A phobia for anything....
- Acarophobia - Fear of itching or of the insects which cause
itching
- Acerophobia - Fear of sourness
- Achluophobia - Fear of darkness
- Acousticophobia - Fear of noise
- Acrophobia - Fear of heights
- Aeorphobia - Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airborne
noxious substances
- Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places
- Agoraphopia - Fear of open places or of being in crowded,
public places like markets
- Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse
- Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals
- Agyrophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street
- Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects
- Ailurophobia - Fear of cats
- Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease
- Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens
- Algophobia - Fear of pain
- Alliumphobia - Fear of garlic
- Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions
- Altophobia - Fear of heights
- Amathophobia - Fear of dust
- Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car
- Ambulophobia - Fear of walking
- Amnesiphobia - Fear of amnesia
- Amychophobia - Fear of scratches or of being scratched
- Anablephobia - Fear of looking up
- Ancraophobia or Anemophobia - Fear of wind
- Androphobia - Fear of men (Arhenphobia)
- Anemophobia - Fear of air drafts or wind
- Anginophobia - Fear of angina, choking or narrowness
- Anglophobia - Fear of England, English culture, etc.
- Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint
- Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers
- Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society
- Antlophobia - Fear of floods
- Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single
- Apeirophobia - Fear of infinity
- Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched (Haphephobia)
- Apiphobia - Fear of bees
- Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof
of the mouth
- Arachnephobia - Fear of spiders
- Arithmphobia - Fear of numbers
- Arhenphobia - Fear of men (Androphobia)
- Arsonphobia - Fear of fire
- Asthenphobia - Fear of fainting or weakness
- Astraphobia or Astrapophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning
- Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection
- Atephobia - Fear of ruins
- Atychiphobia - Fear of failure
- Aulophobia - Fear of flutes
- Aurophobia - Fear of gold
- Auroraphobia - Fear of Northern Lights
- Autodysomophobia - Fear of one that has a vile odor
- Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty
- Autophobia - Fear of being alone or of oneself
- Aviophobia or Aviatohphobia - Fear of flying
- Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes
- Bacteriaphodia - Fear of bacteria
- Bogyphobia - Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman
- Ballistophobia - Fear of missiles or bullets
- Boshephobia - Fear of Bolsheviks
- Barophobia - Fear of gravity
- Basophobia or Basiphobia - Inability to stand. Fear of walking
or falling
- Bathophobia - Fear of depth
- Batonophobia - Fear of plants
- Batophobia - Fear of heights or of being close to high
buildings
- Batrachophobia - Fear of frogs
- Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles (Aichmophobia)
- Bibliophobia - Fear of books
- Blennophobia - Fear of slime
- Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia - Fear of body smells
- Brontophobia - Fear of thunder storms
- Cainophobia or Cainotophobia - Fear of newness, novelty
- Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women
- Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart
- Carnophobia - Fear of meat
- Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed
- Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places
- Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting
- Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors
- Cenophobia or Centophobia - Fear of empty roms, empty spaces
- Ceraunophobia - Fear of thunder
- Chaetophobia - Fear of hair
- Cheimaphobia or Chaeimatophobia - Fear of cold
- Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or of working with chemical
- Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety
- Chionophobia - Fear of snow
- Chorophobia - Fear of dancing
- Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia - Fear of money
- Chromophobia or Chromatophobia - Fear of colors
- Chronophobia - Fear of time
- Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia - Fear of food
- Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces
- Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophbia - Fear of being locked in an
enclosed place
- Cleptophobia - Fear of stealing
- Climacophobia - Fear of stairs, climbing or falling downstairs
- Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed
- Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia - Fear of being enclosed
- Cnidophobia - Fear of strings
- Cometophobia - Fear of comets
- Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries
- Coitrophobia - Fear of coitus
- Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse
- Coprastasophobia - Fear of constipation
- Coprophobia - Fear of feces
