PHOBIAS

“What do you fear?”

 A
accidents : dystychiphobia
ageing : gerascophobia
air sickness : aeronausiphobia
air (fresh), draughts, wind : anemophobia
alcohol and drinking alcohol : dipsophobia or methyphobia
alone (being) or oneself or loneliness : autophobia
amphibians, such a frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc : batrachophobia
amnesia : amnesiophobia
animals : zoophobia
animals (wild) : agrizoophobia
angry (becoming): angrophobia : animal skin, fur : doraphobia
ants : myrmecophobia
asymmetrical things : asymmetriphobia
ataxia : ataxiophobia
atomic energy : nucleomitophobia
atomic explosions : atomosophobia
attack : scelerophobia
auroral lights : auroraphobia : automobiles : motorphobia

B
bad mens, burglars : scelerophibia
bacteria : bacillophobia
bald (becoming) : phalacrophobia
baldness : peladophobia
balloons : globophobia
bathing : bathophobia or ablutophobia
beards : pogonophobia
beaten (being) : rhabdophobia (see also magic)
bed (going to) : clinophobia
bees : apiphobia
beggars : hobophobia
bearing a deformed child or deformed people : teratophobia
bicycles : cyclophobia
birds : ornithophobia
black (color) : melanophobia
blindness in visual field : scotomaphobia
blood : hemaphobia
blushing : erythrophobia (see also red)
body odor : bromhidrosiphobia
bogies or the bogeyman : bogyphobia
Bolsheviks : bolshephobia
books : bibliophobia
bound (being) or tied up : merinthophobia
bowel movements (painful) : defecaloesiophobia
 brain disease : meningitophobia
bridges (crossing) : gephyrophobia
buildings (high) : batophobia
bullets : ballistophobia (see also missiles)
bulls : taurophobia
buried alive (being) : taphephobia

C
cancer carcinomophobia
cars (automobiles) motorphobia
cats ailurophobia
Celts, Celtic Celtophobia
cemeteries coimetrophobia
certain places topophobia (see also performing)
challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation heresyphobia or hereiophobia
changes metathesiophobia
changes (making) tropophobia
chemicals or working with chemicals chemophobia
chickens alektorophobia
childbirth or pregnancy tocophobia
China, Chinese Sinophobia
chins geniophobia
choking or of being smothered pnigophobia
cholera cholerophobia
clocks chronomentrophobia
clothes vestiophobia
clouds nephophobia
clowns coulrophobia
church ecclesiophobia
cockroaches katsaridaphobia
coitus coitophobia
cold cheimaphobia
colours chromophobia
comets cometophobia
complex scientific or (Greek) terms Hellenologophobia
computers computerphobia
constipation coprostasophobia
contagious (being) tapinophobia
cooking mageirocophobia
cosmic kosmikophobia
crossing streets agiophobia
crowded rooms koinoniphobia
crowds demophobia
crucifixes or crosses staurophobia
crystals or glass crystallophobia
 D
dampness, liquids or moisture hygrophobia
dancing chorophobia
darkness nyctophobia
dawn eosophobia
daylight phengophobia
death, corpses necrophobia or thanatophobia
decaying matter septophobia
decisions (making) decidophobia
defecation (painful) defecalgesiophobia
deformity dysmorphophobia
demons, goblins bogyphobia
dentists dentophobia
dependence on others soteriophobia
depth bathophobia (see also bathing)
devils, evil spirits demonophobia
diabetes diabetophobia
dining, dinner conversation
deipnophobia dirt, germs mysophobia
dirt (on oneself) automysophobia
disease bisiogibua
disease (hereditary) patriophobia
disease, illness pathophobia
disease (particular) monopathophobia or nosophobia
disease (rectal or rectum) proctophobia or rectophobia
disease (skin) dermatosiophobia
dizziness or whirlpools dinophobia
doctors iatrophobia
dogs cynophobia
dolls and children pedophobia
double vision diplopiaphobia
draughts, fresh air, air swallowing aerophobia (see also flying)
draughts, winds anemophobia
dreams oneirophobia
dreams (wet) oneirogmophobia
drink (usually alcohol) potophobia d
rugs pharmacophobia drugs (new) neopharmaphobia
dryness xerophobia
dust amathophobia
Dutch dutchphobia
duty or responsibility (neglect of) paralipophobia

