313. Phobias
See also 28. ATTITUDES ; 41. BEHAVIOR ; 156. FEAR ; 254. MANIAS ; 311. -PHILE, -PHILIA, -PHILY ; 334. PSYCHOLOGY .
- N.B.:
- noun forms end in -phobe and adjective forms end in -phobic, unless otherwise noted.
- acarophobia
- a fear of skin infestation by mites or ticks.
- achluophobia
- scotophobia.
- acidophobia
- an inability to accommodate to acid soils, as certain plants.
- acousticophobia
- an abnormal fear of noise.
- acrophobia
- an abnormal fear of heights. Also called altophobia, batophobia, hypsophobia .
- aelurophobia
- ailurophobia.
- aerophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of drafts. Cf. ancraophobia, anemophobia .
- agoraphobia
- an abnormal fear of being in crowded, public places, like markets. Cf. demophobia .
- agyrophobia
- an abnormal fear of crossing streets. Also dromophobia .
- aichmophobia
- an abnormal fear of pointed objects.
- ailurophobia, aelurophobia, elurophobia
- an abnormal fear of cats. Also called gatophobia, felinophobia .
- albuminurophobia
- a fear of albumin in one’s urine as a sign of kidney disease.
- algophobia
- an extreme fear of pain. Cf. odynophobia .
- altophobia
- acrophobia.
- amathophobia
- an abnormal fear of dust.
- amaxophobia
- an abnormal fear of being or riding in vehicles.
- ancraophobia
- an abnormal fear of wind. Cf. aerophobia, anemophobia .
- androphobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of men.
- 2. a hatred of males. Cf. gynephobia .
- anemophobia
- an abnormal fear of drafts or winds. Cf. aerophobia, ancraophobia .
- anginophobia
- an abnormal fear of quinsy or other forms of sore throat.
- Anglophobia
- a hatred or fear of England and things English.
- anthophobia
- an abnormal fear of flowers.
- anthropophobia
- an abnormal fear of people, especially in groups.
- antlophobia
- an abnormal fear of floods.
- apeirophobia
- an abnormal fear of infinity.
- aphephobia
- an abnormal fear of touching or being touched. Also called haphephobia, haptephobia, thixophobia .
- apiphobia, apiophobia
- an intense fear of bees. Also called melissophobia .
- arachnephobia
- an abnormal fear of spiders.
- asthenophobia
- an abnormal fear of weakness.
- astraphobia, astrapophobia
- an abnormal fear of lightning. Cf. brontophobia, keraunophobia.
- astrophobia
- siderophobia.
- ataxiophobia, ataxophobia
- an abnormal fear of disorder.
- atelophobia
- an abnormal fear of imperfection.
- atephobia
- an abnormal fear of ruin.
- aulophobia
- an abnormal fear of flutes.
- aurophobia
- an abnormal dislike of gold.
- automysophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of being dirty. Cf. misophobia .
- autophobia, autophoby
- an abnormal fear of being by oneself. Also called eremiophobia, eremophobia, monophobia .
- bacillophobia
- an abnormal fear of germs. Also called bacteriophobia .
- ballistophobia
- an abnormal fear of missiles.
- barophobia
- an abnormal fear of gravity.
- basophobia, basiphobia
- in plants, an inability to accommodate to alkaline soils.
- bathmophobia
- an abnormal dislike or fear of walking.
- bathophobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of depth.
- 2. an intense dislike of bathing.
- batophobia
- 1. acrophobia.
- 2. an abnormal fear of passing high buildings.
- batrachophobia
- an abnormal fear of frogs and toads.
- belonephobia
- an abnormal fear of pins and needles.
- bibliophobia
- an abnormal dislike for books.
- blennophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of slime. Also called myxophobia .
- bogyphobia
- a dread of demons and goblins.
- bromidrosiphobia
- an abnormal fear of having an unpleasant body odor.
- brontophobia
- an abnormal fear of thunder and thunderstorms. Also called tonitrophobia . Cf. astraphobia, keraunophobia .
- cainophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of novelty. Also called cainotophobia, neophobia .
- carcinomophobia, carcinomatophobia, carcinophobia
- an abnormal fear of cancer. Also called cancerophobia .
