Fear – List
Fear | Scientific |
Abuse: sexual | Contreltophobia |
Accidents | Dystychiphobia |
Air | Anemophobia |
Air swallowing | Aerophobia |
Airborne noxious substances | Aerophobia |
Airsickness | Aeronausiphobia |
Alcohol | Methyphobia or Potophobia |
Alone, being | Autophobia or Monophobia |
Alone, being or solitude | Isolophobia |
Amnesia | Amnesiphobia |
Anger | Angrophobia or Cholerophobia |
Angina | Anginophobia |
Animals | Zoophobia |
Animals, skins of or fur | Doraphobia |
Animals, wild | Agrizoophobia |
Ants | Myrmecophobia |
Anything new | Neophobia |
Asymmetrical things | Asymmetriphobia |
Atomic Explosions | Atomosophobia |
Automobile, being in a moving | Ochophobia |
Automobiles | Motorphobia |
Bacteria | Bacteriophobia |
Bald people | Peladophobia |
Bald, becoming | Phalacrophobia |
Bathing | Ablutophobia |
Bats | Chiroptophobia |
Beards | Pogonophobia |
Beaten by a rod or instrument of punishment, or of being severely criticized |
Rhabdophobia |
Beautiful women | Caligynephobia |
Beds or going to bed | Clinophobia |
Bees | Apiphobia or Melissophobia |
Belly buttons | Omphalophobia |
Bicycles | Cyclophobia |
Birds | Ornithophobia |
Black | Melanophobia |
Blindness in a visual field | Scotomaphobia |
Blood | Hemophobia, Hemaphobia or Hematophobia |
Blushing or the color red | Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia |
Body odors | Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia |
Body, things to the left side of the body | Levophobia |
Body, things to the right side of the body | Dextrophobia |
Bogeyman or bogies | Bogyphobia |
Bolsheviks | Bolshephobia |
Books | Bibliophobia |
Bound or tied up | Merinthophobia |
Bowel movements: painful | Defecaloesiophobia |
Brain disease | Meningitophobia |
Bridges or of crossing them | Gephyrophobia |
Buildings: being close to high buildings | Batophobia |
Bullets | Ballistophobia |
Bulls | Taurophobia |
Bums or beggars | Hobophobia |
Burglars, or being harmed by wicked persons | Scelerophobia |
Buried alive, being or cemeteries | Taphephobia or Taphophobia |
Cancer | Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia |
Car or vehicle, riding in | Amaxophobia |
Cats | Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, or Gatophobia |
Celestial spaces | Astrophobia |
Cemeteries | Coimetrophobia |
Cemeteries or being buried alive | Taphephobia or Taphophobia |
Ceremonies, religious | Teleophobia |
Changes, making; moving | Tropophobia or Metathesiophobia |
Chickens | Alektorophobia |
Child, bearing a deformed; deformed people | Teratophobia |
Childbirth | Maleusiophobia, Tocophobia, Parturiphobia, or Lockiophobia |
Children | Pedophobia |
Chinese or Chinese culture | Sinophobia |
Chins | Geniophobia |
Choking or being smothered | Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia |
Choking | Anginophobia |
Cholera | Cholerophobia |
Chopsticks | Consecotaleophobia |
Church | Ecclesiophobia |
Clocks | Chronomentrophobia |
Clocks or time | Chronophobia |
Clothing | Vestiphobia |
Clouds | Nephophobia |
Clowns | Coulrophobia |
Coitus | Coitophobia |
Cold or cold things | Frigophobia |
Cold: extreme, ice or frost | Cryophobia |
Cold | Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia or Psychropophobia |
Color purple | Porphyrophobia |
Color red or blushing | Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia |
Color yellow | Xanthophobia |
Color white | Leukophobia |
Colors | Chromophobia or Chromatophobia |
Comets | Cometophobia |
Computers or working on computers | Cyberphobia |
Confined spaces | Claustrophobia |
Constipation | Coprastasophobia |
Contamination, dirt or infection | Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia |
