Strictly speaking the true defintion of a Phobia is an excessive, psychologically disabling fear of something. However a phobia has now come to mean any irrational and inexplicable fear of something.
I have tried to make this list as comprehensive as possible, even to the point of including "made up" phobias from literature. I have also tried to prevent duplicate entries by grouping phobias that are the same in the alternate names column instead of listing them separately. If you think there is a phobia I have missed, another name for one of the phobias already listed, or that I have duplicated an entry please Contact Me with the details and I will amend the list as soon as I can.
| Phobia | Alternate Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ablutophobia | Fear of washing or bathing | |
| Acarophobia | Fear of itching or of the insects who's bites cause itching | |
| Acerophobia | Fear of sourness | |
| Achluophobia | Lygophobia Nyctophobia Scotophobia | Fear of darkness or night |
| Acousticophobia | Fear of noise | |
| Acrophobia | Altophobia | Fear of heights |
| Aelurophobia | Ailurophobia Elurophobia Felinophobia Galeophobia Gatophobia | Fear of cats |
| Aeronausiphobia | Fear of vomiting due to airsickness | |
| Aerophobia | Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances | |
| Aeroacrophobia | Fear of open high places | |
| Afrophobia | Fear or dislike of Africans or African culture or people of African ancestry | |
| Agateophobia | Dementophobia Maniaphobia | Fear of insanity |
| Agliophobia | Algophobia Odynophobia Odynephobia | Fear of pain |
| Agoraphobia | Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place | |
| Agraphobia | Contreltophobia | Fear of sexual abuse |
| Agrizoophobia | Fear of wild animals | |
| Agyrophobia | Dromophobia | Fear of streets or crossing the street |
| Aibohphobia | Fear of palindromes | |
| Aichmophobia | Belonephobia Enetophobia | Fear of needles or pointed objects |
| Albuminurophobia | Fear of kidney disease | |
| Alektorophobia | Fear of chickens | |
| Alliumphobia | Fear of garlic, that may extend to a variety of plants characterized by their pungent odor including onions, leeks, chives, and shallots. Allium is the onion genus | |
| Allodoxaphobia | Fear of opinions | |
| Amathophobia | Koniophobia | Fear of dust |
| Amaxophobia | Fear of riding in a car | |
| Ambulophobia | Stasibasiphobia Stasiphobia | Fear of walking or standing |
| Amerophobia | Columbophobia | Fear of the United States, American culture, etc. |
| Amnesiphobia | Fear of amnesia | |
| Amychophobia | Fear of scratches or being scratched | |
| Anablephobia | Fear of looking up | |
| Ancraophobia | Anemophobia | Fear of wind |
| Androphobia | Arrhenphobia Hominophobia | Fear of men |
| Anginophobia | Fear of angina, choking or narrowness, quinsy or other forms of sore throat | |
| Anglophobia | Fear of England, English culture, etc | |
| Angrophobia | Fear of anger or of becoming angry | |
| Ankylophobia | Fear of immobility of joints | |
| Anthrophobia | Anthophobia | Fear of flowers |
| Anthropophobia | Fear of people or society | |
| Antidaeophobia | Fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you (fictional, from Gary Larson cartoon) | |
| Antlophobia | Fear of floods | |
| Anuptaphobia | Fear of staying single | |
| Apeirophobia | Fear of infinity | |
| Aphenphosmphobia | Chiraptophobia Haphephobia Haptephobia | Fear of being touched |
| Apiophobia | Apiphobia Melissaphobia Melissophobia | Fear of bees |
| Apotemnophobia | Fear of persons with amputations | |
| Aquaphobia | Fear of water, specifically the morbid fear of drowning | |
| Arachibutyrophobia | Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth | |
| Arcanophobia | Arachnephobia | Fear of magic |
| Arachnophobia | Fear of spiders | |
| Arithmophobia | Fear of numbers | |
| Arsonphobia | Pyrophobia | Fear of fire |
| Asthenophobia | Fear of fainting or weakness | |
| Astraphobia | Astrapophobia Brontophobia Ceraunophobia Keraunophobia Tonitrophobia | Fear of thunder and lightning. It is especially common in young children |
| Astrophobia | Fear of stars and celestial space | |
| Asymmetriphobia | Fear of asymmetry | |
| Ataxiophobia | Fear of ataxia (unsteady and clumsy motion of the limbs or trunk due to a failure of the gross coordination of muscle movements) | |
| Ataxophobia | Fear of disorder or untidiness | |
