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Phobia / Fear List

Listed below are many but not all, Types of Fears and their clinical name. Use the ABC links to find listings alphabetically and use  Back to Top link to return here.

 

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y

 

Types of Fears Beginning with A
Types of Fears Clinical name
Abnormal dislike of politicians Politicophobia
Abuse, sexual Contreltophobia
Accidents Dystychiphobia
Air Anemophobia
Air, swallowing Aerophobia
Airborne noxious substances Aerophobia
Airsickness Aeronausiphobia
Alcohol Methyphobia
Alone, being Autophobia
Alone, solitude Isolophobia
Amnesia Amnesiphobia
Amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders etc. Batrachophobia
Angina Anginophobia
Animals Zoophobia
Animals, skins Doraphobia
Animals, wild Agrizoophobia
Ants Myrmecophobia
Anything, new Neophobia
Anything new, novelty Kainophobia
Automobile, being in Ochophobia
Automobiles Motorphobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with B
Types of Fears Clinical name
Bacteria Bacteriophobia
Bald people Peladophobia
Bald, becoming Phalacrophobia
Bathing Ablutophobia
Beards Pogonophobia
Bearing a deformed child, monsters or deformed people Teratophobia
Beaten, with object Rhabdophobia
Beautiful Women Caligynephobia
Becoming ill Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia
Becoming mad Lyssophobia
Beds or Going to bed Clinophobia
Beds Clinophobia
Bees Apiphobia
Being alone Monophobia
Being alone, or of Being Oneself Autophobia
Being bound or tied Merinthophobia
Being contagious Tapinophobia
Being contaminated with dirt or germs Misophobia
Being dirty Automysophobia
Being enclosed Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia
Being evaluated negatively in social situations Social phobia
Being hypnotized Hypnophobia
Being in crowded, public places Agoraphobia
Being infested with worms Helminthphobia
Being in love or falling in love Philophobia
Being oneself or of loneliness Eremophobia
Being seen or stared at Scopophobia Or Scoptophobia
Being stared at Ophthalmophobia
Being tickled with feathers Pteronophobia
Being touched Haphephobia Or Haptephobia
Bicycles Cyclophobia
Birds Ornithophobia
Blindness Scotomaphobia
Blood Hemophobia, Hemaphobia, or Hematophobia
Blushing Erythrophobia
Body Odors Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia
Body, left side of body Levophobia
Body, right side of body Dextrophobia
Bolsheviks Bolshephobia
Books Bibliophobia
Bound Merinthophobia
Bowel Movements Defecaloesiophobia
Brain Disease Meningitophobia
Bridges, crossing Gephyrophobia
Buildings, high Batophobia
Bullets Ballistophobia
Bulls Taurophobia
Burglars Scelerophobia
Buried Alive Taphephobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with C
Types of Fears Clinical name
Car, riding in Amaxophobia
Cats Aclurophobia or Felinophobia
Cemeteries Coimetrophobia
Cemeteries, buried alive Taphophobia
Ceremonies, religious Teleophobia
Challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation Heresy-phobia or Hereiophobia
Changes, life or moving Tropophobia
Chemicals or working with chemicals Chemophobia
Chickens Alektorophobia
Childbirth Maleusiophobia
Children Pedophobia
Chinese Culture Sinophobia
Chins Geniophobia
Choking Pnigerophobia or Pnigophobia
Church Ecclesiophobia
Clocks Chronophobia
Clothing Vestiphobia
Clouds Nephophobia
Coitus Coitophobia
Cold Objects Frigophobia
Cold, ice or frost Cryophobia
Color Purple Porphyrophobia
Color Red Erythrophobia
Color Yellow Xanthophobia
Color White Leukophobia
Colors Chromophobia
Comets Cometophobia
Computers, working on Cyberphobia
Confined Spaces Claustrophobia
Constipation Coprastasophobia
Contamination Molysmophobia
Contamination, germs Misophobia
Corpses Necrophobia
Criticized, severely Rhabdophobia
Crosses / Crucifix Staurophobia
Crossing Bridges Gephyrophobia
Crossing Street Agyrophobia