- Counterphobia - The preference by a phobic for fearful
situations
- Cremnophobia - Fear of precipices
- Cryophobia - Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost
- Crystallophobia - Fear of crystals or glass
- Cyberphobia - Fear of computers or working on a computer
- Cyclophobia - Fear of bicycles
- Cymophobia - Fear of waves or wave like motions
- Cynophobia - Fear of dogs
- Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia -
Fear of prostitutes
- Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions
- Defecaloesiophobia - Fear of painful bowel movements
- Deipnophobia - Fear of dining and dinner conversations
- Dementophobia - Fear of insanity
- Demonophobia or Daemonophobia - Fear of demons
- Demophobia - Fear of crowds (Agoraphobia)
- Dendrophobia - Fear of trees
- Dentophobia - Fear of dentists
- Dermatophobia - Fear of skin lesions
- Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia - Fear of skin disease
- Dectrophobia - Fear of objects at the right side of the body
- Diabetophobia - Fear of diabetes
- Didaskaleinophobia - 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 or Oikophobia - Fear of houses or being in a house
- Doroaphobia - Fear of fur or skins of animals
- Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets
- Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity
- Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents
- Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church
- Ecophobia - Fear of home
- Eicophobia or Oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings
- Eisotrophobia - Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a
mirror
- Electrophobia - Fear of electricity
- Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom
- Elurophobia - Fear of cats (Ailurophobia)
- Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting
- Enetophobia - Fear of pins
- Enochlophobia - Fear of crowds
- Enosiophobia or Enissophobia - Fear of having committed an
unpardonable sin
- Entomophobia - Fear of insects
- Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or of daylight
- Epistaxiophobia - Fear of horses
- Equinophobia - Fear of horses
- Eremophobia - Fear of oneself or of loneliness
- Ereuthrophobia - Fear of blushing
- Ergasiophobia - 1) Fear of work or functioning; 2) Surgeon's
fear of operating
- Ergophobia - Fear of work
- Erotophobia - Fear of sexual love
- Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news
- Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia
- Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia - 1) Fear of red
lights; 2) Fear of Blushing
- Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia - Fear of fever
- Felinophobia - Fear of cats (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia,
Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
- Flaviophobia - Fear of Demonkeeper
- Francophobia - Fear of France, French culture (Gallophobia,
Galiphobia)
- Frigiphobia - Fear of cold, cold things
- Galeophobia or Gatophobia - Fear of cats
- Gallophobia or Galiphobia - Fear of France, French culture
- Gamophobia - Fear of marriage
- Geliophobia - Fear of laughter
- Geniophobia - Fear of chins
- Genophobia - Fear of chins
- Genuphobia - Fear of knees
- Gephyrophobia - Fear of crossing bridges
- Germanophobia - Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.
- Gerascophobia - Fear of growing old
- Gerontophobia - Fear of old people or of growing old
- Geumanphobia or Geumophobia - Fear of taste
- Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
- Graphophobia - Fear of writing or handwriting
- Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity
- Gynephobia or Gynophobia - Fear of women
- Hadephobia - Fear of hell
- Hagiphobia - Fear of saints or holy things
- Hamartophobia - Fear of sinning
- Haphephobia or Haptephobia - 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
- Helminthphobia - Fear of being infested with worms
- Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia - Fear of blood
- Hereseyphobia or Hereiophobia - Fear of challenges to official
doctrines
- Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles
- Heterophobia - Fear of the opposite sex (Sexophobia)
- Hierophobia - Fear of priests or sacred things
- Hippophobia - Fear of horses
- Hippopotomontstrosesquippedaliophibia - Fear of long words
- Hodophobia - Fear of road travel
- Hormephobia - Fear of shock
- Homichlophobia - Fear of fog
- Homilophobia - Fear of sermons
- Homophobia - Fear of sameness, monotony, homosexuality or of
becoming homosexual
- Hydrargyphobia - Fear of mercurial medicines
- Hydrophobia - Fear of water
- Hyrdophobophobia - Fear of rabies
- Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia - Fear of glass
- Hygrophobia - Fear of liquids, dampness or moisture
- Hylephobia - 1) Fear of materialism; 2) Fear of epilepsy
- Hylophobia - Fear of forests
- Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia - Fear of responsibility
- Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized
- Hypsiphobia - Fear of height
- Iatrophobia - Fear of going to the doctor
- Icthyophobia - Fear of fish
- Ideaophobia - Fear of ideas
- Illyngophobia - Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking
