phobia list

350 Phobias Reference List Four-column layout: common fear description + Greek/Latin-style name. This is a practical reference list, not an official prevalence ranking. Common phobia / fear Greek or Latin-style name Common phobia / fear Greek or Latin-style name Fear of accidents Dystychiphobia Fear of mannequins Automatonophobia Fear of aging Gerascophobia Fear of maps Cartophobia Fear of air or drafts Anemophobia Fear of marriage Gametophobia Fear of amputees Apotemnophobia Fear of marriage Gamophobia Fear of anger Angrophobia Fear of masks and mascots Masklophobia Fear of angina or choking Anginophobia Fear of medicines Pharmacophobia Fear of animals Zoophobia Fear of memories Mnemophobia Fear of ants Myrmecophobia Fear of men Androphobia Fear of asymmetry Asymmetriphobia Fear of men Arrhenphobia Fear of bacteria Bacteriophobia Fear of menstruation Menophobia Fear of bad breath Halitophobia Fear of meteors Meteorophobia Fear of bad smells from oneself Bromidrophobia Fear of mice Musophobia Fear of balloons Globophobia Fear of mirrors Catoptrophobia Fear of band instruments Aulophobia Fear of mirrors Spectrophobia Fear of bathing Ablutophobia Fear of mirrors seeing oneself Eisoptrophobia Fear of bats Chiroptophobia Fear of monsters Teratophobia Fear of beards Pogonophobia Fear of movement Kinesiophobia Fear of beautiful women Venustraphobia Fear of movement or motion Kinetophobia Fear of becoming too cold Frigophobia Fear of nakedness Gymnophobia Fear of beds or going to bed Clinophobia Fear of names Onomatophobia Fear of bees Apiphobia Fear of needles Enetophobia Fear of bees Melissophobia Fear of new things Kainotophobia Fear of being alone Autophobia Fear of newness Neophobia Fear of being forgotten Athazagoraphobia Fear of noise Acousticophobia Fear of being laughed at Gelotophobia Fear of novelty Cainophobia Fear of being looked at Scoptophobia Fear of novelty Cainotophobia Fear of being looked at Spotligectophobia Fear of novelty Centophobia Fear of being seen Opsophobia Fear of novelty Kainolophobia Fear of being stared at Ophthalmophobia Fear of numbers Arithmophobia Fear of being stared at Scopophobia Fear of numbers Numerophobia Fear of being touched Aphenphosmphobia Fear of obesity Pocrescophobia Fear of being trapped Cleithrophobia Fear of objects on the left side Levophobia Fear of being unable to stand Basiphobia Fear of objects on the right side Dextrophobia Fear of being watched by ducks Anatidaephobia Fear of odors Olfactophobia Fear of being without mobile phone contact Nomophobia Fear of old people Gerontophobia Fear of birds Ornithophobia Fear of open spaces Agoraphobia Fear of blood Haemophobia Fear of opinions Allodoxaphobia Fear of blood Hematophobia Fear of pain Algophobia Fear of blood Hemophobia Fear of pain Odynophobia Fear of blushing Erythrophobia Fear of paper Papyrophobia Fear of boats Naviphobia Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth Arachibutyrophobia Fear of bodies Somatophobia Fear of people Anthropophobia Fear of books Bibliophobia Fear of phobias Phobophobia Fear of bridges Gephyrophobia Fear of phones Telephonophobia Fear of bullets Ballistophobia Fear of pigs Porcinophobia Fear of butterflies and moths Lepidopterophobia Fear of pins and needles Belonephobia Fear of buttons Koumpounophobia Fear of plants Botanophobia Fear of cancer Carcinophobia Fear of pleasure Hedonophobia Fear of cats Ailurophobia Fear of pointed objects Aichmophobia Fear of cemeteries Coimetrophobia Fear of poison Iophobia Fear of change Prosophobia Fear of poison Toxiphobia Fear of chemicals Chemophobia Fear of poison Toxophobia Fear of chickens Alektorophobia Fear of pornography Pornophobia Fear of childbirth Lockiophobia Fear of poverty Peniaphobia Fear of childbirth Maieusiophobia Fear of public speaking Glossophobia Fear