Phobia List

All Phobias Listed Alphabetically

Phobias are marked with a means that there’s also a video. Currently only one. If you can’t watch it, then it probably means that you have that phobia. But don’t take my word for it, I’m not a doctor. I only do this for fun because I used to have a bunch of phobias… I still do, but a lot less.

A

• Ablutophobia – Fear of washing or bathing.
• Acarophobia – Fear of itching or of insects whose bites cause itching.
• Acerophobia – Fear of sourness.
• Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Nyctophobia, Scotophobia – Fear of darkness.
• Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
• Acrophobia, Altophobia – Fear of heights.
• Aerophobia – Fear of flying, drafts, air swallowing or airborne noxious substances.
• Aeroacrophobia – Fear of open high places.
• Aeronausiphobia – Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
• 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 the outdoors, crowds or uncontrolled social conditions.
• Agraphobia, Contreltophobia – Fear of sexual abuse.
• Agrizoophobia – Fear of wild animals.
• Agyrophobia, Dromophobia – Fear of streets or crossing the street.
• Aibohphobia – Fear of palindromes (not necessarily an actual word; aiboh is not of course Greek or Latin for Palindrome, but is simply intended to make the word itself palindromic)
• Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia – Fear of needles or pointed objects.
• Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia – Fear of cats.
• Albuminurophobia – Fear of kidney disease.
• Alektorophobia – Fear of chickens.
• Alliumphobia – the abnormal 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.
• Androphobia – Fear of men.
• Anemophobia – Fear of air.
• 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.
• Anglophobia – Fear of England, English culture, etc.
• Angrophobia – Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
• Ankylophobia – Fear of immobility of a joint.
• 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.
• 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 – 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, Keraunophobia – 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.
• 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 vile odour.
• 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.

B

• Bacillophobia, Microbiophobia – Fear of microbes.
• Bacteriophobia – Fear of bacteria.
• Ballistophobia – Fear of missiles or bullets.
• Barleyphobia – Fear of barley.
• Bananaphobia – Fear of bananas.
• Bolshephobia – Fear of Bolsheviks.
• Barophobia – Fear of loss of gravity.
• Basophobia, Basiphobia – Fear of walking or falling.
• Bathmophobia – Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
• Bathophobia – Fear of depth.
• Batophobia – Fear of heights or of being close to high buildings.
• Batrachophobia – Fear of amphibians.
• Belonephobia – Fear of sharply pointed objects, such as needles.
• Bibliophobia – Fear of books.
• Blennophobia, Myxophobia – Fear of slime.
• Bogyphobia – Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
• Botanophobia – Fear of plants.
• Briophobia- Fear of the human foot.
• Bromidrosiphobia, Bromidrophobia – Fear of body odours.
• Brontophobia, Tonitrophobia – Fear of thunder.
• Bufonophobia – Fear of toads.
• Button phobia – Fear of buttons.

C

• Cacophobia – Fear of ugliness.
• Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia, Neophobia – Fear of newness, novelty.
• Caligynephobia, Venustraphobia – Fear of beautiful women.
• Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia – Fear of cancer.
• Carbophobia – Fear of carbohydrates (e.g. Atkins diet).
• Cardiophobia – Fear of heart disease.
• Carnophobia – Fear of meat.
• Catagelophobia, Katagelophobia – Fear of being ridiculed.
• Catapedaphobia – Fear of jumping from high and low places.
• Cathisophobia, Kathisophobia, Thaasophobia – Fear of sitting.
• Catoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors.
• Cenophobia – Fear of empty rooms.
• Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, Hypertrichophobia – Fear of hair.
• Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia – Fear of cold.
• Chelonaphobia – Fear of turtles.
• Chemophobia – Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
• Cherophobia – Fear of gaiety.
• Chinophobia – Fear of Chinese people, customs, etc.
• Chionophobia – Fear of snow.
• Chirophobia – Fear of hands.
• Chlorophobia – Fear of the colour green.
• Cholerophobia – Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
• Chorophobia – Fear of dancing.
• Christophobia – Fear of Christianity
• Chrometophobia, Chrematophobia – Fear of money.
• Chromophobia, Chromatophobia – Fear of colours.
• Chronomentrophobia – Fear of clocks.
• Chronophobia – Fear of time.
• Chrysophobia – Fear or the color orange.
• Cibophobia, Sitophobia, Sitiophobia – Fear of food.
• Claustrophobia – Fear of confined spaces.
• Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia – Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
• Cleptophobia, Kleptophobia – Fear of stealing.
• Climacophobia – Fear of stairs or of climbing or falling down stairs.
• Clinophobia – Fear of going to bed.
• Clithrophobia, Cleithrophobia – Fear of being enclosed.
• Cnidophobia – Fear of stings.
• Coimetrophobia – Fear of cemeteries.
• Coitophobia, Genophobia – Fear of coitus.
• Cometophobia – Fear of comets.
• Commitmentphobia – Fear of commitments.
• Coprastasophobia – Fear of constipation.
• Coprophobia, Fecophobia, Scatophobia – Fear of feces.
• Coulrophobia – Fear of clowns.
• Counterphobia – The preference by a phobic person for fearful situations.
• Cremnophobia – Fear of precipices.
• Cryophobia – Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
• Crystallophobia – Fear of crystals or glass.
• Cyanophobia – Fear of the colour blue.
• Cyberphobia, Logizomechanophobia – Fear of computers or working on a computer.
• Cyclophobia – Fear of bicycles.
• Cymophobia, Kymophobia – Fear of waves or wave-like motions.
• Cynophobia – Fear of dogs or rabies.
• Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, Cyprinophobia – Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.