E
 eight (number 8) octophobia
electricity electrophobia
emetics, vomiting emetophobia
empty rooms/spaces or voids kenophobia
enclosed spaces clithrophobia
England, English Anglophobia e
verything panophobia
evil spirits, devils demonophobia
excrement coprophobia
eyes ommatophobia eyes (opening one’s) optophobia
erection (losing one) medomalacuphobia

F
fabrics (particular) textophobia
failure or defeat kakorrhaphiophobia f
alling man-made satellites keraunothnetophobia
fat (becoming) obesophobia
fatigue kopophobia
fear phobophobia
feathers (tickled by) pteronophobia
fecal matter scatophobia
feces coprophobia
fever pyrexiphobia
figure 8 octophobia
filth rhypophobia
fire pyrophobia
firearms hoplophobia
fish chthyphobia
flashes of light selaphobia
flavors geumophobia
flies pteronarcophobia
floods antlophobia
flowers anthophobia or anthrophobia
flutes aulophobia
flying aerophobia (see also air (fresh), draughts)
fog homichlophobia
food or eating cibophobia
foreigners or strangers xenophobia
forests, dark wooded areas hylophobia or nyctohylophobia
forgotten (being), forgetting athazagoraphobia (see also ignored)
France, French Francophobia
 freedom eleutherophobia
fresh air, draughts aerophobia (see also flying)
Friday the 13th paraskavedekatriaphobia
frost, ice, extreme cold cryophobia
fur, animal skin doraphobia

G
gaiety cherohobia
garlic alliumphobia
genitals (female) eurotophobia
germs spermatophobia or spermophobia
Germany, Germans Germanophobia
ghosts phasmophobia
girls (young) or virgins parthenophobia
glass hyelophobia or hyalophobia
goblins, demons bogyphobia
God or religion theophobia
gold aurophobia
good news (hearing) euphobia
gravity barophobia
Greek (or complex scientific) terms Hellenologophobia

H
hair chaetophobia
hair disease trichinophobia
halloween samhainophobia
heart attack angionophobia
heart disease cardiophobia
heat thermophobia
heaven uranophobia
heights acrophobia
hell hadephobia
high buildings batophobia
high places (looking up at) anablephobia
high places (open) aeroacrophobia
home, house or being in a house domatophobia
home (returning to) nostophobia
homosexuality, of becoming homosexual, sameness or of monotony homophobia
horses hippophobia
hospitals nosocomephobia
 hurricanes & tornadoes lilapsophobia
hypnotized hypnophobia

I
ice, frost cryophobia
ideas ideophobia
ignored (being) athazagoraphobia
illness, disease pathophobia
immobility (of a joint) ankylophobia
imperfection atelophobia
infection molysomophobia
infinity apeirophobia
injections trypanophobia
injury (physical) traumatophobia (see also war)
insanity lyssophobia (see also madness)
insects entomophobia
insect stings cnidophobia
itching or of the insects that cause itching acarophobia

J
Japan, Japanese Japanophobia
jealousy zelophobia
Jews, Judaism Judaeophobia
jumping (from both high and low places) jcatapedaphobia
justice dikephobia

K
kissing philemaphobia
knees genuphobia
kidney desease albuminurophobia
knowledge epistemophobia

L
lakes limnophobia
large objects megalophobia
laughter gelophobia
lawsuits liticaphobia
learning sophophobia
 lefthanded, things to the left sinistrophobia
left hand side of the body (objects on) levophobia
leprosy leprophobia
lice pediculophobia
light photophobia
light (flashes of) selaphobia
lightning astraphobia
lights (glaring) photaugiophobia
lights (northern) auroraphobia
locked in (being), confined spaces claustrophobia
long waits macrophobia
looked at (being) scopophobia
love (falling or being in) philophobia
love play malaxophobia (sarmassophobia)
lying, myths and stories mythophobia

