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* [[Defecaloesiophobia]]- Fear of painful bowels movements. |
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* [[Dementophobia]]- Fear of insanity. |
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* [[Demonophobia]] or * [[Daemonophobia]]- Fear of demons. |
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* [[Demophobia]]- Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia) |
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* [[Dendrophobia]]- Fear of trees. |
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* [[Dentophobia]]- Fear of dentists. |
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* [[Dermatophobia]]- Fear of skin lesions. |
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* [[Dermatosiophobia]] or * [[Dermatophobia]] or * [[Dermatopathophobia]]- Fear of skin disease. |
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* [[Dextrophobia]]- Fear of objects at the right side of the body. |
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* [[Diabetophobia]]- Fear of diabetes. |
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* [[Didaskaleinophobia]]- Fear of going to school. |
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* [[Dikephobia]]- Fear of justice. |
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* [[Dinophobia]]- Fear of dizziness or whirlpools. |
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* [[Dipsophobia]]- Fear of drinking. |
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* [[Dishabiliophobia]]- Fear of undressing in front of someone. |
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* [[Domatophobia]]- Fear of houses or being in a house.(Eicophobia, Oikophobia) |
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- See also -phob-, which discusses non-clinical uses of the suffix "-phobia". See Phobia (album) for the Breaking Benjamin album.
A phobia (from the Greek φόβος "fear"), is a strong, persistent fear of situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one's control, or if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the anxiety disorders can be made. [1]
Prevalence
Phobias (in the clinical meaning of the term) are the most common form of anxiety disorders. An American study by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) found that between 8.7% and 18.1% of Americans suffer from phobias. [2] Broken down by age and gender, the study found that phobias were the most common mental illness among women in all age groups and the second most common illness among men older than 25.
Other uses of term
Phobia is also used in a non-medical sense for aversions of all sorts. These terms are usually constructed with the suffix -phobia. A number of these terms describe negative attitudes or prejudices towards the named subjects. See Non-clinical uses of the term below.
Clinical phobias
Most psychologists and psychiatrists classify most phobias into three categories: [1] [2]
- Social phobias – fears involving other people or social situations such as performance anxiety or fears of embarrassment by scrutiny of others, such as eating in public. The symptoms may extend to psychosomatic manifestation of physical problems. For example, sufferers of paruresis find it difficult or impossible to urinate in reduced levels of privacy. That goes beyond mere preference. If the condition triggers, the person physically cannot empty their bladder.
- Specific phobias – fear of a single specific panic trigger such as spiders, dogs, elevators, water, flying, catching a specific illness, etc.
- Agoraphobia – a generalized fear of leaving home or a small familiar 'safe' area, and of possible panic attacks that might follow. Agoraphobia is the only phobia regularly treated as a medical condition.
In Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), social phobia, specific phobia, and agoraphobia are sub-groups of anxiety disorder.
Many of the specific phobias, such as fear of dogs, heights, spider bites and so forth, are extensions of fears that a lot of people have. People with these phobias specifically avoid the entity they fear.
Many specific phobias can be traced back to a specific triggering event, usually a traumatic experience at an early age. Social phobias and agoraphobia have more complex causes that are not entirely known at this time. It is believed that heredity, genetics, and brain chemistry combine with life-experiences to play a major role in the development of anxiety disorders and phobias.
Phobias vary in severity among individuals. Some individuals can simply avoid the subject of their fear and suffer only relatively mild anxiety over that fear. Others suffer fully-fledged panic attacks with all the associated disabling symptoms. Most individuals understand that they are suffering from an irrational fear, but are powerless to override their initial panic reaction.
Treatment
Some therapists use virtual reality or imagery exercise to desensitize patients to the feared entity. These are parts of systematic desensitization therapy.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be beneficial. Cognitive behavioral therapy lets the patient understand the cycle of negative thought patterns, and ways to change these thought patterns. CBT may be conducted in a group setting. Gradual desensitization treatment and CBT are often successful, provided the patient is willing to endure some discomfort and to make a continuous effort over a long period of time.
Anti-anxiety or anti-depression medications can be of assistance in many cases. Benzodiazepines could be prescribed for short-term use.
These treatment options are not mutually exclusive. Often a therapist will suggest multiple treatments.
