and Nyctophobia) Acousticophobia - Fear of noise Acrophobia - Fear of heights (also known as Altophobia) Aelurophobia - Fear of cats (also known as Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia and Galeophobia) Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open, high places Aeronausiphobia - Fear of airplanes; vomiting due to airsickness Aerophagia - Fear of swallowing air Aerophobia - Fear of air, drafts, gases, and harmful fumes Agoraphobia - Fear of the outdoors and open spaces Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse (also known as Contreltophobia) Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals Aichmophobia - Fear of needles and pins (also know as Belonophobia) Aichurophobia - Fear of being touched by pointed objects Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease Alchyiphobia - Fear of failure Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens Algophobia - Fear of pain (also know as Odynophobia ) Alinunphobia - Fear of garlic Allodoxophobia - Fear of opinions Amathophobia - Fear of dust Amnesiphoia - Fear of amnesia Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in vehicles Ambulophobia - Fear of walking Amychophobia - Fear of being scratched Androphobia - Fear of men (also known as Arrhenphobia and Hominophobia) Anglophobia - Fear of England, the English language, or the English culture Anthophobia - Fear of flowers Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched Apiphobia - Fear of bees Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers Asthenaphobia - Fear of weakness Ataxiophobia - Fear of disorder Aurophobia - Fear of gold Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty Autophobia - Fear of being alone or of oneself (also known as Eremiphobia, Eremophobia and Monophobia) Aviatophobia - Fear of flying A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top B Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria Ballistrophobia - Fear of being shot Barophobia - Fear of gravity Basophobia - Fear of standing (also known as Stasiphobia) Bathophobia - Fear of depth Batophobia - Fear of being close to high buildings Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, etc. Bibliophobia - Fear of books Blenophobia - Fear of pins and needles Blenuophobia - Fear of slime Bogyphobia - Fear of demons and goblins Botonophobia - Fear of plants Bromidrosiphobia - Fear of body smells (also known as Osphresiophobia) Brontophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top C Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness Cainophobia - Fear of novelty Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women (also known as Venustaphobia) Cancerophobia - Fear of cancer Cardiophobia - Fear of heart disease Carnophobia - Fear of meat Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed Catapedophobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting Catophtrophobia - Fear of mirrors Cheimaphobia - Fear of the cold, being cold, cold things, or of cold air Cherophobia - Fear of happiness Chionophobia - Fear of snow Chiraptophobia - Fear of being touched Chorophobia - Fear of dancing Chrematophobia - Fear of wealth Chromophobia - Fear of colours Chronophobia - Fear of time Cibophobia - Fear of food Claustrophobia - Fear of enclosed/confined spaces Cleptophobia - Fear of stealing Climacophobia - Fear of staircases Clinophobia - Fear of beds or going to bed Coitophobia - Fear of coitus Coprophobia - Fear of excrement/feaces (Also known as Scatophobia) Cremnophobia - Fear of precipices Crystallophobia - Fear of glass Cybergphobia - Fear of computers Cyclophobia - Fear of bicycles Cynophobia - Fear of dogs or rabies Cyprianophobia - Fear of prostitutes or sexually transmitted diseases (also known as Cypridophobia) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top D Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions Dementophobia - Fear of insanity (also known as Maniaphobia) Demophobia - Fear of crowds Dendrophobia - Fear of trees Dentophobia - Fear of dentists Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of going to school Dikephobia - Fear of justice Diplopiaphobia - Fear of double vision Diplychiphobia - Fear of accidents Dipsophobia - Fear of drinking Dishabillophobia - Fear of undressing in front of someone Domatophobia - Fear of being in a house Doraphobia - Fear of animal skins Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top E Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church Ecophobia - Fear of home Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors, or of seeing yourself in a mirror Electrophobia - Fear of electricity Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting Enissophobia - Fear of sin Enochlophobia - Fear of crowds Entomophobia - Fear of insects Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or daylight (also known as Esophobia) Epistaxiophobia - Fear of nosebleeds Equinophobia - Fear of horses Ergasophobia - Fear of work Erotophobia - Fear of sexual feelings Ereuthrophobia - Fear of blushing or the colour red (also known as Erythrophobia and Erytophobia) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top F Febriphobia - Fear of fever Frigophobia - Fear of the cold, or cold things A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top G Gallophobia - Fear of France/French, etc. Gamophobia - Fear of marriage Gatophobia - Fear of cats Geliophobia - Fear of laughter Geniophobia - Fear of chins Genophobia - Fear of sex Genuphobia - Fear of knees Gephyrophobia - Fear of bridges Gerascophobia - Fear of growing old Germanophobia - Fear of Germany/Germans, etc. Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public Graphophobia - Fear of writing Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity Gynophobia - Fear of women A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top H Hadephobia - Fear of hell Hagiophobia - Fear of saints and the holy Halophobia - Fear of speaking Hamatophobia - Fear of error or sin Haphephobia - Fear of being touched Harbaxophobia - Fear of being robbed Hedonophobia - Fear of feeling pleasure Heliophobia - Fear of sunlight Hellenologophobia - Fear of Greek terms Helminthophobia - Fear of worms Hemophobia - Fear of blood (also known as Hematophobia) Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles Heterophobia - Fear of the opposite sex (also known as Sexophobia) Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words! Hodophobia - Fear of travel Homichlophobia - Fear of fog Homilophobia - Fear of sermons Homophobia - Fear of homosexuality Hoplophobia - Fear of firearms Hormephobia - Fear of shock Hydrophobia - Fear of water Hydrophobophobia - Fear of rabies Hygrophobia - Fear of dampness, or of humidity Hylephobia - Fear of epilepsy Hylophobia - Fear of forests Hypengyophobia - Fear of responsibility (also known as Paralipophobia) Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep, or of being hypnotised A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top I Iatrophobia - Fear of going to the doctor, or of doctors Icthyophobia - Fear of fish Insectophobia - Fear of insects Iophobia - Fear of poisons or rust Isolophobia - Fear of solitude Isopterophobia - Fear of termites A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top J None we could find. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top K Kainophobia - Fear of anything new Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure or defeat Kenophobia - Fear of large, empty spaces Kinesophobia - Fear of motion Kopophobia - Fear of mental or physical examination Kymophobia - Fear of waves Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top L Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables Laliophobia - Fear of talking/speaking Lenkophobia - Fear of the colour white Lepraphobia - Fear of leprosy Levophobia - Fear of things at the left side of the body Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoe and hurricanes Limnophobia - Fear of lakes Linonaphobia - Fear of string Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth (also known as Maieusiophobia, Parturiphobia and Tocophobia) Lyssophobia - Fear of going insane A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top M Macrophobia - Fear of long waits Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking Mehalophobia - Fear of large things Melissophobia - Fear of bees or insects Meningitophobia - Fear of brain disease Merinthophobia - Fear of being bound Metallophobia - Fear of metals Methyphobia - Fear of alcohol Metrophobia - Fear of poetry Mnemophobia - Fear of memories Molysomophobia - Fear of infection Monophobia - Fear of being alone Motorphobia - Fear of motor vehicles Murophobia - Fear of mice Musicophobia - Fear of music Myrecophobia - Fear of ants A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top N Necrophobia - Fear of corpses Nephophobia - Fear of clouds Noctiphobia - Fear of night Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals Nosophobia - Fear of becoming ill Novercaphobia - Fear of stepmothers Nucleomitophobia - Fear of nuclear weapons A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top O Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight Ochlophobia - Fear of crowds (also known as Demophobia) Odontophobia - Fear of teeth, especially animal teeth Oenophobia - Fear of wine Olfactophobia - Fear of smells Ombrophobia - Fear of rain Ommatophobia - Fear of eyes Oneirophobia - Fear of dreams Onomatophobia - Fear of a certain word or name Onranophobia - Fear of heaven Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes Opthalmophobia - Fear of being stared at Ornithophobia - Fear of birds Orthophobia - Fear of property Osmophobia - Fear of smells Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top P Pagophobia - Fear of ice or frost Panphobia - Fear of anything and everything Papaphobia - Fear of the pope or the papacy Papyrophobia - Fear of paper Paraphobia - Fear of sexual perversion Parthenophobia - Fear of young girls Patroiophobia - Fear of heredity Peccatiphobia - Fear of sinning Pediaphobia - Fear of dolls Pedophobia - Fear of children Peladophobia - Fear of bald people or of becoming bald Peniaphobia - Fear of poverty Pentheraphobia - Fear of mothers -in -law Phengophobia - Fear of daylight Phagophobia - Fear of eating or swallowing Phallophobia - Fear of a penis Pharmacophobia - Fear of drugs Phasmophobia - Fear of ghosts Phengophobia - Fear of daylight Philemophobia - Fear of kissing Philophobia - Fear of falling in love or being loved Phobophobia - Fear of fear Phonophobia - Fear of noise Photophobia - Fear of light Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking Phthiriophobia - Fear of lice or parasites Phthisiophobia - Fear of tuberculosis Pluviophobia - Fear of rain Pnigophobia - Fear of choking or being smothered Pogonophobia - Fear of beards or men with beards Poinephobia - Fear of punishment Ponophobia - Fear of fatigue Porphyrophobia - Fear of the colour purple Potomophobia - Fear of rivers Proctophobia - Fear of the rectum, or of rectal diseases (also known as Rectophobia) Prosophobia - Fear of progress Pryexiophobia - Fear of having fevers Psellismophobia - Fear of stuttering Pteronophobia - Fear of feathers Pyrophobia - Fear of fire A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top Q None we could find. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top R Rhabdophobia - Fear of criticism, punishment, or being beaten Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles Rupophobia - Fear of dirt (also known as Rhypophobia) Russophobia - Fear of Russia/Russian, etc. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top S Satanophobia - Fear of Satan Scriptophobia - Fear of writing in public Selaphobia - Fear of flashing light Selenophobia - Fear of the moon Siderodromophobia - Fear of trains, or of train travel Siderophobia - Fear of the stars Sinophobia - Fear of China/Chinese, etc. Skiaphobia - Fear of shadows Soceraphobia - Fear of parents -in -law Sociophobia - Fear of society, or of people in general Somniphobia - Fear of sleep Sophophobia - Fear of knowledge and learning Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others Spectrophobia - Fear of looking in the mirror Spheksophobia - Fear of wasps Staurophobia - Fear of crosses or crucifixes Stenophobia - Fear of narrow places Stygiophobia - Fear of hell Suriphobia - Fear of mice Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry Syngenesophobia - Fear of relatives A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top T Tacophobia - Fear of speed Taeniophobia - Fear of tapeworms Taphephobia - Fear of cemeteries Taphophobia - Fear of being buried alive Tapinophobia - Fear of small things Teleophobia - Fear of religious ceremonies Telephonophobia - Fear of using telephones Tetmophobia - Fear of lockjaw or tetanus Thalassophobia - Fear of the sea Thanatophobia - Fear of death, dying Thassophobia - Fear of sitting idle Theatrophobia - Fear of theaters Theophobia - Fear of God Thermophobia - Fear of heat Tomophobia - Fear of surgical operations Topophobia - Fear of certain places Tremophobia - Fear of trembling Trichophobia - Fear of hair (Trichotillomania is the urge to pull your own hair out) Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the number 13 Tropophobia - Fear of changes Trypanophobia - Fear of injections A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top U Uranophobia - Fear of heaven Urophobia - Fear of urine, or of urinating A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top V Vaccinophobia - Fear of vaccines Verbaphobia - Fear of words Verminophobia - Fear of germs Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing Virginitiphobia - Fear of rape Vitricophobia - Fear of stepfathers A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top W None we could find. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top X Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners Xerophobia - Fear of dry places, like deserts Xylophobia - Fear of forests A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top Y None we could find. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Top Z Zelophobia - Fear of jealousy Zoophobia - Fear of animals source Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ms DD Posted April 24, 2007 The list is too long but these ridiculous phobias exist? Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing Aerophagia - Fear of swallowing air (can one swallow air?) I came accros few ladies with this ailment: Androphobia - Fear of men I think the whole list could have been summerised as 'Fear of life'. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacaylbaro Posted April 24, 2007 looooooooooooooooooooooool Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Elysian Posted April 24, 2007 Northernerphobia - Fear of Northerner posting a long list of phobias Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacaylbaro Posted April 24, 2007 naagophobia - Fear of women Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N.O.R.F Posted April 24, 2007 Theophobia - Fear of God Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Crystal_Clear Posted April 24, 2007 I have fear of phobiaphobia,- fear of fears Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ms DD Posted April 24, 2007 Some people really do have Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking Somalis could have this: Prosophobia - Fear of progress Bush/Blair have Pogonophobia - Fear of beards or men with beards Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Som@li Posted April 24, 2007 CC you may have Panphobia - Fear of anything and everything Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ibtisam Posted April 24, 2007 ^^How do you know, miiya kaa baaqata? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Som@li Posted April 24, 2007 She said >>I have fear of phobiaphobia,- fear of fears, and was correcting her. that is all. Baqdi ma jirto,waxa aan list ka fiirshay bal wax iga bajiya...and i find these Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes Cynophobia - Fear of dogs or rabies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Legend of Zu Posted April 24, 2007 What is the fear of drawning? or the fear of water? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pucca Posted April 24, 2007 hydrophobia- fear of water Achluophobia - Fear of darkness Acrophobia - Fear of heights reasonable fears... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Som@li Posted April 25, 2007 Parthenophobia - Fear of young girls Patroiophobia - Fear of heredity Peccatiphobia - Fear of sinning Pediaphobia - Fear of dolls Pedophobia - Fear of children Peladophobia - Fear of bald people or of becoming bald Pentheraphobia - Fear of mothers -in -law Phengophobia - Fear of daylight Phagophobia - Fear of eating or swallowing Phallophobia - Fear of a penis Pharmacophobia - Fear of drugs Phasmophobia - Fear of ghosts Phengophobia - Fear of daylight Philemophobia - Fear of kissing Philophobia - Fear of falling in love or being loved :confused: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacaylbaro Posted April 25, 2007 Pentheraphobia - Fear of mothers -in -law loooooooooooooooooooooooooool Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites