-phobia

Template:Table Suffixes The English suffix -phobia is technically used to describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder, and commonly misused to describe hatred of a particular thing or subject. Everyday language has misused the use of this suffix as a mild or irrational fear with no serious substance; however, its origin is from areas of psychiatry which study serious phobias which disable a person's life. For more information on the psychiatric side of this, including how psychiatry groups phobias as "agoraphobia", "social phobia", or "simple phobia", see phobia.

The following is a list of words ending in -phobia, or a list of fears that have been given names. In most instances the words listed here are neologisms (made-up words) coined to demonstrate a grasp of Greek word roots rather than descriptions of an actual condition. Only a few of the following terms occur in the medical literature. In many cases, the naming of phobias is a word game.

Most of these terms were devised by adding the suffix -phobia to a Greek word for the object of the fear (some use a combination of a Latin root with the Greek suffix, which some consider linguistically impure).

Some claim that an attempt to create a list of phobias is an irrational endeavor because, theoretically, a person could be conditioned to be afraid of literally anything. See also the phobias category.

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A

  • Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing.
  • Acarophobia - Fear of itching or of insects whose bites cause itching.
  • Acerophobia - Fear of sourness.
  • Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Nyctophobia, Scotophobia - Fear of darkness.
  • Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
  • Acrophobia, Altophobia - Fear of heights.
  • Aerophobia - Fear of drafts, air swallowing or airborne noxious substances.
  • Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places.
  • Aeronausiphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
  • Afrophobia, fear or dislike of Africans or African culture or people of African ancestry
  • Agateophobia, Dementophobia, Maniaphobia - Fear of insanity.
  • Agliophobia, Algophobia, Odynophobia, Odynephobia - Fear of pain.
  • Agoraphobia - Fear of the outdoors, crowds or uncontrolled social conditions.
  • Agraphobia, Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse.
  • Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals.
  • Agyrophobia, Dromophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street.
  • Aibohphobia - Fear of palindromes (not necessarily an actual word; aiboh is not of course Greek or Latin for Palindrome, but is simply intended to make the word itself palindromic)
  • Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
  • Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia - Fear of cats.
  • Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease.
  • Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
  • Alliumphobia - the abnormal fear of garlic that may extend to a variety of plants characterized by their pungent odor including onions, leeks, chives, and shallots. Allium is the onion genus.
  • Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.
  • Amathophobia, Koniophobia - Fear of dust.
  • Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
  • Ambulophobia, Stasibasiphobia, Stasiphobia - Fear of walking or standing.
  • Amerophobia, Columbophobia - Fear of the United States, American culture, etc.
  • Amnesiphobia - Fear of amnesia.
  • Amychophobia - Fear of scratches or being scratched.
  • Anablephobia - Fear of looking up.
  • Ancraophobia, Anemophobia - Fear of wind.
  • Androphobia, Arrhenphobia, Hominophobia - Fear of men.
  • Anemophobia - Fear of air.
  • Anginophobia - Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
  • Anglophobia - Fear of England, English culture, etc.
  • Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
  • Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint.
  • Anthrophobia, Anthophobia - Fear of flowers.
  • Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
  • Antidaeophobia - Fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you (fictional, from Gary Larson cartoon).
  • Antlophobia - Fear of floods.
  • Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single.
  • Apeirophobia - Fear of infinity.
  • Aphenphosmphobia, Chiraptophobia, Haphephobia, Haptephobia - Fear of being touched.
  • Apiphobia, Melissaphobia, Melissophobia - Fear of bees.
  • Apotemnophobia - Fear of persons with amputations.
  • Aquaphobia - Fear of water, specifically the morbid fear of drowning.
  • Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
  • Arcanophobia - Fear of magic
  • Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
  • Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
  • Arsonphobia, Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.
  • Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness.
  • Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning. It is especially common in young children.
  • Astrophobia - Fear of stars and celestial space.
  • Asymmetriphobia - Fear of asymmetry.
  • Ataxiophobia - Fear of ataxia.
  • Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
  • Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
  • Atephobia - Fear of ruin or ruins.
  • Athazagoraphobia - Fear of being forgotten, ignored or forgetting.
  • Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions.
  • Atychiphobia, Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure.
  • Aulophobia - Fear of flutes.
  • Aurophobia - Fear of gold.
  • Auroraphobia - Fear of the Northern Lights or for Chileans, Argentinians, Falkland Islanders or Antarctic explorers, fear of the Southern Lights.
  • Australophobia, Novahollandiaphobia - Fear of Australia, Australians, Australian culture etc.
  • Autodysomophobia - Fear that one has a vile odour.
  • Automatonophobia - Fear of any inanimate object that represents a sentient being, eg. statues, dummies, robots, etc.
  • Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty.
  • Autophobia, Eremophobia, Ermitophibia, Isolophobia, Monophobia - Fear of being alone or fear of oneself.
  • Aviophobia, Aviatophobia, Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.

