Saturday, January 16, 2021

Near Complete List of Phobias

Here is a near complete list of phobia words you can ever find in our time. If not complete, this could be the most exhaustive compilation of phobias ever known. I collected them while doing my lexicographic work that runs for about three decades now. Some of them cannot be found yet in mainstream standard dictionaries, both printed and online. As soon as they will see this list, they will surely check and update theirs.

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ablutophobia - [n.] fear of bathing or washing face, any part of the body

acarophobia - [n.] fear of itching

acerophobia - [n.] fear of sourness

achluophobia - [n.] fear of darkness (see also noctiphobia)

acousticophobia - [n.] fear of noise

acrophobia - [n.] fear of being at a great height

aeroacrophobia - [n.] fear of high places that is open

aeronausiphobia - [n.] fear of vomiting due to airsickness

aerophobia - [n.] fear of blowing air, esp. of drafts

agateophobia - [n.] fear of insanity. Also dementophobia, maniaphobia

agliophobia - [n.] fear of pain

agoraphobia - [n.] fear of being helpless in an embarrassing or unescapable situation that is characterized especially by the avoidance of open or public places

agrizoophobia - [n.] fear of wild animals

agyrophobia - [n.] fear of crossing the street

aichmophobia - [n.] fear of pointed objects such as needles, spears, thorns, ice pick, spikes, pins, and the like. Also called belonephobia

ailurophobia - [n.] fear of cats (also felinophobia, gatophobia, galeophobia)

albuminurophobia - [n.] fear of kidney disease

alektorophobia - [n.] fear of chickens

algophobia - [n.] fear of having pain or of anything that causes pain

alliumphobia - [n.] fear of garlic

allodoxaphobia - [n.] fear of opinions

altophobia - [n.] fear heights

amathophobia - [n.] fear of dust

ambulophobia - [n.] fear of walking

amnesiphobia - [n.] fear of amnesia

amoxophobia - [n.] fear of riding in a car

amychophobia - [n.] fear of being scratched

anablephobia - [n.] fear of looking up

androphobia - [n.] fear of male human being

anemophobia - [n.] fear of wind

Anglophobia; anglophobia - [n.] one who is aversed to or dislikes England and things English; fear of Britain

angrophobia - [n.] fear of anger or becoming angry

ankylophobia - [n.] fear of immobility of joints

anthophobia - [n.] fear of flowers

anthrophobia - [n.] fear of man or human beings, also called anthropophobia

anthropophobia - [n.] fear of man or human beings, also called anthrophobia

antlophobia - [n.] fear of floods

anuptaphobia - [n.] fear of staying single or not getting married

apeirophobia - [n.] fear of infinity

aphenphosmophobia - [n.] fear of being touched. Also chiraptophobia, haphephobia; haptephobia

apiphobia - [n.] fear of bees

apotemnophobia - [n.] fear of person with amputations

arachibutyrophobia - [n.] fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one’s mouth

arachnophobia - [n.] fear of spiders

arithmophobia - [n.] fear of numbers

arrhenphobia - [n.] fear of men. Also hominophobia

arsonphobia - [n.] fear of setting fire (also pyrophobia)

asthenophobia - [n.] fear of fainting or weakness of consciousness

astraphobia - [n.] fear of thunder and lightning (also astrapophobia, brontophobia, ceraunophobia)

astrapophobia - [n.] fear of thunder and lightning (also astraphobia, brontophobia, ceraunophobia)

astrophobia - [n.] fear of celestial space

asymmetriphobia - [n.] fear of asymmetrical things

ataxiophobia - [n.] fear of muscular incoordination

ataxophobia - [n.] fear of untidiness

atelophobia - [n.] fear of imperfection

atephobia - [n.] fear of ruin or ruins

athazagoraphobia - [n.] fear of being forgotten or ignored

atomosophobia - [n.] fear of atomic explosion

atychiphobia - [n.] fear of failure

aulophobia - [n.] fear of flutes

aurophobia - [n.] fear of gold

auroraphobia - [n.] fear of northern lights or apparition in the northern skies

autodysomophobia - [n.] fear of one that has a vile or disgusting odor

automatonophobia - [n.] fear of ventriloquist, dummies, wax statues, realistic mannequins, puppets, and the like

automysophobia - [n.] fear of being dirty

autophobia - [n.] fear of solitude, or being alone without other people (also monophobia)

aviatophobia - [n.] fear of flying (also aviophobia, pteromerhanophobia)

aviophobia - [n.] fear of flying (also aviatophobia, pteromerhanophobia)

bacillophobia - [n.] fear of microbes, germs and any other disease causing bacteria. Also microbiophobia, misophobia, spermatophobia

bacteriophobia - [n.] fear of bacteria

ballistophobia - [n.] fear of bullets, missiles, and any other projectile or ammunition

barophobia - [n.] fear of gravity

basophobia - [n.] fear of inability to stand

bathmophobia - [n.] fear of stairs or steep ladder or slopes (also cimacophobia)

bathophobia - [n.] fear of depth

batrachophobia - [n.] fear of amphibians

belonephobia - [n.] fear of pins and needles, also called aichmophobia

bibliophobia - [n.] fear of books

blennophobia - [n.] fear of slime

bogyphobia - [n.] fear of bogymen

Bolshephobia - [n.] fear of Bolsheviks

botanophobia - [n.] fear of plants

bromidrosiphobia - [n.] fear of body smells

brontophobia - [n.] fear of thunder and thunder storm (see also ceraunophobia)

bufonophobia - [n.] fear of toads

cachophobia - [n.] fear of ugliness

cainophobia - [n.] fear of newness or novelty

caligynephobia - [n.] fear of beautiful or sexually attractive girls

carcinophobia - [n.] fear of cancer

cardiophobia - [n.] fear of the heart

carnophobia - [n.] fear of meat

catagelophobia - [n.] fear of being ridiculed

catapedaphobia - [n.] fear of jumping

cathisophobia - [n.] fear of sitting (also kathisophobia)

catoptrophobia - [n.] fear of mirror

cenophobia - [n.] fear of new things or ideas (also centophobia)

cenophobia; centophobia - [n.] fear of new things or ideas

ceraunophobia - [n.] fear of thunder (see also brontophobia)

chaetophobia - [n.] fear of hair

cheimaphobia - [n.] fear of cold (also cheimatophobia)

cheimatophobia - [n.] fear of cold (also cheimaphobia)

chemophobia - [n.] fear of chemicals

cherophobia - [n.] fear of gaiety

chionophobia - [n.] fear of snow

chiraptophobia - [n.] fear of being touch. Also aphenphosmophobia, haphephobia, haptephobia

cholerophobia - [n.] fear of anger

chorophobia - [n.] fear of dancing

chrematophobia - [n.] fear of money (also chrometophobia)

Christianophobia - [n.] morbid fear or repugnance of Christianity.

chromatophobia - fear of colors in general. From Greek chromos (color) and phob[os] (panic fear). Also chromophobia

chrometophobia - [n.] fear of money (also chrematophobia)

chromophobia - [n.] fear of colors or of a particular color. Also chromatophobia

chronomentrophobia - [n.] fear of clocks

chronophobia - [n.] fear of time

chrysophobia - [n.] fear of the orange color

cibophobia - [n.] fear of food

claustrophobia - [n.] dread of being in closed or narrow spaces

cleisiophobia - [n.] fear of being locked in an enclosed place

cleithrophobia - [n.] fear of being enclosed (also clithrophobia)

cleptoobia - [n.] fear of stealing

climacophobia - [n.] fear of stairs, climbing or falling down stairs (also bathmophobia)

clinophobia - [n.] fear of going to bed

clithrophobia - [n.] fear of being enclosed (also cleithrophobia)

cnidophobia - [n.] fear of stings

coimetrophobia - [n.] fear of cemeteries

cometophobia - [n.] fear of comets

computerphobia - [n.] (of person who experiences) anxiety about computers and especially about their use. Also logizomechanophobia, technophobia, cyberphobia.