Contamination with dirt or germs | Misophobia or Mysophobia |
Cooking | Mageirocophobia |
Corpses | Necrophobia |
Cosmic Phenomenon | Kosmikophobia |
Creepy, crawly things | Herpetophobia |
Criticized severely, or beaten by rod or instrument of punishment |
Rhabdophobia |
Criticism | Enissophobia |
Crosses or the crucifix | Staurophobia |
Crossing streets | Agyrophobia or Dromophobia |
Crowded public places like markets | Agoraphobia |
Crowds or mobs | Enochlophobia, Demophobia or Ochlophobia |
Crucifix, the or crosses | Staurophobia |
Crystals or glass | Crystallophobia |
Dampness, moisture or liquids | Hygrophobia |
Dancing | Chorophobia |
Dark or night | Nyctophobia |
Dark place, being in | Lygophobia |
Darkness | Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia |
Dawn or daylight | Eosophobia |
Daylight or sunshine | Phengophobia |
Death or dying | Thanatophobia |
Death or dead things | Necrophobia |
Decaying matter | Seplophobia |
Decisions: making decisions | Decidophobia |
Defeat | Kakorrhaphiophobia |
Deformed people or bearing a deformed child | Teratophobia |
Deformity or unattractive body image | Dysmorphophobia |
Demons | Demonophobia or Daemonophobia |
Dental surgery | Odontophobia |
Dentists | Dentophobia |
Dependence on others | Soteriophobia |
Depth | Bathophobia |
Diabetes | Diabetophobia |
Dining or dinner conversations | Deipnophobia |
Dirt, contamination or infection | Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia |
Dirt or germs, being contaminated with | Misophobia or mysophobia |
Dirt or filth | Rhypophobia or Rupophobia |
Dirty, being dirty or personal filth | Automysophobia |
Disease | Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia or Pathophobia |
Disease and suffering | Panthophobia |
Disease, a definite | Monopathophobia |
Disease, brain | Meningitophobia |
Disease: kidney | Albuminurophobia |
Disease, rectal | Rectophobia |
Disorder or untidiness | Ataxophobia |
Dizziness or vertigo when looking down | Illyngophobia |
Dizziness or whirlpools | Dinophobia |
Doctor, going to the | Iatrophobia |
Doctrine, challenges to or radical deviation from official |
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia |
Dogs or rabies | Cynophobia |
Dolls | Pediophobia |
Double vision | Diplophobia |
Drafts | Aerophobia or Anemophobia |
Dreams, wet | Oneirogmophobia |
Dreams | Oneirophobia |
Drinking | Dipsophobia |
Drugs, new | Neopharmaphobia |
Drugs or taking medicine | Pharmacophobia |
Dryness | Xerophobia |
Dust | Amathophobia or Koniophobia |
Dust | Amathophobia |
Duty or responsibility, neglecting | Paralipophobia |
Dying or death | Thanatophobia |
Eating or swallowing | Phagophobia |
Eating or food | Sitophobia or Sitiophobia |
Eating or swallowing or of being eaten | Phagophobia |
Eight, the number | Octophobia |
Electricity | Electrophobia |
Englishness | Anglophobia |
Erect penis | Medorthophobia |
Erection, losing an | Medomalacuphobia |
Everything | Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, or Pantophobia |
Eyes | Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia |
Eyes, opening one’s | Optophobia |
Fabrics, certain | Textophobia |
Failure | Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia |
Fainting | Asthenophobia |
Fatigue | Kopophobia |
Fearful situations: being preferred by a phobic | Counterphobia |
Feathers or being tickled by feathers | Pteronophobia |
Fecal matter, feces | Coprophobia or Scatophobia |
Female genitals | Kolpophobia |
Female genitalia | Eurotophobia |
Fever | Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Fidriophobia or Pyrexiophobia |
Filth or dirt | Rhypophobia |
