The following is a collection of Phobia words, words that end in -phobia, from the Greek for fear or hatred. A phobia is an excessive, unreasonable or irrational fear of an object, place or situation. Phobias are extremely common, and anyone, no matter how well adjusted they are, can fall prey to them. Sometimes they start in childhood for no apparent reason; sometimes they emerge after a traumatic event; and sometimes they develop from an attempt to make sense of an unexpected and intense anxiety or panic. Alarmingly, for just about every object or situation imaginable there seems to be an associated phobia; though fortunately, in most circumstances they are easily cured.
However, the object of this page is reference and entertainment, not medical. Neither is it in any way meant to poke fun at or ridicule those unfortunate enough to suffer such a problem. The following (long) list is merely intended to catalogue the often weird and wonderful names given to phobias and their attendant (sometimes surprising) fears.
(To see the opposite of phobias, go to manias.)
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
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| Abibliophobia | Fear of running out of reading material |
| Ablutophobia | Fear of washing, bathing or cleaning |
| Acarophobia | Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching |
| Acerbophobia | Synonym of acerophobia |
| Acerophobia | Fear of sourness or of things that are sour |
| Achluophobia | Fear of darkness |
| Acidophobia | Aversion (of plants) to acidic soil |
| Acousticophobia | Fear of noise or sound |
| Acrophobia | Fear of heights or high places |
| Aelurophobia | Synonym of ailurophobia |
| Aeroacrophobia | Fear of open high places |
| Aeronausiphobia | Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness |
| Aerophobia | Fear of air and draughts |
| Agateophobia | Synonym of maniaphobia |
| Agliophobia | Synonym of algophobia |
| Agoraphobia | Fear of open places |
| Agraphobia | Fear of sexual abuse |
| Agrizoophobia | Fear of wild animals |
| Agyiophobia | Fear of streets or of crossing the street |
| Agyrophobia | Synonym of agyiophobia |
| Aibohphobia | Fear of palindromes |
| Aichmophobia | Fear of of knives and other sharp objects |
| Aichuriphobia | Fear of being touched by pointed objects |
| Ailourophobia | Synonym of ailurophobia |
| Ailurophobia | Fear of cats |
| Airphobia | Synonym of aerophobia |
| Albuminurophobia | Fear of kidney disease |
| Alcoholophobia | Synonym of potophobia |
| Alektorophobia | Fear of chickens and poultry |
| Algophobia | Fear of pain |
| Algrophobia | Fear of opinions or beliefs |
| Alliumphobia | Fear of garlic |
| Allodoxaphobia | Fear of criticism |
| Alophobia | Fear of speech |
| Altophobia | Synonym of acrophobia |
| Alychiphobia | Synonym of kakorrhaphiophobia |
| Amakaphobia | Fear of carriages |
| Amathophobia | Fear of dust |
| Amaxophobia | Fear of car journeys or cars |
| Ambulophobia | Fear of walking |
| Amechophobia | Synonym of amychophobia |
| Amnesiphobia | Fear of amnesia |
| Amychophobia | Fear of scratches or of being scratched |
| Anablephobia | Fear of looking up at high places |
| Ancraophobia | Synonym of anemophobia |
| Androphobia | Fear of men |
| Anemiaphobia | Synonym of anemophobia |
| Anemophobia | Fear of cyclones or wind |
| Anginophobia | Fear of angina, choking, or narrowness |
| Anglophobia | Fear of England, English culture, or English people |
| Angrophobia | Fear of anger or of becoming angry |
| Ankylophobia | Fear of immobility of a joint |
| Anophelophobia | Fear of painful sexual intercourse |
| Anthophobia | Fear of flowers |
| Anthropophobia | Fear of people |
| Antlophobia | Fear of floods |
| Anuptaphobia | Fear of staying single |
| Apeirophobia | Fear of infinity |
| Aphephobia | Synonym of haphephobia |
| Apiohobia | Synonym of apiphobia |
| Apiphobia | Fear of bees |
| Apotemnophobia | Fear of persons with amputations |
| Aquaphobia | Synonym of hydrophobia |
| Arachibutyrophobia | Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth |
| Arachnephobia | Synonym of arachnophobia |
