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phobias

QuestionAnswer
Achluophobia Fear of darkness.
Acrophobia Fear of heights.
Agliophobia Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia Fear of open spaces or crowds.
Aichmophobia Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Amaxophobia Fear of riding in a car.
Androphobia Fear of men.
Anginophobia Fear of angina or choking.
Anthrophobia Fear of flowers.
Anthropophobia Fear of people or society.
Aphenphosmphobia Fear of being touched.
Arachnophobia Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia Fear of numbers.
Astraphobia Fear of thunder and lightening.
Ataxophobia Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia Fear of imperfection.
Atychiphobia Fear of failure.
Autophobia Fear of being alone.
B
Bacteriophobia Fear of bacteria.
Barophobia Fear of gravity.
Bathmophobia Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Batrachophobia Fear of amphibians.
Belonephobia Fear of pins and needles.
Bibliophobia Fear of books.
Botanophobia Fear of plants.
C
Cacophobia Fear of ugliness.
Catagelophobia Fear of being ridiculed.
Catoptrophobia Fear of mirrors.
Chionophobia Fear of snow.
Chromophobia Fear of colors.
Chronomentrophobia Fear of clocks.
Claustrophobia Fear of confined spaces.
Coulrophobia Fear of clowns.
Cyberphobia Fear of computers.
Cynophobia Fear of dogs.
D
Dendrophobia Fear of trees.
Dentophobia Fear of dentists.
Domatophobia Fear of houses.
Dystychiphobia Fear of accidents.
E
Ecophobia Fear of the home.
Elurophobia Fear of cats.
Entomophobia Fear of insects.
Ephebiphobia Fear of teenagers.
Equinophobia Fear of horses.
G
Gamophobia Fear of marriage.
Genuphobia Fear of knees.
Glossophobia Fear of speaking in public.
Gynophobia Fear of women.
H
Heliophobia Fear of the sun.
Hemophobia Fear of blood.
Herpetophobia Fear of reptiles.
Hydrophobia Fear of water.
I
Iatrophobia Fear of doctors.
Insectophobia Fear of insects.
K
Koinoniphobia Fear of rooms.
L
Leukophobia Fear of the color white.
Lilapsophobia Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
Lockiophobia Fear of childbirth.
M
Mageirocophobia Fear of cooking.
Megalophobia Fear of large things.
Melanophobia Fear of the color black.
Microphobia Fear of small things.
Mysophobia Fear of dirt and germs.
N
Necrophobia Fear of death or dead things.
Noctiphobia Fear of the night.
Nosocomephobia Fear of hospitals.
O
Obesophobia Fear of gaining weight.
Octophobia Fear of the figure 8.
Ombrophobia Fear of rain.
Ophidiophobia Fear of snakes.
Ornithophobia Fear of birds.
P
Papyrophobia Fear of paper.
Pathophobia Fear of disease.
Pedophobia Fear of children.
Philophobia Fear of love.
Phobophobia Fear of phobias.
Podophobia Fear of feet.
Porphyrophobia Fear of the color purple.
Pteridophobia Fear of ferns.
Pteromerhanophobia Fear of flying.
Pyrophobia Fear of fire.
S
Scolionophobia Fear of school.
Selenophobia Fear of the moon.
Sociophobia Fear of social evaluation.
Somniphobia Fear of sleep.
T
Tachophobia Fear of speed.
Technophobia Fear of technology.
Tonitrophobia Fear of thunder.
Trypanophobia Fear of injections.
V Z
Venustraphobia Fear of beautiful women.
Verminophobia Fear of germs.
Wiccaphobia Fear of witches and witchcraft.
Xenophobia Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Zoophobia Fear of animals.
* Achluophobia Fear of darkness.
* Acrophobia Fear of heights.
* Agliophobia Fear of pain.
* Agoraphobia Fear of open spaces or crowds.
* Aichmophobia Fear of needles or pointed objects.
* Amaxophobia Fear of riding in a car.
* Androphobia Fear of men.
* Anginophobia Fear of angina or choking.
* Anthrophobia Fear of flowers.
* Anthropophobia Fear of people or society.
* Aphenphosmphobia Fear of being touched.
* Arachnophobia Fear of spiders.
* Arithmophobia Fear of numbers.
* Astraphobia Fear of thunder and lightening.
* Ataxophobia Fear of disorder or untidiness.
* Atelophobia Fear of imperfection.
* Atychiphobia Fear of failure.
* Autophobia Fear of being alone.
* Angrophobia Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
* Ankylophobia Fear of immobility of a joint.
