Writing · 1 June 2024

List of Phobias

Phobias

Phobias

A list of phobias with a brief description of each one.

  • Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
  • Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
  • Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
  • Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
  • Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
  • Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
  • Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
  • Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
  • Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
  • Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
  • Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
  • Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
  • Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
  • Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.
  • Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
  • Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
  • Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
  • Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
  • Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
  • Algophobia- Fear of pain.
  • Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
  • Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
  • Altophobia- Fear of heights.
  • Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
  • Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
  • Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
  • Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
  • Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
  • Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
  • Ancraophobia- Fear of wind. (Anemophobia)
  • Androphobia- Fear of men.
  • Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.(Ancraophobia) 
  • Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
  • Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.
  • Angrophobia – Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
  • Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
  • Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
  • Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
  • Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
  • Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
  • Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
  • Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
  • Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
  • Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.
  • Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
  • Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
  • Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
  • Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
  • Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.
  • Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness.
  • Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia)
  • Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space.
  • Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
  • Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia. (muscular incoordination)
  • Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.
  • Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
  • Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
  • Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
  • Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.
  • Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
  • Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
  • Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
  • Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights.
  • Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
  • Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues – anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
  • Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.
  • Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
  • Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.
  • Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
  • Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
  • Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
  • Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
  • Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
  • Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
  • Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
  • Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
  • Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
  • Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
  • Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
  • Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
  • Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
  • Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
  • Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
  • Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.
  • Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
  • Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.
  • Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
  • Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- Fear of newness, novelty.
  • Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
  • Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer.
  • Cardiophobia- Fear of the heart.
  • Carnophobia- Fear of meat.
  • Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.
  • Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places.
  • Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
  • Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.
  • Cenophobia or Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas.
  • Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)
  • Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.
  • Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia- Fear of cold.(Frigophobia, Psychophobia)
  • Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
  • Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety.
  • Chionophobia- Fear of snow.
  • Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched.
  • Chirophobia- Fear of hands.
  • Chiroptophobia- Fear of bats.
  • Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
  • Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.
  • Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money.
  • Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
  • Chronophobia- Fear of time.
  • Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks.
  • Cibophobia- Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia)
  • Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
  • Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
  • Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
  • Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs.
  • Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.
  • Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia- Fear of being enclosed.
  • Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
  • Cometophobia- Fear of comets.
  • Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.
  • Coitophobia- Fear of coitus.
  • Contreltophobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
  • Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
  • Coprophobia- Fear of feces.
  • Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.
  • Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
  • Counterphobia- The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
  • Cremnophobia- Fear of precipices.
  • Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
  • Crystallophobia- Fear of crystals or glass.
  • Cyberphobia- Fear of computers or working on a computer.
  • Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles.
  • Cymophobia or Kymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like motions.
  • Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies.
  • Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia – Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.
  • Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.
  • Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements.
  • Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
  • Dementophobia- Fear of insanity.
  • Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons.
  • Demophobia- Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
  • Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.
  • Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.
  • Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions.
  • Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin disease.
  • Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
  • Diabetophobia- Fear of diabetes.
  • Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
  • Dikephobia- Fear of justice.
  • Dinophobia- Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
  • Diplophobia- Fear of double vision.
  • Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking.
  • Dishabiliophobia- Fear of undressing in front of someone.
  • Disposophobia- Fear of throwing stuff out. Hoarding.
  • Domatophobia- Fear of houses or being in a house.(Eicophobia, Oikophobia)
  • Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals.
  • Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
  • Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
  • Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
  • Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity.
  • Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
  • Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
  • Ecophobia- Fear of home.
  • Eicophobia- Fear of home surroundings.(Domatophobia, Oikophobia)
  • Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
  • Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
  • Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
  • Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
  • Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.
  • Enetophobia- Fear of pins.
  • Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
  • Enosiophobia or Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
  • Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
  • Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight.
  • Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
  • Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
  • Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
  • Equinophobia- Fear of horses.
  • Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
  • Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
  • Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon’s fear of operating.
  • Ergophobia- Fear of work.
  • Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
  • Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
  • Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
  • Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia- 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red.
  • Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
  • Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
  • Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
  • Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia)
  • Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats.
  • Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture. (Francophobia) 
  • Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
  • Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
  • Gelotophobia- Fear of being laughed at.
  • Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
  • Genophobia- Fear of sex.
  • Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
  • Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges.
  • Germanophobia- Fear of Germany or German culture.
  • Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
  • Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old.
  • Geumaphobia or Geumophobia- Fear of taste.
  • Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
  • Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
  • Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
  • Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity.
  • Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.
  • Hadephobia- Fear of hell.
  • Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
  • Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning.
  • Haphephobia or Haptephobia- Fear of being touched.
  • Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed.
  • Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.
  • Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.
  • Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
  • Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.
  • Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of blood.
  • Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
  • Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
  • Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
  • Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.
  • Hierophobia- Fear of priests or sacred things.
  • Hippophobia- Fear of horses.
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
  • Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars.
  • Hodophobia- Fear of road travel.
  • Hormephobia- Fear of shock.
  • Homichlophobia- Fear of fog.
  • Homilophobia- Fear of sermons.
  • Hominophobia- Fear of men.
  • Homophobia- Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
  • Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms.
  • Hydrargyophobia- Fear of mercurial medicines.
  • Hydrophobia- Fear of water or of rabies.
  • Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies.
  • Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia- Fear of glass.
  • Hygrophobia- Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
  • Hylephobia- Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
  • Hylophobia- Fear of forests.
  • Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility.
  • Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
  • Hypsiphobia- Fear of height.
  • Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
  • Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
  • Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
  • Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
  • Iophobia- Fear of poison.
  • Insectophobia – Fear of insects.
  • Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.
  • Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
  • Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
  • Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
  • Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
  • Kainolophobia or Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty.
  • Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
  • Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.
  • Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down.
  • Katsaridaphobia- Fear of cockroaches.
  • Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces.
  • Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)
  • Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear of movement or motion.
  • Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
  • Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms.
  • Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female.
  • Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue.
  • Koniophobia- Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
  • Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
  • Kymophobia- Fear of waves. (Cymophobia)
  • Kynophobia- Fear of rabies.
  • Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.
  • Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.
  • Laliophobia or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.
  • Leprophobia or Lepraphobia- Fear of leprosy.
  • Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
  • Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
  • Ligyrophobia- Fear of loud noises.
  • Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
  • Limnophobia- Fear of lakes.
  • Linonophobia- Fear of string.
  • Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.
  • Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
  • Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
  • Logophobia- Fear of words.
  • Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis.
  • Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.
  • Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.
  • Lyssophobia- Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
  • Macrophobia- Fear of long waits.
  • Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking.
  • Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
  • Malaxophobia- Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)
  • Maniaphobia- Fear of insanity.
  • Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment.
  • Mechanophobia- Fear of machines.
  • Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing an erection.
  • Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect penis.
  • Megalophobia- Fear of large things.
  • Melissophobia- Fear of bees.
  • Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.
  • Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music.
  • Meningitophobia- Fear of brain disease.
  • Menophobia- Fear of menstruation.
  • Merinthophobia- Fear of being bound or tied up.
  • Metallophobia- Fear of metal.
  • Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.
  • Meteorophobia- Fear of meteors.
  • Methyphobia- Fear of alcohol.
  • Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry.
  • Microbiophobia- Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia)
  • Microphobia- Fear of small things.
  • Misophobia or Mysophobia- Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
  • Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
  • Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia- Fear of dirt or contamination.
  • Monophobia- Fear of solitude or being alone.
  • Monopathophobia- Fear of definite disease.
  • Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles.
  • Mottephobia- Fear of moths.
  • Musophobia or Muriphobia- Fear of mice.
  • Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
  • Mycrophobia- Fear of small things.
  • Myctophobia- Fear of darkness.
  • Myrmecophobia- Fear of ants.
  • Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
  • Myxophobia- Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)
  • Nebulaphobia- Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)
  • Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.
  • Nelophobia- Fear of glass.
  • Neopharmaphobia- Fear of new drugs.
  • Neophobia- Fear of anything new.
  • Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.
  • Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.
  • Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
  • Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
  • Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia- Fear of becoming ill.
  • Nostophobia- Fear of returning home.
  • Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
  • Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons.
  • Nudophobia- Fear of nudity.
  • Numerophobia- Fear of numbers.
  • Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night
  • Nyctophobia- Fear of the dark or of night.
  • Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia)
  • Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or mobs.
  • Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles.
  • Octophobia – Fear of the figure 8.
  • Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
  • Odynophobia or Odynephobia- Fear of pain. (Algophobia)
  • Oenophobia- Fear of wines.
  • Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings, house.(Domatophobia, Eicophobia)
  • Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.
  • Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
  • Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia- Fear of eyes.
  • Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons.
  • Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.
  • Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams.
  • Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
  • Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)
  • Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at.
  • Opiophobia- Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients.
  • Optophobia- Fear of opening one’s eyes.
  • Ornithophobia- Fear of birds.
  • Orthophobia- Fear of property.
  • Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia- Fear of smells or odors.
  • Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish.
  • Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.
  • Pagophobia- Fear of ice or frost.
  • Panthophobia- Fear of suffering and disease.
  • Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.
  • Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.
  • Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.
  • Paralipophobia- Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
  • Paraphobia- Fear of sexual perversion.
  • Parasitophobia- Fear of parasites.
  • Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.
  • Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young girls.
  • Pathophobia- Fear of disease.
  • Patroiophobia- Fear of heredity.
  • Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth.
  • Peccatophobia- Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
  • Pediculophobia- Fear of lice.
  • Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
  • Pedophobia- Fear of children.
  • Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.
  • Pellagrophobia- Fear of pellagra.
  • Peniaphobia- Fear of poverty.
  • Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)
  • Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
  • Phalacrophobia- Fear of becoming bald.
  • Phallophobia- Fear of a penis, esp erect.
  • Pharmacophobia- Fear of taking medicine.
  • Phasmophobia- Fear of ghosts.
  • Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine.
  • Philemaphobia or Philematophobia- Fear of kissing.
  • Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love.
  • Philosophobia- Fear of philosophy.
  • Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.
  • Photoaugliaphobia- Fear of glaring lights.
  • Photophobia- Fear of light.
  • Phonophobia- Fear of noises or voices or one’s own voice; of telephones.
  • Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
  • Phthiriophobia- Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia)
  • Phthisiophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
  • Placophobia- Fear of tombstones.
  • Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.
  • Pluviophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
  • Pneumatiphobia- Fear of spirits.
  • Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia- Fear of choking of being smothered.
  • Pocrescophobia- Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)
  • Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.
  • Poliosophobia- Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
  • Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
  • Polyphobia- Fear of many things.
  • Poinephobia- Fear of punishment.
  • Ponophobia- Fear of overworking or of pain.
  • Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.
  • Potamophobia- Fear of rivers or running water.
  • Potophobia- Fear of alcohol.
  • Pharmacophobia- Fear of drugs.
  • Proctophobia- Fear of rectums.
  • Prosophobia- Fear of progress.
  • Psellismophobia- Fear of stuttering.
  • Psychophobia- Fear of mind.
  • Psychrophobia- Fear of cold.
  • Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of flying.
  • Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.
  • Pupaphobia – Fear of puppets.
  • Pyrexiophobia- Fear of Fever.
  • Pyrophobia- Fear of fire.
  • Radiophobia- Fear of radiation, x-rays.
  • Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs.
  • Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
  • Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand)
  • Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation.
  • Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
  • Rupophobia- Fear of dirt.
  • Russophobia- Fear of Russians.
  • Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween.
  • Sarmassophobia- Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia)
  • Satanophobia- Fear of Satan.
  • Scabiophobia- Fear of scabies.
  • Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter.
  • Scelerophibia- Fear of bad men, burglars.
  • Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows.
  • Scoleciphobia- Fear of worms.
  • Scolionophobia- Fear of school.
  • Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared at.
  • Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness in visual field.
  • Scotophobia- Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)
  • Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
  • Selachophobia- Fear of sharks.
  • Selaphobia- Fear of light flashes.
  • Selenophobia- Fear of the moon.
  • Seplophobia- Fear of decaying matter.
  • Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words.
  • Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia)
  • Siderodromophobia- Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
  • Siderophobia- Fear of stars.
  • Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left or left-handed.
  • Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
  • Sitophobia or Sitiophobia- Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia)
  • Snakephobia- Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)
  • Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law.
  • Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
  • Sociophobia- Fear of society or people in general.
  • Somniphobia- Fear of sleep.
  • Sophophobia- Fear of learning.
  • Soteriophobia – Fear of dependence on others.
  • Spacephobia- Fear of outer space.
  • Spectrophobia- Fear of specters or ghosts.
  • Spermatophobia or Spermophobia- Fear of germs.
  • Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.
  • Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia- Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia)
  • Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
  • Stenophobia- Fear of narrow things or places.
  • Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of hell.
  • Suriphobia- Fear of mice.
  • Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism.
  • Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
  • Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
  • Syphilophobia- Fear of syphilis.
  • Tachophobia- Fear of speed.
  • Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms.
  • Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
  • Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious.
  • Taurophobia- Fear of bulls.
  • Technophobia- Fear of technology.
  • Teleophobia- 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony.
  • Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones.
  • Teratophobia- Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.
  • Testophobia- Fear of taking tests.
  • Tetanophobia- Fear of lockjaw, tetanus.
  • Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things.
  • Textophobia- Fear of certain fabrics.
  • Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting.
  • Thalassophobia- Fear of the sea.
  • Thanatophobia or Thantophobia- Fear of death or dying.
  • Theatrophobia- Fear of theatres.
  • Theologicophobia- Fear of theology.
  • Theophobia- Fear of gods or religion.
  • Thermophobia- Fear of heat.
  • Tocophobia- Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
  • Tomophobia- Fear of surgical operations.
  • Tonitrophobia- Fear of thunder.
  • Topophobia- Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
  • Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.
  • Traumatophobia- Fear of injury.
  • Tremophobia- Fear of trembling.
  • Trichinophobia- Fear of trichinosis.
  • Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia- Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia, Hypertrichophobia)
  • Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
  • Tropophobia- Fear of moving or making changes.
  • Trypanophobia- Fear of injections.
  • Tuberculophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
  • Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.
  • Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear of heaven.
  • Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.
  • Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination.
  • Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.
  • Verbophobia- Fear of words.
  • Verminophobia- Fear of germs.
  • Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing.
  • Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
  • Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.
  • Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.
  • Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.
  • Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
  • Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
  • Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners.
  • Xerophobia- Fear of dryness.
  • Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.
  • Xyrophobia-Fear of razors. 
  • Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
  • Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods.
  • Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
  • Zoophobia- Fear of animals. 

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