B

  • Bacillophobia, Microbiophobia - Fear of microbes.
  • Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
  • Ballistophobia - Fear of missiles or bullets.
  • Barophobia - Fear of loss of gravity.
  • Basophobia, Basiphobia - Fear of walking or falling.
  • Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
  • Bathophobia - Fear of depth.
  • Batophobia - Fear of heights or of being close to high buildings.
  • Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians.
  • Belonephobia - Fear of sharply pointed objects, such as needles.
  • Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
  • Blennophobia, Myxophobia - Fear of slime.
  • Botanophobia - Fear of plants.
  • Briophobia- Fear of the human foot.
  • Bromidrosiphobia, Bromidrophobia - Fear of body odours.
  • Brontophobia, Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.
  • Bufonophobia - Fear of toads.

C

  • Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
  • Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia, Neophobia - Fear of newness, novelty.
  • Caligynephobia, Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
  • Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer.
  • Carbophobia - Fear of carbohydrates (e.g. Atkins diet).
  • Cardiophobia - Fear of heart disease.
  • Carnophobia - Fear of meat.
  • Catagelophobia, Katagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed.
  • Cathisophobia, Kathisophobia, Thaasophobia - Fear of sitting.
  • Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
  • Cenophobia - Fear of empty rooms.
  • Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, Hypertrichophobia - Fear of hair.
  • Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia - Fear of cold.
  • Chelonaphobia - Fear of turtles.
  • Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
  • Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety.
  • Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
  • Chirophobia - Fear of hands.
  • Chlorophobia - Fear of the colour green.
  • Cholerophobia - Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
  • Chorophobia - Fear of dancing.
  • Christophobia - Fear of Christianity
  • Chrometophobia, Chrematophobia - Fear of money.
  • Chromophobia, Chromatophobia - Fear of colours.
  • Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
  • Chronophobia - Fear of time.
  • Chrysophobia - Fear or the color orange.
  • Cibophobia, Sitophobia, Sitiophobia - Fear of food.
  • Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia - Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
  • Cleptophobia, Kleptophobia - Fear of stealing.
  • Clithrophobia, Cleithrophobia - Fear of being enclosed.
  • Cnidophobia - Fear of stings.
  • Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries.
  • Coitophobia, Genophobia - Fear of coitus.
  • Cometophobia - Fear of comets.
  • Coprastasophobia - Fear of constipation.
  • Coprophobia, Fecophobia, Scatophobia - Fear of feces.
  • Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
  • Counterphobia - The preference by a phobic person for fearful situations.
  • Cremnophobia - Fear of precipices.
  • Cryophobia - Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
  • Crystallophobia - Fear of crystals or glass.
  • Cyanophobia - Fear of the colour blue.
  • Cyberphobia, Logizomechanophobia - Fear of computers or working on a computer.
  • Cyclophobia - Fear of bicycles.
  • Cymophobia, Kymophobia - Fear of waves or wave-like motions.
  • Cynophobia - Fear of dogs or rabies.
  • Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.
  • Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
  • Climacophobia - Fear of stairs or of climbing or falling down stairs.
  • Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed.

D

  • Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions.
  • Defecaloesiophobia - Fear of painful bowel movements.
  • Deipnophobia - Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
  • Demonophobia, Daemonophobia - Fear of demons.
  • Demophobia, Enochlophobia, Ochlophobia - Fear of crowds.
  • Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
  • Dentophobia - Fear of dentists and dental procedures.
  • Dermatophobia - Fear of skin lesions.
  • Dermatosiophobia, Dermatophobia, Dermatopathophobia - Fear of skin disease.
  • Dextrophobia - Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
  • Diabetophobia - Fear of diabetes.
  • Didaskaleinophobia, Scolionophobia - Fear of going to school.
  • Dikephobia - Fear of justice.
  • Dinophobia - Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
  • Diplophobia - Fear of double vision.
  • Dipsophobia - Fear of drinking.
  • Dishabiliophobia - Fear of undressing in front of someone.
  • Domatophobia, Eicophobia, Oikophobia - Fear of houses or being in a house.
  • Doraphobia - Fear of fur or the skins of animals.
  • Doxophobia - Fear of expressing opinions or receiving praise.
  • Dutchphobia - Fear of the Dutch.
  • Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity.
  • Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.