M
machinery mechanophobia
madness maniaphobia (see also insanity)
magic rhabdophobia (see also beaten, being)
making changes or moving trophophobia
many things polyphobia
marriage gamophobia
materialism hylephobia (see also woods)
meat carnophobia
medicine (taking) pharmacophobia
memories mnemophobia
men androphobia
meningitis meningitophobia
menstruation menophobia
mercuruial medicines hydrargyophobia
metal metallophobia
meteors meteorophobia
mice musophobia
microbes microbiophobia
mind psychophobia
mirrors catoptrophobia
missiles ballistrophobia (see also bullets)
mites, ticks acarophobia
mole rat (great) zemmiphobia
 money (touching) chrematophobia
monsters (or giving birth to monster) teratophobia
moon selenophobia
mother-in-law pentheraphobia
moths mottephobia
motion or movement kinesophobia
motor vehicles motophobia
mushroom (aversion to) mycophobia
music musicophobia
myths, stories and lying mythophobia

N
name (a particular name or word) onomatophobia
narrowness anginaphobia
needles enetophobia
needles, pins belonephobia
Negroes negrophobia
new things or ideas cenophobia or centophobia
night noctiphobia
noise acoustiphobia
nosebleeds epistaxiophobia
novelty, newness cainophobia
nuclear weapons nucleomituphobia
nudity gymnophobia
numbers arithmophobia
number 13 triskaidekaphobia

O
objects (large) megalophobia
objects (pointed) aichmophobia
objects (sacred) hierophobia
objects (small) tapinophobia
objects (at the right side of the body) dextrophobia
odour (one that has vile) autodysomophobia
old (growing) gerascophobia
old (people) gerontophobia
open spaces, crowded public places like markets, leaving a safe place agoraphobia
opinions (others’) allodoxaphobia
opposite sex sexophobia
otters lutraphobia
outer space spacephobia
overworking ponophobia
 P
pain algophobia
paper papyrophobia
parasites parasitophobia
parents-in-law soceraphobia
peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth arachibutyrophobia
pellagra pellagrophobia
penis (contour of, visible through clothes) medectophobia
penis (seeing, thinking about or having an erect) ithyphallophobia
people anthropophobia (see also society)
performing (stagefright) topophobia (see also places (certain))
persons with amputations apotemnophobia
philosophy, philosophers philosophobia
phobias phobophobia
physical injury traumatophobia (see also war)
pigeons peristerophobia
pins, needles belonephobia
places (certain) topophobia (see also performing)
places (steep) cremnophobia
plants botanophobia
pleasure hedonophobia
poetry metrophobia
pointed objects aichmophobia
poison or of being accidently poisoned toxiphobia
poisons iophobia (see also rust)
poliomyelitis (contracting) poliosophobia
politicians or abnormal dislike politicophobia
pope papaphobia
poverty peniaphobia
precipices cremnophobia
progress prosophobia
property orthophobia
prostitutes cyprianophobia
pseudo-rabies kynophobia (see also rabies)
public speaking glossophobia
punishment poinephobia
purple porphyrophobia

Q
fear of the letter q – quaphobia
 fear of queens – quenophobia

R
rabies hydrophobia (see also pseudo-rabies)
radiation, X-rays radiophobia
railways siderodromophobia
rain ombrophobia
rape virginitiphobia
red erythrophobia (see also blushing)
relatives syngenesophobia
religious ceremonies teletophobia
reptiles or creepy, crawly things herpetophobia
responsibility hypengyophobia
ridicule katagelophobia
riding in vehicles amaxophobia
right-hand side of the body (objects on) dextrophobia
rivers or running water potamophobia
robbers harpaxophobia
rooms (empty) kenophobia
rooms (crowded) koinoniphobia
ruin or ruins atephobia
Russia, Russian Russophobia
rust iophobia (see also poisons)

