-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

• Nipponophobia - Fear of the Japanese.
• Judeophobia - Fear or hatred of Jews.

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

• Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft.

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

External link

• About.com's complete list of phobias (http://psychology.about.com/library/bl/blphobia_a.htm)pl:-fobia