E

  • Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church.
  • Ecophobia - Fear of home.
  • Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
  • Electrophobia - Fear of electricity.
  • Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom.
  • Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting.
  • Enetophobia - Fear of pins.
  • Enosiophobia, Enissophobia - Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
  • Entomophobia, Insectophobia - Fear of insects. (Also the orchid genus Entomophobia)
  • Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or daylight.
  • Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.
  • Epistaxiophobia - Fear of nosebleeds.
  • Epistemophobia, Gnosiophobia - Fear of knowledge.
  • Epistolophobia - Fear of writing letters
  • Equinophobia, Hippophobia - Fear of horses.
  • Ereuthrophobia, Erythrophobia, Erytophobia - Fear of blushing, red lights, or the colour red.
  • Ergasiophobia - Fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
  • Ergophobia - Fear of work.
  • Ermitophobia - Fear of being alone, loneliness.
  • Erotophobia - Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
  • Erythrophobia - Fear of blushing or the color red.
  • Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.
  • Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia.
  • Europhobia - Fear of Europe, Europeans, or alternatively, the European Union.

F

  • Fearaphobia - Fear of the word fear.
  • Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Fibriophobia, Pyrexiophobia - Fear of fever.
  • Fecophobia, Coprophobia, Scatophobia - Fear of feces.
  • Ferrumphobia - Fear of Iron and objects made of iron.
  • Francophobia, Gallophobia, Galiophobia - Fear of France, French culture, etc.
  • Frigophobia - Fear of very cold objects.

G

  • Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.
  • Galeophobia - Fear of sharks.
  • Gatophobia - Fear of cats.
  • Geliophobia - Fear of laughter.
  • Geniophobia - Fear of chins.
  • Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
  • Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, Gephyrdrophobia, Gephysrophobia - Fear of crossing bridges.
  • Gerascophobia - Fear of growing old.
  • Germanophobia, Teutophobia - Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.
  • Gerontophobia - Fear of old people or of growing old.
  • Geumaphobia, Geumophobia - Fear of taste.
  • Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
  • Globophobia - Fear of balloons
  • Graphophobia - Fear of writing or handwriting.
  • Gymnophobia, Nudophobia - Fear of nudity.
  • Gynephobia, Gynophobia - Fear of women.

H

  • Hadephobia, Stygiophobia, Stigiophobia - Fear of hell.
  • Haemophobia - Fear of blood and bleeding.
  • Hagiophobia - Fear of saints or holy things.
  • Hamartophobia, Peccatophobia - Fear of sinning.
  • Haptophobia - Fear of being touched.
  • Harpaxophobia - Fear of being robbed.
  • Hedonophobia - Fear of feeling pleasure.
  • Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
  • Hellenologophobia - Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
  • Helminthophobia - Fear of being infested with worms.
  • Hemophobia, Hemaphobia, Hematophobia - Fear of blood or bleeding.
  • Heresyphobia, Hereiophobia - Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
  • Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.
  • Heterophobia, Sexophobia - Fear of the opposite sex.
  • Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666.
  • Hierophobia - Fear of priests or sacred things.
  • Hippophobia - Fear of horses.
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, Sesquipedalophobia - Fear of long words.
  • Hodophobia - Fear of road travel.
  • Hormephobia - Fear of shock.
  • Homichlophobia, Nebulaphobia - Fear of fog.
  • Homilophobia - Fear of sermons.
  • Homophobia - Fear of sameness, monotony, homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
  • Hoplophobia - Fear of firearms.
  • Hydrargyophobia - Fear of mercurial medicines.
  • Hydrophobia - Fear of water, a symptom of rabies.
  • Hydrophobophobia, Kynophobia - Fear of rabies.
  • Hyelophobia, Hyalophobia, Nelophobia - Fear of glass.
  • Hygrophobia - Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
  • Hylephobia - Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
  • Hylophobia - Fear of forests.
  • Hypegiaphobia, Hypengyophobia - Fear of responsibility.
  • Hypengyophobia - Fear of responsibility.
  • Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
  • Hypsiphobia - Fear of height.