D

• Decidophobia – Fear of making decisions.
• Defecaloesiophobia – Fear of painful bowel movements.
• Deipnophobia – Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
• Demonophobia, Daemonophobia – Fear of demons.
• Demophobia, Enochlophobia, Ochlophobia – Fear of crowds.
• Dendrophobia – Fear of trees.
• Dentophobia – Fear of dentists.
• Dermatophobia – Fear of skin lesions.
• Dermatosiophobia, Dermatophobia, Dermatopathophobia – Fear of skin disease.
• Dextrophobia – Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
• Diabetophobia – Fear of diabetes.
• Didaskaleinophobia, Scolionophobia – 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.
• Domatophobia, Eicophobia, Oikophobia – Fear of houses or being in a house.
• Doraphobia – Fear of fur or the skins of animals.
• Doxophobia – Fear of expressing opinions or receiving praise.
• Dutchphobia – Fear of the Dutch.
• Dysmorphophobia – Fear of deformity.
• Dystychiphobia – Fear of accidents.

E

• Ecclesiophobia – Fear of church.
• Ecophobia – Fear of home.
• Eisoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
• Electrophobia – Fear of electricity.
• Eleutherophobia – Fear of freedom.
• Emetophobia – Fear of vomiting.
• Enetophobia – Fear of pins.
• Enosiophobia, Enissophobia – Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
• Entomophobia, Insectophobia – Fear of insects. (Also the orchid genus Entomophobia)
• Eosophobia – Fear of dawn or daylight.
• Ephebiphobia – Fear of teenagers.
• Epistaxiophobia – Fear of nosebleeds.
• Epistemophobia, Gnosiophobia – Fear of knowledge.
• Epistolophobia – Fear of writing letters
• Equinophobia, Hippophobia – Fear of horses.
• Ereuthrophobia, Erythrophobia, Erytophobia – Fear of blushing, red lights, or the colour red.
• Ergasiophobia – Fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon’s fear of operating.
• Ergophobia – Fear of work.
• Ermitophobia – Fear of being alone, loneliness.
• Erotophobia – Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
• Erythrophobia – Fear of blushing or the color red.
• Euphobia – Fear of hearing good news.
• Eurotophobia – Fear of female genitalia.
• Europhobia – Fear of Europe, Europeans, or alternatively, the European Union.

F

• Fearaphobia – Fear of the word fear.
• Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Fibriophobia, Pyrexiophobia – Fear of fever.
• Fecophobia, Coprophobia, Scatophobia – Fear of feces.
• Ferrumphobia – Fear of Iron and objects made of iron.
• Francophobia, Gallophobia, Galiophobia – Fear of France, French culture, etc.
• Frigophobia – Fear of very cold objects.

G

• Gamophobia – Fear of marriage.
• Galeophobia – Fear of sharks.
• Gatophobia – Fear of cats.
• Geliophobia – Fear of laughter.
• Geniophobia – Fear of chins.
• Genuphobia – Fear of knees.
• Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, Gephyrdrophobia, Gephysrophobia – Fear of crossing bridges.
• Gerascophobia – Fear of growing old.
• Germanophobia, Teutophobia – Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.
• Gerontophobia – Fear of old people or of growing old.
• Geumaphobia, Geumophobia – Fear of taste.
• Glossophobia – Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
• Globophobia – Fear of balloons
• Graphophobia – Fear of writing or handwriting.
• Gymnophobia, Nudophobia – Fear of nudity.
• Gynephobia, Gynophobia – Fear of women.

