Saturday 3 November 2012

LIST OF PHOBIAS


LIST   OF   PHOBIAS

1.      Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.                      
2.      Acrophobia, – fear of heights.
3.      Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder – fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
4.      Acousticophobia - fear of sound and voice.   
5.      Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse.
6.      Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife).
7.      Agyrophobia – fear of crossing roads.            
8.      Androphobia – fear of men.
9.      Anthropophobia – fear of people or being in a company, a form of social phobia.
10.  Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
11.  Aquaphobia – fear of water. Distinct from Hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies.
12.  Arachnophobia – fear of spiders.                    
13.  Astraphobia- fear of thunder and lightning.
14.  Atychiphobia – fear of failure                         
15.  Autophobia – fear of loneliness
16.  Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying.  
17.  Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes
18.  Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria                    
19.  Balenephobia - Fear of pins and needles.
20.  Ballistophobia - Fear of missles or bullets.      
21.  Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
22.  Basiphobia - Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.               
23.  Bathophobia - Fear of depth.
24.  Batonophobia - Fear of plants.                        
25.  Batophobia - Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
26.  Bibliophobia - Fear of books.                          
27.  Blennophobia - Fear of slime.
28.  Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias.
29.  Bogyphobia - Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.                     
30.  Bromidrophobia - Fear of body smells.
31.  Bromidrosiphobia - Fear of body smells.        
32.  Brontophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.
33.  Bufonophobia - Fear of toads.                        
34.  Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
35.  Cainophobia - Fear of newness, novelty.        
36.  Cainotophobia - Fear of newness, novelty.
37.  Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women.    
38.  Cancerophobia - Fear of cancer.
39.  Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer.                      
40.  Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart.
41.  Carnophobia - Fear of meat.
42.  Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed.
43.  Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places.
44.  Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting.                       
45.  Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
46.  Cenophobia - Fear of new things or ideas.      
47.  Centophobia - Fear of new things or ideas.
48.  Ceraunophobia - Fear of thunder.                   
49.  Chaetophobia - Fear of hair.
50.  Cheimaphobia - Fear of cold.                          
51.  Cheimatophobia - Fear of cold.
52.  Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
53.  Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety.                          
54.  Chiroptophobia - fear of bats.
55.  Cibophobia, Sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
56.  Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in.
57.  Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).                     
58.  Decidophobia – fear of making decisions.      
59.  Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
60.  Disposophobia, better known as "compulsive hoarding" – the fear of getting rid of or losing things.
61.  Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
62.  Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
63.  Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
64.  Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning.     
65.  Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
66.  Erythrophobia – pathological blushing.           
67.  Friggatriskaidekaphobia - fear of Friday the 13th.
68.  Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at.        
69.  Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges.
70.  Genophobia, Coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse.                     
71.  Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or aging.
72.  Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
73.  Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
74.  Gurgephobia - Fear of the abyss, particular the ocean floor or outer space.
75.  Gymnophobia – fear of nudity.                       
76.  Gynophobia – fear of women.
77.  Halitophobia - fear of bad breath.                   
78.  Haptephobia – fear of being touched.
79.  Heliophobia – fear of sunlight.                        
80.  Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood.
81.  Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.             
82.  Homophobia - fear/hatred of homosexuals
83.  Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (Generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented).
84.  Hydrophobia - fear of Rabies (Hydrophobia).          
85.  Hylophobia - fear of trees, forests or wood.
86.  Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises.                
87.  Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food.
88.  Medication phobia – fear of medications.       
89.  Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
90.  Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead.
91.  Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty.
92.  Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
93.  Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease.   
94.  Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals.
95.  Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear of darkness.
96.  Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances.
97.  Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of smells.           
98.  Ordacleaphobia The fear of imperfection
99.  Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
100.    Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause.
101.    Pediophobia - Fear of dolls                          
102.    Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts, spectres or phantasms.
103.    Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.              
104.    Pharmacophobia – same as medication phobia.
105.    Philophobia - fear of love                           
106.    Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
107.    Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds.            
108.    Porphyrophobia - fear of the color purple.
109.    Pyrophobia – fear of fire.                             
110.    Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
111.    Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations.               
112.    Scolionophobia - fear of school
113.    Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at.                       
114.    Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
115.    Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors and one's own reflections.                       
116.    Taphophobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
117.    Technophobia – fear of technology (see also Luddite).                 
118.    Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls.
119.    Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4.             
120.    Thanatophobia – fear of death.
121.    Tokophobia – fear of childbirth.
122.    Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury.
123.    Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13.
124.    Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia – fear of needles or injections.
125.    Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace. 
126.    Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
127.    Xylophobia, Hylophobia, Ylophobia - fear of trees, forests or wood.

  Animal phobias

128.    Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats.
129.    Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as melissophobia, from the Greek melissa "bee").
130.    Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders and other arachnids.
131.    Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
132.    Bovinophobia - fear/dislike of cattle.           
133.    Cavyophobia - fear/dislike of Guinea pigs.
134.    Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats.          
135.    Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs.
136.    Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects.
137.    Equinophobia – fear/dislike of horses (also known as hippophobia).
138.    Herpetophobia - fear/dislike of reptiles and/or amphibians.                       
139.    Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish.
140.    Mottephobia - fear/dislike of butterflies and/or moths.                  
141.    Murophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/or rats.
142.    Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes.       
143.    Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds.
144.    Selachophobia - fear of sharks.                    
145.    Scoleciphobia – fear of worms.
146.    Zoophobia - fear of animals.

   Non-psychological conditions

147.    Aquaphobia – fear of water                         
148.    Photophobia – hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light
149.    Phonophobia – hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds.
150.    Osmophobia – hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors.

   Biology, chemistry

151.    Acidophobia/Acidophobic – preference for non-acidic conditions.                       
152.    Heliophobia/Heliophobic – aversion to sunlight.
153.    Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic – a property of being repelled by water.                    
154.    Lipophobicity – a property of fat rejection
155.    Ombrophobia – avoidance of rain[3]
156.    Photophobia (biology) a negative phototaxis or phototropism response, or a tendency to stay out of the light
157.    Superhydrophobe – the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet.
158.    Thermophobia – aversion to heat.

  Prejudices and discrimination

159.    Biphobia – fear of bisexuality or bisexuals. 
160.    Christianophobia – fear of Christians
161.    Ephebiphobia – fear/ of youth.                     
162.    Gerontophobia, Gerascophobia – fear/dislike of aging or the elderly.                   
163.    Heterophobia – fear of heterosexuals.
164.    Homophobia – fear of homosexuality or homosexuals.                  
165.    Islamophobia – fear of Muslims
166.    Judeophobia – fear/of Jews.                         
167.    Lesbophobia – fear/of lesbians.
168.    Pedophobia, Pediophobia – fear/of children.                     
169.    Psychophobia – fearof mental illness or the mentally ill.
170.    Sinophobia – fear/ of Chinese.                     
171.    Transphobia – fear/ of transgender or transsexual people.
172.    Xenophobia – fear of foreigners.                 
173.    Germanophobia- fear of Germans.










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