I

  • Iatrophobia - Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
  • Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish.
  • Iconophobia - Fear of images or icons.
  • Ideophobia - Fear of ideas.
  • Illyngophobia - Fear of vertigo.
  • Insulaphobia - Fear of being isolated, or alternatively, fear of islands
  • Iophobia - Fear of poison.
  • Islamophobia - Fear of Islam.
  • Isopterophobia - Fear of termites or other insects that eat wood.
  • Ithyphallophobia - Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

J

K

  • Kainophobia - Fear of novelty
  • Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces.
  • Keraunophobia - Fear of lightning.
  • Kinetophobia, Kinesophobia - Fear of movement or motion.
  • Klismaphobia - Fear of Enemas.
  • Kneemaphobia - Fear of the knee bending backwards.
  • Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.
  • Kolpophobia - Fear of genitals, particularly female.
  • Kopophobia - Fear of fatigue.
  • Kosmikophobia - Fear of cosmic phenomena.
  • Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping.

L

  • Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables.
  • Laliophobia, Lalophobia - Fear of speaking.
  • Leporiphobia - Fear of rabbits.
  • Leprophobia, Lepraphobia - Fear of leprosy.
  • Leukophobia - Fear of the colour white.
  • Levophobia - Fear of things to the left side of the body.
  • Librophobia - Fear of having to balance.
  • Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises.
  • Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
  • Limnophobia - Fear of lakes.
  • Linonophobia - Fear of string.
  • Liticaphobia - Fear of lawsuits.
  • Lockiophobia, Maieusiophobia, Parturiphobia - Fear of childbirth.
  • Logophobia - Fear of words.
  • Luiphobia, Syphilophobia - Fear of syphilis.
  • Lutraphobia - Fear of otters.
  • Lyssophobia - Fear of rabies or of becoming insane.

M

  • Macroxenoglossophobia - Fear of long, strange words.
  • Macrophobia - Fear of long waits.
  • Maimouphobia, Pithikosophobia - Fear of monkeys.
  • Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
  • Malaxophobia, Sarmassophobia - Fear of love play.
  • Maniaphobia - Fear of going insane.
  • Maserphobia - Fear of Singaporeans, the mixed culture of Singapore.
  • Mastigophobia, Poinephobia - Fear of punishment.
  • Mechanophobia - Fear of machines.
  • Medomalacuphobia - Fear of losing an erection.
  • Medorthophobia - Fear of an erect penis.
  • Megalophobia - Fear of large objects.
  • Melanophobia - Fear of the colour black.
  • Melophobia - Fear or hatred of music.
  • Meningitophobia - Fear of brain disease.
  • Menophobia - Fear of menstruation.
  • Merinthophobia - Fear of being bound or tied up.
  • Metallophobia - Fear of metal.
  • Metathesiophobia - Fear of changes.
  • Meteorophobia - Fear of meteors.
  • Methyphobia, Potophobia - Fear of alcohol.
  • Metrophobia - Fear or hatred of poetry.
  • Microphobia, Mycrophobia - Fear of small objects.
  • Misophobia, Molysmophobia, Molysomophobia, Mysophobia, Verminophobia - Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
  • Mnemophobia - Fear of memories.
  • Monophobia - Fear of being alone, or of feeling alone.
  • Monopathophobia - Fear of a specific disease.
  • Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles.
  • Mottephobia - Fear of moths.
  • Musophobia, Murophobia, Suriphobia - Fear of mice and/or rats.
  • Mycophobia - Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
  • Myrmecophobia - Fear of ants.
  • Mysophobia - Fear of dirt.
  • Mythophobia - Fear of myths, stories or false statements.

N

  • Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
  • Neopharmaphobia - Fear of new drugs.
  • Neophobia - Fear of the new.
  • Nephophobia - Fear of clouds.
  • Nihilophobia - Fear of (absolutely) nothing.
  • Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.
  • Nomatophobia - Fear of names.
  • Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.
  • Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia - Fear of becoming ill.
  • Nostophobia - Fear of returning home.
  • Novercaphobia - Fear of one's stepmother.
  • Nucleomituphobia - Fear of nuclear weapons.
  • Numerophobia - Fear of numbers.
  • Nyctohylophobia - Fear of dark, wooded areas.
  • Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark, of night or of nightfall.