| Arachniphobia | Synonym of arachnophobia |
| Arachnophobia | Fear of spiders |
| Arithmophobia | Fear of numbers |
| Armenophobia | Fear of Armenia or Armenians |
| Arrhenophobia | Synonym of androphobia |
| Arsonphobia | Synonym of pyrophobia |
| Asthenophobia | Fear of fainting or weakness |
| Astraphobia | Fear of lightning |
| Astrapophobia | Synonym of astraphobia |
| Astrophobia | Fear of stars and celestial space |
| Asymmetriphobia | Fear of asymmetrical things |
| Ataxiophobia | Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination) |
| Ataxophobia | Synonym of ataxiophobia |
| Atelophobia | Fear of imperfection |
| Atephobia | Fear of ruin or of ruins |
| Athagoraphobia | Fear of abandonment |
| Athazagoraphobia | Fear of being forgotten, being ignored, or forgetting |
| Atomosophobia | Fear of atomic explosions |
| Atychiphobia | Synonym of kakorrhaphiophobia |
| Aulophobia | Fear of flutes |
| Aurophobia | Fear of gold |
| Auroraphobia | Fear of the Northern Lights |
| Austrophobia | Fear of Austria or Austrians |
| Autodysomophobia | Fear of a person with a vile odour |
| Automatonophobia | Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures or wax staues |
| Automysophobia | Fear of being dirty |
| Autophobia | Fear of solitude |
| Aviophobia | Fear of flying |
~ B ~ | |
| Babushkaphobia | Fear of grandmothers |
| Bacilliphobia | Fear of bacilli |
| Bacillophobia | Fear of germs |
| Bacteriaphobia | Fear of bacteria |
| Bacteriophobia | Synonym of bacteriaphobia |
| Ballistophobia | Fear of missiles or bullets |
| Ballistrophobia | Synonym of ballistophobia |
| Barophobia | Fear of gravity |
| Basiphobia | Fear of the inability to stand or of falling |
| Basistasiphobia | Synonym of stasibasiphobia |
| Basophobia | Synonym of basiphobia |
| Basostasophobia | Synonym of stasibasiphobia |
| Batarachophobia | Synonym of batrachophobia |
| Bathmophobia | Fear of stairs or of steep slopes |
| Bathophobia | Fear of depths |
| Batophobia | Fear of being close to high buildings |
| Batrachophobia | Fear of amphibians |
| Belomophobia | Fear of needles |
| Belonephobia | Fear of pins and needles |
| Bibliophobia | Fear of books |
| Blennophobia | Fear of slime |
| Blenophobia | Synonym of belonephobia |
| Bogyphobia | Fear of bogies or of the bogeyman |
| Bolshephobia | Fear of Bolsheviks |
| Botanophobia | Fear of plants |
| Bromidrosiphobia | Fear of bodily odour |
| Bromidrosophobia | Synonym of bromidrosiphobia |
| Brontephobia | Synonym of brontophobia |
| Brontophobia | Fear of thunder |
| Bufonophobia | Fear of toads |
~ C ~ | |
| Cacohydrophobia | Fear of sewer water |
| Cacomorphobia | Fear of fat people |
| Cacophobia | Fear of ugliness |
| Cacophonophobia | Fear of bad music |
| Cainophobia | Synonym of kainophobia |
| Cainotophobia | Synonym of kainophobia |
| Calciphobia | Inability (of plants) to grow in lime-rich soil |
| Caligynephobia | Fear of beautiful women |
| Cancerophobia | Synonym of carcinophobia |
| Cancerphobia | Synonym of carcinophobia |
| Carcinomatophobia | Synonym of carcinophobia |
| Carcinophobia | Fear of cancer |
| Cardiophobia | Fear of heart disease |
| Carnophobia | Fear of meat |
| Catagelophobia | Fear of being ridiculed or of ridicule |
| Catapedaphobia | Fear of jumping from high and low places |
| Cathisophobia | Synonym of thassophobia |
| Catophtrophobia | Synonym of catoptrophobia |
| Catoptrophobia | Fear of mirrors and seeing oneself reflected |
| Celtophobia | Fear of Celts |
| Ceraunophobia | Fear of storms |
| Cenophobia | Synonym of agoraphobia |
| Cenotophobia | Synonym of kainophobia |
| Centophobia | Synonym of agoraphobia |
| Ceraunophobia | Synonym of keraunophobia |
| Chactophobia | Synonym of trichophobia |
| Chaetophobia | Synonym of trichophobia |
| Cheimaphobia | Fear of cold |
| Cheimatophobia | Synonym of cheimaphobia |
| Chemophobia | Fear of chemicals or of working with chemicals |
| Cherophobia | Fear of gaiety |
| Chidophobia | Fear of insect stings |
| Chionophobia | Fear of snow |
| Chiraptophobia | Synonym of haphephobia |
| Chirophobia | Fear of hands |
| Choleraphobia | Fear of cholera |