Fire | Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia |
Firearms | Hoplophobia |
Fish | Ichthyophobia |
Flashes | Selaphobia |
Flogging or punishment | Mastigophobia |
Floods | Antlophobia |
Flowers | Anthrophobia or Anthophobia |
Flutes | Aulophobia |
Flying | Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Pteromerhanophobia |
Fog | Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia |
Food or eating | Sitophobia or Sitiophobia |
Food | Cibophobia |
Foreigners or strangers | Xenophobia |
Foreign languages | Xenoglossophobia |
Forests or wooden objects | Xylophobia |
Forests | Hylophobia |
Forests, dark wooded area, of at night | Nyctohylophobia |
Forgetting or being forgotten | Athazagoraphobia |
France or French culture | Francophobia, Gallophobia or Galiphobia |
Freedom | Eleutherophobia |
Friday the 13th | Paraskavedekatriaphobia |
Frogs | Batrachophobia |
Frost, ice or extreme cold | Cryophobia |
Frost or ice | Pagophobia |
Functioning or work: surgeon’s fear of operating | Ergasiophobia |
Fur or skins of animals | Doraphobia |
Gaiety | Cherophobia |
Garlic | Alliumphobia |
Genitals, particularly female | Kolpophobia |
Genitalia, female | Eurotophobia |
Germans or German culture | Germanophobia or Teutophobia |
Germs or dirt, being contaminated with | Misophobia or mysophobia |
Germs | Verminophobia |
Ghosts or specters | Spectrophobia |
Ghosts | Phasmophobia |
Girls, young or virgins | Parthenophobia |
Glass or crystals | Crystallophobia |
Glass | Hyelophobia, Hyalophobia or Nelophobia |
Gloomy place, being in | Lygophobia |
God or gods | Zeusophobia |
Gods or religion | Theophobia |
Gold | Aurophobia |
Good news, hearing good news | Euphobia |
Gravity | Barophobia |
Greek or Greek culture | Hellophobia |
Greek terms | Hellenologophobia |
Hair | Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, or Hypertrichophobia |
Halloween | Samhainophobia |
Hands | Chirophobia |
Handwriting | Graphophobia |
Harmed by wicked persons; bad men or burglars | Scelerophobia |
Heart | Cardiophobia |
Heat | Thermophobia |
Heaven | Ouranophobia or Uranophobia |
Heights | Acrophobia, Altophobia, Batophobia, Hypsiphobia or Hyposophobia |
Hell | Hadephobia, Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia |
Heredity | Patroiophobia |
Holy things | Hagiophobia |
Home | Ecophobia |
Home surroundings or a house | Oikophobia |
Home, returning | Nostophobia |
Home surroundings | Eicophobia |
Homosexuality or of becoming homosexual | Homophobia |
Horses | Equinophobia or Hippophobia |
Hospitals | Nosocomephobia |
House or home surroundings | Oikophobia |
Houses or being in a house | Domatophobia |
Hurricanes and tornadoes | Lilapsophobia |
Hypnotized, being or of sleep | Hypnophobia |
Ice or frost | Pagophobia |
Ice, frost or extreme cold | Cryophobia |
Ideas | Ideophobia |
Ignored, being | Athazagoraphobia |
Imperfection | Atelophobia |
Inability to stand | Basiphobia or Basophobia |
Infection, contamination or dirt | Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia |
Infinity | Apeirophobia |
Injections | Trypanophobia |
Injury | Traumatophobia |
Insanity, dealing with | Lyssophobia |
Insanity | Dementophobia or Maniaphobia |
Insects | Acarophobia or Entomophobia or Insectophobia |
Insects that eat wood | Isopterophobia |
Insects that cause itching | Acarophobia |
Itching | Acarophobia |
Japanese or Japanese culture | Japanophobia |
Jealousy | Zelophobia |
Jews | Judeophobia |
Joint immobility | Ankylophobia |
Jumping from high and low places | Catapedaphobia |
Justice | Dikephobia |
Kidney disease | Albuminurophobia |
Kissing | Philemaphobia or Philematophobia |
Knees | Genuphobia |
Knowledge | Gnosiophobia or Epistemophobia |
