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.