contreltophobia - [n.] fear of sexual abuse

coprastasophobia - [n.] fear of constipation

coprophobia - [n.] fear of feces

coulrophobia - [n.] fear of clowns

cremnophobia - [n.] fear of precipices

cryophobia - [n.] fear of extreme cold

crystallophobia - [n.] fear of crystals and glass. Also hyalophobia, hyelophobia, nelophobia

cyanophobia - [n.] fear of the color blue

cyberphobia - [n.] fear of computer network or working on a computer. Also computerphobia.

cyclophobia - [n.] fear of bicycles

cynophobia - [n.] fear of dog or rabies. Also hydrophobophobia, kynophobia

cypridophobia; cypriphobia; cyprianophobia; cyprinophobia - [n.] fear of prostitutes and venereal disease

decidophobia - [n.] fear of making decisions

defecaloesiophobia - [n.] fear of painful bowel movements

deipnophobia - [n.] fear of dining or dinner conversations

dementophobia - [n.] fear of insanity. Also maniaphobia, agateophobia

demonophobia - [n.] fear of demons

demophobia - [n.] fear of crowds, also called ochlophobia

dendrophobia - [n.] fear of trees

dentophobia - [n.] fear of dentists

deophobia - [n.]  irrational terror or of being terrified or scared of God. It differs from biblical “fear of God” construed as reverential fear. Also theophobia

dermatophobia - [n.] fear of skin lesions (also dermatosiophobia)

dermatosiophobia; dermatopathophobia - [n.] fear of skin disease (also dermatophobia)

dextrophobia - [n.] fear of objects at the right side of the body

diabetophobia - [n.] fear of diabetes

didaskaleinophobia - [n.] fear of school. Also scolionophobia

dikephobia - [n.] fear of justice

dinophobia - [n.] fear of dizziness

diplophobia - [n.] fear of double vision

dipsophobia - [n.] fear of drinking

dishabiliophobia - [n.] fear of undressing in front of someone

domatophobia - [n.] fear of houses

doraphobia - [n.] fear of animal fur or skins

doxophobia - [n.] fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise

dromophobia - [n.] fear of crossing streets

Dutchphobia - [n.] fear of Dutch

dysmorphophobia - [n.] fear of deformity

dystychiphobia - [n.] fear of accidents

ecclesiophobia - [n.] fear of church or places of worship

ecophobia - [n.] fear of home. Also oikophobia

eicoptrophobia - [n.] fear of surroundings

eisoptrophobia - [n.] fear of mirrors, or seeing oneself in a mirror

electrophobia - [n.] fear of electricity

eleutherophobia - [n.] fear of freedom

emetophobia - [n.] fear of vomiting

enetophobia - [n.] fear of pins

enochlophobia - [n.] fear of crowds

enosiophobia - [n.] fear of committing an unpardonable sin or criticism

entomophobia - [n.] fear of insects

eosophobia - [n.] fear of dawn or daylight

epistaxiophobia - [n.] fear of nosebleeds

epistemophobia - [n.] fear of knowledge (also gnosiophobia)

equinophobia - [n.] fear of horses

eremophobia - [n.] fear of being oneself or of loneliness

ereuthrophobia - [n.] fear of blushing

ergasiophobia - [n.] fear of work or functioning; surgeon`s fear of operating

ergophobia - [n.] fear of work

erotophobia - [n.] fear of sexual love or sexual questions

erythrophobia; erytophobia - [n.] fear of red lights or red color

euphobia - [n.] fear of hearing good news

eurotophobia - [n.] fear of female genitalia. Also vaginaphobia

febriphobia; fibriphobia; fibriophobia - [n.] fear of fever. Also pyrexiophobia

felinophobia - [n.] fear of cats (also ailurophobia, galeophobia, gatophobia)

