Psychological conditions

Specialists may prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms such
as personality disorders, anxiety disorders, andavoidant personality disorder.

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A

 Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning

 Acousticophobia – fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia
 Acrophobia – fear of heights
 Agoraphobia – fear of open 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
 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[citation needed]
 Atychiphobia, kakorrhaphiophobia – fear of failure
 Automatonophobia – fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being
 Autophobia – fear of isolation[3]
 Aviophobia, aviatophobia – fear of flying
B

 Barophobia – fear of gravity

 Bathmophobia – fear of stairs or slopes
 Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
C

 Chaetophobia – fear of hair

 Chemophobia – fear of chemicals
 Cherophobia – fear of happiness
 Chiroptophobia – fear of bats
 Chlorophobia – fear of the color green[4]
 Chromophobia, chromatophobia – fear of colors
 Chronophobia – fear of time and time moving forward
 Chrysophobia – fear of the color orange[4]
 Cibophobia, sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa
 Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in
 Cleithrophobia – fear of being trapped[5]
 Climacophobia – fear of climbing
 Coimetrophobia – fear of cemeteries
 Colorphobia - fear or a strong aversion towards a particular color
 Coprophobia - fear of feces or defecation[6]
 Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
 Cyanophobia – fear of the color blue[4]
 Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies
 Cynophobia – fear of dogs
D

 Decidophobia – fear of making decisions

 Dementophobia - fear of becoming insane
 Demonophobia, daemonophobia – fear of demons
 Dendrophobia – see hylophobia
 Dentophobia, odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
 Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or
imaginary body defect
E

 Ecclesiophobia – fear of churches

 Eurotophobia - fear of female genitals
 Eleutherophobia - fear of freedom
 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
F

 Frigophobia – fear of becoming too cold

G

 Gamophobia - fear of cohabitation, marriage or nuptials

 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
H

 Halitophobia – fear of bad breath

 Haphephobia – fear of being touched
 Harpaxophobia – fear of being robbed
 Hedonophobia - fear of obtaining pleasure
 Heliophobia – fear of the sun or sunlight
 Hemophobia, haemophobia – fear of blood
 Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666
 Hoplophobia – fear of firearms
 Hylophobia, dendrophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood
 Hypnophobia, somniphobia – fear of sleep
I

 Ichthyophobia – fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish
K
 Kinetophobia, kinesophobia – fear of movement
 Kleptophobia, cleptophobia – fear of stealing or being robbed
 Koinoniphobia – fear of rooms or shared spaces
 Koumpounophobia – fear of buttons[7]
L

 Leukophobia – fear of the color white

 Lilapsophobia – fear of tornadoes or hurricanes
M

 Macrophobia - fear of waiting

 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 or rats
 Myrmecophobia – fear of ants
 Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt
N

 Necrophobia – fear of death 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
O

 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
P

 Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause

 Parasitophobia – delusion of having a parasite infestation (Delusional parasitosis)
 Peniaphobia – fear of poverty
 Pediophobia – fear of dolls (a branch of automatonophobia: fear of humanoid figures)
 Phagophobia – fear of swallowing
 Phallophobia - fear of erections
 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
 Prosophobia – fear of progress
 Pupaphobia – fear of puppets
 Pyrophobia – fear of fire
R

 Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays

S

 Sanguivoriphobia – fear of vampires

 Scriptophobia – fear of writing in public or of trying to write
 Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at
 Sexophobia – fear of sexual organs or sexual activities
 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
T

 Taphophobia, taphephobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still
alive
 Technophobia – fear of advanced 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
 Trichophobia – delusional fear of something in the roots of the hair that stops it from
growing,[8] or fear of hair loss
 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[9]
 Turophobia – fear of cheese[10][11][12][13]
 Tyrannophobia - fear of an oligarchy or dictatorship
U

 Uranophobia, ouranophobia – fear of Heaven

W

 Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace

X

 Xanthophobia – fear of the color yellow

 Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens
 Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood
Animal phobias
Main article: Zoophobia

 Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals

 Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats
 Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as melissophobia, from the
Greek melissa "bee")
 Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders and other arachnids
 Batrachophobia – fear/dislike of frogs and other amphibians
 Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats
 Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs
 Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects
 Equinophobia, hippophobia – fear/dislike of horses
 Herpetophobia – fear/dislike of reptiles or amphibians
 Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish
 Murophobia – fear/dislike of mice or rats
 Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes
 Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds
 Ranidaphobia – fear/dislike of frogs
 Scoleciphobia – fear of worms
 Selachophobia – fear of sharks
 Zoophobia – fear of animals

Non-psychological conditions
 Bibliophobia – fear or hatred of books, as a cultural phenomenon[14]
 Hoplophobia – a political term for fear of weapons, specifically firearms
 Lipophobia – avoidance of fats in food[15][16][17] (see also Lipophobicity)
 Osmophobia – hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors
 Phonophobia – hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds
 Photophobia – hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light

Biology, chemistry
Biologists use a number of -phobia/-phobic terms to describe predispositions by plants and
animals against certain conditions. For antonyms, see here

 Acidophobia/Acidophobic – preference for non-acidic conditions

 Heliophobia/Heliophobic – aversion to sunlight
 Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic – a property of being repelled by water
 Lipophobicity – a property of fat rejection (sometimes also called lipophobia)
 Oleophobicity – a property of oil rejection
 Photophobia (biology) – a negative phototaxis or phototropism response, or a tendency to
stay out of the light
 Superhydrophobe – the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet
 Thermophobia – aversion to heat

Prejudices and discrimination

Further information: List of anti-cultural, anti-national, and anti-ethnic terms

The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti-ethnic or anti-demographic
sentiment, such as Americanophobia, Europhobia, Francophobia, Hispanophobia,
and Indophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix "anti-" already exists
(e.g. Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism). Anti-religious sentiments are expressed in terms such
asChristianophobia and Islamophobia.

Other prejudices include:

 Albanophobia - fear/dislike of Albanians

 Anglophobia – fear/dislike of England or English culture
 Atheophobia – fear/dislike of atheists
 Biphobia – fear/dislike of bisexuality or bisexuals
 Christianophobia – fear/dislike of Christians
 Ephebiphobia – fear/dislike of youth
 Germanophobia – fear/dislike of Germans
 Gerontophobia, gerascophobia – fear/dislike of aging or the elderly
 Heterophobia – fear/dislike of heterosexuals
 Hinduphobia - fear/dislike of Hindus
 Hispanophobia – fear/dislike of Hispanic people, Hispanic culture and the Spanish language
 Homophobia – fear/dislike of homosexuality, homosexuals, or gays (as opposed to lesbians)
 Indophobia - fear/dislike of India or Indian culture
 Islamophobia – fear/dislike of Muslims
 Judeophobia – fear/dislike of Jews
 Lesbophobia – fear/dislike of lesbians
 Negrophobia – fear/dislike of black people
 Nipponophobia – fear/dislike of the Japanese
 Koryophobia – fear/dislike of the Koreans
 Pedophobia – fear/dislike of children
 Polonophobia – fear/dislike of the Polish
 Psychophobia – fear/dislike of mental illness or the mentally ill
 Russophobia – fear/dislike of Russians
 Shiaphobia - fear/dislike of Shiites
 Sinophobia – fear/dislike of Chinese people
 Sunniphobia - fear/dislike of Sunnis
 Transphobia – fear/dislike of transgender people
 Turcophobia – fear/dislike of Turks
 Xenophobia – fear/dislike of foreigners or extraterrestrials