* Antlophobia Fear of floods.
* Anuptaphobia Fear of staying single.
* Apeirophobia Fear of infinity.
B
* Bacteriophobia Fear of bacteria.
* Barophobia Fear of gravity.
* Bathmophobia Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
* Batrachophobia Fear of amphibians.
* Belonephobia Fear of pins and needles.
* Bibliophobia Fear of books.
* Botanophobia Fear of plants.
C
* Cacophobia Fear of ugliness.
* Catagelophobia Fear of being ridiculed.
* Catoptrophobia Fear of mirrors.
* Chionophobia Fear of snow.
* Chromophobia Fear of colors.
* Cnidophobia Fear of stings.
* Cometophobia Fear of comets.
* Coimetrophobia Fear of cemeteries.
* Cathisophobia Fear of sitting.
* Cremnophobia Fear of precipices.
* Cryophobia Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
* Chronomentrophobia Fear of clocks.
* Claustrophobia Fear of confined spaces.
* Coulrophobia Fear of clowns.
* Cyberphobia Fear of computers.
* Cynophobia Fear of dogs.
D
* Dendrophobia Fear of trees.
* Dentophobia Fear of dentists.
* Domatophobia Fear of houses.
* Dystychiphobia Fear of accidents.
* Doraphobia Fear of fur or skins of animals.
* Doxophobia Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
* Dromophobia Fear of crossing streets.
* Dutchphobia Fear of the Dutch.
* Dysmorphophobia Fear of deformity
E
* Ecophobia Fear of the home.
* Elurophobia Fear of cats.
* Entomophobia Fear of insects.
* Ephebiphobia Fear of teenagers.
* Equinophobia Fear of horses.
* Ereuthrophobia Fear of blushing.
* Emetophobia Fear of vomiting.
* Enetophobia Fear of pins.
* Enochlophobia Fear of crowds.
* Ecclesiophobia Fear of church.
F
* Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia Fear of fever.
* Felinophobia Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
* Francophobia Fear of France or French culture.
G
* Gamophobia Fear of marriage.
* Genuphobia Fear of knees.
* Glossophobia Fear of speaking in public.
* Gynophobia Fear of women.
* Geliophobia Fear of laughter.
* Geniophobia Fear of chins.
* Genophobia Fear of sex.
* Genuphobia Fear of knees.
* Gymnophobia Fear of nudity.
H
* Heliophobia Fear of the sun.
* Hemophobia Fear of blood.
* Herpetophobia Fear of reptiles.
* Hippophobia Fear of horses.
* Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Fear of long words.
* Hobophobia Fear of bums or beggars.
* Hodophobia Fear of road travel.
* Hormephobia Fear of shock.
* Homichlophobia Fear of fog.
* Homilophobia Fear of sermons.
* Hominophobia Fear of men.
* Hydrophobia Fear of water.
I
* Iatrophobia Fear of doctors.
* Insectophobia Fear of insects.
* Ichthyophobia Fear of fish.
* Ideophobia Fear of ideas.
* Illyngophobia Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
* Iophobia Fear of poison
J
* Japanophobia Fear of Japanese.
* Judeophobia Fear of Jews.
K
* Koinoniphobia Fear of rooms.
* Katagelophobia Fear of ridicule.
* Kathisophobia Fear of sitting down.
* Kenophobia Fear of voids or empty spaces.
* Kopophobia Fear of fatigue.
* Koniophobia Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
* Kosmikophobia Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
* Kymophobia Fear of waves. (Cymophobia)
* Kynophobia Fear of rabies.
* Kyphophobia Fear of stooping
L
* Leukophobia Fear of the color white.
* Lockiophobia Fear of childbirth.
* Ligyrophobia Fear of loud noises.
* Lilapsophobia Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
* Limnophobia Fear of lakes.
* Linonophobia Fear of string.
* Liticaphobia Fear of lawsuits.
M
* Mageirocophobia Fear of cooking.
* Melanophobia Fear of the color black.
* Microphobia Fear of small things.
* Mysophobia Fear of dirt and germs.
* Misophobia or Mysophobia Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
* Mnemophobia Fear of memories.
* Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia Fear of dirt or contamination.
* Monophobia Fear of solitude or being alone.
* Monopathophobia Fear of definite disease.
* Motorphobia Fear of automobiles.
* Mottephobia Fear of moths.
* Musophobia or Muriphobia Fear of mice.
N
* Necrophobia Fear of death or dead things.
* Noctiphobia Fear of the night.
* Novercaphobia Fear of your step
* Nucleomituphobia Fear of nuclear weapons.