Francophobia; francophobia - [n.] fear or strong dislike of France or French culture or customs (also gallophobia, galiophobia)

frigophobia - [n.] fear of cold

fructophobia - [n.] fear of all fruits. Irrational fear that fruits may have gone bad or may make someone ill, or simply a disgust for fruits in general.

galeophobia - [n.] fear of cats (also ailurophobia, felinophobia, gatophobia)

gallophobia; galiophobia - [n.] fear of France (also Francophobia, francophobia)

gamophobia - [n.] fear of marriage

gatophobia - [n.] fear of cats (also ailurophobia, felinophobia, gatophobia, galeophobia)

geliophobia - [n.] fear of laughter

geniophobia - [n.] fear of chins

genophobia - [n.] morbid dread of sex & sexuality

genuphobia - [n.] fear of knees

gephydrophobia; gephyrophobia; gephysrophobia - [n.] fear of crossing bridges

gerascophobia - [n.] fear of growing old (also gerontophobia)

Germanophobia - [n.] fear of Germany, its culture and anything related to Germany

gerontophobia - [n.] fear of old people or of growing old (also gerascophobia)

geumaphobia; geumophobia - [n.] fear of taste

glossophobia - [n.] fear of public speaking

gnosiophobia - [n.] fear of knowledge (also epistemophobia)

graphophobia - [n.] fear of writing or handwriting

gymnophobia - [n.] fear of nudity or of naked human bodies. Also nudophobia

gynephobia; gynophobia - [n.] fear of women

hadephobia - [n.] fear of hell. Also stygiophobia

hagiophobia - [n.] fear of saints or holy things

hamartophobia - [n.] fear of sinning. Also peccatophobia

haphephobia; haptephobia - [n.] fear of being touched. Also chiraptophobia, aphenphosmophobia

harpaxophobia - [n.] fear of being robbed

hedonophobia - [n.] fear of feeling pleasure

heliophobia - [n.] fear of sun, or excessive sensitiveness to sunlight that there is a need to avoid the sun

hellenologophobia - [n.] fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology

helmintophobia - [n.] fear of being infested with worms

hemaphobia - [n.] fear of blood or bleeding. Also called hematophobia or hemophobia

hemophobia - [n.] fear of blood or bleeding. Also called hematophobia or hemaphobia

heresyphobia - [n.] fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation. Also herieophobia

herieophobia - [n.] fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation. Also heresyphobia

herpetophobia - [n.] fear of reptiles

heterophobia - [n.] fear of opposite sex (also sexophobia)

hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - [n.] fear of the number "666"

hierophobia - [n.] fear of priest or sacred things

hippophobia - [n.] fear of horses

hippopotomonstrosesquippedahophobia - [n.] fear of long words. Also sesquipedalophobia

hobophobia - [n.] fear of bums or beggars

hodophobia - [n.] fear of road travel

homichlophobia - [n.] fear of fog. Also nebulaphobia

homilophobia - [n.] fear of sermons

hominophobia - [n.] fear of men. Also arrhenphobia

homophobia - [n.] irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals; gay bashing or violence towards gay people; Also fear of being the same, sameness or monotony

hoplophobia - [n.] fear of firearms

hormephobia - [n.] fear of shock

hyalophobia - [n.] fear of glass. Also hyelophobia, crystallophobia, nelophobia

hydrargyophobia - [n.] fear of mercurial medicine

hydrophobia - [n.] fear of water. Also cynophobia

hydrophobophobia - [n.] fear of rabies. Also cynophobia, kynophobia

hyelophobia - [n.] fear of glass. Also hyalophobia, crystallophobia, nelophobia

hygrophobia - [n.] fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture

hylephobia - [n.] fear of materialism of the fear of epilepsy

hylophobia - [n.] fear of forests. Also xylophobia, nyctohylophobia

hypegiaphobia; hypengyophobia - [n.] fear of responsibility

hypnophobia - [n.] fear of sleep or of being hypnotized

hypsiphobia - [n.] fear of height

hypsophobia - [n.] fear of height, usually an elevation above sea level

iatrophobia - [n.] fear of doctors

ichthyophobia - [n.] fear of fish

ideophobia - [n.] fear of ideas

illyngophobia - [n.] fear of vertigo or dizziness when looking down

insectophobia - [n.] fear of insects

iophobia - [n.] fear of poison

Islamophobia - [n.] morbid fear or repugnance of Islam.