| Cholerophobia | Synonym of choleraphobia |
| Chorophobia | Fear of dancing |
| Chrematophobia | Fear of wealth |
| Chremnophobia | Fear of precipices |
| Chrometophobia | Fear of money |
| Chromatophobia | Synonym of chromophobia |
| Chrometophobia | Fear of money |
| Chromophobia | Fear of colours |
| Chronomentrophobia | Fear of clocks |
| Chronophobia | Fear of time |
| Cibophobia | Synonym of sitophobia |
| Claustrophobia | Fear of confined or enclosed spaces |
| Cleisiophobia | Fear of being locked in an enclosed place |
| Cleithrophobia | Fear of being confined |
| Cleptophobia | Synonym of kleptophobia |
| Climacophobia | Fear of stairs |
| Clinophobia | Fear of going to bed |
| Clithrophobia | Synonym of claustrophobia |
| Cnidophobia | Synonym of chidophobia |
| Coimetrophobia | Fear of cemetries |
| Coitophobia | Fear of sexual intercourse |
| Colorphobia | Fear of people of a particular colour |
| Cometophobia | Fear of comets |
| Contrectophobia | Synonym of agraphobia |
| Coprophobia | Fear of excrement |
| Coprostasophobia | Fear of constipation |
| Corpulophobia | Fear of widths |
| Coulrophobia | Fear of clowns |
| Counterphobia | The seeking of that which one fears |
| Cremnophobia | Fear of precipices |
| Criticophobia | Fear of critics or criticism |
| Cryophobia | Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost |
| Crystallophobia | Fear of crystals or glass |
| Cyberphobia | Fear of computers |
| Cyclophobia | Fear of bicycles |
| Cymophobia | Fear of waves or wave-like motion |
| Cynophobia | Fear of dogs or rabies |
| Cyprianophobia | Fear of prostitutes |
| Cypridophobia | Fear of venereal disease |
| Cyprinophobia | Fear of lewd women |
| Cypriphobia | Synonym of cypridophobia |
~ D ~ | |
| Daemonophobia | Synonym of demonophobia |
| Decidophobia | Fear of making decisions |
| Defecalgesiophobia | Fear of painful defecation |
| Deipnophobia | Fear of dining or of dinner conversation |
| Dementophobia | Synonym of maniaphobia |
| Demonophobia | Fear of demons |
| Demophobia | Synonym of ochlophobia |
| Dendrophobia | Fear of trees |
| Dentophobia | Fear of dentists and dental treatment |
| Dermatophobia | Fear of skin |
| Dermatopathophobia | Fear of skin disease or skin lesions |
| Dermatosiophobia | Synonym of dermatopathophobia |
| Dextrophobia | Fear of objects at the right side of the body |
| Diabetophobia | Fear of diabetes |
| Diametrophobia | Synonym of corpulophobia |
| Didaskaleinophobia | Fear of going to school |
| Dikephobia | Fear of justice |
| Dinophobia | Fear of dizziness or of whirlpools |
| Diplopiaphobia | Fear of double vision |
| Dyplychiphobia | Synonym of dystychiphobia |
| Dipsomanophobia | Synonym of potophobia |
| Dipsophobia | Synonym of potophobia |
| Dishabillophobia | Fear of undressing in front of someone |
| Domatophobia | Synonym of ecophobia |
| Doraphobia | Fear of fur |
| Doxophobia | Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise |
| Dromophobia | Fear of crossing streets |
| Dutchphobia | Fear of the Netherlands, the Dutch, Dutch culture |
| Dysmorphophobia | Fear of deformity, usually in others |
| Dystychiphobia | Fear of accidents |
~ E ~ | |
| Ecclesiophobia | Fear of churches |
| Ecophobia | Fear of home |
| Eicophobia | Fear of home surroundings |
| Eisoptrophobia | Synonym of catoptrophobia |
| Electrophobia | Synonym of elekrophobia |
| Elektrophobia | Fear of electricity |
| Eleutherophobia | Fear of freedom |
| Elurophobia | Synonym of ailurophobia |
| Emetophobia | Fear of vomiting |
| Enetophobia | Synonym of belonephobia |
| Enissophobia | Synonym of hamartophobia |
| Enochlophobia | Synonym of ochlophobia |
| Enosiophobia | Synonym of hamartophobia |
| Entomophobia | Fear of insects |
| Entonophobia | Fear of ticks |
| Entophobia | Synonym of entomophobia |
| Eosophobia | Fear of dawn or daylight |
| Ephebiphobia | Fear of teenagers |
| Epistaxiophobia | Fear of nosebleeds |
| Epistemophobia | Fear of knowledge |
| Equinophobia | Synonym of hippophobia |
| Eremiophobia | Synonym of autophobia |
| Eremophobia | Synonym of autophobia |
| Ereuthophobia | Synonym of erythrophobia |
| Ereuthrophobia | Synonym of erythrophobia |