O

  • Obesophobia, Pocrescophobia - Fear of gaining weight.
  • Ochophobia - Fear of vehicles.
  • Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
  • Odontophobia - Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
  • Oenophobia - Fear of wine.
  • Oicophobia - Fear of houses.
  • Olfactophobia, Osmophobia, Osphresiophobia - Fear of smells.
  • Ombrophobia, Pluviophobia - Fear of rain or of being rained on.
  • Ommetaphobia, Ommatophobia - Fear of eyes.
  • Oneirophobia - Fear of dreams.
  • Oneirogmophobia - Fear of wet dreams.
  • Onomatophobia - Fear of hearing certain words or names.
  • Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes.
  • Ophthalmophobia - Fear of being stared at.
  • Opiophobia - A medical doctor's fear of prescribing pain medications for patients.
  • Optophobia - Fear of opening one's eyes.
  • Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.
  • Ortographobia - Fear of spelling mistakes.
  • Orthophobia - Fear of property.
  • Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish.
  • Ouranophobia, Uranophobia - Fear of heaven.

P

  • Pagophobia - Fear of ice or frost.
  • Panthophobia - Fear of suffering and disease.
  • Panophobia, Pantophobia - Fear of everything.
  • Papaphobia - Fear of the Pope.
  • 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.
  • Parthenophobia - Fear of virgins or young girls.
  • Pathophobia - Fear of disease.
  • Patroiophobia - Fear of heredity.
  • Pediculophobia, Phthiriophobia - Fear of lice.
  • Pediophobia - Fear of dolls.
  • Pediphobia, 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 swallowing, eating or of being eaten.
  • Phalacrophobia - Fear of becoming bald.
  • Phallophobia - Fear of a penis, esp. erect.
  • Pharmacophobia - Fear of taking medicine.
  • Phasmophobia, Spectrophobia - Fear of ghosts.
  • Phengophobia - Fear of daylight or sunshine.
  • Philemaphobia, Philematophobia - Fear of kissing.
  • Philophobia - Fear of falling in love or being in love.
  • Philosophobia - Fear of philosophy.
  • Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.
  • Phobophobiaphobia - Fear of fear of phobias.
  • Photoaugliaphobia - Fear of glaring lights.
  • Photophobia - Fear of light (also refers to aversion to light due to an inflamed/painful eye or excessively dilated pupils)
  • Phonophobia - Fear of noises, voices, one's own voice or of telephones.
  • Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking.
  • Phthisiophobia, Tuberculophobia - Fear of tuberculosis.
  • Placophobia - Fear of tombstones.
  • Plutophobia - Fear of wealth.
  • Pneumatiphobia - Fear of spirits.
  • Pnigophobia, Pnigerophobia - Fear of choking or being smothered.
  • Pogonophobia, Pognophobia - Fear of beards.
  • Poliosophobia - Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
  • Politicophobia - Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
  • Polonophobia - Hatred of Poles.
  • Polyphobia - Having many phobias.
  • Ponophobia - Fear of overworking or of pain.
  • Porphyrophobia - Fear of the colour purple.
  • Potamophobia - Fear of rivers or running water.
  • Pharmacophobia - Fear of drugs.
  • Proctophobia, Rectophobia - Fear of the rectum or of rectal diseases.
  • Prosophobia - Fear of progress.
  • Psellismophobia - Fear of stuttering.
  • Psychophobia - Fear of the mind.
  • Pteronophobia - Fear of being tickled by feathers.
  • Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
  • Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.

Q

  • Quadraphobia - Fear of quartets or of being drawn and quartered.
  • Quadrataphobia - Fear of quadratic equations.

R

  • Radiophobia - Fear of radiation or X-rays.
  • Ranidaphobia - Fear of frogs.
  • Retrophobia - Fear of old things or traveling back in time.
  • Retterophobia - Fear of wrongly chosen letters.
  • Rhabdophobia - Fear of being severely punished or beaten with a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.
  • Rhinophobia - Fear of noses.
  • Rhodophobia - Fear of the colour red.
  • Rhypophobia - Fear of defecation.
  • Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles.
  • Rupophobia - Fear of dirt.
  • Russophobia - Fear of Russians.