S
sacred objects or priests hierophobia
saints hagiophobia
Satan Satanophobia 666 hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
scabies scabiophobia
school (of going to) didaskaleinophobia
scientific terms (complex) or Greek terms Hellenologophobia
scratched (being) amychophobia
sea thalassophobia
semen spermatophobia
sermons homilophobia
sex (opposite) sexophobia
sexual abuse agraphobia
sexual feelings erotophobia
sexual intercourse coitophobia
sexual perversion paraphobia
shadows sciophobia
sharks galeophobia
shellfish ostraconophobia
 shock hormephobia
sin hamartophobia
silence sedatephobia
single (staying) anuptaphobia
sitting down thaasophobia
sitting still cathisophobia
skin lesions dermatophobia
skin disease dermatosiophobia
Slavs, Slavic Slavophobia
sleep somniphobia
slime blennophobia
small objects tapinophobia
smells olfactophobia
snakes ophidiophobia
snow chionophobia
society or people in general anthropophobia
solitude autophobia
sourness acerophobia
space (outer) spacephobia
spaces (enclosed) clithrophobia
spaces (open) agoraphobia
speaking laliohobia or lalophobia
speaking aloud phonophobia
speaking in public glossophobia
spectres spectrophobia
speed tachophobia
spiders arachnophobia
stage fright topophobia (see also places (certain))
stairs, climbing or of falling down stairs climacophobia
standing stasiphobia
standing and walking stasibasiphobia
stars siderophobia
staying single anuptaphobia
stealing cleptophobia
stepfather vitricophobia
stepmother novercaphobia
stooping kyphophobia
stories, myths and lying mythophobia
streets (crossing) agiophobia
strings cnidophobia
stuttering psellismophobia
sunlight heliophobia
surgery tomophobia
swallowing or of eating or of being eaten phagophobia
symbols symbolophobia
 symmetry symmetrophobia
syphilis syphiliphobia

T
taking tests testophobia
talking laliophobia
tapeworms taeniophobia
taste geumaphobia or geumophobia
technology technophobia
teeth and dental surgery odontophobia
teleology teleophobia
telephones telephonophobia
termites, insects that eat wood isopterophobia
tests (taking) testophobia
tetanus (lockjaw) tetanophobia
theatres theatrophobia
theology theologicophobia
thieves kleptophobia
thinking phronemophobia
thirteen (number 13) triskadekaphobia
thunder and lightning keraunophobia
ticks, mites acarophobia
time chronophobia
toads, frogs batrachophobia
tombstones placophobia
touching, being touched aphephobia
touching money chrematophobia
trains, railroads or train travel siderodromophobia
travel hodophobia
trembling tremophobia
trees dendrophobia
trichinosis trichinohobia
tuberculosis phthisiophobia
tyrants tyrannophobia

U
ugliness cacophobia
undressing (in front of someone) dishabillophobia
untidiness ataxiophobia
urine or urinating urophobia
 V
vaccination, vaccines vaccinophobia
vegetables lachanophobia
vehicles, riding in amaxophobia
venereal disease cypridophobia
ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues: anything that falsely represents a sentient being
automatonophobia
vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down illyngophobia
virginity, losing one’s primeisodophobia
vision (double) diplophobia
vomiting, emetics emetophobia

W
waiting long macrophobia
walking basiphobia
walking and standing stasibasiphobia
walloons walloonphobia
war traumatophobia (see also injury (physical)) ablutophobia
washing oneself ablutophobia
wasps spheksophobia
wasting sickness tabophobia
water hydrophobia
waves (sea), of wavelike motion cymophobia
weakness or fainting asthenophobia
weight (gaining) obesophobia or pocrescophobia
wealth plutophobia
white (colour) leukophobia
wind, drafts anemophobia
wine oenophobia
witches and witchcraft wiccaphobia
women gynaephobia
women (beautiful) venustaphobia
woods hylephobia (see also materialism)
wooden objects xylophobia
work or functioning/surgeon’s fear of operating ponophobia or ergasiophobia
worms scoleciphobia
worms (being infested with) helminthophobia
wrinkles (getting) rhytiphobia
writing graphophobia
writing (in public) scriptophobia
wrongdoing peccatiphobia
 XYZ
X-rays, radiation radiophobia

yellow (colour or the word) xanthophobia

young girls parthenophobia

source:

http://didyouknow.org/phobias/