- cardiophobia
- an abnormal fear of heart disease.
- cathisophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of sitting down.
- catoptrophobia
- an abnormal fear of mirrors.
- Celtophobia
- an intense dislike of Celts.
- cenophobia, kenophobia
- an abnormal fear of a void or of open spaces.
- ceraunophobia
- keraunophobia.
- chaetophobia
- an abnormal fear of hair.
- cheimaphobia, cheimatophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of cold. Cf. cryophobia, psychrophobia .
- cherophobia
- an abnormal fear of gaiety.
- chinophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of snow.
- cholerophobia
- an intense fear of cholera.
- chrematophobia
- an intense fear or dislike of wealth.
- chrometophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of money.
- chromophobia
- an abnormal fear of colors.
- chronophobia
- an abnormal discomfort concerning time.
- cibophobia
- an abnormal fear of food. Also called sitophobia, sitiophobia . Cf. phagophobia .
- claustrophobia
- an abnormal fear of enclosed spaces. Also called cleistophobia .
- cleptophobia
- kleptophobia.
- clinophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of going to bed.
- coitophobia
- an abnormal fear of sexual intercourse. Also called genophobia . Cf. erotophobia .
- cometophobia
- an abnormal fear of cornets.
- computerphobia
- intense fear or dislike for computers and things associated with them.
- coprophobia
- an abnormal fear of excrement.
- cremnophobia
- an abnormal fear of precipices.
- cryophobia
- an abnormal fear of ice or f rost. Cf. cheimaphobia .
- crystallophobia
- an abnormal fear of glass. Also called hyalophobia .
- cymophobia
- an abnormal fear of waves.
- cynophobia
- 1. an intense dread of dogs.
- 2. kynophobia.
- cypridophobia
- an abnormal fear of venereal disease. Also called venereophobia .
- deipnophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of dining and dinner conversation.
- demonophobia
- an abnormal fear of spirits.
- demophobia
- an intense dislike of crowds. Cf. agoraphobia .
- dermatophobia
- an abnormal fear of skin disease. Also called dermatosiophobia, dermatopathophobia .
- dextrophobia
- an abnormal fear of objects on the right side of the body. Cf. levophobia .
- diabetophobia
- an intense fear of diabetes.
- dikephobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of justice.
- dinophobia
- an abnormal fear of whirlpools.
- diplopiaphobia
- an abnormal fear of double vision.
- domatophobia
- an abnormal fear of being in a house.
- doraphobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of fur.
- dromophobia
- 1. agyrophobia.
- 2. kinetophobia.
- dysmorphophobia
- an abnormal dread of deformity, usually in others. Also called dysmorphomania .
- ecclesiophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of church.
- ecophobia, oecophobia, oikophobia
- an abnormal fear of or aversion to home surroundings.
- eisoptrophobia
- an abnormal fear of mirrors.
- eleutherophobia
- an abnormal fear of freedom.
- elurophobia
- ailurophobia.
- emetophobia
- an abnormal fear of vomiting.
- enetophobia
- an abnormal fear of needles.
- entomophobia
- an abnormal fear of insects.
- eosophobia
- an abnormal fear of the dawn.
- eremiophobia, eremophobia
- autophobia.
- ergasiophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of work.
- ergophobia
- a hatred of work.
- erotophobia
- an abnormal fear of sexual feelings and their physical expression. Also called miserotica . Cf. coitophobia .
- erythrophobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of the color red.
- 2. an abnormal fear of blushing.
- eurotophobia
- an abnormal fear of female genitals.
- febriphobia
- an abnormal fear of fever.
- felinophobia
- ailurophobia.
- Francophobia, Callophobia
- a hatred of France or things French.
- galeophobia
- an abnormal fear of sharks.
- Gallophobia
- Francophobia.
- gamophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of marriage.
- gatophobia
- ailurophobia.
- genophobia
- coitophobia.
- gephyrophobia
- an abnormal fear of crossing a bridge.
- gerascophobia
- an abnormal fear of growing old.
- Germanophobia
- a hatred of Germany, or things German. Also called Teutophobia, Teutonophobia .
- geumophobia
- an abnormal fear of tastes or flavors. Cf. olfactophobia .
- glossophobia
- an abnormal fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
- graphophobia
- a dislike of writing.