Crowded, public places Agoraphobia
Crowds Demophobia or Enochlophobia
Crowds Or Mobs Ochlophobia
Crystals, glass Crystallophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with D
Types of Fears Clinical name
Dampness Hygrophobia
Dancing Chorophobia
Dark Nyctophobia
Dark Place, being in Lygophobia
Darkness Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Myctophobia, Scotophobia
Dawn / Morning Eosophobia
Daylight / Sunshine Phengophobia
Dead Things Necrophobia
Death Thanatophobia
Decaying Matter Seplophobia
Decisions, making Decidophobia
Defeat Kakorrhaphiophobia
Defecation Rhypophobia
Definite plans or religious ceremony Teleophobia
Deformed Child Teratophobia
Deformed People Teratophobia
Deformity Dysmorphophobia
Demons Demonophobia or Daemonophobia
Dentists Dentophobia
Depth Bathophobia
Diabetes Diabetophobia
Dining Delpnophobia
Dinner Conservations Delpnophobia
Dirt Infection Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Dirt Mysophobia
Dirty, being Automysophobia
Disease Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia
Disease, suffering Pathophobia
Disease, definite Monopathophobia
Disease, brain Meningitophobia
Disease: kidney Albuminurophobia
Disease, rectal Rectophobia
Dizzyness, looking down Illyngophobia
Dizzyness, whirlpools Dinophobia
Doctor, going to Iatrophobia
Dogs or rabies Cynophobia
Dolls Pediophobia
Double Vision Diplophobia
Drafts Aerophobia or Anemophobia
Dreams, wet Oneirogmophobia
Dreams Oneirophobia
Drinking Dipsophobia
Drugs, new Neopharmaphobia
Drugs Pharmacophobia
Dryness Xerophobia
Dust Amathophobia or Koniophobia
Duty, Responsibility Paralipophobia
Dying, Death Thanatophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with E
Types of Fears Clinical name
Eating, swallowing Phagophobia
Eating, food Sitophobia
Electricity Electrophobia
Englishness Anglophobia
Erect Penis Medorthophobia
Erection, losing Medomalacuphobia
Everything Panophobia or Panphobia
Extreme cold, ice or frost Cryophobia
Eyes Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia
Eyes, opening Optophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with F
Types of Fears Clinical name
Fabrics Textophobia
Failure Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia
Fainting Asthenophobia
Falling in love or being in love Philophobia
Fatigue Kopophobia
Feathers, tickled by Pteronophobia
Fecal Matter Coprophobia or Scatophobia
Feeling Pleasure Hedonophobia
Female Genitals Kolpophobia
Female Genitalia Eurotophobia
Fever Febriphobia
Filth Rhypophobia
Fire Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia
Fish Ichthyophobia
Flogging Mastigophobia
Floods Antlophobia
Flowers Anthrophobia
Flutes Aulophobia
Flying Aviophobia or Aviatophobia
Fog Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia
Food, eating Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Food Cibophobia
Foreigners Xenophobia
Forests Xylophobia
France, French culture Francophobia or Gallophobia
Freedom Eleutherophobia
Frogs Batrachophobia
Frost Cryophobia or Pagophobia
Fur Doraphobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with G
Types of Fears Clinical name
Gaiety Cherophobia
Gaining Weight Obesophobia or Pocrescophobia
Garlic Alliumphobia
Genitals, female Kolpophobia
Genitalia, female Eurotophobia
Germans Germanophobia
German Culture Teutophobia
Germs Misophobia or Verminophobia
Getting Wrinkles Rhytiphobia
Ghosts Phasmophobia
Girl, young Parthenophobia
Girl, virgin Parthenophobia
Glaring Lights Photoaugliaphobia
Glass, crystal Crystallophobia
Glass Hyelophobia
God / Religion Theophobia
Going to bed Clinophobia
Going to school Didaskaleinophobia
Going to the doctor Iatrophobia
Gold Aurophobia
Good News Euphobia
Gravity Barophobia
Great Mole Rat, (the) Zemmiphobia
Greek Hellophobia
Greek Culture Hellophobia
Greek Terms or Complex scientific terminology Hellenologophobia
Growing Old Gerascophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with H
