· Acarophobia -- fear of skin infestation by mites or ticks
· Acousticophobia -- fear of noise
· Acrophobia -- fear of heights
· Aerophobia -- fear of fresh air (cf. ancraophobia, batophobia, hypsophobia)
· Agoraphobia -- fear of open spaces (technically, the marketplace)
· Agyrophobia -- fear of crossing streets
· Aichmophobia -- fear of pointed objects
· Ailurophobia, Aelurophobia, Elurophobia -- fear of cats
· Alektorophobia, Alektrophobia -- fear of chickens
· Algophobia -- fear of pain (cf. odynophobia)
· Amathophobia, Koniophobia -- fear of dust
· Amaxophobia -- fear of being or riding in vehicles
· Ancraophobia -- fear of wind
· Androphobia -- fear of men
· Anginophobia -- fear of quinsy or other forms of sore throat
· Ankylophobia -- dread of stiff or immobile joints
· Anthophobia -- fear of flowers
· Anthropophobia -- fear of people, especially in groups
· Antlophobia -- fear of floods
· Apeirophobia -- fear of infinity
· Apiphobia, Apiophobia -- intense fear of bees
· Arachibutyrophobia -- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
· Arachnophobia -- fear of spiders
· Asthenophobia -- fear of weakness
· Astraphobia, Astrapophobia -- fear of lightning
· Ataxiophobia, Ataxophobia -- fear of disorder
· Atelophobia -- fear of imperfection
· Atephobia -- fear of ruin
· Aulophobia -- fear of flutes
· Aurophobia -- dislike of gold
· Automysophobia -- fear or dislike of being dirty (cf. misophobia)
· Autophobia -- fear of being egotistical, of referring to oneself; fear of being by oneself; fear of oneself
· Bacillophobia -- fear of missiles
· Bacteriophobia -- fear of bacteria
· Barophobia -- fear of gravity
· Bathmophobia -- dislike or fear of walking
· Bathophobia -- intense dislike of bathing; fear of depth
· Batophobia -- fear of passing high buildings
· Batrachophobia -- fear of frogs and toads
· Bdellophobia -- fear of leeches
· Belonephobia -- fear of pins and needles
· Bibliophobia -- dislike for books
· Blennophobia, Myxophobia -- fear or dislike of slime
· Bogyphobia -- dread of demons and goblins
· Bromidrosiphobia -- fear of having unpleasant body odor
· Brontophobia -- fear of thunder and thunderstorms (cf. astraphobia, keraunophobia)
· Cainophobia -- fear or dislike of novelty
· Cancerphobia, Cancerophobia, Carcinomophobia, Carcinomatophobia, Carcinophobia -- fear of cancer
· Cardiophobia -- fear of heart disease
· Cathisophobia -- fear or dislike of sitting down
· Catoptrophobia -- fear of mirrors
· Celtophobia -- intense dislike of Celts
· Cenophobia, Kenophobia -- fear of crowds (cf. demophobia)
· Chaetophobia, Trichophobia -- fear of hair
· Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia -- fear or dislike of cold (cf. cryophobia sychrophobia)
· Cherophobia -- fear of gaiety
· Chinophobia -- fear or dislike of snow
· Cholerophobia -- fear of cholera
· Chrematophobia -- fear or dislike of wealth
· Chrometophobia -- fear or dislike of money
· Chromophobia -- fear of colors
· Chronophobia -- discomfort concerning time
· Cibophobia -- fear of food (cf. phagophobia)
· Claustrophobia -- fear of enclosed spaces
· Clinophobia -- fear or dislike of going to bed
· Cnidophobia -- insect stings
· Coitophobia -- fear of sexual intercourse
· Cometophobia -- fear of comets
· Coprophobia -- fear of excrement/feces
· Coulrophobia -- fear of clowns
· Cremnophobia -- fear of precipices
· Cryophobia -- fear of ice or frost (cf. cheimaphobia)
· Crystallophobia -- fear of glass, crystals
· Cyberphobia -- fear of computers
· Cymophobia -- fear of waves
· Cynophobia -- dread of dogs
· Cypridophobia -- fear of veneral disease
· Defecaloesiophobia -- fear of painful bowel movements
· Deipnophobia -- fear or dislike of dining and dinner conversation
· Demonophobia -- fear of spirits, demons
· Demophobia -- dislike of crowds (cf. cenophobia)
· Dermatophobia -- fear of skin disease
· Dextrophobia -- fear of objects on the right side of the body
· Dikephobia -- fear or dislike of justice
· Dinophobia -- fear of whirlpools
· Diplopiaphobia -- fear of double vision
· Dipsophobia -- fear of drinking
· Domatophobia -- fear of being in a house
· Doraphobia -- fear of contact with animal fur or skin
· Dysmorphophobia -- dread of deformity, usually in others
· Ecclesiophobia -- fear or dislike of church
