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The Phobia List 

There are many hundreds of named phobias, and this is the most complete list of which we know.

Although there are many hundreds of 'different' phobias, all phobias are in fact very similar: a particular stimulus, be it spiders, snakes, or pretty well anything else triggering the phobic individuals fear response when it isn't appropriate.

Click on any of the phobia names for more information.

Thanks to Fredd Culbertson for compiling the original list on which this is based.

The Phobia List: A 


Ablutophobia - Fear of washing, bathing, or cleaning

Acarophobia - Fear of itching or the insects that cause itching

Acerophobia - Fear of sourness or things that are sour

Achluophobia - Fear of darkness or the dark

Acousticophobia - Fear of noise or sound

Acrophobia - Fear of heights or high levels

Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places

Aeronausiphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness

Aerophobia - Fear of draft, swallowing air, or airbourne noxious substances

Agateophobia - Fear of insanity or becoming insane

Agliophobia - Fear of pain

Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces, leaving a safe place, or crowded public places

Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse

Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals

Agyrophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street

Aichmophobia - Fear of needles, pins, or pointed objects

Ailurophobia - Fear of cats

Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease

Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens

Algophobia - Fear of garlic

Alliumphobia - Fear of opinions or beliefs

Altophobia - Fear of dust

Amathophobia - Fear of riding in cars

Amaxophobia - Fear of walking

Amnesiphobia - Fear of amnesia

Amychophobia - Fear of scratches or being scratched

Anablephobia - Fear of looking up

Androphobia - Fear of men

Anemophobia - Fear of wind or air drafts

Anginophobia - Fear of angina, choking, or narrowness

Anglophobia - Fear of England, English Culture, or English People

Angrophobia - Fear of anger or becoming angry

Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint

Anthophobia - Fear of flowers

Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society

Antlophobia - Fear of floods

Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single

Anxiety - Fear of Anxiety

Apeirophobia - Fear of infinity

Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched

Apiphobia - Fear of bees

Apotemnophobia - Fear of persons with amputations

Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

Arachnephobia - Fear of spiders

Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers

Arsonphobia - Fear of fire or flames

Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness

Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightning

Astrophobia - Fear of stars and celestial space

Asymmetriphobia - Fear of asymmetrical things

Ataxiophobia - Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination)

Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness

Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection

Atephobia - Fear of ruin or ruins

Athazagoraphobia - Fear of being forgotten, being ignored, or forgetting

Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions

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

Automatonophobia - Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures or wax statues

Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty

Autophobia - Fear of solitude, being alone, oneself, or being by oneself

Aviophobia - Fear of flying

The Phobia List: B 


Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes

Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria

Ballistophobia - Fear of missiles or bullets

Barophobia - Fear of gravity

Basiphobia - Fear of inability to stand or falling

Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes

Bathophobia - Fear of depth

Batophobia - Fear of heights or being close to high buildings

Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians, frogs, newts, or salamanders

Bibliophobia - Fear of books

Blennophobia - Fear of slime

Body Dysmorphic Disorder - Fear of having ugly or unattractive features

Bogyphobia - Fear of bogies or the bogeyman

Bolshephobia - Fear of Bolsheviks

Botanophobia - Fear of plants

Bromidrophobia - Fear of bodily odor or bodily smell

Bufonophobia - Fear of toads

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The Phobia List: C 


Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness or things that are ugly

Cainophobia - Fear of newness or novelty

Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women

Cancerophobia - Fear of cancer

Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart

Carnophobia - Fear of meat

Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed or ridicule

Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places

Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting

Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors

Cheimaphobia - Fear of cold

Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals

Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety

Chionophobia - Fear of snow

Chirophobia - Fear of hands

Cholerophobia - Fear of anger or Cholera

Chorophobia - Fear of dancing

Chrematophobia - Fear of money

Chromatophobia - Fear of colors

Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks

Chronophobia - Fear of time

Claustrophobia - Fear of confined or small spaces

Cleisiophobia - Fear of being locked in an enclosed place

Cleithrophobia - Fear of being enclosed

Cleptophobia - Fear of stealing

Climacophobia - Fear of stairs, climbing stairs, or falling down stairs

Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed

Cnidophobia - Fear of stings or being stung

Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries

Coitophobia - Fear of coitus, sex, or sexual intercourse

Cometophobia - Fear of comets

Coprastasophobia - Fear of constipation

Coprophobia - Fear of feces and fecal matter

Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns

Counterphobia - Fear of 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 motion

