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Ablutophobia fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning Acarophobia fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching Acerophobia fear of sourness Achluophobia fear of darkness Acousticophobia fear of sound and voice Acrophobia fear of heights Aerophobia fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airborne noxious substances Aeroacrophobia fear of open high places Aeronausiphobia fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness Agateophobia fear of insanity Agliophobia fear of pain AIDSophobia fear of contracting AIDS Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable. From another source: Agoraphobia: Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place. Agraphobia fear of sexual abuse Agrizoophobia fear of wild animals Agyrophobia fear of crossing roads Aichmophobia fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife) Ailurophobia fear of cats Albuminurophobia fear of kidney disease Alektorophobia fear of chickens and poultry Algophobia fear of pain Alliumphobia fear of garlic Allodoxaphobia fear of opinions Alourophobia fear of reading aloud Altophobia fear of heights Amathophobia fear of dust Amaxophobia fear of riding in vehicles Ambulophobia fear of walking Amnesiphobia fear of amnesia Amychophobia fear of scratches or being scratched Anablephobia fear of looking up Ancraophobia (Anemophobia) fear of wind Androphobia fear of men Anemophobia (Ancraophobia) fear of air drafts or wind Anginophobia fear of angina, choking or narrowness Angrophobia fear of anger or of becoming angry Ankylophobia fear of immobility of a joint Anthophobia fear of flowers Anthropophobia fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia. Antlophobia fear of floods Anuptaphobia fear of having no husband/wife or of staying single Apeirophobia fear of infinity

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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 Arachibutyrophobia fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth Arachnophobia fear of spiders Arithmophobia fear of numbers Astraphobia fear of thunder and lightning Atychiphobia fear of failure Autophobia fear of loneliness Aviophobia, Aviatophobia fear of flying Bacillophobia fear of microbes Bacteriophobia fear of bacteria Ballistophobia fear of missiles or bullets Barophobia fear of gravity Basiphobia inability to stand, or fear of walking Bathophobia fear of depth Batonophobia fear of plants Batophobia fear of heights or being close to high buildings Bibliophobia fear of books Blennophobia fear of slime Blood-injection-injury type phobia a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias Bogyphobia fear of bogies or the bogeyman Bromidrophobia or Bromidrosiphobia fear of body smells Brontophobia or Ceraunophobia fear of thunder and lightning Cacophobia fear of ugliness Cainophobia or Cainotophobia fear of newness, novelty Caligynephobia fear of beautiful women Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia fear of cancer Cardiophobia fear of the heart Carnophobia fear of meat Catagelophobia fear of being ridiculed or being embarrassed Catapedaphobia fear of jumping from high and low places Cathisophobia fear of sitting Catoptrophobia fear of mirrors Cenophobia or Centophobia fear of new things or ideas Chaetophobia fear of hair Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia fear of cold Chemophobia fear of chemicals or working with chemicals Cherophobia fear of gaiety Chiroptophobia fear of bats Chorophobia fear of dancing 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 Coprophobia fear of faeces (bowel waste) Clownphobia Fear of clowns Coulrophobia fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)

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Cynophobia Fear of dogs Decidophobia fear of making decisions Dentophobia, Odontophobia fear of dentists and dental procedures Disposophobia, better known as "compulsive hoarding" the fear of getting rid of or losing things Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect Ebulliophobia fear of bubbles Emetophobia fear of vomiting Epistemophobia fear of knowledge Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating Ergophobia fear of work or functioning Erotophobia fear of sexual love or sexual questions Erythrophobia pathological blushing Friggatriskaidekaphobia, Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia fear of Friday the 13th Gelotophobia fear of being laughed at Gephyrophobia fear of bridges Genophobia, Coitophobia fear of sexual intercourse Genuphobia fear of knees/kneeling Gerascophobia fear of growing old or aging Gerontophobia fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly Glossophobia fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak Gurgephobia fear of the abyss, particular the ocean floor or outer space Gymnophobia fear of nudity Gynophobia fear of women Halitophobia fear of bad breath Haptephobia fear of being touched Heliophobia fear of sunlight Hemophobia, Haemophobia fear of blood Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia fear of the number 666 Hoplophobia fear of weapons, specifically firearms (Generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented) Hyalophobia fear of glass Hydrophobia fear of water, frequently noted as a common symptom of rabies Hylophobia fear of trees, forests or wood Ichthyophobia fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish Ithyphallophobia fear of the erect penis Lachanophobia fear of vegetables Ligyrophobia fear of loud noises Lipophobia fear/avoidance of fats in food Megalophobia fear of large objects Mycophobia fear of mushrooms and fungii Mysophobia fear of germs, contamination or dirt Necrophobia fear of death and/or the dead Negrophobia fear of black people, often used to describe racial bigots