| Atelophobia | Fear of imperfection | |
| Atephobia | Fear of ruin or ruins | |
| Athazagoraphobia | Fear of being forgotten, ignored or forgetting | |
| Atomosophobia | Fear of atomic explosions | |
| Atychiphobia | Kakorrhaphiophobia | Fear of failure |
| Aulophobia | Fear of flutes | |
| Aurophobia | Fear of gold | |
| Auroraphobia | Fear of the Northern Lights or for Chileans, Argentinians, Falkland Islanders or Antarctic explorers, fear of the Southern Lights | |
| Australophobia | Novahollandiaphobia | Fear of Australia, Australians, Australian culture etc |
| Autodysomophobia | Fear that one has a nasty odour or is dirty | |
| Automatonophobia | Fear of any inanimate object that represents a sentient being, eg. statues, dummies, robots, etc. | |
| Automysophobia | Fear of being dirty | |
| Autophobia | Eremophobia Ermitophibia Isolophobia Monophobia | Fear of being alone or fear of oneself |
| Aviophobia | Aviatophobia Pteromerhanophobia | Fear of flying |
| Phobia | Alternate Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bacillophobia | Microbiophobia | Fear of microbes |
| Bacteriophobia | Fear of bacteria | |
| Ballistophobia | Fear of missiles or bullets | |
| Bananaphobia | Fear of bananas | |
| Barleyphobia | Fear of barley | |
| Bolshephobia | Fear of Bolsheviks | |
| Barophobia | Fear of gravity, or the loss of gravity | |
| Basophobia | Basiphobia | Fear of falling, inability to stand |
| Bathmophobia | Fear of stairs or steep slopes, walking | |
| Bathophobia | Fear of depth | |
| Batophobia | Fear of heights or of being close to high buildings | |
| Batrachophobia | Fear of amphibians | |
| Belomophobia | Fear of needles | |
| Belonephobia | Fear of pins and needles | |
| Bibliophobia | Fear of books | |
| Blennophobia | Myxophobia | Fear of slime |
| Bogyphobia | Fear of demons and goblins | |
| Botanophobia | Fear of plants | |
| Briophobia | Fear of the human foot | |
| Bromidrosiphobia | Bromidrophobia | Fear of bodily odours |
| Bufonophobia | Fear of toads | |
| Buttonphobia | Fear of buttons |
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| Phobia | Alternate Name | Descripti |
|---|---|---|
| Pagophobia | Fear of ice or frost | |
| Panthophobia | Fear of suffering and disease | |
| Panophobia | 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 | |
| Pediculophobia | Phthiriophobia | Fear of lice |
| Pediophobia | Fear of dolls | |
| Pediphobia | Pedophobia | Fear of children |
| Peladophobia | Fear of bald people | |
| Pellagrophobia | Fear of pellagra | |
| Peniaphobia | Fear of poverty | |
| Pentheraphobia | Fear of one's mother-in-law | |
| Phagophobia | Fear of swallowing, eating or of being eaten | |
| Phalacrophobia | Fear of becoming bald | |
| Phallophobia | Fear of a penis, esp. erect | |
| Pharmacophobia | Fear of taking medicine | |
| Phasmophobia | Spectrophobia | Fear of ghosts |
| Phengophobia | Fear of daylight or sunshine | |
| Philemaphobia | Philematophobia | Fear of kissing |
| Philophobia | Fear of falling in love or being in love | |
| Philosophobia | Fear of philosophy | |
| Phobophobia | Fear of phobias | |
| Phobophobiaphobia | Fear of fear of phobias | |
| Photoaugliaphobia | Fear of glaring lights | |
| Photophobia | Fear of light (also refers to aversion to light due to an inflamed/painful eye or excessively dilated pupils) | |
| Phonophobia | Fear of noises, voices, one's own voice or of telephones | |
| Phronemophobia | Fear of thinking | |
| Phthisiophobia | Tuberculophobia | Fear of tuberculosis |
| Placophobia | Fear of tombstones | |
| Plutophobia | Chrematophobia | Fear of wealth |
| Pneumatiphobia | Fear of spirits | |
| Pnigophobia | Pnigerophobia | Fear of choking or being smothered |
| Pnumonomicroscopicsilicovolcanocoviosophobia | Fear of a lung disease caused by coal dust | |
| Pogonophobia | Pognophobia | Fear of beards |
| Poliosophobia | Fear of contracting poliomyelitis | |
| Politicophobia | Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians | |
| Polonophobia | Hatred of Poles | |
| Polyphobia | Having many phobias | |
| Ponophobia | Fear of overworking or of pain | |
| Porphyrophobia | Fear of the colour purple | |
| Potamophobia | Fear of rivers or running water | |
| Pharmacophobia | Fear of drugs | |
| Proctophobia | Rectophobia | Fear of the rectum or of rectal diseases |
| Prosophobia | Fear of progress | |