S

  • Samhainophobia - Fear of Halloween.
  • Satanophobia, Orcusophobia - Fear of Satan.
  • Scabiophobia - Fear of scabies.
  • Scatophobia, Fecophobia, Coprophobia - Fear of feces.
  • Scelerophibia - Fear of bad men, burglars.
  • Sciophobia, Sciaphobia - Fear of shadows.
  • Scoleciphobia, Vermiphobia - Fear of worms.
  • Scopophobia, Scoptophobia - Fear of being seen or stared at.
  • Scotomaphobia - Fear of blindness in visual field.
  • Scriptophobia - Fear of writing in public.
  • Sedatephobia - Fear of silence.
  • Selachophobia - Fear of sharks.
  • Selaphobia - Fear of light flashes.
  • Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
  • Seplophobia - Fear of decaying matter.
  • Sesquipedalophobia - Fear of long words.
  • Siderodromophobia - Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
  • Siderophobia - Fear of stars.
  • Sitophobia - Fear of food.
  • Sinistrophobia - Fear of things to the left of oneself.
  • Sinophobia - Fear of the Chinese, Chinese culture, etc.
  • Soceraphobia - Fear of parents-in-law.
  • Sociophobia - Fear of society or people in general.
  • Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.
  • Sophophobia - Fear of learning.
  • Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others.
  • Spectrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
  • Spermatophobia or Spermophobia - Fear of sperm.
  • Spheksophobia - Fear of wasps.
  • Staurophobia - Fear of crosses or crucifixes.
  • Stenophobia - Fear of narrow things or places.
  • Stephanophobia - Fear of crowns
  • Suriphobia - Fear of mice.
  • Symbolophobia - Fear of symbolism.
  • Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry.
  • Syngenesophobia - Fear of relatives.
  • Syphiliphobia - Fear of syphilis.

T

  • Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
  • Taeniophobia, Teniophobia - Fear of tapeworms.
  • Taphephobia, Taphophobia - Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
  • Tapinophobia - Fear of being contagious.
  • Taurophobia - Fear of bulls.
  • Technophobia - Fear of technology.
  • Teleophobia - Fear of definite plans or of religious ceremony.
  • Telephonophobia - Fear of telephones.
  • Teratophobia - Fear of bearing a deformed child, of monsters or of deformed people.
  • Teratrophobia - Fear of monsters.
  • Terdekaphobia - Fear of the number 13.
  • Testophobia - Fear of taking tests.
  • Tetanophobia - Fear of tetanus or lockjaw.
  • Textophobia - Fear of certain fabrics.
  • Thalassophobia - Fear of the sea.
  • Thanatophobia, Thantophobia - Fear of death or dying.
  • 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.
  • Tonsurephobia - Fear of haircuts.
  • Topophobia - Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
  • Toxiphobia, Toxophobia, Toxicophobia - Fear of poison or of being accidentally poisoned.
  • Traumatophobia - Fear of injury.
  • Tremophobia - Fear of trembling.
  • Trichinophobia - Fear of trichinosis.
  • Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the number 13. Having a superstition.
  • Tropophobia - Fear of moving or making changes.
  • Turophobia - Fear of cheese.
  • Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.
  • Trypophobia - Fear of holes.
  • Tyrannophobia - Fear of tyrants.

U

  • Uranophobia - Fear of the heavens.
  • Urophobia - Fear of urine or urinating.

V

  • Vaccinophobia - Fear of vaccination.
  • Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
  • Verbophobia - Fear of words.
  • Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing.
  • Virginitiphobia - Fear of rape.
  • Vitricophobia - Fear of one's stepfather.
  • Vuteuthindion - Fear of picnics.

W

X

  • Xanthophobia - Fear of the colour yellow or the word yellow.
  • Xenoglossophobia - Fear of foreign languages.
  • Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners.
  • Xerophobia - Fear of dryness.
  • Xylophobia - Fear of wooden objects or fear of forests.
  • Xyrophobia - Fear of razors.

Y

  • Ymophobia - Fear of contrariety.

Z

  • Zoophobia - Fear of animals.

Phobias not named -phobia

  • Penis panic refers to a type of mass hysteria or panic where males grow fearful of removal or shrinking of the penis.
  • Taijin kyofusho (対人恐怖症, TKS, for taijin kyofusho symptoms), is a culture-bound syndrome (cultural disorder, or mental illness) (allegedly) specific to Japan. Fear of hurting or offending other people.
  • Castration anxiety

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