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Nomophobia fear of being out of mobile phone contact Nephophobia fear of clouds Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia fear of newness, novelty Nosophobia fear of contracting a disease Novercaphobia fear of one's stepmother Nosocomephobia fear of hospitals Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia fear of darkness Oikophobia fear of home surroundings and household appliances Ombrophobia fear of rain Ommetophobia fear of eyes Omphalophobia fear of bellybuttons Ophidiophobia fear of snakes Ophthalmophobia Fear of being stared at Orinthophobia fear of birds Osmophobia, Olfactophobia fear of smells Ovophobia fear of eggs Oxygenophobia fear of oxygen Panphobia fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause Pedophobia fear of pedophiles Pediophobia fear of dolls, mannequins or robots Phagophobia fear of swallowing Pharmacophobia fear of medications Philophobia fear of love Phobophobia fear of having a phobia Phonophobia fear of loud sounds Photophobia the fear of light Piccophobia Fear of the colours green and purple Pogonophobia fear of beards Poinephobia fear of punishment Porphyrophobia fear of the color purple Pistanthrophobia fear of trusting Pyrophobia fear of fire Pyramiphobia Fear of pyramids Radiophobia fear of radioactivity or X-rays Sichuaphobia fear of Chinese food Siderodromophobia fear of travelling by train Sociophobia fear of people or social situations Scolionophobia fear of school Scopophobia fear of being looked at or stared at Somniphobia fear of sleep Spasmenagaliaphobia (neologism; no official name) fear of broken glass[3] Spectrophobia fear of ghost and phantoms Stygiophobia fear of Hell Taphophobia fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive Technophobia fear of technology (see also Luddite)

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Telephone phobia fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls Tetraphobia fear of the number 4 Thalassophobia fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean Thanatophobia fear of death Tokophobia fear of childbirth or pregnancy Traumatophobia a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury Trichophobia a morbid disgust caused by the sight of loose hairs Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia fear of the number 13 Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia fear of needles or injections Trypophobia fear of holes Turophobia fear of cheese Workplace phobia fear of the workplace Xenophobia fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens Xylophobia, Hylophobia, Ylophobia fear of trees, forests or wood

Animal phobias
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Agrizoophobia fear of wild animals Ailurophobia fear/dislike of cats Alektorophobia fear of chickens Anopheliphobia fear of mosquitoes Apiphobia fear/dislike of bees (also known as melissophobia, from the Greek melissa "bee") Arachnophobia fear/dislike of spiders and other arachnids Batrachophobia fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc Bovinophobia fear/dislike of cattle Bufonophobia fear of toads Cetaphobia fear/dislike of whales Chiroptophobia fear/dislike of bats Cynophobia fear/dislike of dogs Entomophobia fear/dislike of insects Equinophobia fear/dislike of horses (also known as hippophobia) Herpetophobia fear/dislike of reptiles and/or amphibians Hippophobia fear/dislike of horses Ichthyophobia fear/dislike of fish Katsikaphobia fear/dislike of goat Lutraphobia fear/dislike of otters Mottephobia fear/dislike of butterflies and/or moths Murophobia fear/dislike of mice and/or rats Oncaphobia fear of jaguars Ophidiophobia fear/dislike of snakes Ornithophobia fear/dislike of birds Ornithoscelidaphobia fear/dislike of dinosaurs Pardophobia fear of leopards Saurophobia fear of lizards Selachophobia fear of sharks

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Scoleciphobia fear of worms Suchophobia fear of crocodiles Xanthophobia fear of the color yellow Zoophobia fear of animals

Non-psychological conditions
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Aquaphobia fear of water Photophobia hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light Phonophobia hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds. Osmophobia hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors.

Biology, chemistry
Biologists use a number of -phobia/-phobic terms to describe predispositions by plants and animals against certain conditions. For antonyms, see here.
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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 Ombrophobia avoidance of rain[4] 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. y Arachnophobia "fear/dislike of spiders," a film y Chromophobia "hatred/fear of colours," a film y Choreophobia hatred of dance, a book by Anthony Shay about Iranian dance and its prohibition after the Iranian Revolution y Entomophobia a genus of orchids. The word means "fear of insects"