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 |