Non-psychological conditions
The term hydrophobia, or fear of water, is usually not a psychological condition at all, but another term for the disease rabies, referring to a common symptom. Likewise, photophobia is a physical complaint. Aversion to light due to inflamed eyes or excessively dilated pupils does not necessarily indicate photophobia.
Non-clinical uses of the term
It is possible for an individual to develop a phobia over virtually anything. The name of a phobia generally contains a Greek word for what the patient fears plus the suffix -phobia. Creating these terms is somewhat of a word game. Few of these terms are found in medical literature. However, this does not necessarily make it a nonpsychological condition.
Terms indicating prejudice or class discrimination
A number of terms with the suffix -phobia are primarily understood as negative attitudes towards certain categories of people or other things, used in an analogy with the medical usage of the term. Usually these kinds of "phobias" are described as fear, dislike, disapproval, prejudice, hatred, discrimination, or hostility towards the object of the "phobia". Often this attitude is based on prejudices and is a particular case of general xenophobia.
Class discrimination is not always considered a phobia in the clinical sense because it is believed to be only a symptom of other psychological issues, or the result of ignorance, or of political or social beliefs. In other words, unlike clinical phobias, which are usually qualified with disabling fear, class discrimination usually have roots in social relations.
The main difference between a fear and a phobia is that a fear is something a person is afraid of and can handle being around it without fainting or having panic attacks. A fear becomes a phobia when it starts to interfere with one's life. An example is if a person was walking on one side of a street and this person has homophobia (the fear of homosexuals) and a homosexual couple is coming up. If that person goes to the other side of the street to avoid them even if their destination is just few feet behind the couple, their fear of homosexuals is now a phobia because it interfered with that person's daily life.
Below are some examples:
- Islamophobia, fear or dislike of Muslims
- Homophobia, fear or dislike of homosexual people.
- Transphobia, fear or dislike of transgender or transsexual people.
- Xenophobia, fear or dislike of strangers or the unknown, often used to describe nationalistic political beliefs and movements
- Ephebophobia, irrational fear of adolescents gaining more rights or showing behavioral, emotional or social emancipation
- Bananaphobia, fear of bananas
- Apiphobia, fear of bees
- Aulophobia, fear of flutes
- Autophobia, fear of being alone
- Cnidophobia, fear of stings
- Demonophobia, fear of demons
- Epistariophobia, fear of nosebleeds
- Ermitophobia, fear of being lonely
- Hippotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, fear of long words
- Maimouphobia, fear of monkeys
- Pithkosophobia, fear of monkeys
- Phobophobiaphobia, fear of fear of phobias
- Hadephobia, fear of hell
- Sphelesophobia, fear of wasps
See also List of anti-ethnic and anti-national terms.
The Phobia List
- Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
- Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
- Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
- Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
- Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
- Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
- Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
- Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
- Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
- Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
- Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
- Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
- Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
- Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.
- Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
- Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
- Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
- Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
- Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
- Algophobia- Fear of pain.
- Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
- Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
- Altophobia- Fear of heights.
- Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
- Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
- Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
- Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
- Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
- Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
- Ancraophobia- Fear of wind. (Anemophobia)
- Androphobia- Fear of men.
- Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.(Ancraophobia)
- Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
- Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.
- Angrophobia- Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
- Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
- Anthrophobia or * Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
- Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
- Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
- Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
- Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
- Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
- Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
- Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.
- Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Arachnephobia or * Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
- Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
- Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
- Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.
- Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness.
- Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia)
- Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space.
- Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
- Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia. (muscular incoordination)
- Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.
- Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
- Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
- Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
- Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.
- Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
- Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
- Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
- Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights.
- Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
- Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
- Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.
- Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
- Aviophobia or * Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.
B
- Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
- Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
- Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
- Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
- Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
- Basophobia or * Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
- Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
- Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
- Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
- Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
- Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
- Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
- Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
- Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
- Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
- Bromidrosiphobia or * Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.
- Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
- Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.
C
- Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
- Cainophobia or * Cainotophobia- Fear of newness, novelty.
- Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
- Cancerophobia or * Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer.
- Cardiophobia- Fear of the heart.
- Carnophobia- Fear of meat.
- Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.
- Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places.
- Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
- Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.
- Cenophobia or * Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas.
- Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)
- Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.
- Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia- Fear of cold.(Frigophobia, Psychophobia)
- Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
- Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety.
- Chionophobia- Fear of snow.
- Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched.
- Chirophobia- Fear of hands.
- Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
- Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.
- Chrometophobia or * Chrematophobia- Fear of money.
