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List Of Phobias One Needs To Know by paulmarkino: 10:03am On Apr 24, 2015 |
A Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning Acousticophobia – fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia Acrophobia – fear of heights Agoraphobia – fear of helplessness and of leaving safe places Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals, a branch of zoophobia Agyrophobia – fear of crossing the street Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife) Ailurophobia – fear of cats Algophobia – fear of pain Amaxophobia, ochophobia, motorphobia, hamaxophobia – fear of riding in a car Amychophobia – fear of being scratched Anthophobia – fear of flowers Anthropophobia – fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia Antlophobia – fear of floods 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 Arachnophobia – fear of spiders Astraphobia – fear of thunder and lightning Atelophobia – fear of not being good enough or imperfection[citation needed] Atychiphobia, kakorrhaphiophobia – fear of failure Automatonophobia – fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being Autophobia – fear of isolation[3] Aviophobia, aviatophobia – fear of flying B Barophobia – fear of gravity Bathmophobia – fear of stairs or slopes Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias C Chaetophobia – fear of hair Chemophobia – fear of chemicals Cherophobia – fear of happiness Chiroptophobia – fear of bats Chlorophobia – fear of the color green[4] Chromophobia, chromatophobia – fear of colors Chronophobia – fear of time and time moving forward Chrysophobia – fear of the color orange[4] Cibophobia, sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in Cleithrophobia – fear of being trapped[5] Climacophobia – fear of climbing Coimetrophobia – fear of cemeteries Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns) Cyanophobia – fear of the color blue[4] Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies Cynophobia – fear of dogs D Decidophobia – fear of making decisions Demonophobia, daemonophobia – fear of demons Dendrophobia – see hylophobia Dentophobia, odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect E Ecclesiophobia – fear of churches Emetophobia – fear of vomiting Enochlophobia – fear of crowds Ergophobia, ergasiophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual abuse Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia – fear of the color red, or fear of blushing F Frigophobia – fear of becoming too cold G Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges Genophobia, coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or aging Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly Globophobia – fear of balloons Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak Gymnophobia – fear of nudity Gynophobia – fear of women H Halitophobia – fear of bad breath Haphephobia – fear of being touched Harpaxophobia – fear of being robbed Heliophobia – fear of the sun or sunlight Hemophobia, haemophobia – fear of blood Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666 Hylophobia, dendrophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood Hypnophobia, somniphobia – fear of sleep I Ichthyophobia – fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish K Kinetophobia, kinesophobia – fear of movement Kleptophobia, cleptophobia – fear of stealing or being stolen Koinoniphobia – fear of rooms or shared spaces Koumpounophobia – fear of buttons[6] L Leukophobia – fear of the color white Lilapsophobia – fear of tornadoes or hurricanes M Mechanophobia – fear of machines Melanophobia – fear of the color black Melissophobia – fear of bees Methyphobia – fear of alcohol Monophobia – fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia – fear of mice and/or rats Myrmecophobia – fear of ants Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt N Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease Nostophobia, ecophobia – fear of returning home Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia – fear of darkness O Obesophobia – fear of obesity Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances Omphalophobia – fear of navels Oneirophobia – fear of dreams Ophthalmophobia – fear of being stared at Osmophobia, olfactophobia – fear of odors P Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause Papaphobia – fear of the Pope[citation needed] Pediophobia – fear of dolls (a branch of automatonophobia: fear of humanoid figures) Phagophobia – fear of swallowing Pharmacophobia – fear of medications Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts or phantoms Philophobia – fear of love Phobophobia – fear of fear itself or of having a phobia Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds or voices Pogonophobia – fear of beards Pornophobia – fear of pornography Porphyrophobia – fear of the color purple Prosophobia – fear of progress Pupaphobia – fear of puppets Pyrophobia – fear of fire R Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays S Sanguivoriphobia – fear of vampires Scriptophobia – fear of writing in public or of trying to write Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at Sesquipedalophobia – fear of long words[7] Siderodromophobia – fear of trains or railroads Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors Stasiphobia – fear of standing or walking Stygiophobia, stigiophobia, hadephobia – fear of Hell T Taphophobia, taphephobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive Technophobia – fear of advanced technology (see also Luddite) Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4 Thalassophobia – fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean Thanatophobia – fear of dying Theophobia – fear of religion or gods Thermophobia – fear of heat Tokophobia – fear of childbirth or pregnancy Toxiphobia – fear of being poisoned Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13 Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia – fear of needles or injections Trypophobia – fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes[8] Turophobia – fear of cheese[9][10][11][12] U Uranophobia, ouranophobia – fear of Heaven W Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace X Xanthophobia – fear of the color yellow Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood Animal phobias Main article: Zoophobia Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as melissophobia, from the Greek melissa "bee" Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders and other arachnids Batrachophobia – fear/dislike of frogs and other amphibians Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects Equinophobia, hippophobia – fear/dislike of horses Herpetophobia – fear/dislike of reptiles and/or amphibians Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish Mottephobia – fear/dislike of butterflies and/or moths Murophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/or rats Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds Ranidaphobia – fear/dislike of frogs Scoleciphobia – fear of worms Selachophobia – fear of sharks Zoophobia – fear of animals Non-psychological conditions 2 Likes |
Re: List Of Phobias One Needs To Know by tempem: 10:39am On Apr 24, 2015 |
Take your time.. This is an archive! Don't expect me to cram all of these. |
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