List Of Phobias

Here is a list of phobias, from well-known phobias such as glossophobia (fear of speaking in public) and acrophobia (fear of heights) to bizarre ones such as hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (fear of long words).

Psychological conditions phobias

• Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
• Acrophobia, Altophobia – fear of heights.
• Agoraphobia – fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
• Agraphobia, Contreltophobia – fear of sexual abuse.
• Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (as a needle, knife or a pointing finger).
• Algophobia – fear of pain.
• Agyrophobia – fear of crossing roads.
• Androphobia – fear of men.
• Anthropophobia – fear of people or being in a company, a form of social phobia.
• Anthophobia – fear of flowers, petals, or stems.
• Aquaphobia – fear of water.
• Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia – fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
• Aviophobia, Aviatophobia, Aerophobia, Pteromechanophobia – fear of flying.
• Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia – fear of microbes and bacteria.
• Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
• Catoptrophobia – fear of mirrors or of one’s own reflection.
• Chorophobia – fear of dancing.
• Cibophobia, Sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
• Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces.
• Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
• Decidophobia – fear of making decisions.
• Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
• Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
• Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
• 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.
• Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at.
• Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges or crossing bridges.
• Genophobia, Coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse.
• Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or ageing.
• 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.
• 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).
• Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises.
• Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food.
• Medication phobia – fear of medications
• Megalophobia – fear of large/oversized objects.
• Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
• Necrophobia – fear of death, the dead.
• Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty.
• Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
• Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease.
• Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals.
• Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear of darkness.
• Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of smells.
• Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
• Panphobia – fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it.
• Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts, spectres or phantasms.
• Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.
• Pharmacophobia – same as medication phobia
• Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
• Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds.
• Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
• Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
• Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
• Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at.
• Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
• Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors and one’s own reflections.
• Taphophobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
• Technophobia – fear of technology (see also Luddite).
• Telephone phobia, fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls.
• Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4.
• Tokophobia – fear of childbirth.
• Tomophobia – fear or anxiety of surgeries/surgical operations.
• Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia, a fear of having an injury
• Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13.
• Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia – fear of needles or injections.
• Workplace phobia – fear of the work place.
• Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.

Animal phobias

• Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats.
• Animal phobia – fear of certain animals, a category of specific phobias.
• Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as Melissophobia).
• Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders.
• 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.
• Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish.
• Musophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/or rats.
• Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes.
• Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds.
• Scoleciphobia – fear of worms.
• Zoophobia – a generic term for animal phobias.

Non-psychological conditions phobias

• Hydrophobia – fear of water (a symptom of rabies).
• Photophobia – hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light
• Phonophobia – hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds.
• Osmophobia – hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors.

Fictional phobias

• Aibohphobia – fear of palindromes.
• Anachrophobia – fear of temporal displacement.
• Anatidaephobia – fear of being watched by a duck.
• Anoraknophobia – a portmanteau of “anorak” and “arachnophobia”.
• Arachibutyrophobia – fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
• Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – fear of long words.
• Luposlipaphobia – fear of being pursued by timber wolves.
• Nihilophobia – fear of nothingness.
• Venustraphobia – fear of beautiful women.