Types of Fears Clinical name
Hair Chaetophobia, Ortrichophobia, Trichophobia or Trichopathophobia
Handwriting Graphophobia
Harmed / Being Scelerophobia
Having committed an unpardonable sin Enosiophobia or Enissophobia
Hearing a certain word or of Names Onomatophobia
Hearing Good News Euphobia
Heart Cardiophobia
Heat Thermophobia
Heaven Ouranophobia or Uranophobia
Heights Acrophobia, Altophobia, Hypsiphobia or Hyposophobia
Heights or being close to high buildings Batophobia
Hell Hadephobia, Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia
Heredity Patroiophobia
Holy Objects Hagiophobia
Home Ecophobia
Home / House Oikophobia
Home, returning Nostophobia
Home, surroundings Eicophobia
Homosexuality Homophobia
Horses Equinophobia or Hippophobia
Hospitals Nosocomephobia
Houses, being in Domatophobia
Hurricanes Lilapsophobia
Hypnosis Hypnogogicphobia or Trancephobia
Hypnotized, being Hypnophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with I
Types of Fears Clinical name
Ice Pagophobia
Ice, frost Cryophobia
Ideas Ideophobia
Immobility of a joint Ankylophobia
Imperfection Atelophobia
Infection Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Infinity Apeirophobia
Injections Trypanophobia
Injury Traumatophobia
Insanity, dealing Lyssophobia
Insanity Dementophobia or Maniaphobia
Insects Acarophobia or Entomophobia
Itching Acarophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with J
Types of Fears Clinical name
Japanese Japanophobia
Japanese Culture Japanophobia
Jealousy Zelophobia
Jewish People Judeophobia
Joint Immobility Ankylophobia
Jumping Catapedaphobia
Justice Dikephobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with K
Types of Fears Clinical name
Kidney Disease Albuminurophobia
Kissing Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
Knees Genuphobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with L
Types of Fears Clinical name
Lakes Limnophobia
Large Objects Megalophobia
Laughter Geliophobia
Lawsuits Liticaphobia
Learning Sophophobia
Left, or Left Handed Sinistrophobia
Leprosy Leprophobia or Lepraphobia
Lice Pediculophobia or Phthiriophobia
Light Photophobia or Selaphobia
Lightning Karaunophobia
Lights, bright Photoaugliaphobia
Liquid Hygrophobia
Locked, tight Spaces Cleithrophobia
Lockjaw Tetanophobia
Loneliness Eremophobia or Eremiphobia
Long Waits Macrophobia
Long Words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Looking Up Anablephobia
Looking Up Anablepophobia
Losing an erection Medomalacuphobia
Loud Noises Ligyrophobia
Love, sex Erotophobia
Love, foreplay Malaxophobia or Sarmassophobia
Love, falling in Philophobia
Lues, Syphilis Luiphobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with M
Types of Fears Clinical name
Machines Mechanophobia
Mad, being Lyssophobia
Making Decisions Decidophobia
Marriage Gamophobia
Materialism Hylephobia
Matter, decaying Seplophobia
Meat Carnophobia
Medicine, taking Pharmacophobia
Memories Mnemophobia
Men Androphobia or Arrhenphobia
Menstruation Menophobia
Mercurial Medicines Hydrargyophobia
Metal Metallophobia
Meteors Meteorophobia
Mice Musophobia or Suriphobia
Microbes Microbiophobia
Mind Psychophobia
Mirrors, looking in Eisoptrophobia
Mirrors Catoptrophobia
Missiles Ballistophobia
Mobs Demophobia or Enochlophobia
Moisture Hygrophobia
Money Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia
Moon Selenophobia
Mother-in-law Novercaphobia or Pentheraphobia
Moths Mottephobia
Motion, Movement Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia
Moving, locations Tropophobia
Moving, automobile Ochophobia
Music Melophobia
Myths Mythophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with N
Types of Fears Clinical name
Name, hearing a Onomatophobia
Names Nomatophobia
Narrow Objects or Places Stenophobia
Narrowness Anginophobia
Needles Aichmophobia or Belonephobia
Needles Belonephobia