| Psellismophobia | Fear of stuttering | |
| Psychophobia | Fear of the mind | |
| Pteronophobia | Fear of being tickled by feathers | |
| Pupaphobia | Fear of puppets |
| Phobia | Alternate Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Quadraphobia | Fear of quartets or of being drawn and quartered | |
| Quadrataphobia | Fear of quadratic equations | |
| Radiophobia | Fear of radiation or X-rays | |
| Ranidaphobia | Fear of frogs | |
| Retrophobia | Fear of old things or traveling back in time | |
| Retterophobia | Fear of wrongly chosen letters | |
| Rhabdophobia | Fear of being severely punished or beaten with a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic | |
| Rhinophobia | Fear of noses | |
| Rhodophobia | Fear of the colour red | |
| Rhypophobia | Fear of defecation | |
| Rhytiphobia | Fear of getting wrinkles | |
| Russophobia | Fear of Russians |
| Phobia | Alternate Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Samhainophobia | Fear of Halloween | |
| Satanophobia | Orcusophobia | Fear of Satan |
| Scabiophobia | Fear of scabies | |
| Scelerophibia | Fear of bad men, burglars | |
| Sciophobia, Sciaphobia | Fear of shadows | |
| Scoleciphobia | Vermiphobia | Fear of worms |
| Scopophobia | Scoptophobia | Fear of being seen or stared at |
| Scotomaphobia | Fear of blindness in visual field | |
| Scriptophobia | Fear of writing in public | |
| Sedatephobia | Fear of silence | |
| Selachophobia | Fear of sharks | |
| Selaphobia | Fear of light flashes | |
| Selenophobia | Fear of the moon | |
| Seplophobia | Fear of decaying matter | |
| Siderodromophobia | Fear of trains, railroads or train travel | |
| Siderophobia | Fear of stars | |
| Sinistrophobia | Fear of things to the left of oneself | |
| 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 | |
| Spamophobia | Fear of Spam | |
| Spermatophobia | Spermophobia | Fear of sperm |
| Spheksophobia | Fear of wasps | |
| Staurophobia | Fear of crosses or crucifixes | |
| Stenophobia | Fear of narrow things or places | |
| Stephanophobia | Fear of crowns | |
| Suriphobia | Fear of mice | |
| Symbolophobia | Fear of symbolism | |
| Symmetrophobia | Fear of symmetry | |
| Syngenesophobia | Fear of relatives |
| Phobia | Alternate Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tachophobia | Fear of speed | |
| Taeniophobia | 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 | Fear of definite plans or of religious ceremony | |
| Telephonophobia | Fear of telephones | |
| Teratophobia | Fear of bearing a deformed child, of monsters or of deformed people | |
| Teratrophobia | Fear of monsters | |
| Terdekaphobia | Triskaidekaphobia | Fear of the number 13. Having a superstition |
| Testophobia | Fear of taking tests | |
| Tetanophobia | Fear of tetanus or lockjaw | |
| Textophobia | Fear of certain fabrics | |
| Thalassophobia | Fear of the sea | |
| Thanatophobia | 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 | |
| Tonsurephobia | Fear of haircuts | |
| Topophobia | Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright | |
| Toxiphobia | Toxophobia Toxicophobia | Fear of poison or of being accidentally poisoned |
| Traumatophobia | Fear of injury | |
| Tremophobia | Fear of trembling | |
| Trichinophobia | Fear of trichinosis | |
| Tropophobia | Fear of moving or making changes | |
| Turophobia | Fear of cheese | |
| Trypanophobia | Fear of injections | |
| Trypophobia | Fear of holes | |
| Tyrannophobia | Fear of tyrants |
| Phobia | Alternate Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Uranophobia | Fear of the heavens | |
| Urophobia | Fear of urine or urinating | |
| Vaccinophobia | Fear of vaccination | |
| Vestiphobia | Fear of clothing | |
| Virginitiphobia | Fear of rape | |
| Vitricophobia | Fear of one's stepfather | |
| Vuteuthindion | Fear of picnics | |
| Walloonphobia | Fear of the Walloon people or their languages | |
| Wiccaphobia | Fear of witches and witchcraft | |
| Xanthophobia | Fear of the colour yellow or the word yellow | |
| Xenoglossophobia | Fear of foreign languages | |
| Xenophobia | Fear of strangers or foreigners | |
| Xerophobia | Fear of dryness | |
| Xylophobia | Fear of wooden objects or fear of forests | |
| Xyrophobia | Fear of razors | |
| Ymophobia | Fear of contrariety | |
| Zoophobia | Fear of animals |


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