isolophobia - [n.] fear of solitude, or of being alone

isopterophobia - [n.] fear of termites, insects that eat wood

ithyphallophobia - [n.] fear of the erection of penis, either by seeing or thinking of somebody else’s erect penis or having an erect penis. Also phallophobia

Japanophobia - [n.] fear of Japanese

Judeophobia - [n.] fear of Jews

kainolophobia - [n.] fear of novelty

kainophobia - [n.] fear of anything new, novelty

kakorrhaphiophobia - [n.] fear of failure or defeat

kastanophobia - [n.] fear of the brown color

katagelophobia - [n.] fear of ridicule

kathisophobia - [n.] fear of sitting down (also cathisophobia)

katsaridaphobia - [n.] fear of cockroach

kenophobia - [n.] fear of empty spaces

keraunophobia - [n.] fear of thunder and lighting

kinetophobia; kinesophobia - [n.] fear of motion or movement

kleptophobia - [n.] fear of stealing

koinoniphobia - [n.] fear of rooms

koniophobia - [n.] fear of dust

kopophobia - [n.] fear of fatigue

kosmikophobia - [n.] fear of cosmic phenomenon

kymophobia - [n.] fear of waves or wave like motions

kynophobia - [n.] fear of rabies. Also cynophobia

kyphophobia - [n.] fear of stooping

lachanophobia - [n.] fear of vegetables

laliophobia; lalophobia - [n.] fear of speaking

lepraphobia; leprophobia - [n.] fear of leprosy

leukophobia - [n.] fear of the white color

levophobia - [n.] fear of things to the left side of the body

ligyrophobia - [n.] fear of loud noises

lilapsophobia - [n.] fear of tornadoes and hurricanes

limnophobia - [n.] fear of lakes

linonophobia - [n.] fear of string

liticaphobia - [n.] fear of lawsuits

lockiophobia - [n.] fear of childbirth. Also maieusiophobia, tocophobia

logizomechanophobia - [n.] fear of computers. Also technophobia, computerphobia

logophobia - [n.] fear of words

luiphobia - [n.] fear of syphilis

lutraphobia - [n.] fear of otters

lygophobia - [n.] fear of darkness

lyssophobia - [n.] fear of rabies and of becoming mad. Also hydrophobia

macrophobia - [n.] fear of long waits

mageirocophobia - [n.] fear of cooking

maieusiophobia - [n.] fear of childbirth. Also lockiophobia, tocophobia

malaxophobia - [n.] fear of love play

maniaphobia - [n.] fear of insanity. Also dementophobia, agateophobia

mastigophobia - [n.] fear of punishment. Also poinephobia, rhabdophobia

mechanophobia - [n.] fear of machines

melanophobia - [n.] fear of black color

melissophobia - [n.] fear of bees

melophobia - [n.] fear of music

meningitophobia - [n.] fear of brain disease

menophobia - [n.] fear of menstruation

merinthophobia - [n.] fear of being tied up

metallophobia - [n.] fear of metal

metathesiophobia - [n.] fear of charges

meteorophobia - [n.] fear of meteors

methyphobia - [n.] fear of alcohol. Also potophobia

metrophobia - [n.] fear or hatred of poetry

microbiophobia - [n.] fear of microbes. Also misophobia, spermatophobia, baccilophobia

microphobia - [n.] fear of small things

misophobia - [n.] fear of dirt or germs. Also spermatophobia, baccilophobia, microbiophobia