Lakes | Limnophobia |
Large things | Megalophobia |
Laughter | Geliophobia |
Lawsuits | Liticaphobia |
Learning | Sophophobia |
Left handed; objects at the left side of the body | Sinistrophobia |
Leprosy | Leprophobia or Lepraphobia |
Lice | Pediculophobia or Phthiriophobia |
Light | Photophobia |
Light flashes | Selaphobia |
Lightning and thunder | Brontophobia or Karaunophobia |
Lights, glaring | Photoaugliaphobia |
Liquids, dampness or moisture | Hygrophobia |
Locked in an enclosed place | Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia |
Lockjaw or tetanus | Tetanophobia |
Loneliness or of being oneself | Eremophobia or Eremiphobia |
Looking up | Anablephobia or Anablepophobia |
Loud noises | Ligyrophobia |
Love, sexual love | Erotophobia |
Love play | Malaxophobia or Sarmassophobia |
Love, falling or being in | Philophobia |
Machines | Mechanophobia |
Mad, becoming | Lyssophobia |
Many things | Polyphobia |
Marriage | Gamophobia |
Materialism | Hylephobia |
Matter, decaying | Seplophobia |
Meat | Carnophobia |
Medicine, taking; or drugs | Pharmacophobia |
Medicines, mercurial | Hydrargyophobia |
Medicine, prescribing by a doctor | Opiophobia |
Memories | Mnemophobia |
Men, bad or burglars or being harmed by wicked persons |
Scelerophobia |
Men | Androphobia or Arrhenphobia or Hominophobia |
Menstruation | Menophobia |
Mercurial medicines | Hydrargyophobia |
Metal | Metallophobia |
Meteors | Meteorophobia |
Mice | Musophobia, Murophobia or Suriphobia |
Microbes | Bacillophobia or Microbiophobia |
Mind | Psychophobia |
Mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror | Eisoptrophobia |
Mirrors | Catoptrophobia |
Missiles | Ballistophobia |
Mobs or crowds | Demophobia, Enochlophobia or Ochlophobia |
Moisture, dampness or liquids | Hygrophobia |
Money | Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia |
Moon | Selenophobia |
Mother in law | Pentheraphobia |
Moths | Mottephobia |
Motion or movement | Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia |
Moving or making changes | Tropophobia |
Moving automobile or vehicle, being in | Ochophobia |
Muscular incoordination (Ataxia) | Ataxiophobia |
Mushrooms | Mycophobia |
Music | Melophobia |
Myths or stories or false statements | Mythophobia |
Names or hearing a certain name | Onomatophobia |
Names | Nomatophobia |
Narrow things or places | Stenophobia |
Narrowness | Anginophobia |
Needles | Aichmophobia or Belonephobia |
New, anything or novel | Kainophobia, Kainolophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Neophobia |
Newness | Cainophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Cainotophobia |
News: hearing good news | Euphobia |
Night or dark | Nyctophobia |
Night | Noctiphobia |
Noise | Acousticophobia |
Noises, loud | Ligyrophobia |
Noises or voices, speaking aloud, or telephones | Phonophobia |
Northern lights | Auroraphobia |
Nosebleeds | Epistaxiophobia |
Novelty or anything new | Kainophobia or Kainolophobia |
Novelty | Cainophobia or Cainotophobia |
Nuclear weapons | Nucleomituphobia |
Nudity | Gymnophobia or Nudophobia |
Number 8 | Octophobia |
Number 13 | Triskadekaphobia |
Numbers | Arithmophobia or Numerophobia |
Objects, small | Tapinophobia |
Ocean or sea | Thalassophobia |
Odor, personal | Bromidrosiphobia, Bromidrophobia, Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia |
Odor, that one has a vile odor | Autodysomophobia |
Odors or smells | Olfactophobia |
Official doctrine, challenges to or radical deviation from |
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia |
Old people | Gerontophobia |
Old, growing | Gerascophobia or Gerontophobia |
Open spaces | Agoraphobia |
