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Phobias are natural fears of something. Check out this list to see if you have any.

--A--

Ablutophobia

 

Fear of washing or bathing.

Acarophobia Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia Fear of noise.

 

Acrophobia

 

Fear of heights.

 

Aeroacrophobia

 

Fear of open high places.

Aeronausiphobia

 

Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.

Aerophobia

 

Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.

 

Agateophobia

 

Fear of insanity.

 

Agliophobia

 

Fear of pain.

Agrizoophobia Fear of wild animals.
Agyrophobia Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Aichmophobia Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Ailurophobia Fear of cats.
Albuminurophobia Fear of kidney disease.
Alektorophobia Fear of chickens.
Algophobia Fear of pain.
Alliumphobia Fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia Fear of opinions.
Altophobia Fear of heights.
Amathophobia Fear of dust.
Amaxophobia Fear of riding in a car.
Ambulophobia Fear of walking.
Amnesiphobia Fear of amnesia.
Amychophobia Fear of scratches or being scratched.
Anablephobia Fear of looking up.
Ancraophobia or Anemophobia Fear of wind.
Androphobia Fear of men.
Anemophobia Fear of air drafts or wind.
Anginophobia Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
Anglophobia Fear of England, English culture, etc.
Angrophobia Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia Fear of flowers.
Anthropophobia Fear of people or society.
Antlophobia Fear of floods.
Anuptaphobia Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia Fear of infinity.
Aphenphosmphobia Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
Apiphobia Fear of bees.
Apotemnophobia Fear of persons with amputations.
Arachibutyrophobia Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia Fear of numbers.
Arrhenphobia Fear of men.
Arsonphobia Fear of fire.
Asthenophobia Fear of fainting or weakness.
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia Fear of thunder and lightning.
Astrophobia Fear of stars and celestial space.
Asymmetriphobia Fear of asymmetrical things.
Ataxiophobia Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination)
Ataxophobia Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia Fear of imperfection.
Atephobia Fear of ruin or ruins.
Athazagoraphobia Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
Atomosophobia Fear of atomic explosions.
Atychiphobia Fear of failure.
Aulophobia Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia Fear of gold.
Auroraphobia Fear of Northern lights.
Autodysomophobia Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Automatonophobia Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues
Automysophobia Fear of being dirty.
Autophobia Fear of being alone or of oneself.
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia

Fear of flying

--B--

Bacillophobia Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia Fear of missiles or bullets.
Barophobia Fear of gravity.
Basophobia or Basiphobia Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
Bathmophobia Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Bathophobia Fear of depth.
Batophobia Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
Batrachophobia Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
Belonephobia Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
Bibliophobia Fear of books.
Blennophobia Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
Bolshephobia Fear of Bolsheviks.
Botanophobia Fear of plants.
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia Fear of body smells.
Brontophobia Fear of thunder and lightning.
Bufonophobia

Fear of toads.

--C--

Cacophobia Fear of ugliness.
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia Fear of newness, novelty.
Caligynephobia Fear of beautiful women.
Cancerophobia Fear of cancer.
Carcinophobia Fear of cancer.
Cardiophobia Fear of the heart.
Carnophobia Fear of meat.
Catagelophobia Fear of being ridiculed.
Catapedaphobia Fear of jumping from high and low places.
Cathisophobia Fear of sitting.
Catoptrophobia Fear of mirrors.
Cenophobia or Centophobia Fear of new things or ideas.
Ceraunophobia Fear of thunder.
Chaetophobia Fear of hair.
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia Fear of cold.
Chemophobia Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
Cherophobia Fear of gaiety.
Chionophobia Fear of snow.
Chiraptophobia Fear of being touched.
Chirophobia Fear of hands.
Cholerophobia Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
Chorophobia Fear of dancing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia Fear of money.
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia Fear of colors.
Chronomentrophobia Fear of clocks.
Chronophobia Fear of time.
Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia Fear of food.
Claustrophobia Fear of confined spaces.
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
Cleptophobia Fear of stealing.
Climacophobia Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs.
Clinophobia Fear of going to bed.
Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia Fear of being enclosed.
Cnidophobia Fear of stings.
Coimetrophobia Fear of cemeteries.
Cometophobia Fear of comets.
Coulrophobia Fear of clowns.
Counterphobia The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
Cremnophobia Fear of precipices.
Cryophobia Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
Crystallophobia Fear of crystals or glass.
Cyberphobia Fear of computers or working on a computer.
Cyclophobia Fear of bicycles.
Cymophobia Fear of waves or wave like motions.
Cynophobia Fear of dogs or rabies.