| Ergasiophobia | 1 Fear of work - 2 Surgeon's fear of operating |
| Ergophobia | Fear of work |
| Ermitophobia | Synonym of autophobia |
| Erotophobia | Fear of sexual love or of sexual questions |
| Erythrophobia | 1 Fear of the colour red - 2 Fear of blushing |
| Esodophobia | Synonym of primeisodophobia |
| Euphobia | Fear of hearing good news |
| Euphophobia | Synonym of euphobia |
| Europhobia | Fear of Europe |
| Eurotophobia | Synonym of kolpophobia |
| Expansophobia | Synonym of corpulophobia |
~ F ~ | |
| Febriphobia | Fear of fever |
| Felinophobia | Synonym of ailurophobia |
| Feminophobia | Synonym of gynephobia |
| Francophobia | Fear of France, French people or French culture |
| Frigophobia | Synonym of cheimaphobia |
~ G ~ | |
| Galeophobia | Fear of sharks |
| Gallophobia | Synonym of Francophobia |
| Gametophobia | Synonym of gamophobia |
| Gamophobia | Fear of marriage |
| Gatophobia | Synonym of ailurophobia |
| Geliophobia | Synonym of gelophobia |
| Gelophobia | Fear of laughter |
| Geniophobia | Fear of chins |
| Genophobia | Synonym of coitophobia |
| Gentianophobia | Resistance (of cells) to staining with gentian |
| Genuphobia | Fear of knees |
| Gephydrophobia | Synonym of gephyrophobia |
| Gephyrophobia | Fear of crossing bridges |
| Gerascophobia | Fear of growing old |
| Germanophobia | Fear of Germany, German people or German culture |
| Gerontophobia | Fear of old people |
| Geumaphobia | Synonym of geumophobia |
| Geumatophobia | Synonym of geumophobia |
| Geumophobia | Fear of unfamiliar tastes |
| Globophobia | Fear of balloons |
| Glossophobia | Fear of talking |
| Graphophobia | Fear of writing |
| Grecophobia | Fear of Greek customs |
| Gringophobia | Fear of Gringos |
| Gymnophobia | Fear of nudity |
| Gynephobia | Fear of women |
| Gynophobia | Synonym of gynephobia |
~ H ~ | |
| Hadephobia | Fear of hell |
| Haematophobia | Fear of blood |
| Haemophobia | Synonym of haematophobia |
| Hagiophobia | Fear of saints or of holy things |
| Halophobia | 1 Fear of speaking - 2 Inability (of plants) to grow in salt-rich soil |
| Hamartophobia | Fear of sin or sinning |
| Haphephobia | Fear of being touched |
| Hapnophobia | Synonym of haphephobia |
| Haptephobia | Synonym of haphephobia |
| Haptophobia | Synonym of haphephobia |
| Harmatophobia | Synonym of hamartophobia |
| Harpaxophobia | Synonym of kleptophobia |
| Hedonophobia | Fear of feeling pleasure |
| Heliophobia | Fear of the sun or sunlight |
| Hellenologophobia | Fear of Greek terms or of complex scientific terminology |
| Hellenophobia | Fear of Greek or Latin terms |
| Helminthophobia | Fear of being infested with worms |
| Hemaphobia | Synonym of haematophobia |
| Hematophobia | Synonym of haematophobia |
| Hemophobia | Synonym of haematophobia |
| Hereiophobia | Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation |
| Heresyphobia | Fear of heresy |
| Herpetophobia | Fear of reptiles |
| Heterophobia | Fear of the opposite sex |
| Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia | Fear of the number 666 |
| Hierophobia | 1 Fear of priests - 2 Synonym of hagiophobia |
| Hippophobia | Fear of horses |
| Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia | Fear of extremely long words |
| Hobophobia | Fear of beggars |
| Hodophobia | Fear of travel |
| Homichlophobia | Fear of fog |
| Homilophobia | Fear of sermons |
| Hominophobia | Fear of men |
| Homophobia | 1 Fear or hatred of homosexuals - 2 Fear of monotony |
| Hoplophobia | Fear of firearms |
| Hormephobia | Fear of shock |
| Hyalophobia | Synonym of crystallophobia |
| Hydrargyophobia | Fear of mercurial medicines |
| Hydrophobia | 1 Fear of water - 2 Medical term for rabies |
| Hydrophobophobia | Fear of rabies |
| Hydrophophobia | Synonym of hydrophobophobia |
| Hyelophobia | Synonym of crystallophobia |
| Hygrophobia | Fear of liquids, dampness or moisture |
| Hylephobia | 1 Fear of forests or woods - 2 Fear of materialism |
| Hylophobia | Synonym of hylephobia |
| Hypegiaphobia | Synonym of hypengyophobia |
| Hypengyophobia | Fear of responsibility |
| Hypnophobia | Fear of sleep |