H

• Hadephobia, Stygiophobia, Stigiophobia – Fear of hell.
• Haemophobia – Fear of blood and bleeding.
• Hagiophobia – Fear of saints or holy things.
• Hamartophobia, Peccatophobia – Fear of sinning.
• Haptophobia – Fear of being touched.
• Harpaxophobia – Fear of being robbed.
• Hedonophobia – Fear of feeling pleasure.
• Hegelophobia – Fear of Hegel.
• Heliophobia – Fear of the sun.
• Hellenologophobia – Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
• Helminthophobia – Fear of being infested with worms.
• Hemophobia, Hemaphobia, Hematophobia – Fear of blood or bleeding.
• Heresyphobia, Hereiophobia – Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
• Herpetophobia – Fear of reptiles.
• Heterophobia, Sexophobia – Fear of the opposite sex.
• Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – Fear of the number 666.
• Hierophobia – Fear of priests or sacred things.
• Hippophobia – Fear of horses.
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, Sesquipedalophobia – Fear of long words.
• Hobophobia – Fear of bums or beggars.
• Hodophobia – Fear of road travel.
• Hormephobia – Fear of shock.
• Homichlophobia, Nebulaphobia – Fear of fog.
• Homilophobia – Fear of sermons.
• Homophobia – Fear of sameness, monotony, homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
• Hoplophobia – Fear of firearms.
• Hydrargyophobia – Fear of mercurial medicines.
• Hydrophobia – Fear of water, a symptom of rabies.
• Hydrophobophobia, Kynophobia – Fear of rabies.
• Hyelophobia, Hyalophobia, Nelophobia – Fear of glass.
• Hygrophobia – Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
• Hylephobia – Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
• Hylophobia – Fear of forests.
• Hypegiaphobia, Hypengyophobia – Fear of responsibility.
• Hypengyophobia – Fear of responsibility.
• Hypnophobia – Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
• Hypsiphobia – Fear of height.

I

• Iatrophobia – Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
• Ichthyophobia – Fear of fish.
• Iconophobia – Fear of images or icons.
• Ideophobia – Fear of ideas.
• Illyngophobia – Fear of vertigo.
• Insulaphobia – Fear of being isolated, or alternatively, fear of islands
• Iophobia – Fear of poison.
• Islamophobia – Fear of Islam.
• Islandophobia – Fear of Iceland, Icelandic culture, etc.
• Isopterophobia – Fear of termites or other insects that eat wood.
• Ithyphallophobia – Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

J

• Japanophobia, Nipponophobia – Fear of the Japanese.
• Judeophobia – Fear or hatred of Jews.

K

• Katikomindicaphobia – Fear of the RNI (Resident Non-Indian).
• Kenophobia – Fear of voids or empty spaces.
• Keraunophobia – Fear of lightning.
• Kinetophobia, Kinesophobia – Fear of movement or motion.
• Klismaphobia – Fear of Enemas.
• Kneemaphobia – Fear of the knee bending backwards.
• Koinoniphobia – Fear of rooms.
• Kolpophobia – Fear of genitals, particularly female.
• Kopophobia – Fear of fatigue.
• Kosmikophobia – Fear of cosmic phenomena.
• Kyphophobia – Fear of stooping.

L

• Lachanophobia – Fear of vegetables.
• Laliophobia, Lalophobia – Fear of speaking.
• Leporiphobia – Fear of rabbits.
• Leprophobia, Lepraphobia – Fear of leprosy.
• Leukophobia – Fear of the colour white.
• Levophobia – Fear of things to the left side of the body.
• Librophobia – Fear of having to balance.
• Ligyrophobia – Fear of loud noises.
• Lilapsophobia – Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
• Limnophobia – Fear of lakes.
• Linonophobia – Fear of string.
• Liticaphobia – Fear of lawsuits.
• Lockiophobia, Maieusiophobia, Parturiphobia – Fear of childbirth.
• Logophobia – Fear of words.
• Luiphobia, Syphilophobia – Fear of syphilis.
• Lutraphobia – Fear of otters.
• Lyssophobia – Fear of rabies or of becoming insane.

M

• Macroxenoglossophobia – Fear of long, strange words.
• Macrophobia – Fear of long waits.
• Maimouphobia, Pithikosophobia – Fear of monkeys.
• Mageirocophobia – Fear of cooking.
• Malaxophobia, Sarmassophobia – Fear of love play.
• Maniaphobia – Fear of going insane.
• Maserphobia – Fear of Singaporeans, the mixed culture of Singapore.
• Mastigophobia, Poinephobia – Fear of punishment.
• Mechanophobia – Fear of machines.
• Medomalacuphobia – Fear of losing an erection.
• Medorthophobia – Fear of an erect penis.
• Megalophobia – Fear of large objects.
• Melanophobia – Fear of the colour 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, Potophobia – Fear of alcohol.
• Metrophobia – Fear or hatred of poetry.
• Mikatikoindicaphobia – Fear of the NRIs (Non-Resident Indians).
• Microphobia, Mycrophobia – Fear of small objects.
• Misophobia, Molysmophobia, Molysomophobia, Mysophobia, Verminophobia – Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
• Mnemophobia – Fear of memories.
• Monophobia – Fear of being alone, or of feeling alone.
• Monopathophobia – Fear of a specific disease.
• Motorphobia – Fear of automobiles.
• Mottephobia – Fear of moths.
• Musicophobia – Fear of music.
• Musophobia, Murophobia – Fear of rats.
• Mycophobia – Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
• Myrmecophobia – Fear of ants.
• Mysophobia – Fear of dirt.
• Mythophobia – Fear of myths, stories or false statements.

