What are you afraid of?
| If you have an irrational fear of… | You’re suffering from… |
| Accidents | Dystychophobia |
| Air (and drafts) | Aerophobia, airphobia, pneumatophobia |
| Airplanes | Aeronausiphobia |
| Amnesia | Amnesiphobia |
| Animals | Zoophobia |
| Animals, wild | Agrizoophobia |
| Ants | Myrmecophobia |
| Atomic energy (or nuclear weapons) | Nucleomitophobia |
| Automobiles | Motorphobia, ochophobia |
| Automobiles (riding in) | Amaxophobia |
| Bad men | Scelerophobia |
| Bald, becoming | Peladophobia, phalacrophobia |
| Bathing | Ablutophobia |
| Beards | Pogonophobia |
| Bed, going to | Clinophobia |
| Bees | Apiphobia, apiophobia, melissophobia |
| Birds | Ornithophobia |
| Blood | Hematophobia, hemaphobia, hemophobia |
| Blushing | Erythophobia, ereuthophobia |
| Books | Bibliophobia |
| Bound, being | Merinthophobia |
| Body odor | Bromidrosiphobia |
| Bridges, crossing | Gephyrophobia, gephydrophobia |
| Bulls | Taurophobia |
| Buried alive, bing | Taphephobia, taphophobia |
| Cancer | Carcinophobia, carcinomatophobia, cancerphobia, cancerophobia |
| Cats | Ailorphobia, aelurophobia, elurophobia, gatophobia, galeophobia, felinophobia |
| Celts | Celtophobia |
| Cemeteries | Coimetrophobia |
| Changes | Tropophobia |
| Chickens | Alektorophobia |
| Childbirth | Maieusiophobia, tocophobia |
| Children | Pediophobia |
| China (or the Chinese) | Sinophobia |
| Chins | Geniophobia |
| Choking (or smothering) | Pnigophobia, pnigerophobia |
| Church | Ecclesiophobia |
| Clergymen | Hierophobia |
| Closed spaces | Claustrophobia, cleisiophobia, cleithrophobia, clithrophobia |
| Clothing | Vestiophobia |
| Clouds | Nephophobia |
| Cold | Cheimaphobia, cheimatophobia, psychrophobia, frigophobia |
| Colors | Chromophobia, chromatophobia |
| Comets | Cometophobia |
| Constipation | Coprostasophobia |
| Contamination | Misophobia, mysophobia, molysmophobia, molysomophobia |
| Corpses | Necrophobia |
| Crowds | Ochlophobia, demophobia, enochlophobia |
| Crucifixes | Staurophobia |
| Cyclones | Anemophobia |
| Dampness | Hygrophobia |
| Dancing | Chorophobia |
| Darkness | Achluophobia, scotophobia, lygophobia, myctophobia |
| Dawn | Eosophobia |
| Death | Thanatophobia |
| Decaying matter | Septophobia |
| Decisions, making | Decidophobia |
| Defecation (painful) | Defecalgesiophobia |
| Deformity | Dysmorphophobia |
| Demons, spirits, goblins, etc. | Demonophobia, daemonophobia, bogyphobia |
| Depth | Bathophobia |
| Dining (or dinner conversation) | Deipnophobia |
| Dirty, being | Automysophobia |
| Disease | Nosophobia, pathophobia, panthophobia, nephophobia |
| Disorder | Ataxiophobia, ataxophobia |
| Dizziness | Dinophobia |
| Doctors | Iatrophobia |
| Dogs (or rabies) | Cynophobia, kynophobia |
| Dolls (or infants) | Pedophobia, paedophobia |
| Double vision | Diplopiaphobia |
| Drink (alcoholic) | Potophobia, dipsophobia, alcoholophobia, dipsomanophobia |
| Drugs (medicinal) | Pharmacophobia |
| Dryness (and dry places) | Xerophobia |
| Dust | Amathophobia, koniophobia |