Cynophobia - Fear of dogs, canines, or rabies

Cyprianophobia - Fear of prostitutes, venereal disease, or STDs

The Phobia List: D 

Daemonophobia - Fear of demons or daemons

Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions

Defecaloesiophobia - Fear of painful bowels movements

Deipnophobia - Fear of dining or dinner conversation

Demophobia - Fear of crowds

Dendrophobia - Fear of trees

Dentophobia - Fear of dentists

Dermatopathophobia - Fear of skin disease or skin lesions

Dextrophobia - 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

Doraphobia - Fear of fur or skins of animals

Doxophobia - Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise

Driving Phobia - Fear of driving a motorized vehicle

Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets

Dutchphobia - Fear of the Netherlands, the Dutch, Dutch Culture

Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity

Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents

The Phobia List: E 

Earthquakophobia - Fear of earthquakes

Ecclesiophobia - Fear of churchs

Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror

Electrophobia - Fear of electricity

Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom

Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting or throwing up

Enetophobia - Fear of pins

Enissophobia - Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or criticism

Entomophobia - Fear of insects or bugs

Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or daylight

Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers

Epistaxiophobia - Fear of nosebleeds

Epistemophobia - Fear of knowledge

Equinophobia - Fear of horses

Eremophobia - Fear of being oneself or lonliness

Ereuthophobia - Fear of redlights, blushing, or the color red

Ergasiophobia - Fear of work, functioning, or Surgeon's operating

Ergophobia - Fear of work

Erotophobia - Fear of sexual love or sexual questions

Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news

The Phobia List: F 

Francophobia - Fear of France, French people, or French culture

Frigophobia - Fear of cold or cold things

The Phobia List: G 

Gamophobia - Fear of marriage

Geliophobia - Fear of laughter

Geniophobia - Fear of chins

Genuphobia - Fear of knees

Gephydrophobia - Fear of crossing bridges

Gerascophobia - Fear of growing old or old people

Germanophobia - Fear of Germany, German People, or German culture

Geumaphobia - Fear of taste

Globophobia - Fear of balloons

Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public or trying to speak

Graphophobia - Fear of writing or handwriting

Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity

Gynephobia - Fear of women

The Phobia List: H 

Hadephobia - Fear of hell

Hagiophobia - Fear of saints or holy things

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

Hemaphobia - Fear of blood

Hereiophobia - Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation

Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things

Heterophobia - Fear of the opposite sex

Hierophobia - Fear of priests or sacred things

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words

Hobophobia - Fear of bums or beggars

Hodophobia - Fear of road travel

Homichlophobia - Fear of fog

Homilophobia - Fear of sermons

Homophobia - Fear of sameness, monotony, homosexuality, or becoming homosexual

Hoplophobia - Fear of firearms

Hormephobia - Fear of shock

Hyalophobia - Fear of glass

Hydrargyophobia - Fear of mercurial medicines

Hydrophobia - Fear of water

Hydrophobophobia - Fear of rabies

Hygrophobia - Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture

Hylephobia - Fear of materialism or epilepsy

Hypegiaphobia - Fear of responsibility

Hypnophobia - Fear of sleep or being hypnotized

The Phobia List: J 

Japanophobia - Fear of Japanese

Judeophobia - Fear of Jewish People

The Phobia List: K 

Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure or defeat

Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces

Kinesophobia - Fear of movement or motion

Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms

Kolpophobia - Fear of genitals, particularly female

Kopophobia - Fear of fatigue

Kosmikophobia - Fear of cosmic phenomenon

Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping

The Phobia List: L 

Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables

Lalophobia - Fear of speaking

Lepraphobia - Fear of leprosy

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 tornado or hurricanes

Limnophobia - Fear of lakes

Linonophobia - Fear of string

Liticaphobia - Fear of lawsuits

Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth

Logizomechanophobia - Fear of computers

Logophobia - Fear of words

Luiphobia - Fear of lues or syphillis

Lutraphobia - Fear of otters

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