| Hypophobia | Absence of fear |
| Hypsiphobia | Synonym of acrophobia |
| Hypsophobia | Synonym of acrophobia |
~ I ~ | |
| Iatrophobia | Fear of of going to the doctor |
| Ichthyophobia | Fear of fish |
| Iconophobia | Fear of images |
| Ideophobia | Fear of ideas |
| Illyngophobia | Fear of vertigo |
| Iophobia | 1 Fear of rust - 2 Synonym of toxiphobia |
| Islamophobia | Fear of Islam |
| Isolophobia | Synonym of autophobia |
| Isopterophobia | Fear of termites |
| Italophobia | Fear of Italy or Italians |
| Ithyphallophobia | Fear of the erect penis |
~ J ~ | |
| Japanophobia | Fear of Japan or of the Japanese |
| Judaeophobia | Fear or hatred of Jews |
| Judeophobia | Synonym of judaeophobia |
| Judophobia | Synonym of judaeophobia |
~ K ~ | |
| Kabourophobia | Fear of crabs |
| Kainophobia | Fear of novelty |
| Kainotophobia | Synonym of kainophobia |
| Kakorraphiophobia | Synonym of kakorrhaphiophobia |
| Kakorrhaphiophobia | Fear of failure or defeat |
| Kakorrhphiophobia | Synonym of kakorrhaphiophobia |
| Katagelophobia | Synonym of catagelophobia |
| Kathisophobia | Synonym of thassophobia |
| Kenophobia | Fear of voids or empty spaces |
| Keraunophobia | Fear of thunder and lightning |
| Keraunothnetophobia | Fear of falling man-made satellites |
| Kinesophobia | Fear of movement or motion |
| Kinetophobia | Synonym of kinesophobia |
| Kleptophobia | Fear of thieves or loss through thievery |
| Koinoniphobia | Fear of rooms full of people |
| Kolpophobia | Fear of the female genitals |
| Koniophobia | Synonym of amathophobia |
| Kopophobia | Synonym of ponophobia |
| Kosmikophobia | Synonym of coimetrophobia |
| Kynophobia | Synonym of cynophobia |
| Kyphophobia | Fear of stooping |
~ L ~ | |
| Lachanophobia | Fear of vegetables |
| Laliophobia | Synonym of glossophobia |
| Lalophobia | Synonym of glossophobia |
| Latrophobia | Synonym of iatrophobia |
| Lepraphobia | Fear of leprosy |
| Leprophobia | Synonym of lepraphobia |
| Leukophobia | Fear of the colour white |
| Levophobia | Fear of leftness and things to the left side of the body |
| Ligyrophobia | Fear of loud noises |
| Lilapsophobia | Fear of tornadoes or of hurricanes |
| Limnophobia | Fear of lakes |
| Linonophobia | Fear of string |
| Liticaphobia | Fear of lawsuits |
| Lockiophobia | Fear of childbirth |
| Logizomechanophobia | Synonym of cyberphobia |
| Logophobia | Fear of words |
| Luiphobia | Fear of syphillis |
| Lunaphobia | Fear of the moon |
| Lunaediesophobia | Fear of Mondays |
| Lutraphobia | Fear of otters |
| Lygophobia | Synonym of achluophobia |
| Lyssiophobia | Synonym of maniaphobia |
~ M ~ | |
| Macrophobia | Fear of long waits |
| Mageirocophobia | Fear of cooking |
| Maieusiophobia | Fear of childbirth |
| Malaxophobia | Synonym of sarmassophobia |
| Maniaphobia | Fear of insanity |
| Mastigophobia | Fear of flogging |
| Mechanophobia | Fear of machines |
| Medectophobia | Fear of the contour of one's penis being visible through clothing |
| Medomalacophobia | Fear of losing one's erection during coitus |
| Medorthophobia | Synonym of ithyphallophobia |
| Megalophobia | Fear of large things |
| Melanophobia | Fear of the colour black |
| Melissophobia | Synonym of apiphobia |
| Melophobia | Synonym of musicophobia |
| Meningitophobia | Fear of meningitis |
| Menophobia | Fear of menstruation |
| Merinthophobia | Fear of being bound or tied up |
| Metallophobia | Fear of metal |
| Metathesiophobia | Fear of changes |
| Meteorophobia | Fear of meteors and meteorites |
| Methyphobia | Fear of alcohol |
| Metrophobia | Fear of poetry |
| Microbiophobia | Fear of microbes |
| Microphobia | Fear of small things |
| Misophobia | Fear of contamination |
| Molysmophobia | Synonym of misophobia |
| Molysomophobia | Synonym of misophobia |
| Mnemophobia | Fear of memories |
| Monopathophobia | Fear of a specific disease |
| Monophobia | Fear of one thing or solitude |
| Motorphobia | Fear of automobiles |
| Muriphobia | Synonym of musophobia |
| Mottephobia | Fear of butterflies or moths |
| Musicophobia | Fear of music |
| Musophobia | Fear of mice |
| Mycophobia | Fear of mushrooms and fungi |