| Eating | Phagophobia |
| Electricity | Electrophobia |
| England (or the English) | Anglophobia |
| Everything | Pantophobia, panophobia, panphobia, pamphobia |
| Excrement | Coprophobia, scatophobia |
| Eyes | Ommatophobia, ommetaphobia |
| Eyes, opening one’s | Optophobia |
| Failure | Kakorrhaphiophobia, kakorraphiaphobia, atychiphobia |
| Fatigue | Ponophobia, kopophobia |
| Fearing | Phobophobia |
| Feathers | Pteronophobia |
| Fever | Febriphobia, pyrexeophobia, pyrexiophobia |
| Filth | Rhypophobia, rypophobia, rupophobia |
| Fire | Pyrophobia, arsonophobia |
| Fish | Ichthyophobia |
| Flashes | Selaphobia |
| Flogging | Mastigophobia |
| Floods | Antlophobia |
| Flowers | Anthophobia |
| Flutes | Aulophobia, autophobia |
| Flying | Aviatophobia |
| Fog | Homichlophobia, nebulaphobia |
| Food | Sitophobia, sitiophobia, cibophobia |
| Foreigners (or strangers) | Xenophobia |
| Forests (or wood) | Hylephobia, hylophobia, ylophobia, xylophobia |
| France (or the French) | Francophobia, Gallophobia |
| Freedom | Eleutherophobia |
| Frogs (and toads) | Batrachophobia |
| Fur | Doraphobia |
| Gaiety | Cherophobia |
| Garlic | Alliumphobia |
| Genitals, female | Kolpophobia, eurotophobia |
| Genitals, male | Phallophobia |
| Germany (or Germans) | Germanophobia, Teutophobia, Teutonophobia |
| Germs | Bacillophobia, bacteriophobia |
| Ghosts | Phasmophobia |
| Glass | Crystallophobia, hyalophobia, hyelophobia, nelophobia |
| Glass bottoms | Hyalinopygophobia |
| God | Theophobia |
| Gold | Aurophobia |
| Good news | Euphobia |
| Gravity | Barophobia |
| Greece (or the Greeks) | Grecophobia |
| Growing old | Gerascophobia |
| Hair | Trichophobia, chaetophobia |
| Hair disease | Trichopathophobia |
| Heart attack | Anginophobia |
| Heart disease | Cardiophobia |
| Heat | Thermophobia |
| Heaven | Uranophobia, ouranophobia |
| Heights | Acrophobia, altophobia, hypsophobia, hypsiphobia |
| Hell | Hadephobia, stygiophobia |
| Hereditary disease | Patroiophobia |
| High places, looking up at | Anablepophobia |
| Holy things | Hagiophobia, hierophobia |
| Home | Ecophobia, oecophobia, oikophobia, domatophobia |
| Home, returning to | Nostophobia |
| Homosexuals | Homophobia |
| Horses | Hippophobia |
| Hospitals | Nosocomephobia |
| Hurricanes | Lilapsophobia |
| Ice | Cryophobia |
| Ideas | Ideophobia |
| Imperfection | Atelophobia |
| Infants | Pedophobia, paedophobia |
| Infinity | Apeirophobia |
| Injury | Traumatophobia |
| Insanity | Maniaphobia, lyssophobia |
| Insects | Entomophobia |
| Insect stings | Cnidophobia |
| Itching | Acarophobia |
| Jealousy | Zelophobia |
| Jews | Judophobia, Jaudaeophobia, Judeophobia |
| Jumping (from low or high places) | Catapedaphobia |
| Justice | Dikephobia |
| Kidney disease | Albuminurophobia |
| Kissing | Philemaphobia, philematophobia |
| Knives (and other sharp instruments) | Aichmophobia |
| Lakes | Limnophobia |
| Large objects | Megalophobia |
| Laughter | Gelophobia |
| Learning | Sophophobia |
| Left (things to the left) | Levophobia, sinistrophobia |
