Phobia List



Just what is a phobia, anyway? It is commonly considered to be an "irrational fear" where the phobic person has an unusual fear response to heights, snakes, bugs, water or a list of over a thousand other things. If you think we have it bad, check some of these horrible phobia's out. After I read them I thought to myself " Geesh I don't have it so bad! "
 
 

8,number- Octophobia.

A
Air- Anemophobia.
Air Swallowing- Aerophobia.
Amnesia- Amnesiphobia.
Animals, skins of or fur- Doraphobia.
Anything New- Neophobia.
Asymmetrical things- Asymmetriphobia.
Automobiles- Motorphobia.

B
Bald people- Peladophobia.
Bathing- Ablutophobia.
Beards- Pogonophobia.
Beautiful women- Caligynephobia.
Beds or going to bed- Clinophobia.
Bicycles- Cyclophobia.
Black- Melanophobia
Body odors- Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia.
Body, things to the left side of the body- Levophobia.
Body, things to the right side of the body- Dextrophobia.
Books- Bibliophobia.

C
Car or vehicle, riding in-Amaxophobia.
Children- Pedophobia.
Chinese or Chinese culture- Sinophobia.
Chins- Geniophobia.
Clocks- Chronomentrophobia.
Clocks or time- Chronophobia.
Clothing- Vestiphoia.
Clouds- Nephophobia.
Cold or cold things- Frigophobia.
Computers or working on computers- Cyberphobia.
Crystals or glass- Crystallophobia.

D
Dampness, moisture or liquids- Hygrophobia.
Dancing- Chorophobia.
Dawn or daylight- Eosophobia.
Daylight or sunshine- Phengophobia.
Decisions: making decisions- Decidophobia.
Dining or dinner conversations- Deipnophobia.
Dolls- Pdeiophobia.
Drafts- Aerophobia or Anemophobia.
Drinking- Dipsophobia.
Dryness- Xerophobia.
 

E
Eating or swallowing- Phagophobia.
Eating or food- Sitophobia or Sitiophobia.
Eating or swallowing or of being eaten- Phagophobia.
Electricity- Electrophobia.
Erect penis- Medorthophobia.
Eyes, opening one's- Optophobia.

F
Fabrics, certain- Textophobia.
Feathers or being tickled by feathers- Pteronophobia.
Female genitals- Kolpophobia.
Female genitalia- Eurotophobia.
Flowers- Anthrophobia or Anthophobia.
Flutes- Aulophobia.
Foreigners or strangers- Xenophobia.
Foreign languages- Xenoglossophobia.
Freedom- Eleutherophobia.
Frost or ice- Pagophobia.

G
Garlic- Allumphobia.
Germans or German culture- Germanophobia or Teutophobia.
Girls, young or virgins- Parthenophobia.
Good news, hearing good news- Euphobia.
Gravity- Barophobia.
Greek or Greek culture - Hellophobia.
Greek terms- Hellenologophobia.

H
Hair- Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, or Hypertrichophobia.
Hands- Chirophobia.
Handwriting- Graphophobia.
Home- Ecophobia.

I
Ideas- Ideophobia.
Ignored, being- Athazagoraphobia.
Itching- Acarophobia.

J
Justice- Dikephobia.
 
 
 

 

K
Kissing- Philemaphobia or Philematophobia.
Knees- Genuphobia.
 
 

L
Laughter- Geliophobia.
Learning- Sophophobia.
Light- Photophobia.
Looking up- Anablephobia or Anablepophobia.
Love, sexual love- Erotophobia.
 

M
Menstration- Menophobia.
Mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror- Eisoptrophobia.
Money- Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia.
Mother-in-law- Pentheraphobia.
Music- Melophobia.

N
Names or hearing a certain name- Onomatophobia.
Names- Nomatophobia.
Nudity- Gymnophobia or Nudophobia.

O
Odors or smells- Olfactophobia.
Old people- Gerontophobia.

P
Paper- Papyrophobia.
Parents-in-law- Soceraphobia.
Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth- Arachibutyrophobia.
Phobias- Phobophobia.
Poetry- Metrophobia.
Progress- Prosophobia.

Q-

R
Rain- Ombrophobia or Pluviophobia.
Running water- Potamophobia.
Russians- Rossophobia.

S
Scratches or being scratched- Amychophobia.
Self, being seen or looked at- Scopophobia or Scoptophobia.
Self, being touched- Aphenphosmphobia.
Semen- Spermatophobia or Spermophobia.
Sex- Genophobia.
Sexual intercourse- Coitophobia.
Single: staying single- Anuptaphobia.
Sleep- Somniphobia.
Sounds- Acousticophobia.
Sourness- Acerophobia.
Speak, trying to- Glossophobia.
Standing upright- Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia.
Standing up- Stasiphobia.
Step-father- Vitricophobia.
Step-mother- Novercaphobia.

T
Taste- Geumaphobia or Geumophobia.
Teenagers- Ephebiphobia.
Teeth- Odontophobia.
Telephones, noises or voices, or speaking aloud- Phonophobia.
Telephones- Telephonophobia.
Thinking- Phronemophobia.
Trees- Dendrophobia.

U
Urine or urinating- Urophobia.

V
Vegetables- Lachanophobia.
Voids or empty spaces- Kenophobia.

W
Walking, and standing up- Stasibasiphobia.
Walking- Ambulophobia, Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia.
White, the color- Leukophobia.
Women- Gynephobia or Gynophobia.
Words, long- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia or Sesquipedalophobia.
Writing in public- Scriptophobia.
 

 

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