mnemophobia - [n.] fear of memories

molysmophobia - [n.] fear of contamination

monophobia - [n.] fear of solitude or being alone. Also autophobia

motorphobia - [n.] fear of automobiles

mottephobia - [n.] fear of moths

musophobia - [n.] fear of mice. Also suriphobia

mycophobia - [n.] fear of mushrooms

myrmecophobia - [n.] fear of ants

mysophobia - [n.] fear of dirt

mythophobia - [n.] fear of myths, fictional stories, or false statements

myxophobia - [n.] fear of slime

nebulaphobia - [n.] fear of fog,. Also homichlophobia

necrophobia - [n.] fear of death

negrophobia - [n.] strong dislike or - [n.] fear of black people

nelophobia - [n.] fear of glass. Also crystallophobia; hyalophobia; hyelophobia; nelophobia

neopharmaphobia - [n.] fear of new drugs

neophobia - [n.] fear of anything new

nephophobia - [n.] fear of clouds

noctiphobia - [n.] fear of night

nomatophobia - [n.] fear of names

nomophobia - [n.] fear of being without or having no cellphone

nosemaphobia - [n.] fear of becoming ill. Also nosophobia

nosocomephobia - [n.] fear of hospitals

nosophobia - [n.] fear of becoming ill. Also nosemaphobia

novercaphobia - [n.] fear of stepmothers

nucleomituphobia - [n.] fear of warheads or nuclear weapons

nudophobia - [n.] fear of nudity. Also gymnophobia

numerophobia - [n.] fear of numbers

nyctohylophobia - [n.] fear of dark, wooded areas, of forest at night. Also hylophobia

nyctophobia - [n.] fear of darkness or of dark lights, darkness, or night

obesophobia - [n.] fear of gaining weight or obesity

ochlophobia - [n.] fear of crowds or mobs

ochophobia - [n.] fear of vehicles

octophobia - [n.] fear of figure 8

odontophobia - [n.] fear of dental surgery

odynophobia - [n.] fear of pain

oenophobia - [n.] fear of wines

oikophobia - [n.] fear of home surroundings, house

olfactophobia - [n.] fear of smell

ombrophobia - [n.] fear of rain, or being rained on

ommetaphobia - [n.] fear of eyes

oneirophobia - [n.] fear of dreams

onomatophobia - [n.] fear of hearing a certain word or of names

ophidiophobia - [n.] fear of snakes

ophthalmophobia - [n.] fear of being stared at. Also scopophobia

opiophobia - [n.] fear of medical doctors, experience of prescribing needed pain medication for patients

optophobia - [n.] fear of opening one’s eyes

ornithophobia - [n.] fear of birds

orthophobia - [n.] fear of property

osphresiophobia - [n.] fear of smells or odor

ostraconophobia - [n.] fear of heaven

ouranophobia - [n.] fear of heaven

pagophobia - [n.] fear of ice or frost

panophobia - [n.] fear of every thing

panthophobia - [n.] fear of disease. Also called pantophobia

pantophobia - [n.] fear of suffering or disease. Also called panthophobia

Papaphobia - [n.] fear of the Pope

papyrophobia - [n.] fear of paper

paraliphobia - [n.] fear of neglecting duty or responsibility

parasitophobia - [n.] fear of parasites

paraskavedekatriaphobia - [n.] fear of Friday the 13th

parthenophobia - [n.] fear of virgins or young girls

parturiphobia - [n.] fear of childbirth

patroiophobia - [n.] fear of heredity

peccatophobia - [n.] fear of sinning or having imaginary crime. Also hamartophobia

pediculophobia - [n.] fear of lice. Also phthiriophobia

pediophobia - [n.] fear of dolls

pedophobia - [n.] fear of children

peladophobia - [n.] fear of bald people

pellagrophobia - [n.] fear of pellagra

peniaphobia - [n.] fear of poverty

pentheraphobia - [n.] fear of mother-in-law

phagophobia - [n.] fear of swallowing, of eating, or of being eaten

phalacrophobia - [n.] fear of becoming bald

phallophobia - [n.] fear of the erect penis. Also ithyphallophobia.