| Lice | Pediculophobia, phthiriophobia |
| Light | Photophobia |
| Lightning | Astraphobia, astrapophobia |
| Love | Philophobia |
| Love-play | Sarmassophobia, malaxophobia |
| Machinery | Mechanophobia |
| Magic | Rhabdophobia |
| Many things | Polyphobia |
| Marriage | Gamophobia, gametophobia |
| Meat | Carnophobia |
| Men | Androphobia, arrhenophobia |
| Menstruation | Menophobia |
| Meteors (and meteorites) | Meteorophobia |
| Mice | Musophobia, muriphobia |
| Mind | Psychophobia |
| Mirrors | Catoptrophobia, eisoptrophobia, spectrophobia |
| Monotony | Homophobia |
| Monsters (or giving birth to a monster) | Teratophobia |
| Moon | Selenophobia |
| Mother-in-law | Pentheraphobia |
| Motion | Kinesophobia, kinetophobia |
| Music | Musicophobia, melophobia |
| Narrow places | Stenophobia |
| Neglect of a duty | Paralipophobia |
| Night | Noctiphobia, nyctophobia |
| Noise | Acoustiphobia, ligyrophobia |
| Northen Lights | Auroraphobia |
| Nuclear weapons (or atomic energy) | Nucleomitophobia |
| Nudity | Gymnophobia, nudophobia, nudiphobia |
| Numbers | Arithmophobia |
| Novelty | Kainophobia, cainophobia, kaintotophobia, cainotophobia |
| Odors | Olfactophobia, osmophobia, osphresiophobia, ophresiophobia |
| Open spaces | Agoraphobia, cenophobia, kenophobia |
| Opinions (others’) | Allodoxaphobia |
| Opposite sex | Sexophobia |
| Pain | Algophobia, odynophobia |
| Paper | Papyrophobia |
| Parasites | Parasitophobia |
| Parents-in-law | Soceraphobia |
| Peanut butter sticking to the roof of one’s mouth | Arachibutyrophobia |
| People | Anthropophobia |
| Performing (stage fright) | Topophobia |
| Pins and needles | Belonephobia, enetophobia |
| Plants | Botanophobia |
| Pleasure | Hedonophobia |
| Poetry | Metrophobia |
| Poison | Toxiphobia, toxophobia, toxicophobia, iophobia |
| Politicians | Politicophobia |
| Pope (or the Papacy) | Papaphobia |
| Poverty | Peniaphobia |
| Precipices | Cremnophobia |
| Progress | Prosophobia |
| Propriety | Orthophobia |
| Prostitutes | Cyprianophobia |
| Punishment | Poinephobia |
| Purple | Porphyrophobia |
| Railroads | Siderodromophobia |
| Rain | Ombrophobia, pluviophobia |
| Rape | Virgivitiphobia |
| Red (or blushing) | Erythrophobia, ereuthrophobia |
| Relatives | Syngenesophobia |
| Religious ceremonies | Teletophobia |
| Reptiles | Batrachophobia |
| Responsibility | Hypengyophobia, hypegiaphobia |
| Ridicule | Catagelophobia, katagelophobia |
| Right (things to the right) | Dextrophobia |
| Rivers | Potamophobia |
| Rods, being beaten with | Rhabdophobia |
| Ruin | Atephobia |
| Russia (or Russians) | Russophobia |
| Rust | Lophobia |
| Scratched, being | Amychophobia |
| Sea | Thalassophobia |
| Semen | Spermatophobia, spermophobia |
| Sermons | Homilophobia |
| Sexual abuse | Agraphobia, contrectophobia |
| Sexual intercourse | Coitophobia, genophobia, erotophobia |
| Shadows | Sciophobia, sciaphobia |
| Sharp objects | Aichmophobia |
| Shellfish | Ostraconophobia |
| Shock | Hormephobia |
| Shot, being | Ballistophobia |
