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List of Phobias
acrophobia fear of heights agorophobia fear of open spaces (fear of the marketplace) ailurophobia dread of cats algophobia morbid fear of pain alektorophobia fear of chickens amathophobia abnormal fear of dust amaxophobia morbid dread of boarding a trolley car androphobia fear of man or men (males) anemophbia dread of hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes anthropophobia fear of human beings anthophobia fear of flowers arachnophobia fear of spiders arachibutyrophobia fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth astrophobia fear of stars; (modern version) dread of flying airplanes
ballistophobia fear of missiles (flying objects) basiphobia fear of steps botanophobia intense dislike of flowers and plants
carcinophobia fear of cancer cathisophobia fear of sitting down chionophobia dread of being snowbound chromophobia irrational fear of certain colors chronophobia dread of time; impulse to smash clocks claustrophobia fear of narrow or enclosed spaces clinophobia fear of going to bed cyclophobia fear of bicycles cynophobia morbid fear of dogs
demonophobia fear of demons or evil spirits dendrophobia fear of trees dentophobia fear of dentist dermatapathophobia morbid anxiety about the skin and its diseases dinophobia fear of becoming dizzy dysmorphobia dread of deformity
entomophobia irrational fear of insects ergophobia fear of work erotophobia morbid dislikes of sexual love euphobia fear of good news
gaphyrophobia dread of crossing bridges geniophobia fear of chins genuphobia fear of knees graphophobia fear of writing gymnophobia fear of nakedness gynecophobia fear of woman or women (females)
heliophobia dread of sunlight helminthophobia fear of worms herpatophobia fear of snakes hydrophobia fear of water; rabies hydrophobophobia dread of rabies hypsophobia dread of heights
iatrophobia fear of doctors iophobia dread of poisons
kinesophobia morbid fear of (rapid) movement: (modern version) fear of autos
lalophobia fear of speaking (often associated with stuttering) levophobia fear of objects on the left side of the body linonophobia fear of string
maniaphobia dread of madness; morbid fear of insanity mechanophobia morbid fear of machines
nebulaphobia fear of fog necrophobia fear of dead bodies neophobia dread of something new; fear of change nyctophobia fear of darkness
ochlophobia morbid fear of crowds ochophobia fear of vehicles; dread of riding in a moving vehicle odontophobia fear of (animals') teeth; fear of being bitten odynophobia morbid dread of pain osphreisiophobia fear of body odors pantophobia irrational fear of everything
pedophobia fear of a child or of children pentheraphobia fear of one's mother-in-law pharmacophobia fear of drugs or medicine phobophobia fear of fear phonophobia dread of sounds (particularly loud or sudden sounds) phronemophobia fear of thinking potamophobia fear of rivers prosophobia fear of progress psycrophobia abnormal fear of cold pyrophobia fear of fire
scopophobia fear of being looked at; dread of spies siderodromophobia fear of railroad trains; (literally fear of iron road) sophophobia fear of learning
tapinophobia fear of small objects taphephobia dread of being buried alive thaasophobia fear of boredom thalassophobia fear of the sea thanatophobia abnormal fear of death thermophobia fear of (excessive) heat topophobia fear of certain places trichophobia irrational fear of hair trisksidekaphobia irrational fear of number 13 tropophobia fear of moving or making changes
xenophobia fear of strangers or foreigners zoophobia fear of animals
CLAS224 Word Elements. Monmouth College Monmouth, Illinois Instructor: Thomas J. Sienkewicz (toms@monm.edu)
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