The phobia occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions.
- Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
- Achluophobia – fear of darkness
- Acrophobia – fear of heights
- Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder – fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable. Fear of open spaces or of being in public places. Fear of leaving a safe place
- Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse
- Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals
- Agyrophobia – fear of crossing the road
- Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife)
- Ailurophobia – fear of cats
- Algophobia – fear of pain
- Amychophobia – fear of being scratched.
- Androphobia – fear of men
- Anthophobia – fear of flowers
- Anthropophobia – fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia.
- 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
- Atychiphobia – fear of failure
- Autophobia – fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self
- Automatonophobia – fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being
- Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying
- B
- Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
- C
- Chaetophobia – fear of hair
- Chemophobia – fear of chemicals
- Chiroptophobia – fear of bats
- Chromophobia – fear of bright colors
- Chronophobia – fear of time and time moving forward
- Cibophobia, Sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa
- Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in
- Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
- Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to computers / Learning new technologies
- D
- Decidophobia – fear of making decisions
- Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
- Disposophobia – fear of getting rid of or losing things – sometimes wrongly defined as "compulsive hoarding"
- Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect
- E
- Emetophobia – fear of vomiting
- Ergasiophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating
- Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning
- Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual abuse
- Erythrophobia – pathological blushing
- F
- Friggatriskaidekaphobia, paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th
- Frigophobia – fear of becoming too cold
- G
- Gamophobia – fear of marriage, commitment
- 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
- Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
- Gymnophobia – fear of nudity
- Gynophobia – fear of women.
- H
- Hadephobia (also stigiophobia and stygiophobia) – fear of Hell[3]
- Halitophobia – fear of bad breath
- Haphephobia – fear of being touched
- Heliophobia – fear of sunlight
- Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood
- Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666
- Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (Generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented)
- Homophobia – fear of homosexuals or of homosexual relationships; homophobic
- Hylophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood
- Hypnophobia or somniphobia – fear of sleep.
- I
- Ichthyophobia – fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish
- Ipovlopsychophobia – fear of having one’s photograph taken.
- L
- Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food
- M
- 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
- Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear of darkness
- O
- Obesophobia – fear of obesity
- Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances
- Ombrophobia – fear of rain
- Omphalophobia – fear of bellybuttons
- Ophthalmophobia – fear of being stared at
- Ornithophobia – fear of birds
- Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of bad odours
- P
- Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause
- Papaphobia – fear of the Pope
- Pediophobia – fear of dolls (a branch of automatonophobia: fear of humanoid figures)
- Phagophobia – fear of swallowing
- Pharmacophobia – fear of medications
- Philophobia – fear of love
- Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia or of fear
- Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds
- Pyrophobia – fear of fire
- R
- Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays
- S
- Sesquipedalophobia – fear of long words[4]
- Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at
- Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
- Somniphobia – fear of sleep
- Spectrophobia – fear of ghosts and phantoms
- Stygiophobia – fear of Hell
- T
- Taphophobia, Taphephobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
- Technophobia – fear of technology (see also Luddite)
- Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls
- Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4
- Thalassophobia – fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean
- Thanatophobia – fear of dying
- Thermophobia – fear of heat
- Tokophobia – fear of childbirth or pregnancy
- 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[5]
- U
- Uranophobia, Ouranophobia – fear of Heaven
- W
- Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace
- X
- Xanthophobia – fear of the colour yellow
- Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens
- Xylophobia, Hylophobia, Ylophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood
- Animal phobias
- Main articles: Animal phobia and 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
- Bovinophobia – fear/dislike of cattle
- Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats
- Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs
- Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects
- Equinophobia – fear/dislike of horses (also known as Hippophobia)
- Herpetophobia – fear/dislike of reptiles and/or amphibians
- 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
- Selachophobia – fear of sharks
- Scoleciphobia – fear of worms
- Zoophobia – fear of animals
- Non-psychological conditions
- Photophobia – hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light
- Phonophobia – hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds.
- Osmophobia – hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors.
- Biologists use a number of -phobia/-phobic terms to describe predispositions by plants and animals against certain conditions. For antonyms, see here.
- Acidophobia/Acidophobic – preference for non-acidic conditions.
- Heliophobia/Heliophobic – aversion to sunlight.
- Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic – a property of being repelled by water.
- Lipophobicity – a property of fat rejection
- Oleophobicity – a property of oil rejection
- Ombrophobia – avoidance of rain
- Photophobia (biology) – a negative phototaxis or phototropism response, or a tendency to stay out of the light
- Superhydrophobe – the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet.
- Thermophobia – aversion to heat.
This post has been written by Akshay Hallur.
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