•Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
•Acousticophobia – fear of noise – a
branch of phonophobia
•Acrophobia – fear of heights
•Aerophobia – fear of
flying
•Agoraphobia – fear of open
places
•Agyrophobia – fear of crossing
streets
•Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or
pointed objects (such as a needle or knife)
•Ailurophobia – fear of cats
•Algophobia – fear of
pain
•Amychophobia – fear of being
scratched
•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
•Autophobia – fear of
isolation
•Aviophobia, aviatophobia – fear of
flying
•Basophobia (also "basiphobia") – fear
associated with astasia-abasia (fear of
walking/standing erect) and a fear of
falling
•Chemophobia – fear of chemicals
•Chiroptophobia – fear of bats
•Chromophobia, chromatophobia – fear of
colors
•Chronophobia – fear of time and time
moving forward
•Cibophobia, sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia
nervosa
•Claustrophobia – fear of having no
escape and being closed in
•Coimetrophobia – fear of cemeteries
•Colorphobia – fear or a strong
aversion towards a particular color
•Coprophobia – fear of feces or defecation
•Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil
clowns)
•Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to
computers and of learning new
technologies
•Cynophobia – fear of
dogs
•Decidophobia – fear of making
decisions
•Demonophobia, daemonophobia – fear of
demons
•Dentophobia, odontophobia – fear of
dentists and dental
procedures
•Dromophobia – fear of crossing
streets
•Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic
disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary
body defect
•Emetophobia – fear of vomiting
•Enochlophobia – fear of crowds
•Ephebiphobia – fear of youth;
inaccurate, exaggerated and sensational characterization of young
people
•Ergophobia, ergasiophobia – fear of
work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of
operating
•Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or
sexual
abuse
•Erythrophobia, erytophobia,
ereuthophobia – fear of the color red, or fear of blushing
•Frigophobia – fear of becoming too
cold
•Gamophobia – fear of cohabitation, marriage or nuptials
•Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed
at
•Gephyrophobia – fear of
bridges
•Genophobia, coitophobia – fear of
sexual
intercourse
•Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or
aging
•Gerontophobia – fear of growing old,
or a hatred or fear of the elderly
•Globophobia – fear of
balloons
•Glossophobia – fear of speaking in
public or of trying to speak
•Halitophobia – fear of bad
breath
•Haphephobia – fear of being
touched
•Hedonophobia – fear of obtaining
pleasure
•Heliophobia – fear of the sun or sunlight
•Hemophobia, haemophobia – fear of
blood
•Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear
of the number
666
•Hoplophobia – fear of
firearms
•Hypnophobia, somniphobia
– fear of sleep
•Ichthyophobia – fear of fish, including fear of eating fish,
or fear of dead fish
•Koumpounophobia – fear
of buttons
•Lilapsophobia – fear of tornadoes or hurricanes
•Mageirocophobia – fear of cooking
•Melanophobia – fear of the color
black
•Melissophobia, apiphobia – fear of
bees
•Monophobia – fear of being
alone or isolated or of one's self
•Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia –
fear of mice or rats
•Myrmecophobia – fear of ants
•Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt
•Necrophobia – fear of death or the dead
•Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia,
centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia, metathesiophobia,
prosophobia – fear of newness, novelty, change or progress
•Nomophobia – fear of being out of
mobile
phone contact
•Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals
•Nosophobia – fear of contracting a
disease
•Nostophobia, ecophobia – fear of
returning home
•Numerophobia, fear of
numbers
•Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia,
scotophobia – fear of darkness
•Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings
and household appliances
•Oneirophobia – fear of dreams
•Ophthalmophobia – fear of being stared
at
•Osmophobia, olfactophobia – fear of
odors
•Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an
unknown cause
•Pedophobia, paedophobia or pediaphobia
– fear of children
•Phagophobia – fear of
swallowing
•Pharmacophobia – fear of medications
•Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts or phantoms
•Philophobia – fear of love
•Phobophobia – fear of fear itself or
of having a phobia
•Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds or
voices
•Pogonophobia – fear of
beards
•Pyrophobia – fear of fire
•Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays
•Scopophobia – fear of being looked at
or stared at
•Siderodromophobia – fear of trains or railroads
•Sociophobia – fear of people or social
situations
•Spectrophobia – fear of
mirrors
•Stasiphobia – fear of standing or
walking
•Taphophobia, taphephobia – fear of the
grave, or fear of being
placed in a grave while still alive
•Technophobia – fear of advanced
technology
•Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance
of making or taking telephone calls
•Teratophobia – fear of disfigured
people
•Tetraphobia – fear of the number
4
•Thalassophobia – fear of the sea, or
fear of being in the ocean
•Thanatophobia – fear of dying
•Thermophobia – intolerance to high
temperatures
•Tokophobia – fear of childbirth or pregnancy
•Toxiphobia – fear of being
poisoned
•Traumatophobia – a synonym for
injury
phobia: fear of having an injury
•Trichophobia –
delusional fear of something in the roots of the hair that stops it
from growing, or fear of hair loss
•Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia –
fear of the number
13
•Trypanophobia, belonephobia,
enetophobia – fear of needles or injections
•Trypophobia – fear of holes or
textures with a pattern of holes
•Workplace phobia – fear of the
workplace
•Xanthophobia – fear of the color
yellow
•Xenophobia – fear of strangers,
foreigners, or
aliens
Animal
phobias
•Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of
cats
•Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as melissophobia,
from the Greek melissa "bee")
•Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of
spiders and other arachnids
•Batrachophobia – fear/dislike of
frogs and other amphibians
•Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of
bats
•Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs
•Entomophobia – fear/dislike of
insects
•Equinophobia, hippophobia –
fear/dislike of horses
•Herpetophobia – fear/dislike of
reptiles or amphibians
•Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of
fish
•Murophobia – fear/dislike of mice or rats
•Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of
snakes
•Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of
birds
•Ranidaphobia – fear/dislike of
frogs
•Scoleciphobia – fear of worms
•Zoophobia – fear of animals
Non-psychological
conditions
•Bibliophobia – fear or hatred of
books, as a cultural phenomenon[10]
•Hoplophobia – a political term for
fear of weapons, specifically firearms
•Lipophobia – avoidance
of fats in food
•Osmophobia – hypersensitivity to
smells causing aversion to odors
•Phonophobia – hypersensitivity to
sound causing aversion to sounds
•Photophobia – hypersensitivity to
light causing aversion to light