- Chromophobia or * Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
- Chronophobia- Fear of time.
- Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks.
- Cibophobia- Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia)
- Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
- Cleithrophobia or * Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
- Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
- Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs.
- Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.
- Clithrophobia or * Cleithrophobia- Fear of being enclosed.
- Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
- Cometophobia- Fear of comets.
- Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.
- Coitophobia- Fear of coitus.
- Contreltophobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
- Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
- Coprophobia- Fear of feces.
- Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.
- Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
- Counterphobia- The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
- Cremnophobia- Fear of precipices.
- Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
- Crystallophobia- Fear of crystals or glass.
- Cyberphobia- Fear of computers or working on a computer.
- Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles.
- Cymophobia or * Kymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like motions.
- Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies.
- Cypridophobia or * Cypriphobia or * Cyprianophobia or * Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.
D
- Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.
- Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements.
- Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
- Dementophobia- Fear of insanity.
- Demonophobia or * Daemonophobia- Fear of demons.
- Demophobia- Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
- Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.
- Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.
- Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions.
- Dermatosiophobia or * Dermatophobia or * Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin disease.
- Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
- Diabetophobia- Fear of diabetes.
- Didaskaleinophobia- 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- Fear of houses or being in a house.(Eicophobia, Oikophobia)
- Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals.
- Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
- Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
- Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
- Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity.
- Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
E
- Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
- Ecophobia- Fear of home.
- Eicophobia- Fear of home surroundings.(Domatophobia, Oikophobia)
- Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
- Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
- Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
- Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
- Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.
- Enetophobia- Fear of pins.
- Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
- Enosiophobia or * Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
- Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
- Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight.
- Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
- Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
- Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
- Equinophobia- Fear of horses.
- Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
- Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
- Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.
- Ergophobia- Fear of work.
- Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
- Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
- Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
- Erythrophobia or * Erytophobia or * Ereuthophobia- 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red.
F
- Febriphobia or * Fibriphobia or * Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
- Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
- Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
- Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia)
G
- Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats.
- Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture. (Francophobia)
- Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
- Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
- [[Geniophobia]- Fear of chins.
- Genophobia- Fear of sex.
- Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
- Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges.
- [[Germanophobia]- Fear of Germany or German culture.
- Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
- Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old.
- Geumaphobia or * Geumophobia- Fear of taste.
- Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
- Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
- Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
- Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity.
- Gynephobia or * Gynophobia- Fear of women.
E
- Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
- Ecophobia- Fear of home.
- Eicophobia- Fear of home surroundings.(Domatophobia, Oikophobia)
- Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
- Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
- Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
- Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
- Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.
- Enetophobia- Fear of pins.
- Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
- Enosiophobia or * Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
- Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
- Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight.
- Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
- Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
- Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
- Equinophobia- Fear of horses.
- Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
- Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
- Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.
- Ergophobia- Fear of work.
- Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
- Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
- Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
- Erythrophobia or * Erytophobia or * Ereuthophobia- 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red.
F
- Febriphobia or * Fibriphobia or * Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
- Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
- Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
- Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia)
G
- Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats.
- Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture. (Francophobia)
- Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
- Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
- Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
- Genophobia- Fear of sex.
- Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
- Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges.
- Germanophobia- Fear of Germany or German culture.
- Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
- Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old.
- Geumaphobia or * Geumophobia- Fear of taste.
- Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
- Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
- Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
- Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity.
- Gynephobia or * Gynophobia- Fear of women.
H
- Hadephobia- Fear of hell.
- Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
- Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning.
- Haphephobia or * Haptephobia- Fear of being touched.
- Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed.
- Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.
- Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.
- Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
- Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.
- Hemophobia or * Hemaphobia or * Hematophobia- Fear of blood.
- Heresyphobia or * Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
- Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
- Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
- Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.
- Hierophobia- Fear of priests or sacred things.
- Hippophobia- Fear of horses.
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
- Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars.
- Hodophobia- Fear of road travel.
- Hormephobia- Fear of shock.
- Homichlophobia- Fear of fog.
- Homilophobia- Fear of sermons.
- Hominophobia- Fear of men.
- Homophobia- Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
- Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms.
- Hydrargyophobia- Fear of mercurial medicines.
- Hydrophobia- Fear of water or of rabies.
- Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies.
- Hyelophobia or * Hyalophobia- Fear of glass.
- Hygrophobia- Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
- Hylephobia- Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
- Hylophobia- Fear of forests.
- Hypengyophobia or * Hypegiaphobia- 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.
- Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
- Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
- Iophobia- Fear of poison.
- Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
- Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.
- Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
- Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
J
- Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
- Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
K
- Kainolophobia or * Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty.
- Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
- Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.
- Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down.
- Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces.
- Keraunophobia or * Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)
- Kinetophobia or * Kinesophobia- Fear of movement or motion.
- Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
- Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms.
- Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female.
- Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue.
- Koniophobia- Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
- Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
- Kymophobia- Fear of waves. (Cymophobia)
- Kynophobia- Fear of rabies.
- Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.
L
- Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.
- Laliophobia or * Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.
- Leprophobia or * Lepraphobia- Fear of leprosy.
- Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
- Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
- Ligyrophobia- Fear of loud noises.
- Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
- Limnophobia- Fear of lakes.
- Linonophobia- Fear of string.
- Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.
- Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
- Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
- Logophobia- Fear of words.
- Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis.
- Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.
- Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.
- Lyssophobia- Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
M
- Macrophobia- Fear of long waits.
- Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking.
- Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
- Malaxophobia- Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)
- Maniaphobia- Fear of insanity.
- Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment.
- Mechanophobia- Fear of machines.
- Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing an erection.
- Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect penis.
- Megalophobia- Fear of large things.
- Melissophobia- Fear of bees.
- Melanophobia- Fear of the color 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- Fear of alcohol.
- Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry.
- Microbiophobia- Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia)
- Microphobia- Fear of small things.
- Misophobia or * Mysophobia- Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
- Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
- Molysmophobia or * Molysomophobia- Fear of dirt or contamination.
- Monophobia- Fear of solitude or being alone.
- Monopathophobia- Fear of definite disease.
- Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles.
- Mottephobia- Fear of moths.
- Musophobia or Muriphobia- Fear of mice.
- Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
- Mycrophobia- Fear of small things.
- Myctophobia- Fear of darkness.
- Myrmecophobia- Fear of ants.
- Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
- Myxophobia- Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)
N
- Nebulaphobia- Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)
- Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.
- Nelophobia- Fear of glass.
- Neopharmaphobia- Fear of new drugs.
- Neophobia- Fear of anything new.
- Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.
- Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.
- Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
- Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
- Nosophobia or * Nosemaphobia- Fear of becoming ill.
- Nostophobia- Fear of returning home.
- Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
- Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons.
- Nudophobia- Fear of nudity.
- Numerophobia- Fear of numbers.
- Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night
- Nyctophobia- Fear of the dark or of night.
O
- Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia)
- Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or mobs.
- Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles.
- Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
- Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
- Odynophobia or * Odynephobia- Fear of pain. (Algophobia)
- Oenophobia- Fear of wines.
- Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings, house.(Domatophobia, Eicophobia)
- Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.
- Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
- Ommetaphobia or * Ommatophobia- Fear of eyes.
- Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.
- Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams.
- Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
- Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)
- Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at.
- Opiophobia- Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients.
- Optophobia- Fear of opening one's eyes.
- Ornithophobia- Fear of birds.
- Orthophobia- Fear of property.
- Osmophobia or * Osphresiophobia- Fear of smells or odors.
- Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish.
- Ouranophobia or * Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.
P
- Pagophobia- Fear of ice or frost.
- Panthophobia- Fear of suffering and disease.
- Panophobia or 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.
- Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth.
- Peccatophobia- Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
- Pediculophobia- Fear of lice.
- Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
- Pedophobia- Fear of children.
- Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.
- Pellagrophobia- Fear of pellagra.
- Peniaphobia- Fear of poverty.
- Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)
- Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
- Phalacrophobia- Fear of becoming bald.
- Phallophobia- Fear of a penis, esp erect.
- Pharmacophobia- Fear of taking medicine.
- Phasmophobia- Fear of ghosts.
- Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine.
- Philemaphobia or * Philematophobia- Fear of kissing.
- Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love.
- Philosophobia- Fear of philosophy.
- Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.
- Photoaugliaphobia- Fear of glaring lights.
- Photophobia- Fear of light.
- Phonophobia- Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones.
- Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
- Phthiriophobia- Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia)
- Phthisiophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
- Placophobia- Fear of tombstones.
- Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.
- Pluviophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
- Pneumatiphobia- Fear of spirits.
- Pnigophobia or * Pnigerophobia- Fear of choking of being smothered.
- Pocrescophobia- Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)
- Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.
- Poliosophobia- Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
- Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
- Polyphobia- Fear of many things.