* Nudophobia Fear of nudity.
* Numerophobia Fear of numbers.
* Nephophobia Fear of clouds.
* Nosocomephobia Fear of hospitals.
O
* Obesophobia Fear of gaining weight.
* Octophobia Fear of the figure 8.
* Ombrophobia Fear of rain.
* Oneirophobia Fear of dreams.
* Oneirogmophobia Fear of wet dreams.
* Onomatophobia Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
* Ophidiophobia Fear of snakes.
* Ornithophobia Fear of birds.
* Ochlophobia Fear of crowds.
* Ochophobia Fear of vehicles.
P
* Papyrophobia Fear of paper.
* Pathophobia Fear of disease.
* Pedophobia Fear of children.
* Philophobia Fear of love.
* Phobophobia Fear of phobias.
* Podophobia Fear of feet.
* Patroiophobia Fear of heredity.
* Parturiphobia Fear of childbirth.
* Porphyrophobia Fear of the color purple.
* Pteridophobia Fear of ferns.
* Pteromerhanophobia Fear of flying.
* Pyrophobia Fear of fire.
R
* Ranidaphobia Fear of frogs.
* Rectophobia Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
* Rhypophobia Fear of defecation.
* Rhytiphobia Fear of getting wrinkles.
* Rupophobia Fear of dirt.
S
* Scolionophobia Fear of school.
* Selenophobia Fear of the moon.
* Sociophobia Fear of social evaluation.
* Somniphobia Fear of sleep.
* Scotomaphobia Fear of blindness in visual field.
* Scotophobia Fear of darkness.
* Scriptophobia Fear of writing in public.
* Selachophobia Fear of sharks.
* s Selaphobia Fear of light flashes.
* Selenophobia Fear of the moon.
* Seplophobia Fear of decaying matter.
* s Sesquipedalophobia Fear of long words.
* Sexophobia Fear of the opposite sex.
* Soteriophobia Fear of dependence on others.
* Spacephobia Fear of outer space.
* Spectrophobia Fear of specters or ghosts.
* Spermatophobia Fear of germs.
* Spheksophobia Fear of wasps.
* Stasibasiphobia Fear of standing or walking.
* Staurophobia Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
* Stenophobia Fear of narrow things or places.
* Stygiophobia Fear of hell.
* Suriphobia Fear of mice.
* Symbolophobia Fear of symbolism.
* Symmetrophobia Fear of symmetry.
* Syngenesophobia Fear of relatives.
T
* Tachophobia Fear of speed.
* Technophobia Fear of technology.
* Tonitrophobia Fear of thunder.
* Trypanophobia Fear of injections.
* Taeniophobia or Teniophobia Fear of tapeworms.
* Taphephobia Taphophobia Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
* Tapinophobia Fear of being contagious.
* Taurophobia Fear of bulls.
* 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.
* Tuberculophobia Fear of tuberculosis.
* Tyrannophobia Fear of tyrants.
U
* Uranophobia or Ouranophobia Fear of heaven.
* Urophobia Fear of urine or urinating.
V
* Venustraphobia Fear of beautiful women.
* Verminophobia Fear of germs.
* Vaccinophobia Fear of vaccination.
* Verbophobia Fear of words.
* Vestiphobia Fear of clothing.
* Virginitiphobia Fear of rape.
* Vitricophobia Fear of step
W
* Wiccaphobia Fear of witches and witchcraft.
* Walloonphobia Fear of the Walloons.
X
* Xenophobia Fear of strangers or foreigners.
* Xanthophobia Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
* Xenoglossophobia Fear of foreign languages.
* Xyrophobia Fear of razors.
* Xerophobia Fear of dryness.
Z
* Zoophobia Fear of animals.
* Zelophobia Fear of jealousy.
* Zeusophobia Fear of God or gods.
* Zemmiphobia Fear of the great mole rat.