· Ecophobia, Oecophobia, Oikophobia -- fear of or aversion to home surroundings
· Eisoptrophobia -- fear of mirrors
· Eleutherophobia -- fear of freedom
· Emetophobia -- fear of vomiting
· Enetophobia -- fear of needles or pins
· Entomophobia -- fear of insects
· Eosophobia -- fear of the dawn
· Ergasiophobia -- fear or dislike of work
· Ergophobia -- hatred of work
· Erotophobia -- fear of sexual feelings and their physical expression
· Eurotophobia -- fear of the color red; fear of blushing
· Febriphobia -- fear of fever
· Galeophobia -- fear of sharks
· Gamophobia, Gametophobia -- fear or dislike of marriage
· Gephyrophobia -- fear of crossing a bridge
· Gerascophobia -- fear of growing old
· Geumophobia -- fear of tastes or flavors
· Glossophobia -- fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
· Graphophobia -- dislike of writing
· Gymnophobia, Nudophobia -- fear of nudity
· Gynephobia, Gynophobia -- fear or hatred of women
· Hadeophobia, Stygiophobia -- fear of hell
· Hagiophobia -- dislike for saints and the holy
· Hamartophobia -- fear of error or sin
· Haptophobia, Haphophobia, Thixophobia -- fear of touch
· Harpaxophobia -- fear of robbers
· Hedonophobia -- fear of pleasure
· Heliophobia, Solophobia -- fear of sunlight; abnormal sensitivity to the effects of sunlight
· Helminthophobia -- fear of being infested with worms
· Hemaphobia, Hematophobia, Haemaphobia, Hemophobia -- fear of the sight of blood
· Herpetophobia -- fear of reptiles
· Hierophobia -- fear or dislike of sacred objects, fear of priests
· Hippophobia -- fear or horses
· Hodophobia -- fear or dislike of travel
· Homichlophobia -- fear of fog
· Homilophobia -- hatred of sermons
· Homophobia -- fear of homosexuality (same-sex affection)
· Hydrophobia -- fear of water
· Hydrophophobia -- fear of rabies (cf. kynophobia)
· Hygrophobia -- fear of liquids in any form, especially wine and water
· Hylephobia -- dislike for wood or woods
· Hypengyophobia -- fear of responsibility
· Hypnophobia -- fear of sleep
· Iatrophobia -- fear of going to the doctor
· Ichthyophobia -- fear of fish
· Iophobia -- fear of poisons
· Isopterophobia -- fear of termites
· Kakorrhaphiophobia -- fear of failure or defeat
· Katagelophobia -- fear or dislike of ridicule
· Keraunophobia, Ceraunophobia -- fear of thunder and lightning (cf. astraphobia, brontophobia)
· Kinetophobia -- fear or dislike of motion
· Kleptophobia, Cleptophobia -- fear of thieves or loss through thievery
· Kopophobia -- fear of fatigue
· Kopophobia -- fear of mental or physical examination
· Lachanophobia -- fear of vegetables
· Laliophobia -- fear of talking
· Lepraphobia -- fear of leprosy
· Levophobia -- fear of objects on the left side of the body (cf. dextrophobia)
· Ligyrophobia -- fear of loud noises (such as popping balloons)
· Limnophobia -- fear of lakes
· Linonophobia -- fear of string
· Logophobia -- fear or dislike of words
· Lunaphobia -- fear of the moon
· Lyssophobia -- fear of becoming insane
· Mechanophobia -- aversion to or fear of machinery
· Merinthophobia -- fear of being bound
· Metallophobia -- fear of metals
· Meteorophobia -- fear of meteors or meteorites
· Microphobia, Microbiophobia -- fear of microorganisms or germs
· Misanthropy -- a hatred of mankind; pessimistic distrust of human nature expressed in thought and behaviour
· Misophobia -- fear of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt (cf. automysophobia, rhypophobia)
· Misogynism, Misogyny -- extreme dislike of females
· Misosophy -- hatred of wisdom
· Molysomophobia -- fear of infection
· Monopathophobia -- fear of sickness in a specific part of the body
· Monophobia -- fear of one thing
· Musicophobia -- dislike of music
· Musophobia -- fear of mice
· Mycophobia -- fear or aversion to mushrooms
· Mythophobia -- fear of making false statements
· Necrophobia -- fear of death; fear of corpses
· Neophobia -- fear of new things
· Nephophobia -- fear of clouds
· Noctiphobia -- fear of the night
· Nosophobia -- fear of contracting a disease
· Numerophobia -- fear of numbers
· Nychtophobia, Achluophobia, Scotophobia -- fear of darkness or the night
· Obesophobia -- fear of gaining weight
· Ochlophobia -- fear of crowds
· Ochophobia -- fear of vehicles