- Poinephobia- Fear of punishment.
- Ponophobia- Fear of overworking or of pain.
- Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.
- Potamophobia- Fear of rivers or running water.
- Potophobia- Fear of alcohol.
- Pharmacophobia- Fear of drugs.
- Proctophobia- Fear of rectums.
- Prosophobia- Fear of progress.
- Psellismophobia- Fear of stuttering.
- Psychophobia- Fear of mind.
- Psychrophobia- Fear of cold.
- Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of flying.
- Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.
- Pupaphobia- Fear of puppets.
- Pyrexiophobia- Fear of Fever.
- Pyrophobia- Fear of fire.
Q
R
- Radiophobia- Fear of radiation, x-rays.
- Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs.
- Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
- Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand)
- Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation.
- Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
- Rupophobia- Fear of dirt.
- Russophobia- Fear of Russians.
S
- Samhainophobia- Fear of Halloween.
- Sarmassophobia- Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia)
- Satanophobia- Fear of Satan.
- Scabiophobia- Fear of scabies.
- Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter.
- Scelerophibia- Fear of bad men, burglars.
- Sciophobia or * [[Sciaphobia* [[- Fear of shadows.
- Scoleciphobia- Fear of worms.
- Scolionophobia- Fear of school.
- Scopophobia or * Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared at.
- Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness in visual field.
- Scotophobia- Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)
- Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
- Selachophobia- Fear of sharks.
- Selaphobia- Fear of light flashes.
- Selenophobia- Fear of the moon.
- Seplophobia- Fear of decaying matter.
- Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words.
- Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia)
- Siderodromophobia- Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
- Siderophobia- Fear of stars.
- Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left or left-handed.
- Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
- Sitophobia or * Sitiophobia- Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia)
- Snakephobia- Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)
- 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.
- Spectrophobia- Fear of specters or ghosts.
- Spermatophobia or * Spermophobia- Fear of germs.
- Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.
- Stasibasiphobia or * Stasiphobia- Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia)
- Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
- Stenophobia- Fear of narrow things or places.
- Stygiophobia or * Stigiophobia- Fear of hell.
- Suriphobia- Fear of mice.
- Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism.
- Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
- Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
- Syphilophobia- Fear of syphilis.
T
- Tachophobia- Fear of speed.
- Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms.
- Taphephobia or Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
- Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious.
- Taurophobia- Fear of bulls.
- Technophobia- Fear of technology.
- Teleophobia- 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony.
- Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones.
- Teratophobia- Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.
- Testophobia- Fear of taking tests.
- Tetanophobia- Fear of lockjaw, tetanus.
- Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things.
- Textophobia- Fear of certain fabrics.
- Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting.
- Thalassophobia- Fear of the sea.
- Thanatophobia or 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.
- Tonitrophobia- Fear of thunder.
- Topophobia- Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
- Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.
- Traumatophobia- Fear of injury.
- Tremophobia- Fear of trembling.
- Trichinophobia- Fear of trichinosis.
- Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia- Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia, Hypertrichophobia)
- Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
- Tropophobia- Fear of moving or making changes.
- Trypanophobia- Fear of injections.
- Tuberculophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
- Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.
U
- Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear of heaven.
- Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.
V
- Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination.
- Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.
- Verbophobia- Fear of words.
- Verminophobia- Fear of germs.
- Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing.
- Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
- Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.
W
- Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.
- Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.
X
- Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
- Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
- Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners.
- Xerophobia- Fear of dryness.
- Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.
- Xyrophobia-Fear of razors.
Y
Z
- Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
- Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods.
- Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
- Zoophobia- Fear of animals.
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Other uses of term
Phobia is also used in a non-medical sense for aversions of all sorts. These terms are usually constructed with the suffix -phobia. A number of these terms describe negative attitudes or prejudices towards the named subjects. See Non-clinical uses of the term above.
See also
External links
- Diagnostic criteria for social phobia in the DSM-IV
- Diagnostic criteria for specific phobia in the DSM-IV
- List of anxiety disorders in the DSM-IV, which includes several agoraphobic disorders.
- National Phobics Society
- Phobia List Unofficial list of phobias and descriptions.
- The Phobia List Another long list of common phobias
Notes
References
- Lynne L. Hall, Fighting Phobias, the Things That Go Bump in the Mind, FDA Consumer Magazine, Volume 31 No. 2, March 1997 [3]