down
- Iophobia - Fear of poison
- Isolophobia - Fear of solitude, or being alone
- Isopterophobia - Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an
erect penis
- Japanophobia - Fear of Japanese
- Judeophobia - Fear of Jews
- Kainolophobia or Kainophobia - Fear of anything new, novelty
- Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure or defeat
- Katagelophobia - Fear of ridicule
- Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down
- Kenophobia - Fear of sitting down
- Keraunophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning
- Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia - Fear of movement or motion
- Kleptophobia - Fear of stealing
- Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms
- Kolpophobia - Fear of genitals, particularly female
- Kopophobia - Fear of fatigue
- Koniophobia - Fear of dust (Amathophobia)
- Kymophobia - Fear of waves
- Kynophobia - Fear of rabies
- Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping
- Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables
- Leprophobia or Lepraphobia - Fear of leprosy
- Laliophobia or Lalophobia - Fear of speaking
- Leukophobia - Fear of the color white
- Levophobia - Fear of things to the left side of the body
- Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises
- Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes
- Limnophobia - Fear of lakes
- Liticaphobia - Fear of lawsuits
- Logophobia - Fear of words
- Luiphobia - Fear of lues, syphilis
- Lyssophobia - Fear of becoming mad
- Macrophobia - Fear of long waits
- Maieusiophobia - Fear of childbirth
- Malaxophobia - Fear of love play (Sarmassophobia)
- Maniaphobia - Fear of insanity
- Mechanophobia - Fear of machines
- Medomalacuphobia - Fear of losing an erection
- Medorthophobia - Fear of an erect penis
- Megalophobia - Fear of large things
- Melissophobia - Fear of bees
- 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
- Meteorophobia - Fear meteors
- Methyphobia - Fear of alcohol
- Metrophobia - Fear or hatred of poetry
- Microbiophobia - Fear of microbes (Bacillophobia)
- Microphobia - Fear of small things
- Misophobia - Fear of contaminated with dirt or germs
- Mnemophobia - Fear of memories
- Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia - Fear of dirt or contamination
- Monophobia - Fear of being alone
- Monopathophobia - Fear of definite disease
- Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles
- Musophobia or Murophobia - Fear of mice
- Mycrophobia - Fear of small things
- Myctophobia - Fear of darkness
- Myrmecophobia - Fear of ants
- Mysephobia - Fear of germs or contamination
- Mythophobia - Fear of myths or stories or false statements
- Myxophobia- Fear of slime (Blennophobia)
- Nebulaphobia - Fear of fog (Homichlophobia)
- Necrophobia - Fear of dead things
- Negrophobia - Fear of Negroes
- Nelophobia - Fear of glass
- Neopharmaphobia - Fear new drugs
- Neophobia - Fear of anything new
- Nephophobia - Fear of clouds
- Noctiphobia - Fear of the night
- Nomatophobia - Fear of names
- Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals
- Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia - Fear of becoming ill
- Nostophobia - Fear of returning home
- Novercaphobia - Fear of your mother-in-law
- Nucleomituphobia - Fear of nuclear weapons
- Nudophobia - Fear of nudity
- Numerophobia - Fear of numbers
- Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark or of night
- Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight
- Ochlophobia - Fear of crowds or mobs
- Ochophobia - Fear of vehicles
- Odontophobia - Fear of teeth
- Odynophobia or Odynephobia - Fear of pain (Algophobia)
- Oenophobia - Fear of wines
- Oikophobias - Fear of home surroundings, house
- Olfactophobia - Fear of smells
- Ombrophobia - Fear of rain or of being rained on
- Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia - Fear of eyes
- Oneirophobia - Fear of dreams
- Oneirogmophobia - Fear of wet dreams
- Onomatophobia - Fear of hearing a certain word or of names
- Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes (Snakeophobia)
- Opthalmophobia - Fear of being stared at
- Optophobia - Fear of opening one's eyes
- Ornithophobia - Fear of birds
- Orthophobia - Fear of property
- Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia - Fear of smells or odors
- Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish
- Ouranophobia - Fear of heaven
- Pagophobia - Fear of ice or frost
- Panthophobia - Fear of suffering and disease
- Panophobia or 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
- Parthenophobia - Fear of virgins or young girls
- Pathophobia - Fear of disease
- Patroiophobia - Fear of heredity
- Peccatophobia - Fear of sinning (imaginary crime)
- 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 mother-in-law (Novercaphobia)
- Phagophobia - Fear of swallowing or of eating
- Phalacrophobia - Fear of becoming bald
- Phallophobia - Fear of a penis, esp. erect
- Pharmacophobia - Fear of taking medicine or of drugs
- Phasmophobia - Fear of ghosts
- Phengophobia - Fear of daylight or sunshine
- Philemaphobia or Philematophobia - Fear of kissing