Open high places | Aeroacrophobia |
Operation, surgical | Tomophobia |
Opinions | Allodoxaphobia |
Opinions, expressing | Doxophobia |
Others, dependence on | Soteriophobia |
Otters | Lutraphobia |
Outer space | Spacephobia |
Pain | Algiophobia, Ponophobia, Odynophobia or Odynephobia |
Paper | Papyrophobia |
Parasites | Parasitophobia |
Parents in law | Soceraphobia |
Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth | Arachibutyrophobia |
Pellagra | Pellagrophobia |
Penis, erect | Medorthophobia |
Penis, esp erect | Phallophobia |
Penis, erect: seeing, thinking about or having | Ithyphallophobia |
People | Anthropophobia |
People in general or society | Sociophobia |
People, deformed or bearing a deformed child | Teratophobia |
Philosophy | Philsosphobia |
Phobias | Phobophobia |
Phobic prefering fearful situations | Counterphobia |
Pins and needles | Belonephobia |
Pins | Enetophobia |
Place: locked in an enclosed place | Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia |
Place, being in a dark or gloomy | Lygophobia |
Places, certain | Topophobia |
Places, crowded public | Agoraphobia |
Places, open high | Aeroacrophobia |
Places or things, narrow | Stenophobia |
Plants | Botanophobia |
Pleasure, feeling | Hedonophobia |
Poetry | Metrophobia |
Pointed objects | Aichmophobia |
Poison | Iophobia |
Poisoned, being | Toxiphobia, Toxophobia, or Toxicophobia |
Poliomyelitis, contracting | Poliosophobia |
Politicians | Politicophobia |
Pope | Papaphobia |
Poverty | Peniaphobia |
Praise, receiving | doxophobia |
Precipices | Cremnophobia |
Prescribing medicine for patients by a doctor | Opiophobia |
Priests or sacred things | Hierophobia |
Progress | Prosophobia |
Property | Orthophobia |
Prostitutes or venereal disease | Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia |
Punishment or flogging | Mastigophobia |
Punishment by a rod or other instrument, or of being severely criticized |
Rhabdophobia |
Punishment | Poinephobia |
Puppets | Pupaphobia |
Purple, color | Porphyrophobia |
Rabies | Cynophobia, Hydrophobophobia, Hydrophobia, Kynophobia, or Lyssophobia |
Radiation or xRays | Radiophobia |
Railroads or train travel | Siderodromophobia |
Rain | Ombrophobia or Pluviophobia |
Rape | Virginitiphobia |
Razors | Xyrophobia |
Rat, great mole | Zemmiphobia |
Rectum or rectal diseases | Proctophobia or Rectophobia |
Red color or blushing | Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia |
Relatives | Syngenesophobia |
Religion or gods | Theophobia |
Religious ceremonies | Teleophobia |
Reptiles | Herpetophobia |
Responsibility or duty, neglecting | Paralipophobia |
Responsibility | Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia |
Ridiculed, being | Catagelophobia or Katagelophobia |
Riding in a car | Amaxophobia |
Right side, things on the right side of the body | Dextrophobia |
Rivers | Potamphobia or Potamophobia |
Road travel or travel | Hodophobia |
Robbers or being robbed | Harpaxophobia |
Rooms, empty | Cenophobia or Centophobia |
Rooms | Koinoniphobia |
Ruin | Atephobia |
Running water | Potamophobia |
Russians | Russophobia |
Sacred things or priests | Hierophobia |
Satan | Satanophobia |
Scabies | Scabiophobia |
School, going to school | Didaskaleinophobia |
School | Scolionophobia |
Scientific terminology, complex | Hellenologophobia |
Scratches or being scratched | Amychophobia |
Sea or ocean | Thalassophobia |
Self, seeing oneself in a mirror | Eisoptrophobia |
Self, personal odor | Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia |
Self, being alone | Autophobia, Eremophobia, Eremiphobia or Isolophobia |
Self, being dirty | Automysophobia |
Self, being oneself | Autophobia |