Ablutophobia Fear of washing or bathing
Achluphobia Fear of darkness
Acousticophobia Fear of noise
Acrophobia Fear of heights
Aeroacrophobia Fear of open, high spaces
Aeronausiphobia Fear of airsickness
Aerophobia Fear of drafts, air, gases
Agoraphobia Fear of open spaces
Agraphobia Fear of sexual abuse
Agrizoophobia Fear of wild animals
Agyiophobia Fear of being in the street
Aichmophobia Fear of needles and other pointed objects
Ailurophobia Fear of cats
Algophobia Fear of pain
Amathophobia Fear of dust
Ambulophobia Fear of walking or riding in vehicles
Androphobia Fear of men
Anthrophobia Fear of people or human society
Antlophobia Fear of floods
Anuptaphobia Fear of staying single
Aphenphobia Fear of being touched
Apiphobia Fear of bees
Arachnophobia Fear of spiders
Arsonphobia Fear of fire
Asthenophobia Fear of fainting
Astraphobia Fear of lightning
Atychiphobia Fear of failure
Autophobia Fear of being alone
Aviatophobia Fear of flying
Bacteriophobia Fear of bacteria
Basiphobia Fear of walking
Bathophobia Fear of depths
Batrachophobia Fear of frogs
Bibliophobia Fear of books
Bogyphobia Fear of bogeymen
Brontophobia Fear of thunder
Cacomorphobia Fear of fat
Cacophobia Fear of ugliness
Cainophobia Fear of newness, novelty
Caligynephobia Fear of beautiful women
Cardiophobia Fear of heart disease
Carnophobia Fear of meat
Catagelophobia Fear of being ridiculed
Catapedaphobia Fear of jumping from high to low places
Cenophobia Fear of empty rooms
Chaetophobia Fear of hair or hairy objects
Cheimaphobia Fear of the cold
Chionophobia Fear of snow
Chorophobia Fear of dancing
Chrematophobia Fear of money
Chromatophobia Fear of colors
Cibophobia Fear of food
Claustrophobia Fear of confined spaces
Climacophobia Fear of climbing stairs
Clinophobia Fear of going to bed
Coimetrophobia Fear of cemeteries
Coitophoiba Fear of sexual intercourse
Contreltophobia Fear of sexual abuse
Coprastasophobia Fear of constipation
Coprophobia Fear of dirt or feces
Coprastasophobia Fear of constipation
Coulrophoiba Fear of clowns
Cremnophobia Fear of precipices or cliffs
Cryophobia Fear of extreme cold
Cyberphobia Fear of computers
Cyclophobia Fear of bicycles
Cymophobia Fear of waves
Cynophobia Fear of dogs
Cyprianophobia Fear of prostitutes
Decidophobia Fear of making decisions
Defecalgesiophobia Fear of having painful bowel movements
Deipnophobia Fear of dining
Demonophobia Fear of demons
Dendrophobia Fear of trees
Dentophobia Fear of dentists
Dermatopathophobia Fear of sking disease
Diabetophobia Fear of diabetes
Didaskaleinophobia Fear of going to school
Dinophobia Fear of dizziness
Dipsophobia Fear of drinking
Dishabillophobia Fear of undressing in front of someone
Domatophobia Fear of being in a house
Dromophobia Fear of crosssing streets
Dysmorphophobia Fear of a bodily defect not noticeable to others
Dystychiphobia Fear of accidents
Ecclesiaphobia Fear of churches, organized religions
Eisoptrophobia Fear of mirrors
Eleutherophobia Fear of freedom
Emetophobia Fear of vomiting
Enochophobia Fear of crowds
Entomophobia Fear of insects
Epistaxiphobia Fear of nosebleeds
Equinophobia Fear of horses
Eremophobia Fear of being oneself
Ergophobia Fear of work
Erythrophobia Fear of blushing
Esodophobia Fear of losing virginity
Eurotophobia Fear of female genitalia
Fibriophobia Fear of fever
Frigophobia Fear of cold things
Gamophobia Fear of marriage
Geliophobia Fear of laughter
Gephyrophobia Fear of bridges
Gerascophobia Fear of growing old
Geumaphobia Fear of tastes
Glossophobia Fear of speaking in public
Graphophobia Fear of writing
Gymnophobia Fear of naked bodies
Gynephobia Fear of women
Hamartophobia Fear of committing an error
Harpaxophobia Fear of becoming a victim of robbery
Hedonophobia Fear of pleasure
Heliophobia Fear of sunlight
Helminthophobia Fear of worms
Hematophobia Fear of blood or sight of blood
Herpetophobia Fear of snakes and reptiles
Heterophobia Fear of opposite sex
Hobophobia Fear of bums
Hodophobia Fear of travel
Homiclophobia Fear of fog
Hoplophobia Fear of firearms
Hormephobia Fear of shock
Hydrophobia Fear of water
Hygrophobia Fear of dampness