- Philosophobia - Fear of philosophy
- Phobophobia - Fear of phobias
- Photoaugliaphobia - Fear of glaring lights
- Photophobia - Fear of light
- Phonophobia - Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of
telephones
- Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking
- Phthiriophobia - Fear of lice (Pediculophobia)
- Phthisiophobia - Fear of tuberculosis
- Placophobia - Fear of tombstones
- Pluviophobia - Fear of rain or of being rain on
- Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia - Fear of choking or being
smothered
- Pocrescophobia - Fear of gaining weight (Obesophobia)
- Pogonophobia - Fear of beards
- Politicophobia - Fear of abnormal dislike of politicians
- Polyphobia - Fear of many things
- Poinephobia - Fear of punishment
- Ponophobia - Fear of overworking
- Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple
- Potamphobia - Fear of rivers
- Potophobia - Fear of alcohol
- Proctophobia - Fear of rectum
- Psellismophobia - Fear of stuttering
- Psychophobia - Fear of mind
- Pteronophobia - Fear of being tickled by feathers
- Pyrexiophobia - Fear of fever
- Pyrophobia - Fear of fire
- Radiophobia - Fear of radiation, x-rays
- Rectophobia - Fear of rectum or rectal diseases
- Rhabdophobia - Fear of being beaten or punished by a rod
- Rhypophobia - Fear of defecation
- Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles
- Rupophobia - Fear of dirt
- Russophobia - Fear of Russians
- Sarmassophobia - Fear of love play (Malaxophobia)
- Satanophobia - Fear of Satan
- Scatophobia - Fear of fecal matter
- Scelerophobia - Fear of bad men, burglars
- Sciophobia or Sciaphobia - Fear of shadows
- Scoleciphobia - Fear of worms
- Scolionophobia - Fear of school
- Scopophobia or Scoptophobia - Fear of being seen or stared at
- Scotomaphobia - Fear of blindness in visual field
- Scotophobia - Fear of darkness (Achluophobia)
- Scriptophobia - Fear of writing in public
- Selaphobia - Fear of light flashes
- Selenophobia - Fear of the moon
- Seplophobia - Fear of decaying matter
- Sexophobia - Fear of the opposite sex (Heterophobia)
- Siderodromophobia - Fear of trains, railroads or train travel
- Siderophobia - Fear of stars
- Sinistrophobia - Fear of things to the left, left-handed
- Sinophobia - Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture
- Sitophobia or Sitiophobia - Fear of food or eating (Cibophobia)
- Snakeophobia - Fear of snakes (Ophidiophobia)
- Soceraphobia - Fear of parents-in-law
- Sociophobia - Fear of society or of people in general
- Sophophobia - Fear of learning
- Spacephobia - Fear of outer space
- Spectrophobia - Fear of specters or ghosts
- Spermatophobia or Spermophobia - Fear of germs
- Spheksophobia - Fear of wasps
- Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia - Fear of standing or walking
(Ambulophobia)
- Staurophobia - Fear of crosses or the crucifix
- Stenophobia - Fear of narrow things or places
- Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia - Fear of hell
- Suriphobia - Fear of mice
- Symbolophobia - Fear of symbolism
- Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry
- Syngenesophobia - Fear of relatives
- Syphilophobia - Fear of syphilis
- Tachophobia - Fear of speed
- Taeniophobia - Fear of tapeworms
- Taphephobia or Taphophobia - Fear of being buried alive or of
cemeteries
- Tapinophobia - Fear of being contagious
- Taurophobia - Fear of bulls
- Technophobia - Fear of technology
- Teleophobia - 1) Fear of definite plans; 2) Fear of religious
ceremony
- Teleophobia - Fear of telephones
- Teratophobia - Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of
monsters of deformed people
- Testophobia - Fear of taking tests
- Tetanophobia - Fear of lockjaw, tetanus
- Teutophobia - Fear of Germany or German things
- Textophobia - Fear of certain fabrics
- Theatrophobia - Fear of theaters
- 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
- Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder
- Topophobia - Fear of certain places
- Toxiphobia, Toxophobia or Toxicophobia - Fear of poison
- Traumatophobia - Fear of injury
- Tremophobia - Fear of trembling
- Trichinophobia - Fear of trichinosis
- Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia - Fear of hair (Chaetophobia)
- Triskadekophobia - Fear of the number 13
- Tropophobia - Fear of moving or making changes
- Trypanophobia - Fear of injections
- Tuberculophobia - Fear of tuberculosis
- Tyrannophobia - Fear of tyrants
- Uranophobia - Fear of heaven
- Urophobia - Fear of urine or of urinating
- Vaccinophobia - Fear of vaccination
- Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women
- Verbophobia - Fear of words
- Verminophobia - Fear of germs
- Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing
- Vigiuitiphobia - Fear of rape
- Vitricophobia - Fear of step-father
- Xanthophobia - Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow
- Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners
- Xerophobia - Fear of dryness
- Xylophobia - Fear of wooden objects or forests
- Zelophobia - Fear of jealousy
- Zemmiphobia - Fear of the great mole rat
- Zoophobia - Fear of animals
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