Self, being seen or looked at | Scopophobia or Scoptophobia |
Self, being touched | Aphenphosmphobia |
Self, that one has a vile odor | Autodysomophobia |
Semen | Spermatophobia or Spermophobia |
Sermons | Homilophobia |
Sex | Genophobia |
Sex, opposite | Heterophobia or Sexophobia |
Sexual abuse | Agraphobia or Contreltophobia |
Sexual intercourse | Coitophobia |
Sexual love or sexual questions | Erotophobia |
Sexual perversion | Paraphobia |
Shadows | Sciophobia or Sciaphobia |
Sharks | Selachophobia |
Shellfish | Ostraconophobia |
Shock | Hormephobia |
Sin or of having committted an unpardonable sin |
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia |
Sin | Hamartophobia |
Single: staying single | Anuptaphobia |
Sinning | Peccatophobia |
Sitting down | Kathisophobia |
Sitting | Cathisophobia or Thaasophobia |
Situations, certain | Topophobia |
Skin disease | Dermatosiophobia |
Skin lesions | Dermatophobia |
Skin of animals, fur | Doraphobia |
Sleep | Somniphobia |
Sleep or being hypnotized | Hypnophobia |
Slime | Blennophobia or Myxophobia |
Slopes, steep | Bathmophobia |
Small things | Microphobia, Mycrophobia |
Smells or odors | Olfactophobia |
Smothered, being or choking | Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia |
Snakes | Ophidiophobia or Snakephobia |
Snow | Chionophobia |
Social (fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations) |
Social Phobia |
Society or people in general | Anthropophobia or Sociophobia |
Solitude | Monophobia |
Sounds | Acousticophobia |
Sourness | Acerophobia |
Space, closed or locked in an enclosed space | Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, Clithrophobia |
Space, outer | Spacephobia |
Spaces, confined | Claustrophobia |
Spaces, empty | Cenophobia, Centophobia or Kenophobia |
Spaces, open | Agoraphobia |
Speak, trying to | Glossophobia |
Speaking | Laliophobia or Lalophobia |
Speaking aloud, voices or noises, or telephones | Phonophobia |
Speaking in public | Glossophobia |
Specters or ghosts | Spectrophobia |
Speed | Tachophobia |
Spiders | Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia |
Spirits | Pneumatiphobia |
Stage fright | Topophobia |
Stairs or climbing stairs | Climacophobia |
Stairways | Bathmophobia |
Stand, inability to | Basiphobia or Basophobia |
Standing upright | Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia |
Standing up | Stasiphobia |
Standing up and walking | Stasibasiphobia |
Stared at, being | Ophthalmophobia |
Stars | Siderophobia or Astrophobia |
Statements, false or myths or stories | Mythophobia |
Staying single | Anuptaphobia |
Stealing | Cleptophobia or Kleptophobia |
Step father | Vitricophobia |
Steep slopes | Bathmophobia |
Step mother | Novercaphobia |
Stings | Cnidophobia |
Stooping | Kyphophobia |
Stories or myths or false statements | Mythophobia |
Strangers or foreigners | Xenophobia |
Streets, crossing streets | Dromophobia |
Streets | Agyrophobia |
String | Linonophobia |
Storm, thunder | Brontophobia |
Stuttering | Psellismophobia |
Suffering and disease | Panthophobia |
Sun or sunlight | Heliophobia |
Sunshine or daylight | Phengophobia |
Surgeon’s fear of operating: work or functioning | Ergasiophobia |
Surgical operations | Tomophobia |
Swallowing or eating | Phagophobia |
Symbolism | Symbolophobia |
Symmetry | Symmetrophobia |
Syphillis (lues) | Luiphobia or Syphilophobia |
Tapeworms | Taeniophobia |
Taste | Geumaphobia or Geumophobia |
Technology | Technophobia |
Teenagers | Ephebiphobia |
Teeth | Odontophobia |
Telephones, noises or voices, or speaking aloud | Phonophobia |
Telephones | Telephonophobia |
Termites | Isopterophobia |
Tests, taking | Testophobia |