Neglecting duty or responsibility Paralipophobia
Negros Negrophobia
New, drugs Neopharmaphobia
New, something Kainophobia
New, something Neophobia
News, good Euphobia
Night / Darkness Nyctophobia
Night Noctiphobia
Noise Acousticophobia
Noises, loud Ligyrophobia
Northern lights Auroraphobia
Nosebleeds Epistaxiophobia
Novelty Cainophobia or Kainophobia
Nuclear Weapons Nucleomituphobia
Nudity Nudophobia
Number 13 Triskadekaphobia
Numbers Arithmphobia or Numerophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with O
Types of Fears Clinical name
Objects, small Tapinophobia
Odor, personal Bromidrosiphobia or Osphresiophobia
Odor, one that has a vile odor Autodysomophobia
Ocean Thalassophobia
Odors / Bad Olfactophobia
Official doctrine Heresyphobia
Older People Gerontophobia
Old, growing Gerascophobia or Gerontophobia
Open Spaces, public Agoraphobia
Open Spaces, high Aeroacrophobia
Opening one's eyes Optophobia
Operations, surgical Tomophobia
Opinions, personal Allodoxaphobia
Opposite Sex Heterophobia or Sexophobia
Outer Space Spacephobia
Overworking Ponophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with P
Types of Fears Clinical name
Pain Algophobia or Odynephobia
Painful bowel movements Defecaloesiophobia
Paper Papyrophobia
Parasites Parasitophobia
Parents-in-law Soceraphobia
Peanut Butter Arachibutyrophobia
Pellagra Pellagrophobia
Penis, erect Medorthophobia
Penis, erect, thinking about Ithyphallophobia
Penis, losing erection Medomalacuphobia
People Anthropophobia
People, society Social Phobia
People, general Sociophobia
People, deformed Teratophobia
People, with amputations Apotemnophobia
Philosophy Philsosphobia
Phobias Phobophobia
Pins and Needles Belonephobia
Pins Enetophobia
Place, dark Lygophobia
Places, certain Topophobia
Places, public / crowded Agoraphobia
Places, elevated Aeroacrophobia
Places, narrow Stenophobia
Plants Botonophobia
Pleasure, feeling Hedonophobia
Poetry Metrophobia
Pointed Objects Aichmophobia
Poison Iophobia
Poisoned, being Toxiphobia or Toxophobia
Poisoned, being Toxicophobia
Politicians Politicophobia
Pope Papaphobia
Poverty Peniaphobia
Precipices Cremnophobia
Preference by a phobic for fearful situations Counterphobia
Priests or sacred things Hierophobia
Progress Prosophobia
Property Orthophobia
Prostitutes Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia
Punishment Mastigophobia or Poinephobia
Purple, colors Porphyrophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with R
Types of Fears Clinical name
Rabies Cynophobia
Radiation Radiophobia
Railroads / Train Travel Siderodromophobia
Rain Ombrophobia
Rape Virgiuitiphobia
Rat Zemmiphobia
Rectum Proctophobia
Rectum or rectal disease Rectophobia
Red lights or blushing Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia
Relatives Syngenesophobia
Religion Theophobia
Religious Ceremonies Teleophobia
Reptiles Herpetophobia
Responsibility, neglecting Paralipophobia
Responsibility Hypengyophobia
Returning Home Nostophobia
Ridiculed, being Catagelophobia
Ridiculed, being Katagelophobia
Riding, in vehicle Amaxophobia
Rivers Potamphobia or Potamophobia
Road, travel Hodophobia
Robbers / Robbed, being Harpaxophobia
Rooms, empty Cenophobia or Centophobia
Rooms Koinoniphobia
Ruin Atephobia
Russians Russophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with S
Types of Fears Clinical name
Sacred Objects Hierophobia
Sameness, monotony or of Homosexuality or becoming homosexual Homophobia
Satan Satanophobia
Scabies Scabiophobia
School, going to Didaskaleinophobia
School Scolionophobia
Scientific Term, complex Hellenologophobia
Scratches or being scratched Amychophobia
Sea / Ocean Thalassophobia
Seeing, thinking about or having an Erect Penis Ithyphallophobia
Semen Spermophobia or Spermatophobia
Sermons Homilophobia
Sex Genophobia
Sex, opposite Heterophobia or Sexophobia
Sexual abuse Agraphobia, Contreltophobia
Sexual intercourse Coitophobia