--D--

Decidophobia Fear of making decisions.
Deipnophobia Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
Dementophobia Fear of insanity.
Demonophobia or Daemonophobia Fear of demons.
Demophobia Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
Dendrophobia Fear of trees.
Dentophobia Fear of dentists.
Dermatophobia Fear of skin lesions.
Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia Fear of skin disease.
Dextrophobia Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Diabetophobia Fear of diabetes.
Didaskaleinophobia Fear of going to school.
Dikephobia Fear of justice.
Dinophobia Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
Diplophobia Fear of double vision.
Dipsophobia Fear of drinking.
Domatophobia or Oikophobia Fear of houses or being in a house.
Doraphobia Fear of fur or skins of animals.
Doxophobia Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
Dromophobia Fear of crossing streets.
Dutchphobia Fear of the Dutch.
Dysmorphophobia Fear of deformity.
Dystychiphobia Fear of accidents

--E--

Ecclesiophobia Fear of church.
Ecophobia Fear of home.
Eicophobia or Oikophobia Fear of home surroundings.
Eisoptrophobia Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
Electrophobia Fear of electricity.
Eleutherophobia Fear of freedom.
Elurophobia Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
Emetophobia Fear of vomiting.
Enetophobia Fear of pins.
Enochlophobia Fear of crowds.
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
Entomophobia Fear of insects.
Eosophobia Fear of dawn or daylight.
Ephebiphobia Fear of teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia Fear of nosebleeds.
Epistemophobia Fear of knowledge.
Equinophobia Fear of horses.
Eremophobia Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
Ereuthrophobia Fear of blushing.
Ergasiophobia 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia Fear of work.
Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red.
Euphobia Fear of hearing good news.

--F--

Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia Fear of fever.
Felinophobia Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
Francophobia Fear of France, French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
Frigophobia

Fear of cold, cold things.

--G--

Galeophobia or Gatophobia Fear of cats.
Gallophobia or Galiophobia Fear France, French culture. (Francophobia)
Gamophobia Fear of marriage.
Geliophobia Fear of laughter.
Geniophobia Fear of chins.
Genuphobia Fear of knees.
Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia Fear of crossing bridges.
Gerascophobia Fear of growing old.
Germanophobia Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.
Gerontophobia Fear of old people or of growing old.
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia Fear of taste.
Glossophobia Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gnosiophobia Fear of knowledge.
Graphophobia Fear of writing or handwriting.
Gynephobia or Gynophobia Fear of women.

--H--

Hagiophobia Fear of saints or holy things.
Hamartophobia Fear of sinning.
Haphephobia or Haptephobia Fear of being touched.
Harpaxophobia Fear of being robbed.
Heliophobia Fear of the sun.
Hellenologophobia Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Helminthophobia Fear of being infested with worms.
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia Fear of blood.
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
Herpetophobia Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
Hierophobia Fear of priests or sacred things.
Hippophobia Fear of horses.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Fear of long words.
Hobophobia Fear of bums or beggars.
Hodophobia Fear of road travel.
Homichlophobia Fear of fog.
Homilophobia Fear of sermons.
 
Hoplophobia Fear of firearms.
Hormephobia Fear of shock.
Hydrargyophobia Fear of mercurial medicines.
Hydrophobia Fear of water or of rabies.
Hydrophobophobia Fear of rabies.
Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia Fear of glass.
Hygrophobia Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
Hylephobia Fear of materialism OR the fear of epilepsy.
Hylophobia Fear of forests.
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia Fear of responsibility.
Hypnophobia Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
Hypsiphobia Fear of height.

--I--

Iatrophobia Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
Ichthyophobia Fear of fish.
Ideophobia Fear of ideas.
Illyngophobia Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
Insectophobia Fear of insects.
Iophobia Fear of poison.
Isolophobia Fear of solitude, being alone.
Isopterophobia Fear of termites, insects that eat wood

--J--

Japanophobia Fear of Japanese.
Judeophobia Fear of Jews.

--K--

Kainolophobia Fear of novelty.
Kainophobia Fear of anything new, novelty.
Kakorrhaphiophobia Fear of failure or defeat.
Katagelophobia Fear of ridicule.
Kathisophobia Fear of sitting down.
Kenophobia Fear of voids or empty spaces.
Keraunophobia Fear of thunder and lightning.
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia Fear of movement or motion.
Kleptophobia Fear of stealing.
Koinoniphobia Fear of rooms.
Koniophobia Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
Kopophobia Fear of fatigue.
Kosmikophobia Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
Kymophobia Fear of waves.
Kynophobia Fear of rabies.
Kyphophobia Fear of stooping.

--L--

Lachanophobia Fear of vegetables.
Laliophobia or Lalophobia Fear of speaking.
Leukophobia Fear of the color white.
Levophobia Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Ligyrophobia Fear of loud noises.
Lilapsophobia Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
Limnophobia Fear of lakes.
Linonophobia Fear of string.
Liticaphobia Fear of lawsuits.
Lockiophobia Fear of childbirth.
Logizomechanophobia Fear of computers.
Logophobia Fear of words.
Lutraphobia Fear of otters.
Lygophobia Fear of darkness.
Lyssophobia Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.

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