phantophobia - [n.] fear of sickness or to be sick

pharmacophobia - [n.] fear of medicines

phasmophobia - [n.] fear of ghosts

phengophobia - [n.] fear of daylight or sunshine

philemaphobia - [n.] fear of kissing or being kissed (also philematophobia)

philematophobia - [n.] fear of kissing or being kissed (also philemaphobia)

philophobia - [n.] fear of falling in love or of being loved

phobophobia - [n.] fear of phobias

phonophobia - [n.] fear of noises or sounds of own voice, or of telephone

photoaugliaphobia - [n.] fear of glaring light

photophobia - [n.] painful sensitiveness to strong light

phronemophobia - [n.] fear of thinking

phthiriophobia - [n.] fear of lice. Also pediculophobia

phthisiophobia - [n.] fear of tuberculosis. Also tuberculophobia

placophobia - [n.] fear of tombstones

plutophobia - [n.] fear of wealth

pneumatiphobia - [n.] fear of spirits

pnigophobia - [n.] fear of choking or being choked

pocrescoophobia - [n.] fear of gaining weight

pogonophobia - [n.] fear of beards

poinephobia - [n.] fear of punishment. Also rhabdophobia, mastigophobia

poliosophobia - [n.] fear of contracting poliomyelitis

politicophobia - [n.] fear of politicians

polyphobia - [n.] fear of many things

ponophobia - [n.] fear of overworking or of fatigue

porphyrophobia - [n.] fear of purple color

potamophobia - [n.] fear of river or running water

potophobia - [n.] fear of alcohol. Also methyphobia

prasinophobia - [n.] fear of the color green

proctophobia - [n.] fear of rectums

prosophobia - [n.] fear of progress

psellismophobia - [n.] fear of stuttering

psychrophobia - [n.] fear of cold

pteromerhanophobia - [n.] fear of flying (also aviophobia, aviatophobia)

pteronophobia - [n.] fear of being tickled by feathers

pupaphobia - [n.] fear of puppets

pyrexiophobia - [n.] fear of fever. Also febriphobia; fibriphobia; fibriophobia

pyrophobia - [n.] fear of fire (also arsonphobia)

radiophobia - [n.] fear of radiation and X-rays

ranidaphobia - [n.] fear of frogs

rectophobia - [n.] fear of rectum or rectal disease

rhabdophobia - [n.] fear of severe punishment, or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also mastigophobia, poinephobia

rhodophobia - [n.] fear of the pink color

rhypophobia - [n.] fear of defecation

rhytiphobia - [n.] fear of getting wrinkles

rupophobia - [n.] fear of dirt

Russophobia - [n.] fear of Russians

samhainophobia - [n.] fear of Halloween

sarmassophobia - [n.] fear of love play

satanophobia - [n.] fear of Satan

scabiophobia - [n.] fear of scabies

scatophobia - [n.] fear of fecal matter

scelerophobia - [n.] fear of bad men, burglars & intruders

sciophobia - [n.] fear of shadows

scoleciphobia - [n.] fear of worms

scolionophobia - [n.] fear of school. Also didaskaleinophobia

scopophobia - [n.] fear of being seen or stared at. Also ophthalmophobia

scotomaphobia - [n.] fear of visual blindness

scotophobia - [n.] fear of dark places

scriptophobia - [n.] fear of writing in public

seismophobia - [n.] fear of earthquakes

selachophobia - [n.] fear of sharks

selaphobia - [n.] fear of light flashes

selenophobia - [n.] fear of the moon

seplophobia - [n.] fear of decaying matter

sesquipedalophobia - [n.] fear of long words. Also hippopotomonstrosesquippedahophobia

sexophobia - [n.] fear of opposite sex (also heterophobia)

siderodromophobia - [n.] fear of trains, railroads, or traveling by train

siderodromophobia - [n.] fear traveling by train or rail

siderophobia - [n.] fear of stars

sinistrophobia - [n.] fear of left-handedness

Sinophobia - [n.] fear of Chinese, or the Chinese culture

sitophobia - [n.] fear of food or eating

soceraphobia - [n.] fear of parents-in-law

socialphobia - [n.] fear of public places, or of being evaluated negatively in social situations