Sexual love Erotophobia
Sexual perversion Paraphobia
Shadows Sciophobia
Shellfish Ostraconophobia
Shock Hormephobia
Sin, committing Enosiophobia
Sin Hamartophobia
Single, staying Anuptaphobia
Sinning Peccatophobia
Sitting Cathisophobia or Kathisophobia
Skin Disease Dermatosiophobia
Skin Lesions Dermatophobia
Sleep Hypnophobia
Slime Blennophobia
Small Objects Microphobia
Smells / Odors Olfactophobia
Smothered, being Pnigophobia
Smothered Pnigerophobia
Snakes Ophidiophobia or Snakephobia
Snow Chionophobia
Social, looked on negatively Social Phobia
Society, general Sociophobia
Sounds Acousticophobia
Sourness Acerophobia
Space, enclosed Cleithrophobia
Space, outer Spacephobia
Spaces, confined Claustrophobia
Spaces, empty Centophobia
Spaces, open public Agoraphobia
Speak, trying Glossophobia
Speaking Laliophobia
Speaking, aloud Phonophobia
Speaking, public Glossophobia
Specters Spectrophobia
Speed Tachophobia
Spiders Arachnophobia
Spirits Pneumatiphobia
Stairs, climbing Climacophobia
Stand, inability to Basiphobia
Standing Upright Basistasiphobia
Standing up Stasiphobia
Stared At, being Ophthalmophobia
Stars Siderophobia
Statements, false Mythophobia
Stealing Cleptophobia
Step Father Vitricophobia
Stings Cnidophobia
Stooping Kyphophobia
Stories, myths Mythophobia
Strangers Xenophobia
Streets, crossing Dromophobia
Streets Agyrophobia
String Linonophobia
Strorms, thunder Brontophobia
Stuttering Psellismophobia
Suffering, with disease Panthophobia
Sun / Sunlight Heliophobia
Sunshine Daylight Phengophobia
Surgical Operations Tomophobia
Swallowing Phagophobia
Symbolism Symbolophobia
Symmetry Symmetrophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with T
Types of Fears Clinical name
Tapeworms Taeniophobia
Taste / Tasting Geumaphobia
Technology Technophobia
Teeth Odontophobia
Telephones Telephonophobia
Termites Isopterophobia
Tests, taking Testophobia
Tetanus Tetanophobia
Theaters Theatrophobia
Theology Theologicophobia
Thinking Phronemophobia
Thunder Ceraunophobia
Thunder / Lightning Astraphobia
Tickled, being Pteronophobia
Tied, being Merinthophobia
Time Chronophobia
Tombstones Placophobia
Tornadoes Lilapsophobia
Touched, being Aphenphosmphobia
Trains, tracks, or travel Siderodromophobia
Travel, road Hodophobia
Trees Dendrophobia
Trembling Tremophobia
Tricinosis Trichinophobia
Tuberculosis Phthisiophobia
Tyrants Tyrannophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with U
Types of Fears Clinical name
Undressing, in company Dishabillophobia
Urine Urophobia
Urinating Urophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with V
Types of Fears Clinical name
Vaccination Vaccinophobia
Vegetables Lachanophobia
Venereal Diseases Cypridophobia or Cyprinophobia
Vertigo Illyngophobia
Virginity, losing Primeisodophobia
Virgins Parthenophobia
Vision, double Diplophobia
Voices, telephones Phonophobia
Voids Kenophobia
Vomiting, airsickness Aeronausiphobia
Vomiting, general Emetophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with W
Types of Fears Clinical name
Waiting, long Macrophobia
Walking Ambulophobia
Washing Abultophobia
Wasps Spheksophobia
Water Hydrophobia
Waves, motions Cymophobia
Weakness Asthenophobia
Weapons, nuclear Nucleomituphobia
Weight, putting on Obesophobia
Wet Dreams Oneirogmophobia
Whirlpools Dinophobia
White, color Leukophobia
Wild Animals Agrizoophobia
Wind Ancraophobia
Wine Oenophobia
Women Gynephobia
Women, beautiful Caligynephobia
Wooden Objects Xylophobia
Words Verbophobia
Words, long Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Work Ergophobia
Worms Scoleciphobia
Worms, infested with Helminthphobia
Wrinkles, getting Rhytiphobia
Writing Graphophobia
Writing, in public Scriptophobia

 

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Types of Fears Beginning with Y
Types of Fears Clinical name
Yellow, color Xanthophobia

 

 

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