| Myctophobia | Synonym of achluophobia |
| Myrmecophobia | Fear of ants |
| Mysophobia | Synonym of misophobia |
| Mythophobia | Fear of myths, stories, or of false statements |
| Myxophobia | Synonym of blennophobia |
~ N ~ | |
| Nebulaphobia | Synonym of homichlophobia |
| Necrophobia | Fear of death or of dead things |
| Negrophobia | Fear of black people |
| Nelophobia | Synonym of crystallophobia |
| Neopharmaphobia | Fear of new drugs |
| Neophobia | Synonym of kainophobia |
| Nephophobia | 1 Fear of clouds - 2 Synonym of nosophobia |
| Noctiphobia | Fear of the night |
| Nomatophobia | Synonym of onomatophobia |
| Nosocomephobia | Fear of hospitals |
| Nosophobia | Fear of diseases |
| Nostophobia | Fear of returning home |
| Novercaphobia | Fear of one's stepmother |
| Nucleomitophobia | Fear of atomic energy or nuclear weapons |
| Nudiphobia | Synonym of gymnophobia |
| Nudophobia | Synonym of gymnophobia |
| Nyctohylophobia | Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night |
| Nyctophobia | Synonym of noctiphobia |
~ O ~ | |
| Obesophobia | Fear of gaining weight |
| Ochlophobia | Fear of crowds |
| Ochophobia | Synonym of motorphobia |
| Octophobia | Fear of the figure 8 |
| Odontophobia | Fear of teeth |
| Odynophobia | Synonym of algophobia |
| Oecophobia | Synonym of ecophobia |
| Oenophobia | Fear of wines |
| Oikophobia | Synonym of ecophobia |
| Oiuophobia | Synonym of oenophobia |
| Olfactophobia | Fear of odours |
| Ombrophobia | Fear of rain |
| Ommatophobia | Fear of eyes |
| Ommetaphobia | Synonym of ommatophobia |
| Omophagiaphobia | Fear of eating raw flesh |
| Omositiaphobia | Synonym of omophagiaphobia |
| Oneirogmophobia | Fear of wet dreams |
| Oneirophobia | Fear of dreams |
| Onomatophobia | Fear of a specific word or name |
| Ophiciophobia | Synonym of ophidiophobia |
| Ophidiophobia | Fear of snakes |
| Ophiophobia | Synonym of ophidiophobia |
| Ophresiophobia | Synonym of olfactophobia |
| Ophthalmophobia | Fear of being seen |
| Optophobia | Fear of opening one's eyes |
| Ornithophobia | Fear of birds |
| Orthophobia | Fear of propriety |
| Osmiophobia | Resistance (of cells) to staining with osmic acid |
| Osmophobia | Synonym of olfactophobia |
| Osphresiophobia | Fear of body odours |
| Ostraconophobia | Fear of shellfish |
| Ouranophobia | Synonym of uranophobia |
~ P ~ | |
| Paedophobia | Synonym of pedophobia |
| Pagophobia | Synonym of cryophobia |
| Pamphobia | Synonym of pantophobia |
| Panophobia | 1 Synonym of pantophobia - 2 Fear of fears |
| Panphobia | Synonym of pantophobia |
| Pantaphobia | Synonym of hypophobia |
| Panthophobia | Fear of suffering or disease |
| Pantophobia | Fear of everything |
| Papaphobia | Fear of the Pope or the papacy |
| 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 |
| Paronomasiaphobia | Fear of puns |
| Parthenophobia | Fear of virgins or young girls |
| Parthophobia | Fear of disease |
| Paterophobia | Fear of the Fathers (of the early Church) |
| Pathophobia | Synonym of nosophobia |
| Patroiophobia | Fear of hereditary disease |
| Peccatiphobia | Synonym of hamartophobia |
| Peccatophobia | Synonym of hamartophobia |
| Pediculophobia | Fear of lice |
| Pediophobia | Fear of dolls |
| Pedophobia | Fear of children |
| Peladophobia | Fear of bald people |
| Pellagrophobia | Fear of pellagra |
| Peniaphobia | Fear of poverty |
| Pentheraphobia | Fear of one's mother-in-law |
| Phagophobia | Fear of eating |
| Phalacrophobia | Fear of becoming bald |
| Phallophobia | Fear of the male genitals |
| Phantasmophobia | Synonym of phasmophobia |
| Pharmacophobia | Fear of medicinal drugs |
| Phasmophobia | Fear of ghosts |
| Phengophobia | Fear of daylight or sunshine |
| Philemaphobia | Fear of kissing |
| Philematophobia | Synonym of philemaphobia |
| Philophobia | Fear of falling in love or of being in love |
| Philosophobia | Fear of philosophy or philosophers |
| Phlebophobia | Fear of blood tests |
| Phobatriviaphobia | Fear of trivia about phobias |
| Phobologophobia | Fear of phobia words |
| Phobophobia | Fear of phobias |
| Phonophobia | Fear of noises, voices, one's own voice, or of telephones |