Tetanus or lockjaw | Tetanophobia |
Theaters | Theatrophobia |
Theology | Theologicophobia |
Things, many | Polyphobia |
Things, large | Megalophobia |
Things or places, narrow | Stenophobia |
Things, small | Microphobia or Mycrophobia |
Thinking | Phronemophobia |
Thunder | Ceraunophobia |
Thunder and lightning | Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia or Keraunophobia |
Tickled by feathers or feathers | Pteronophobia |
Tied or bound up | Merinthophobia |
Time or clocks | Chronophobia |
Toads | Bufonophobia |
Tombstones | Placophobia |
Tornadoes and hurricanes | Lilapsophobia |
Touched, being touched | Aphenphosmphobia, Haphephobia or Haptephobia or Chiraptophobia |
Trains, railroads or train travel | Siderodromophobia |
Travel or road travel | Hodophobia |
Trees | Dendrophobia |
Trembling | Ttremophobia |
Trichinosis | Trichinophobia |
Tuberculosis | Phthisiophobia or Tuberculophobia |
Tyrants | Tyrannophobia |
Ugliness | Cacophobia |
Undressing in front of someone | Dishabillophobia |
Urine or urinating | Urophobia |
Vaccination | Vaccinophobia |
Vegetables | Lachanophobia |
Venereal disease or prostitutes | Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia |
Ventriloquist’s dummy | Automatonophobia |
Vertigo or dizziness when looking down | Illyngophobia |
Virginity, losing one’s | Primeisodophobia |
Virgins or young girls | Parthenophobia |
Vision: double vision | Diplophobia |
Voices or noises, speaking aloud or telephones | Phonophobia |
Voids or empty spaces | Kenophobia |
Vomiting secondary to airsickness | Aeronausiphobia |
Vomiting | Emetophobia |
Waits, long | Macrophobia |
Walking, standing up and | Stasibasiphobia |
Walking | Ambulophobia, Basistasiphobia or Basostasophobia |
Washing | Ablutophobia |
Wasps | Spheksophobia |
Water | Hydrophobia |
Waves or wave like motions | Cymophobia or Kymophobia |
Wax statues | Automatonophobia |
Weakness | Asthenophobia |
Wealth | Plutophobia |
Weapons, nuclear | Nucleomituphobia |
Weight, gaining | Obesophobia or Pocrescophobia |
Wet dreams | Oneirogmophobia |
Whirlpools or dizzyness | Dinophobia |
White, the color | Leukophobia |
Wild animals | Agrizoophobia |
Wind | Ancraophobia or Anemophobia |
Wine | Oenophobia |
Witches and Witchcraft | Wiccaphobia |
Women | Gynephobia or Gynophobia |
Women, beautiful | Caligynephobia or Venstraphobia |
Wooden objects or forests | Xylophobia |
Words | Logophobia or Verbophobia |
Words, long | Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia or Sesquipedalophobia |
Work or functioning; surgeon’s fear of operating | Ergasiophobia |
Work | Ergophobia or Ponophobia |
Worms | Scoleciphobia |
Worms, being infested with | Helminthophobia |
Wrinkles, getting | Rhytiphobia |
Writing | Graphophobia |
Writing in public | Scriptophobia |
Xrays or radiation | Radiophobia |
Yellow color | Xanthophobia |
Where do you find this stuff?
Thanks for the laugh
I was reading yesterday about phobias and discovered that to truly have a phobia you have to be afraid of the thing itself. So, for example, it's possible to have a phobia of amputees, and so be scared of coming into contact with someone with an amputated limb. But it's not possible to have a phobia that you might one day become an amputee–apparently, that just means you have an anxiety of some kind.
Apparently, also, you can have phobias that manifest as a metaphor for what you're truly afraid of. For example: you've always lived a life of mediocrity, never really put much effort into anything, never tried to get ahead or had much ambition. So your mind manifests a phobia of ladders: symbolizing your inability to 'climb' higher in life…
The mind is so fascinating!