- gringophobia
- in Spain or Latin America, an intense dislike of white strangers.
- gymnophobia
- an abnormal fear of nudity. Also called nudophobia .
- gynephobia, gynophobia
- an abnormal fear or hatred of women. Cf. androphobia, parthenophobia .
- hadephobia
- an abnormal fear of heil. Also called stygiophobia .
- haemaphobia
- hemophobia.
- hagiophobia
- an intense dislike for saints and the holy.
- hamartophobia
- an abnormal fear of error or sin.
- haphephobia, haphophobia, haptephobia, haptophobia
- aphephobia. Also called thixophobia .
- harpaxophobia
- an abnormal fear of robbers. Cf. kleptophobia .
- hedonophobia
- an abnormal fear of pleasure.
- heliophobia
- 1. an abnormal sensitivity to the effects of sunlight.
- 2. an abnormal fear of sunlight.
- helminthophobia
- an abnormal fear of being infested with worms. Cf. scoleciphobia .
- hemaphobia, haemaphobia, hemophobia
- an abnormal fear of the sight of blood. Also called hematophobia .
- herpetophobia
- an abnormal fear of reptiles. Cf. ophidiophobia .
- hierophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of sacred objects.
- hippophobia
- an abnormal fear of horses.
- hodophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of travel.
- homichlophobia
- an abnormal fear of fog.
- homilophobia
- a hatred for sermons.
- homophobia
- fear of or apprehension about homosexuality. Cf. uranophobia .
- hyalophobia
- crystallophobia.
- hydrophobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of water.
- 2. the occurrence in humans of rabies. Also called lyssa .
- hydrophobophobia
- an abnormal fear of rabies. Also called lyssophobia . Cf. kynophobia .
- hygrophobia
- an abnormal fear of liquids in any form, especially wine and water.
- hylephobia
- an intense dislike for wood or woods.
- hypengyophobia
- an abnormal fear of responsibility. Cf. paralipophobia .
- hypnophobia
- an abnormal fear of sleep.
- hypsophobia, hypsiphobia
- acrophobia.
- iatrophobia
- an abnormal fear of going to the doctor.
- ichthyophobia
- an abnormal fear of fish.
- iophobia
- an abnormal fear of poisons. Cf. toxiphobia .
- isopterophobia
- an abnormal fear of termites.
- Judophobism, Judophobia
- a hatred of Jews and of Jewish culture. Also called Judaeophobia .
- kakorrhaphiophobia
- an abnormal fear of failure or defeat.
- katagelophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of ridicule.
- keraunophobia, ceraunophobia
- an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning. Cf. astraphobia, brontophobia .
- kinetophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of motion. Also called dromophobia .
- kleptophobia, cleptophobia
- an abnormal fear of thieves or of loss through thievery. Cf. harpaxophobia .
- kopophobia
- an abnormal fear of mental or physical examination.
- kynophobia, cynophobia
- an abnormal fear of pseudorabies. Cf. hydrophobophobia .
- laliophobia, lalophobia
- an abnormal fear of talking.
- lepraphobia
- an abnormal fear of leprosy.
- levophobia
- an abnormal fear of objects on the left side of the body. Cf. dextrophobia .
- Iimnophobia
- an abnormal fear of lakes.
- linonophobia
- an abnormal fear of string.
- logophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of words.
- lyssophobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of becoming insane.
- 2. hydrophobophobia.
- maieusiophobia
- tocophobia.
- maniaphobia
- an abnormal fear of madness.
- mastigophobia
- rhabdophobia.
- mechanophobia
- an abnormal aversion to or fear of machinery.
- melissophobia
- apiphobia.
- meningitophobia
- an abnormal fear of meningitis.
- merinthophobia
- an abnormal fear of being bound.
- metallophobia
- an abnormal fear of metals.
- meteorophobia
- an abnormal fear of meteors or meteorites.
- misophobia, musophobia, mysophobia
- an abnormal fear of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt. Cf. automysophobia, rhypophobia .
- molysomophobia
- an abnormal fear of infection.
- monopathophobia
- an abnormal fear of sickness in a specified part of the body
- monophobia
- autophobia.
- motorphobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of motor vehicles.