| Photalgiophobia | Synonym of photaugiophobia |
| Photaugiaphobia | Synonym of photaugiophobia |
| Photaugiophobia | Fear of photalgia |
| Photoaugliaphobia | Fear of glaring lights |
| Photophobia | Fear of light |
| Phronemophobia | Fear of thinking |
| Phthiriophobia | Synonym of pediculophobia |
| Phthisiophobia | Synonym of tuberculophobia |
| Phthisophobia | Synonym of tuberculophobia |
| Phyllophobia | Fear of leaves |
| Placophobia | Fear of tombstones |
| Plutophobia | Fear of wealth |
| Pluviophobia | Synonym of ombrophobia |
| Pneumatophobia | Synonym of aerophobia |
| Pnigerophobia | Synonym of pnigophobia |
| Pnigophobia | Fear of choking or of being smothered |
| Pocrescophobia | Synonym of obesophobia |
| Pogonophobia | Fear of beards |
| Poinephobia | Fear of punishment |
| Policophobia | Fear of the police |
| Poliosophobia | Fear of contracting poliomyelitis |
| Politicophobia | Fear of politicians |
| Polyphobia | Fear of many things |
| Ponophobia | Fear of fatigue |
| Poperyphobia | Synonym of papaphobia |
| Porphyrophobia | Fear of the colour purple |
| Potamophobia | Fear of rivers or running water |
| Potomophobia | Synonym of potamophobia |
| Potophobia | Fear of alcohol |
| Primeisodophobia | Fear of losing one's virginity |
| Proctophobia | Fear of rectal disease |
| Profundophobia | Fear of depth |
| Prosophobia | Fear of progress |
| Proteinphobia | Fear of protein foods |
| Psellismophobia | Fear of stuttering |
| Pseudohydrophobia | Animal disease with symptoms similar to rabies |
| Psychophobia | Fear of the mind |
| Psychrophobia | Synonym of cheimaphobia |
| Pteromerhanophobia | Fear of flying |
| Pteronophobia | Fear of feathers |
| Pupaphobia | Fear of puppets |
| Pyrexeophobia | Synonym of febriphobia |
| Pyrexiophobia | Synonym of febriphobia |
| Pyrophobia | Fear of fire |
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| Radiaphobia | Synonym of corpulophobia |
| Radiophobia | Fear of x-rays |
| Ranidaphobia | Fear of frogs |
| Rectophobia | Fear of rectums or of rectal diseases |
| Rhabdophobia | Fear of magic or of being beaten with rods |
| Rhinophobia | Fear of noses |
| Rhypophobia | Fear of filth |
| Rhytiphobia | Fear of getting wrinkles |
| Rupophobia | Synonym of rhypophobia |
| Russophobia | Fear of Russia or Russians |
| Rypophobia | Synonym of rhypophobia |
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| Sarmassophobia | Fear of love-play |
| Samhainophobia | Fear of Halloween |
| Satanophobia | Fear of Satan |
| Scabiophobia | Fear of scabies |
| Scatophobia | Synonym of coprophobia |
| Scelerophobia | Fear of bad men |
| Sciaphobia | Synonym of sciophobia |
| Sciophobia | Fear of shadows |
| Scoleciphobia | Fear of maggots or worms |
| Scolionophobia | Fear of school |
| Scopophobia | Fear of being stared at |
| Scoptophobia | Synonym of scopophobia |
| Scotomaphobia | Fear of scotomas |
| Scotophobia | Synonym of achluophobia |
| Scriptophobia | Fear of writing in public |
| Selachophobia | Fear of sharks |
| Selaphobia | Fear of light flashes |
| Selenophobia | Fear of the moon |
| Septophobia | Fear of decaying matter |
| Sesquippedaliophobia | Fear of long words |
| Sexophobia | Fear of the opposite sex |
| Sheksophobia | Synonym of spheksophobia |
| Siderodromophobia | Fear of trains, railroads, or train travel |
| Siderophobia | Synonym of astrophobia |
| Sinistrophobia | Synonym of levophobia |
| Sinophobia | Fear of China, the Chinese or Chinese culture |
| Sitiophobia | Synonym of sitophobia |
| Sitophobia | Fear of food |
| Skiaphobia | Synonym of sciophobia |
| Snakephobia | Synonym of ophidiophobia |
| Soceraphobia | Fear of one's parents-in-law |
| Sociophobia | Fear of society or of people in general |
| Soleciphobia | Synonym of vermiphobia |
| Somniphobia | Synonym of hypnophobia |
| Sophophobia | Fear of learning |
| Soteriophobia | Fear of dependence on others |
| Sovietophobia | Fear of the Soviet Union |
| Spacephobia | Fear of outer space |
| Spectrophobia | 1 Fear of spectres - 2 Synonym of catoptrophobia |
| Spermatophobia | Fear of semen |
| Spermophobia | Synonym of spermatophobia |