sociophobia - [n.] fear of society or people in general

somniphobia - [n.] fear of sleep

sophophobia - [n.] fear of learning

soteriophobia - [n.] fear of dependence on other

spectrophobia - [n.] fear of specters or ghost

spermatophobia - [n.] fear of germs

sphexsophobia - [n.] fear of wasps

stasibasiphobia - [n.] fear of standing or walking

staurophobia - [n.] fear of the crucifix

stenophobia - [n.] fear of narrow places

stygiophobia - [n.] fear of hell. Also Hadephobia

submechanophobia - [n.] fear of submerged man-made objects, either partially or entirely underwater

suriphobia - [n.] fear of mice. Also musophobia

symbolophobia - [n.] fear of symbolism

symmetrophobia - [n.] fear of symmetry

syngenesophobia - [n.] fear of relatives

syphilophobia - [n.] fear of syphilis

tachophobia - [n.] fear of speed

taeniophobia - [n.] fear of tapeworms

taphephobia - [n.] fear of being buried alive

tapinophobia - [n.] fear of being contagious

taurophobia - [n.] fear of bulls

technophobia - [n.] fear or dislike of advanced technology or complex devices and especially computers

teleophobia - [n.] fear of definite plans

telephonophobia - [n.] fear of telephones

testophobia - [n.] fear of taking tests

tetanophobia - [n.] fear of tetanus and lockjaw

teutophobia - [n.] fear of German

textophobia - [n.] fear of fabrics & textiles

thaasophobia - [n.] fear of sitting

thalassophobia - [n.] fear of the sea

thanatophobia - [n.] fear of death, dying, or anything that resembles or pertains to death

theatrophobia - [n.] fear of theaters

theologicophobia - [n.] fear of theology

theophobia - [n.] fear of gods or religion. See also deophobia

thermophobia - [n.] fear of heat

tocophobia - [n.] fear of childbirth. Also lockiophobia, maieusiophobia

tomophobia - [n.] fear of surgical operations

tonitrophobia - [n.] fear of thunder

tonsurephobia - [n.] morbid fear of haircut

topophobia - [n.] fear of certain places or of a particular locality

toxiphobia - [n.] fear of poison

traumatophobia - [n.] fear of injury

tremophobia - [n.] fear of trembling

trichopathophobia - [n.] fear of hair

triskaidekaphobia - [n.] fear of the number 13

tropophobia - [n.] fear to turn or change one’s direction

trypanophobia - [n.] fear of injections

tuberculophobia - [n.] fear of tuberculosis. Also phthisiophobia

tyrannophobia - [n.] fear of tyrants

tyrophobia - [n.] fear of closely clustered circles, such as bubbles of soap, pores in sponges, beehive, etc..

uranophobia - [n.] fear of heaven

urophobia - [n.] fear of urine

vaccinophobia - [n.] fear of vaccinations

vaginaphobia - [n.] fear, repugnance, or hatred of vaginas. Also eurotophobia

venustraphobia - [n.] fear of beautiful women

verbophobia - [n.] fear of words

verminophobia - [n.] fear of germs

vestiphobia - [n.] fear of clothing

virginitiphobia - [n.] fear of rape

vitricophobia - [n.] fear of stepfathers

Walloonophobia - [n.] fear of Walloons

wiccaphobia - [n.] fear of witches

xanthophobia - [n.] fear of yellow color

xenephobia - [n.] fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign

xenoglossophobia - [n.] fear of foreign languages

xerophobia - [n.] fear of dryness

xylophobia - [n.] fear of forests. Also hylophobia, nyctohylophobia

xyrophobia - [n.] fear of razors

zelophobia - [n.] fear of jealousy

zemmiphobia - [n.] fear of the great mole rat

zeusophobia - [n.] fear of God or gods

zoophobia - [n.] fear of animals

Maybe little more phobia words are yet to be known or find and included in this list. If you know them, share them in the comment section and I will be more than eager and happy to verify and include them in the list.

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