of childbirth Tokophobia Fear of rabbits Lagophobia Fear of children Paedophobia Fear of rabbits Leporiphobia Fear of children Pedophobia Fear of radiation Radiophobia Fear of choking Pnigerophobia Fear of rain Ombrophobia Fear of churches Ecclesiophobia Fear of rain Pluviophobia Fear of climbing Climacophobia Fear of rats Murophobia Fear of clocks Chronomentrophobia Fear of rats Suriphobia Fear of clouds Nephophobia Fear of reading Alexiaphobia Fear of clowns Coulrophobia Fear of religion Theophobia Fear of cockroaches Katsaridaphobia Fear of religion or gods Zeusophobia Fear of cold Cheimaphobia Fear of reptiles Herpetophobia Fear of cold Cryophobia Fear of responsibility Hypengyophobia Fear of cold Psychrophobia Fear of ridicule Catagelophobia Fear of colors Chromophobia Fear of rivers Potamophobia Fear of computers Cyberphobia Fear of robots Robophobia Fear of constipation Coprastasophobia Fear of roller coasters Veloxrotaphobia Fear of contamination Molysmophobia Fear of rooms Koinoniphobia Fear of cooking Mageirocophobia Fear of ruin or collapse Atephobia Fear of cows Bovinophobia Fear of school Didaskaleinophobia Fear of crime Harpaxophobia Fear of school Scolionophobia Fear of criticism Enosiophobia Fear of school buses Motorphobia Fear of crossing streets Agyrophobia Fear of scratches Amychophobia Fear of crowds Enochlophobia Fear of sex Erotophobia Fear of crowds in public Demophobia Fear of sex organs Phallophobia Fear of darkness Achluophobia Fear of sexual abuse Agraphobia Fear of darkness Lygophobia Fear of sexual intercourse Coitophobia Fear of darkness Nyctophobia Fear of sexual intercourse Genophobia Fear of darkness Scotophobia Fear of sexual perversion Paraphobia Fear of death Thanatophobia Fear of sharks Galeophobia Fear of death or dead things Necrophobia Fear of shellfish Ostraconophobia Fear of decisions Decidophobia Fear of silver Argyrophobia Fear of deep water Bathophobia Fear of sitting down Kathisophobia Fear of deformity Dysmorphophobia Fear of skin Dermatophobia Fear of demons Daemonophobia Fear of skin disease Dermatopathophobia Fear of dentists Dentophobia Fear of sleep Hypnophobia Fear of dentists and dental procedures Odontophobia Fear of sleep or falling asleep Somniphobia Fear of depth Bathyphobia Fear of sleeping alone Monophobia Fear of dirt Rupophobia Fear of slimes Blennophobia Fear of dirt and germs Mysophobia Fear of small things Microphobia Fear of disease Nosophobia Fear of smells Osmophobia Fear of disease Pathophobia Fear of smoke Capnophobia Fear of disorder Ataxophobia Fear of snakes Ophidiophobia Fear of doctors Iatrophobia Fear of snow Chionophobia Fear of doctors and dental treatment Dental fear Fear of social judgement Sociophobia Fear of dogs Cynophobia Fear of social situations Social phobia Fear of dolls Pediophobia Fear of speaking Lalophobia Fear of dreams Oneirophobia Fear of speed Tachophobia Fear of driving Amaxophobia Fear of spending money Chrometophobia Fear of driving Vehophobia Fear of spiders Arachnophobia Fear of dust Amathophobia Fear of stairs or steep slopes Bathmophobia Fear of enclosed spaces Claustrophobia Fear of standing or walking Stasiphobia Fear of everything Panphobia Fear of standing upright Basophobia Fear of eyes Ommetaphobia Fear of stars and celestial objects Astropophobia Fear of failure Atychiphobia Fear of stars or outer space Astrophobia Fear of failure or defeat Kakorrhaphiophobia Fear of staying at home Oikophobia Fear of feces Coprophobia Fear of storms Brontophobia Fear of female genitals Eurotophobia Fear of strangers/foreigners Xenophobia Fear of ferns Pteridophobia Fear of string Linonophobia Fear of fire Pyrophobia Fear of surgery Tomophobia Fear of fish Ichthyophobia Fear of swallowing Phagophobia Fear of fish Piscophobia Fear of taxes Taxophobia Fear of flowers