N

• Necrophobia – Fear of death or dead things.
• Neopharmaphobia – Fear of new drugs.
• Neophobia – Fear of the new.
• Nephophobia – Fear of clouds.
• Nihilophobia – Fear of (absolutely) nothing.
• Noctiphobia – Fear of the night.
• Nomatophobia – Fear of names.
• Nosocomephobia – Fear of hospitals.
• Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia – Fear of becoming ill.
• Nostophobia – Fear of returning home.
• Novercaphobia – Fear of one’s stepmother.
• Nucleomituphobia – Fear of nuclear weapons.
• Numerophobia – Fear of numbers.
• Nyctohylophobia – Fear of dark, wooded areas.
• Nyctophobia – Fear of the dark, of night or of nightfall.

O

• Obesophobia, Pocrescophobia – Fear of gaining weight.
• Ochophobia – Fear of vehicles.
• Octophobia – Fear of the figure 8.
• Odontophobia – Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
• Oenophobia – Fear of wine.
• Oicophobia – Fear of houses.
• Olfactophobia, Osmophobia, Osphresiophobia – Fear of smells.
• Ombrophobia, Pluviophobia – Fear of rain or of being rained on.
• Ommetaphobia, Ommatophobia – Fear of eyes.
• Oneirophobia – Fear of dreams.
• Oneirogmophobia – Fear of wet dreams.
• Onomatophobia – Fear of hearing certain words or names.
• Ophidiophobia – Fear of snakes.
• Ophthalmophobia – Fear of being stared at.
• Opiophobia – A medical doctor’s fear of prescribing pain medications for patients.
• Optophobia – Fear of opening one’s eyes.
• Ornithophobia – Fear of birds.
• Ortographobia – Fear of spelling mistakes.
• Orthophobia – Fear of property.
• Ostraconophobia – Fear of shellfish.
• Ouranophobia, Uranophobia – Fear of heaven.

P

• 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 – 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.
• Pyrophobia – Fear of fire.

Q

• Quadraphobia – Fear of quartets or of being drawn and quartered.
• Quadrataphobia – Fear of quadratic equations

R

• 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 color red.
• Rhypophobia – Fear of defecation.
• Rhytiphobia – Fear of getting wrinkles.
• Rupophobia – Fear of dirt.
• Russophobia – Fear of Russians.

S

• Samhainophobia – Fear of Halloween.
• Satanophobia, Orcusophobia – Fear of Satan.
• Scabiophobia – Fear of scabies.
• Scatophobia, Fecophobia, Coprophobia – Fear of feces.
• Scelerophibia – Fear of bad men, and 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 the 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.
• Sesquipedalophobia – Fear of long words.
• Siderodromophobia – Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
• Siderophobia – Fear of stars.
• Sitophobia – Fear of food.
• Sinistrophobia – Fear of things to the left of oneself.
• Sinophobia – Fear of the Chinese, Chinese culture, etc.
• 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.
• Spectrophobia – Fear of mirrors.
• Spermatophobia or 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.
• Syphiliphobia – Fear of syphilis.

T

• 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 – Fear of the number 13.
• 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.
• Triskaidekaphobia – Fear of the number 13. Having a superstition.
• Tropophobia – Fear of moving or making changes.
• Turophobia – Fear of cheese.
• Trypanophobia – Fear of injections.
• Trypophobia – Fear of holes.
• Tyrannophobia – Fear of tyrants.

U

• Uranophobia – Fear of the heavens.
• Urophobia – Fear of urine or urinating.

V

• Vaccinophobia – Fear of vaccination.
• Venustraphobia – Fear of beautiful women.
• Verbophobia – Fear of words.
• Vestiphobia – Fear of clothing.
• Virginitiphobia – Fear of rape.
• Vitricophobia – Fear of one’s stepfather.
• Vuteuthindion – Fear of picnics.

W

• Walloonphobia – Fear of the Walloon people or their languages.
• Wiccaphobia – Fear of witches and witchcraft.

X

• 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.

Y

• Ymophobia – Fear of contrariety.

Z

• Zoophobia – Fear of animals.