· Odontophobia -- fear of teeth, expecially those of animals
· Odynophobia -- fear of pain (cf. algophobia)
· Oenophobia, Oinophobia -- dislike of or hatred for wine
· Olfactophobia -- fear or dislike of smells (cf. geumophobia)
· Ombrophobia -- fear of rain
· Ommetaphobia -- fear of eyes
· Onomatophobia -- fear of a certain name (or a set of names)
· Ophidiophobia -- fear of snakes (cf. herpetophobia)
· Optophobia -- fear of opening one's eyes
· Ornithophobia -- fear of birds
· Panphobia, Pantophobia -- a nonspecific fear; a state of general anxiety; fear of everything
· Papaphobia -- fear or dislike of the pope or the papacy
· Paralipophobia -- fear of neglect of some duty
· Paraphobia -- fear of sexual perversion
· Parasitophobia -- fear of parasites
· Paraskavedekatriaphobia -- fear of Friday the 13th
· Parthenophobia -- aversion to young girls
· Pathophobia -- fear of disease
· Peccatiphobia -- fear of sinning
· Pediculophobia -- fear of lice
· Pedophobia -- fear or dislike of children
· Peladophobia -- dread of baldness
· Peniaphobia -- fear of poverty
· Phagophobia -- fear of eating
· Pharmacophobia -- fear of drugs
· Phasmophobia -- fear of ghosts
· Phenogophobia -- fear of daylight
· Philophobia -- fear of love or of falling in love
· Philosophobia -- fear or dislike of philosophy or philosophers
· Phobophobia -- fear of fear itself
· Phonophobia -- fear or dislike of noise
· Photalgiophobia -- fear of photalgin, pain in the eyes caused by light
· Photophobia -- fear of light
· Phonemophobia -- fear of thinking
· Pneumatophobia -- fear of incorporeal beings, spirits
· Pnigophobia, Pnigerophobia -- fear of choking or smothering
· Pogonophobia -- fear or dislike of beards
· Poinephobia -- fear of punishment
· Politicophobia -- dislike or fear of politicians
· Polyphobia -- fear of many things
· Ponophobia -- fear of fatigue, especially through overworking
· Potamophobia -- fear or rivers
· Potophobia -- fear of drinks (beverages)
· Psychophobia -- fear of the mind
· Psychophobia -- fear of the cold (cf. cheimaphobia)
· Pteronophobia -- fear of feathers
· Pyrexiophobia -- fear of fever (cf. thermophobia)
· Pyrophobia -- fear of fire
· Rectophobia -- fear of rectum
· Rhabdophobia -- fear of being beaten; fear of magic
· Rhypophobia -- fear of filth, defecation
· Sciophobia -- fear of shadows
· Scoleciphobia -- fear of worms (cf. helminthophobia)
· Scopophobia -- fear of being looked at
· Scotophobia -- fear of the dark
· Selaphobia -- fear or dislike of flashes of light
· Sesquipedalophobia --fear of long words
· Siderophobia -- fear of the stars
· Specrophobia -- fear of specters or phantoms (cf. phanmophobia, pneumatophobia
· Spermatophobia -- fear of loss of semen
· Stasibphobia -- fear or standing or walking; conviction that one cannot stand or walk
· Symmetrophobia -- fear or dislike of symmetry
· Tabophobia -- fear of a wasting sickness
· Tachophobia -- fear of speed
· Taphephobia -- fear of being buried alive
· Tapinophobia -- fear of small things
· Taurophobia -- fear of bulls
· Telephonophobia -- fear of the telephone
· Teratophobia -- fear of monster or of giving birth to a monster
· Thaasophobia -- fear or dislike of being idle
· Thalassophobia -- fear of the sea
· Theatrophobia -- fear of theatres
· Theophobia -- fear of God
· Thanatophobia -- fear of death
· Thermophobia -- fear or dislike of heat
· Tocophobia, Tokophobia -- fear of childbirth
· Tomophobia -- fear of surgical operations
· Topophobia -- fear of certain places
· Toxiphobia, Toxicophobia -- fear of being poisoned
· Traumatophobia -- excessive or disabling fear of war or physical injury
· Tremophobia -- fear of trembling
· Triskaidekaphobia -- fear of the number 13
· Tyrannophobia -- fear or hatred of tyrants
· Urophobia -- fear of urine
· Vaccinophobia -- fear of vaccines and vaccination
· Venereophobia -- fear of venereal disease
· Venustraphobia -- fear of beautiful women
· Verminophobia -- fear of germs
· Vermiphobia -- fear of worms (earthworms, not intestinal)
· Xenophobia -- fear or hatred of foreigners and strange things
· Xerophobia -- fear of dryness and dry places, like deserts
· Zelophobia -- fear of jealousy
· Zoophobia -- fear of animals

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