| Spheksophobia | Fear of wasps |
| Stasibasiphobia | Fear of standing and walking |
| Stasiphobia | Fear of standing |
| Stasobasiphobia | Synonym of stasibasiphobia |
| Stasophobia | Synonym of stasiphobia |
| Staurophobia | Fear of crosses or of the crucifix |
| Stenophobia | Fear of narrow things or places |
| Stygiophobia | Synonym of hadephobia |
| Swinophobia | Fear of pigs |
| Symbolophobia | Fear of symbolism |
| Symmetrophobia | Fear of symmetry |
| Syngenescophobia | Synonym of syngenesophobia |
| Syngenesophobia | Fear of relatives |
| Syphiliphobia | Fear of syphilis |
| Syphilophobia | Synonym of syphiliphobia |
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| Tabophobia | Fear of tabes dorsalis |
| Tachophobia | Fear of speed |
| Taeniiphobia | Synonym of taeniophobia |
| Taeniophobia | Fear of tapeworms |
| Taphephobia | Fear of being buried alive |
| Taphophobia | Synonym of taphephobia |
| Tapinophobia | Fear of being contagious |
| Taurophobia | Fear of bulls |
| Technophobia | Fear of technology |
| Teleophobia | Fear of teleology |
| Telephonophobia | Fear of telephones |
| Teletophobia | Fear of religious ceremonies |
| Teniophobia | Synonym of taphephobia |
| Teratophobia | Fear of monsters or of giving birth to a monster |
| Teutonophobia | Synonym of Germanophobia |
| Teutophobia | Synonym of Germanophobia |
| Testophobia | Fear of taking tests |
| Tetanophobia | Fear of tetanus |
| Textophobia | Fear of certain fabrics |
| Thassophobia | Fear of sitting (idle) |
| Thalassophobia | Fear of the sea |
| Thanatophobia | Fear of death |
| Theatrophobia | Fear of theatres |
| Theologicophobia | Fear of theology |
| Theophobia | Fear of God |
| Thermophobia | Fear of heat |
| Tocophobia | Synonym of maieusiophobia |
| Tomophobia | Fear of surgery |
| Tonitrophobia | Synonym of brontophobia |
| Tonitruphobia | Synonym of brontophobia |
| Topophobia | 1 Fear of performing, i.e. stage fright - 2 Fear of a specific place |
| Toxicophobia | Synonym of toxiphobia |
| Toxiphobia | Fear of poison |
| Toxophobia | Synonym of toxiphobia |
| Traumatophobia | Fear of injury or war |
| Tredecaphobia | Synonym of triskaidekaphobia |
| Tremophobia | Fear of trembling |
| Triakaidekaphobia | Synonym of triskaidekaphobia |
| Trichinophobia | Fear of trichinosis |
| Trichopathophobia | Fear of hair disease |
| Trichophobia | Fear of hair |
| Triskadekaphobia | Synonym of triskaidekaphobia |
| Triskaidekaphobia | Fear of the number 13 |
| Tropophobia | Fear of changes |
| Tryapanophobia | Fear of injections |
| Tuberculophobia | Fear of tuberculosis |
| Tyrannophobia | Fear of tyrants |
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| Uranophobia | Fear of heaven |
| Urophobia | Fear of urine or urinating |
~ V ~ | |
| Vacansopapurosophobia | Fear of blank paper |
| Vaccinophobia | Fear of vaccinations |
| Venereophobia | Synonym of cypridophobia |
| Venustaphobia | Fear of beautiful women |
| Verbaphobia | Synonym of logophobia |
| Verbophobia | Synonym of logophobia |
| Vermiphobia | Fear of worms |
| Vermiophobia | Synonym of bacillophobia |
| Vestiophobia | Fear of clothing |
| Virgivitiphobia | Fear of rape |
| Virgivitphobia | Fear of virgins |
| Vitricophobia | Fear of one's step-father |
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| Walloonphobia | Fear of the Walloons |
| Wiccaphobia | Fear of witches and witchcraft |
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| Xanthophobia | Fear of the colour yellow |
| Xenoglossophobia | Fear of foreign languages |
| Xenophobia | Fear of strangers or foreigners |
| Xerophobia | Fear of dryness and dry places |
| Xocolatophobia | Fear of chocolate |
| Xylophobia | Fear of wood, wooden objects or of forests |
| Xyrophobia | Fear of razors |
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| Ylophobia | Synonym of xylophobia |
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| Zelophobia | Fear of jealousy |
| Zemmiphobia | Fear of the great mole rat |
| Zenophobia | Synonym of xenophobia |
| Zeusophobia | Fear of God or gods |
| Zoophobia | Fear of animals |
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