Anthophobia Fear of technology Technophobia Fear of flying Aerophobia Fear of teenagers Ephebiphobia Fear of flying Pteromerhanophobia Fear of teenagers Hebephobia Fear of fog Homichlophobia Fear of the color black Melanophobia Fear of food Cibophobia Fear of the color blue Cyanophobia Fear of freedom Eleutherophobia Fear of the color brown Castanophobia Fear of Friday the 13th Paraskevidekatriaphobia Fear of the color gold Aurophobia Fear of frogs Ranidaphobia Fear of the color green Prasinophobia Fear of frogs and amphibians Batrachophobia Fear of the color grey Glaucophobia Fear of gaining weight Obesophobia Fear of the color orange Croceophobia Fear of garlic Alliumphobia Fear of the color pink Rhodophobia Fear of germs Verminophobia Fear of the color purple Porphyrophobia Fear of germs or bacilli Bacillophobia Fear of the color silver Argentophobia Fear of ghosts Phasmophobia Fear of the color yellow Xanthophobia Fear of good news Euphobia Fear of the moon Selenophobia Fear of gravity Barophobia Fear of the moonlight Selachophobia Fear of hair Chaetophobia Fear of the night Noctiphobia Fear of hair Trichophobia Fear of the number 13 Triskaidekaphobia Fear of hair loss Trichopathophobia Fear of the number 17 Heptadecaphobia Fear of Halloween Samhainophobia Fear of the number 17 Heptakaidekaphobia Fear of hands Chirophobia Fear of the number 4 Tetraphobia Fear of happiness Cherophobia Fear of the number 666 Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia Fear of headaches Cephalalgiaphobia Fear of the number 8 Octophobia Fear of hearing bad news Cacoethesophobia Fear of the sea Thalassophobia Fear of heat Thermophobia Fear of the sky Ouranophobia Fear of heights Acrophobia Fear of the sun Heliophobia Fear of hell Stygiophobia Fear of theft Cleptophobia Fear of holes Trypophobia Fear of theft or stealing Kleptophobia Fear of home Ecophobia Fear of thunder Tonitrophobia Fear of horses Equinophobia Fear of thunder and lightning Astraphobia Fear of horses Hippophobia Fear of time Chronophobia Fear of hospitals Nosocomephobia Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes Lilapsophobia Fear of houses Domatophobia Fear of touch Haphephobia Fear of ice Pagophobia Fear of trains Siderodromophobia Fear of ideas Ideophobia Fear of travel Hodophobia Fear of ideas or thoughts Phronemophobia Fear of trees Dendrophobia Fear of illness Hypochondriasis Fear of trees and forests Hylophobia Fear of imperfection Atelophobia Fear of ugliness Aschimophobia Fear of infinity Apeirophobia Fear of ugliness Cacophobia Fear of injections Trypanophobia Fear of vacuum cleaners Zuigerphobia Fear of injury Traumatophobia Fear of vomiting Emetophobia Fear of insects Entomophobia Fear of walking Ambulophobia Fear of insects Insectophobia Fear of wasps Spheksophobia Fear of kissing Philematophobia Fear of water Aquaphobia Fear of knees Genuphobia Fear of water as rabies/contamination Hydrophobia Fear of knowledge Epistemophobia Fear of wealth Plutophobia Fear of lakes Limnophobia Fear of white color Leukophobia Fear of large things Megalophobia Fear of wild animals Agrizoophobia Fear of laughter Geliophobia Fear of wind Ancraophobia Fear of laughter Gelophobia Fear of witches and witchcraft Wiccaphobia Fear of learning Sophophobia Fear of women Gynophobia Fear of leaves Phyllophobia Fear of women giving birth Parturiphobia Fear of lightning Keraunophobia Fear of words Logophobia Fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia Fear of work Ergophobia Fear of long words Sesquipedalophobia Fear of work Ponophobia Fear of looking at the stars Siderophobia Fear of work or functioning Ergasiophobia Fear of losing one’s mind Dementophobia Fear of worms Helminthophobia Fear of loud sounds Phonophobia Fear of worms Scoleciphobia Fear of love Philophobia Fear of writing Graphophobia