- musicophobia
- an intense dislike of music.
- musophobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of mice.
- 2. misophobia.
- mysophobia
- misophobia.
- mythophobia
- an abnormal fear of making false statements.
- myxophobia
- blennophobia.
- necrophobia
- 1. Also called thanatophobia . an abnormal fear of death.
- 2. an abnormal fear of corpses.
- negrophobia
- a strong dislike or fear of Negroes.
- neophobia
- cainophobia.
- nephophobia
- an abnormal fear of clouds.
- noctiphobia
- an abnormal fear of the night. Cf. nyctophobia .
- nosophobia
- an abnormal fear of contracting disease.
- nudophobia, nudiphobia
- gymnophobia.
- nyctophobia
- an abnormal fear of darkness or night. Cf. noctiphobia .
- ochlophobia
- an abnormal fear of crowds.
- ochophobia
- an abnormal fear of vehicles.
- odontophobia
- an abnormal fear of teeth, especially those of animals.
- odynophobia
- an abnormal fear of pain. Cf. algophobia .
- oenophobia, oinophobia
- a dislike of or hatred for wine.
- olfactophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of smells. Also called osmophobia, osphresiophobia . Cf. geumophobia .
- ombrophobia
- an abnormal fear of rain.
- ommatophobia
- an abnormal fear of eyes.
- onomatophobia
- an abnormal fear of a certain name.
- ophidiophobia
- an abnormal fear of snakes. Also called ophiophobia . Cf. herpetophobia .
- ornithophobia
- an abnormal fear of birds.
- osmophobia
- olfactophobia.
- osphresiophobia
- olfactophobia.
- ouranophobia
- uranophobia.
- paedophobia
- pedophobia.
- panophobia
- 1. a nonspecific fear; a state of general anxiety.
- 2. an abnormal fear of everything. Also panphobia, pantaphobia, pantophobia .
- papaphobia
- an intense fear or dislike of the pope or the papacy.
- paralipophobia
- an abnormal fear of neglect of some duty. Cf. hypengyophobia .
- paraphobia
- an abnormal fear of sexual perversion.
- parasitophobia
- an abnormal fear of parasites.
- parthenophobia
- an extreme aversion to young girls. Cf. gynephobia .
- pathophobia
- an abnormal fear of disease.
- peccatiphobia, peccatophobia
- an abnormal fear of sinning.
- pediculophobia
- an abnormal fear of lice. Also called phthiriophobia .
- pedophobia, paedophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of dolls.
- pellagraphobia
- an abnormal fear of catching pellagra.
- peniaphobia
- an abnormal fear of poverty.
- phagophobia
- an abnormal fear of eating. Cf. cibophobia .
- pharmacophobia
- an abnormal fear of drugs.
- phasmophobia
- an abnormal fear of ghosts. Cf. pneumatophobia, spectrophobia .
- phengophobia
- an abnormal fear of daylight.
- philosophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of philosophy or philosophers.
- phobophobia
- an abnormal fear of fear itself.
- phonophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of noise.
- photalgiophobia
- an abnormal fear of photalgia, pain in the eyes caused by light.
- photophobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of light.
- 2. a painful sensitivity to light, especially visually. Also called photodysphoria .
- 3. a tendency to thrive in reduced light, as exhibited by certain plants.
- phronemophobia
- an abnormal fear of thinking.
- phthiriophobia
- pediculophobia.
- phthisiophobia
- an abnormal fear of tuberculosis. Also called tuberculophobia .
- pneumatophobia
- an abnormal fear of incorporeal beings. Cf. phasmophobia, spectrophobia .
- pnigophobia
- an abnormal fear of choking.
- pogonophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of beards.
- poinephobia
- an abnormal fear of punishment.
- politicophobia
- a dislike or fear of politicians.
- polyphobia
- an abnormal fear of many things. Cf. panophobia, def. 2.
- ponophobia
- an abnormal fear of fatigue, especially through overworking.
- potamophobia
- a morbid fear of rivers.
- proctophobia
- Medicine. a mental apprehension in patients with a rectal disease.
- proteinphobia
- a strong aversion to protein foods.
- psychophobia
- an abnormal fear of the mind.
- psychrophobia
- an abnormal fear of the cold. Cf. cheimaphobia .