| Sin (or sinning) | Hamartophobia, harmatophobia, enissophobia, enosiophobia, peccatiphobia, peccatophobia |
| Sitting | Thaassophobia, kathisophobia, cathisophobia |
| Sleep | Hypnophobia |
| Slime | Blennophobia, myxophobia |
| Small objects | Microphobia, tapinophobia |
| Smothering (or choking) | Pnigophobia, pnigerophobia |
| Snakes | Ophidiophobia, ophiophobia, ophiciophobia, herpetophobia |
| Snow | Chionophobia |
| Society | Sociophobia |
| Solitude | Autophobia, eremiophobia, eremophobia, ermitophobia, monophobia, isolophobia |
| Sourness | Acerophobia, acerbophobia |
| Speed | Tachophobia |
| Spiders | Arachnophobia |
| Stairs | Climacophobia |
| Standing | Stasiphobia, stasophobia |
| Stared at, being | Scopophobia, scoptophobia, ophthalmophobia |
| Stars | Astrophobia, siderophobia |
| Staying single | Anuptaphobia |
| Stepfather | Vitricophobia |
| Stepmother | Novercaphobia |
| Strangers (or foreigners) | Xenophobia |
| Streets | Agyiophobia, agyrophobia |
| Streets, crossing | Dromophobia |
| String | Linonophobia |
| Stuttering | Psellismophobia |
| Sunlight | Heliophobia, phengophobia |
| Surgery | Tomophobia |
| Symmetry | Symmetrophobia |
| Talking | Glossophobia, phonophobia, laliophobia, lalophobia |
| Tapeworms | Taeniophobia, teniophobia |
| Tastes, unfamiliar | Geumophobia, geumaphobia, geumatophobia |
| Technology | Technophobia |
| Teeth | Odontophobia |
| Termites | Isopterophobia |
| Theaters | Theatrophobia |
| Thieves | Kleptophobia, cleptophobia, harpaxophobia |
| Thinking | Phronemophobia |
| Thirteen | Terdekaphobia, tridecaphobia, triskaidekaphobia |
| Thunder | Brontophobia, brontephobia, tonitrophobia, tonitruphobia |
| Thunder and lightning | Keraunophobia, ceraunophobia |
| Time | Chronophobia |
| Toads (and frogs) | Batrachophobia |
| Tombstones | Placophobia |
| Tornadoes | Lilapsophobia |
| Touched, being | Haphephobia, aphephobia, haptephobia, haptophobia, hapnophobia, thixophobia |
| Travel | Hodophobia |
| Trees | Dendrophobia |
| Trembling | Tremophobia |
| Undressing in front of someone | Dishabillophobia |
| Urinating | Urophobia |
| Vegetables | Lachanophobia |
| Virginity, losing one’s | Primeisodophobia, esodophobia |
| Virgins | Parthenophobia |
| Void | Kenophobia |
| Vomiting | Emetophobia |
| Waits, long | Macrophobia |
| Walking | Basiphobia, basophobia, bathmophobia, ambulophobia |
| Wasps | Spheksophobia |
| Water | Hydrophobia, aquaphobia |
| Waves | Cymophobia |
| Weakness | Asthenophobia |
| Wealth | Chrematophobia, chrometophobia |
| Weight, gaining | Obesophobia, pocrescophobia |
| Whirlpools | Dinophobia |
| Wind | Anemophobia, anemiaphobia, ancraophobia |
| Wine | Oenophobia, oinophobia |
| Women | Gynephobia, gynophobia, feminophobia |
| Women, beautiful | Venustaphobia |
| Words | Logophobia, verbophobia |
| Work | Ergasiophobia, ergophobia |
| Worms | Vermiphobia, scoleciphobia |
| Worms, being infested with | Helminthophobia |
| Wrinkles, getting | Rhytiphobia |
| Writing | Graphophobia |
| X-rays | Radiophobia |
| Young girls | Parthenophobia |