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List of Phobias

This is a text-based list of part of what is available on wikipedia.

Ablutophobia:  fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Acousticophobia:  fear of noise:  a branch of phonophobia
Acrophobia:  fear of heights
Agoraphobia:  fear of helplessness and of leaving safe places
Agraphobia:  fear of sexual abuse
Agrizoophobia:  fear of wild animals, a branch of zoophobia
Agyrophobia:  fear of crossing the street
Aichmophobia:  fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife)
Ailurophobia:  fear of cats
Algophobia:  fear of pain
Amaxophobia, ochophobia, motorphobia, hamaxophobia:  fear of riding in a car
Amychophobia:  fear of being scratched
Androphobia:  fear of men
Anthophobia:  fear of flowers
Anthropophobia:  fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia
Antlophobia:  fear of floods
Aquaphobia:  fear of water. Distinct from hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies
Arachnophobia:  fear of spiders
Astraphobia:  fear of thunder and lightning
Atelophobia: fear of not being good enough or imperfection
Atychiphobia, kakorrhaphiophobia:  fear of failure
Automatonophobia:  fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being
Autophobia:  fear of isolation
Aviophobia, aviatophobia:  fear of flying
Barophobia:  fear of gravity
Bathmophobia:  fear of stairs or slopes
Blood-injection-injury type phobia:  a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
Chaetophobia:  fear of hair
Chemophobia:  fear of chemicals
Cherophobia: fear of happiness
Chiroptophobia:  fear of bats
Chlorophobia:  fear of the color green
Chromophobia, chromatophobia:  fear of colors
Chronophobia:  fear of time and time moving forward
Chrysophobia:  fear of the color orange
Cibophobia, sitophobia:  aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa
Claustrophobia:  fear of having no escape and being closed in
Cleithrophobia:  fear of being trapped
Climacophobia:  fear of climbing
Coimetrophobia:  fear of cemeteries
Coulrophobia:  fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
Cyanophobia:  fear of the color blue
Cyberphobia:  fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies
Decidophobia:  fear of making decisions
Demonophobia, daemonophobia:  fear of demons
Dentophobia, odontophobia:  fear of dentists and dental procedures
Disposophobia:  fear of getting rid of or losing things:  sometimes wrongly defined as compulsive hoarding
Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder:  a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect
Ecclesiophobia:  fear of churches
Emetophobia:  fear of vomiting
Enochlophobia: fear of crowds
Ergophobia, ergasiophobia:  fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating
Erotophobia:  fear of sexual love or sexual abuse
Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia:  fear of the color red, or fear of blushing
Friggatriskaidekaphobia, paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia:  fear of Friday the 13th
Frigophobia:  fear of becoming too cold
Gelotophobia:  fear of being laughed at
Gephyrophobia:  fear of bridges
Genophobia, coitophobia:  fear of sexual intercourse
Gerascophobia:  fear of growing old or aging
Gerontophobia:  fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
Globophobia: fear of balloons
Glossophobia:  fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
Gymnophobia:  fear of nudity
Gynophobia:  fear of women
Halitophobia:  fear of bad breath
Haphephobia:  fear of being touched
Harpaxophobia:  fear of being robbed
Heliophobia:  fear of the sun or sunlight
Hemophobia, haemophobia:  fear of blood
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia:  fear of the number 666
Hylophobia:  fear of trees, forests or wood
Hypnophobia, somniphobia:  fear of sleep
Ichthyophobia:  fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish
Kinetophobia, kinesophobia:  fear of movement
Kleptophobia, cleptophobia:  fear of stealing or being stolen
Koinoniphobia: fear of rooms or shared spaces
Koumpounophobia:  fear of buttons
Leukophobia:  fear of the color white
Lilapsophobia:  fear of tornadoes or hurricanes
Mechanophobia:  fear of machines
Melanophobia:  fear of the color black
Melissophobia:  fear of bees
Methyphobia:  fear of alcohol
Monophobia:  fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self
Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia:  fear of mice and/or rats
Myrmecophobia:  fear of ants
Mysophobia:  fear of germs, contamination or dirt
Necrophobia:  fear of death and/or the dead
Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia:  fear of newness, novelty
Nomophobia:  fear of being out of mobile phone contact
Nosocomephobia:  fear of hospitals
Nosophobia:  fear of contracting a disease
Nostophobia, ecophobia:  fear of returning home
Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia:  fear of darkness
Obesophobia:  fear of obesity
Oikophobia:  fear of home surroundings and household appliances
Omphalophobia:  fear of navels
Oneirophobia:  fear of dreams
Ophthalmophobia:  fear of being stared at
Osmophobia, olfactophobia:  fear of odors
Panphobia:  fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause
Papaphobia:  fear of the Pope
Pediophobia:  fear of dolls (a branch of automatonophobia: fear of humanoid figures)
Phagophobia:  fear of swallowing
Pharmacophobia:  fear of medications
Phasmophobia:  fear of ghosts or phantoms
Philophobia:  fear of love
Phobophobia: fear of fear itself or of having a phobia
Phonophobia:  fear of loud sounds or voices
Pogonophobia:  fear of beards
Pornophobia: fear of pornography
Porphyrophobia:  fear of the color purple
Prosophobia:  fear of progress
Pupaphobia:  fear of puppets
Pyrophobia:  fear of fire
Radiophobia:  fear of radioactivity or X-rays
Sanguivoriphobia:  fear of vampires
Scriptophobia:  fear of writing in public or of trying to write
Scopophobia:  fear of being looked at or stared at
Sesquipedalophobia:  fear of long words
Siderodromophobia:  fear of trains or railroads
Sociophobia:  fear of people or social situations
Spectrophobia:  fear of mirrors
Stasiphobia:  fear of standing or walking
Stygiophobia, stigiophobia, hadephobia:  fear of Hell
Taphophobia, taphephobia:  fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
Technophobia:  fear of technology (see also Luddite)
Telephone phobia:  fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls
Tetraphobia:  fear of the number 4
Thalassophobia:  fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean
Thanatophobia:  fear of dying
Theophobia:  fear of religion or gods
Thermophobia:  fear of heat
Tokophobia:  fear of childbirth or pregnancy
Toxiphobia:  fear of being poisoned
Traumatophobia:  a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury
Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia:  fear of the number 13
Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia:  fear of needles or injections
Trypophobia:  fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes
Turophobia:  fear of cheese
Uranophobia, ouranophobia:  fear of Heaven
Workplace phobia:  fear of the workplace
Xanthophobia:  fear of the color yellow
Xenophobia:  fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens
Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia:  fear of trees, forests or wood