List of Phobias

What are Phobias? A phobia is, when used in the context of clinical psychology, a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational. Below is the list of phobias.

Phobia Fear of Ablutophobia fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning Achluophobia fear of darkness Achluophobia fear of darkness Acrophobia fear of heights Agoraphobia fear of open spaces or of being in public places Agrizoophobia fear of wild animals Agyrophobia fear of crossing the road Aichmophobia fear of sharp or pointed objects Ailurophobia fear of cats Algophobia fear of pain Androphobia fear of men Anthophobia fear of flowers Anthropophobia fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia. Aquaphobia fear of water Arachnophobia fear of spiders Astraphobia fear of thunder and lightning Atychiphobia fear of failure Autophobia fear of being alone or isolated Aviatophobia fear of flying Aviophobia fear of flying Belonephobia fear of needles or injections Chaetophobia fear of hair Chemophobia fear of chemicals Chiroptophobia fear of bats Chromophobia fear of bright colors Chronophobia fear of time and time moving forward Claustrophobia fear of having no escape and being closed in Coulrophobia fear of clowns Cyberphobia fear of or aversion to computers, learning new technologies Decidophobia fear of making decisions Dentophobia fear of dentists and dental procedures Dipsophobia fear of drinking alcohol Disposophobia fear of getting rid of or losing things Emetophobia fear of vomiting Enetophobia fear of needles or injections Ergasiophobia fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon'sfear of operating Ergophobia fear of work or functioning Erythrophobia pathological blushing Friggatriskaidekaphobia fear of Friday the 13th Frigophobia fear of becoming too cold Gamophobia fear of marriage, commitment Gelotophobia fear of being laughed at Gephyrophobia fear of bridges 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 Gymnophobia fear of nudity Gynophobia fear of women Hadephobia fear of Hell Halitophobia fear of bad breath Haphephobia 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 Hylophobia fear of trees, forests or wood Hylophobia fear of trees, forests or wood Hypnophobia and somniphobia fear of sleep Ichthyophobia fear of fish, includingfear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish Ipovlopsychophobia fear of having one’s photograph taken. Lipophobia fear/avoidance of fats in food Lygophobia fear of darkness Mysophobia fear of germs, contamination or dirt Necrophobia fear of death aor the dead Nomophobia fear of being out of mobile phone contact Nosocomephobia fear of hospitals Nosophobia fear of contracting a disease Nyctophobia fear of darkness Obesophobia fear of obesity Odontophobia fear of dentists and dental procedures Oikophobia fear of home surroundings and household appliances Ombrophobia fear of rain Omphalophobia fear of bellybuttons Ophthalmophobia fear of being stared at Ornithophobia fear of birds Osmophobia and Olfactophobia fear of bad odours Ouranophobia fear of Heaven Panphobia fear of everything or constantfear of an unknown cause Papaphobia fear of the Pope Paraskavedekatriaphobia fear of Friday the 13th Pediophobia fear of dolls Phagophobia fear of swallowing Pharmacophobia fear of medications Philophobia fear of love Phobophobia fear of having a phobia Phonophobia fear of loud sounds Pteromerhanophobia fear of being on an airplane Pyrophobia fear of fire Radiophobia fear of radioactivity or X-rays Scopophobia fear of being looked at or stared at Scotophobia fear of darkness Sociophobia fear of people or social situations Somniphobia fear of sleep Spasmenagaliaphobia fear of broken glass Spectrophobia fear of ghosts and phantoms Stigiophobia fear of Hell Stygiophobia fear of Hell Taphophobia and Taphephobia fear of the grave, orfear of being placed in a grave while still alive Technophobia fear of technology Telephone phobia fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls Tetraphobia fear of the number 4 Thalassophobia fear of the sea, orfear of being in the ocean Thanatophobia fear of dying Thermophobia fear of heat Tokophobia fear of childbirth or pregnancy Traumatophobia fear of having an injury Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia fear of the number 13 Trypanophobia fear of needles or injections Trypophobia fear of holes Uranophobia fear of Heaven Xanthophobia fear of the colour yellow Xenophobia fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens Xylophobia fear of trees, forests or wood Ylophobia fear of trees, forests or wood

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