- pteronophobia
- an abnormal fear of feathers.
- pyrexiophobia
- an abnormal fear of fever. Cf. thermophobia .
- pyrophobia
- an abnormal fear of fire.
- rhabdophobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of being beaten.
- 2. an abnormal fear of magic.
- rhypophobia
- an abnormal fear of filth. Cf. misophobia .
- Russophobism, Russophobia
- an excessive fear or dislike of Russians and things Russian.
- Satanophobia
- an excessive fear of Satan.
- scabiophobia
- an abnormal fear of scabies.
- scatophobia
- 1. coprophobia.
- 2. an abnormal dread of using obscene language.
- sciophobia
- an abnormal fear of shadows.
- scoleciphobia
- an abnormal fear of worms. Also called vermiphobia . Cf. helminthophobia .
- scopophobia
- an abnormal fear of being looked at. Also scoptophobia .
- scotophobia
- an abnormal fear of the dark. Also called achluophobia .
- selaphobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of flashes of light.
- siderodromophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of railroads or of traveling on trains.
- siderophobia
- an abnormal fear of the stars. Also called astrophobia .
- sitophobia, sitiophobia .
- cibophobia.
- Slavophobia
- fear or hatred of things Slavic, especially of their real or imagined political influence.
- spectrophobia
- an abnormal fear of specters or phantoms. Cf. phasmophobia, pneumatophobia .
- stasibasiphobia
- 1. an abnormal conviction that one cannot stand or walk.
- 2. an abnormal fear of attempting to do either.
- stygiophobia
- hadephobia.
- symmetrophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of symmetry.
- syphiliphobia, syphilophobia
- an abnormal fear of becoming infected with syphilis. Cf. cypridophobia .
- tabophobia
- an abnormal fear of a wasting sickness.
- tachophobia
- an abnormal fear of speed.
- taphephobia, taphiphobia, taphophobia
- an abnormal fear of being buried alive.
- tapinophobia
- an abnormal fear of small things.
- taurophobia
- an abnormal fear of bulls.
- teleophobia
- a dislike and rejection of teleology.
- telephonophobia
- an abnormal fear of using the telephone.
- teratophobia
- an abnormal fear of monsters or of giving birth to a monster.
- Teutophobia, Teutonophobia
- Germanophobia.
- thaasophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of being idle.
- thalassophobia
- an abnormal fear of the sea.
- thanatophobia
- necrophobia, def. 1.
- theatrophobia
- an abnormal fear of theaters.
- theophobia
- an abnormal fear of God.
- thermophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of heat. Cf. pyrexiophobia .
- thixophobia
- aphephobia.
- tocophobia, tokophobia
- an abnormal fear of childbirth. Also called maieusiophobia .
- tomophobia
- an abnormal fear of surgical operations.
- tonitrophobia, tonitruphobia
- brontophobia.
- topophobia
- Rare. an abnormal fear of certain places.
- toxiphobia, toxicophobia
- an abnormal fear of being poisoned. Cf. iophobia .
- traumatophobia
- an excessive or disabling fear of war or physical injury.
- tremophobia
- an abnormal fear of trembling.
- trichinophobia
- an abnormal fear of trichinosis. Also called trichophobia, trichopathophobia .
- tridecaphobia
- triskaidekaphobia.
- triskaidekaphobia
- an abnormal fear of the number 13. Also called tridecaphobia .
- trypanophobia
- vaccinophobia.
- tuberculophobia
- phthisiophobia.
- tyrannophobia
- an intense fear or hatred of tyrants.
- uranophobia
- 1. an abnormal fear of homosexuals and homosexuality. Also homophobia.
- 2. an abnormal fear of the heavens. Also called ouranophobia .
- urophobia
- an abnormal fear of passing urine.
- vaccinophobia
- an abnormal fear of vaccines and vaccination. Also called trypanophobia .
- venereophobia
- cypridophobia.
- vermiphobia
- scoleciphobia.
- xenophobia
- an abnormal fear or hatred of foreigners and strange things.
- xerophobia
- an abnormal fear of dryness and dry places, like deserts.
- zelophobia
- an abnormal fear of jealousy.
- zoophobia
- an abnormal fear or dislike of animals.
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