Hylephobia Fear of epilepsy
Hylophobia Fear of forests
Hypengyophobia Fear of responsibility
Hypnophobia Fear of being hypnotized
Hyprophobia Fear of sleep
Icthyophobia Fear of fish
Ideaphobia Fear of ideas
Illyngophobia Fear of vertigo, feeling dizzy looking down
Iophobia Fear of poisons
Isolophobia Fear of solitude or being alone
Isopterophobia Fear of termites
Kakorrhaphiophobia Fear of failure
Katagelophobia Fear of being ridiculed
Kathisophobia Fear of sitting down
Kleptophobia Fear of stealing
Lachanophobia Fear of vegetables
Lalophobia Fear of stuttering or speaking
Leprophobia Fear of leprosy
Leukophobia Fear of color white
Ligyrophobia Fear of noise
Lilapsophobia Fear of hurricanes or tornadoes
Limophobia Fear of lakes
Litigaphobia Fear of litigation or lawsuits
Lockiophobia Fear of childbirth
Logophobia Fear of words
Lunaphobia Fear of the moon
Lutraphobia Fear of otters
Lygophobia Fear of being in dark or gloomy places
Lyssophobia Fear of becoming insane
Macrophobia Fear of long waits
Mageirocophobia Fear of cooking
Mastigophobia Fear of punishment
Mechanophobia Fear of machinery
Megalophobia Fear of large objects
Melissophobia Fear of bears
Meningitophobia Fear of brain diseases
Menophobia Fear of menstruation
Merinthophobia Fear of being tied up
Meteorphobia Fear of meteors
Methyphobia Fear of alcohol
Misophobia Fear of contamination with dirt or germs
Monophobia Fear of being lonely
Motorphobia Fear of automobiles
Musophobia Fear of mice
Mycrophobia Fear of small things
Necrophobia Fear of corpses or dead bodies
Nephophobia Fear of clouds
Noctiphobia Fear of night
Nosophobia Fear of illness
Novercaphophobia Fear of stepmother
Nucleomitophobia Fear of nuclear weapons
Obesophobia Fear of gaining weight
Odonophobia Fear of teeth
Odynesophobia Fear of pain
Olfactophobia Fear of odors
Ombrophobia Fear of rain
Oneirogmophobia Fear of wet dreams
Oneirophobia Fear of dreams
Ornithopia Fear of birds
Ouranophobia Fear of heaven
Pagophobia Fear of ice or frost
Panphobia Fear of anything and everything
Panthophobia Fear of suffering
Papaphobia Fear of the Pope
Papyrophobia Fear of paper
Parasitophobia Fear of parasites
Paraskavedekatriaphobia Fear of Friday the 13th
Pareunophobia Fear of sex
Pathophobia Fear of illness
Peccatiphobia Fear of sinning
Pediaphobia Fear of dolls
Pediculophobia Fear of lice
Peladophobia Fear of bald people or becoming bald
Peniaphobia Fear of poverty
Pentheraphobia Fear of one's mother-in-law
Phagophobia Fear of eating or swallowing
Pharmacophobia Fear of taking drugs or medicine
Phasmophobia Fear of ghosts
Philemaphobia Fear of kissing
Philophobia Fear of love
Phobophobia Fear of fears
Phonophobia Fear of speaking aloud, speaking one's own voice
Photoaugiaphobia Fear of glaring lights
Pnigophobia Fear of choking
Pogonophobia Fear of beards
Politicophobia Fear of politicians
Potamophobia Fear of rivers
Proctophobia Fear of rectal diseases
Pterophobia Fear of feathers, birds
Pyrexiophobia Fear of having a fever
Pyrophobia Fear of fire
Radiophobia Fear of X-rays
Rhytiphobia Fear of getting wrinkles
Satanophobia Fear of Satan
Scolionophobia Fear of school
Sciaphobia Fear of shadows
Scopophobia Fear of being stared at
Selaphobia Fear of flashing lights
Shamhainophobia Fear of Halloween
Sitophobia Fear of eating or the sight of food
Sominphobia Fear of sleep
Soteriophobia Fear of dependence on others
Spheksophobia Fear of wasps
Stygiophobia Fear of Hell
Suriphobia Fear of mice
Syngenesophobia Fear of relatives
Tabophobia Fear of wasting sickness
Tacophobia Fear of speed
Taphophobia Fear of being buried alive
Testophobia Fear of taking tests
Thanatophobia Fear of death
Theophobia Fear of God
Termophobia Fear of heat, being too warm
Tomophobia Fear of surgical operations
Toxicophobia Fear of poison
Urophobia Fear of urinating
Vacciniophobia Fear of vaccinations
Vestiphobia Fear of clothing
Virgivitiphobia Fear of rape
Vitricophobia Fear of stepfather
Xenophobia Fear of strangers
Xerophobia Fear of dryness
Zelophobia Fear of jealousy
Zoophobia Fear of animals
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