Phobia Lists

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A large number of-phobia lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name. Sometimes it leads to bizarre results, such as suggestions to cure "prostitute phobia".Such practice is known as content spamming and is used to attract search engines.

Psychological conditions:
In many cases specialists prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms, see, e.g., personality disorders, anxiety disorders, avoidant personality disorder, love-shyness.

* Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
* Acrophobia, Altophobia – fear of heights.
* Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder – fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
* Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse.
* Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (as a needle, knife or a pointing finger).
* Algophobia – fear of pain.
* Agyrophobia – fear of crossing roads.
* Androphobia – fear of men.
* Anthropophobia – fear of people or being in a company, a form of social phobia.
* Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
* Aquaphobia, Hydrophobia – fear of water.
* Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia – fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
* Autophobia – fear of being alone.
* Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying.
* Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia – fear of microbes and bacteria.
* Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
* Catoptrophobia - fear of mirrors or of one's own reflection.
* Cibophobia, Sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
* Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces.
* Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
* Decidophobia – fear of making decisions.
* Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
* Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
* Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
* Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
* Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning.
* Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
* Erythrophobia – pathological blushing.
* Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges.
* Genophobia, Coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse.
* Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or ageing.
* Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly.
* Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
* Gymnophobia – fear of nudity.
* Gynophobia – fear of women.
* Haptephobia – fear of being touched.
* Heliophobia – fear of sunlight.
* Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood.
* Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.
* Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (Generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented).
* Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises.
* Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food.
* Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
* Necrophobia – fear of death, the dead.
* Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty.
* Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
* Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease.
* Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear of darkness.
* Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of smells.
* Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
* Panphobia – fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it.
* Pedophobia - fear/dislike of children
* Phasmophobia - fear of ghosts, spectres or phantasms.
* Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.
* Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
* Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds.
* Photophobia - fear of bright lights.
* Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
* Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
* Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
* Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at.
* Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
* Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors and one's own reflections.
* Taphophobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
* Technophobia – fear of technology (see also Luddite).
* Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4.
* Tokophobia – fear of childbirth.
* Tomophobia – fear or anxiety of surgeries/surgical operations.
* Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia, a fear of having an injury
* Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13.
* Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia – fear of needles or injections.
* Workplace phobia – fear of the work place.
* Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.

Animal phobias:

* Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats
* Animal phobia - fear of certain animals, a category of specific phobias
* Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as Melissophobia)
* Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders
* Bufonophobia - fear/dislike of toads
* Cetaphobia - fear/dislike of whales
* Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats
* Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs
* Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects
* Equinophobia – fear/dislike of horses (also known as Hippophobia)
* Herpetophobia - fear/dislike of reptiles
* Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish
* Leporiphobia - fear/dislike of rabbits
* Musophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/or rat
* Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes
* Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds
* Scoleciphobia – fear of worms
* Selachophobia - fear/dislike of sharks
* Taurophobia - fear/dislike of bulls
* Zoophobia – a generic term for animal phobias

Non-psychological conditions:

The following medical conditions have nothing to do with irrational fears. However, each usually has a psychological disorder of the same name which is an irrational fear. The behavior of an individual with the medical condition can be similar to the behavior of an individual with the psychological disorder of the same name (e.g., for both usages of Photophobia the person avoids light). The difference in usage is that for the medical term there is an underlying physiological condition that results in the behavior. For example, with medical Photophobia the hypersensitivity to light is sufficient such that at some light levels the person experiences pain which they avoid by seeking darkness. Removing the physiological cause of the hypersensitivity to light results in the person no longer avoiding light. With psychological Photophobia the person fears the light even though there is no current physiological pain caused by light.

* Hydrophobia – fear of water (a symptom of rabies).
* Photophobia – hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light (a symptom of Meningitis and a common condition of migrane headaches).
* Phonophobia – hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds. Common during an alcohol hangover or migrane and in those with sensory disorders.
* Osmophobia – hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors. Common during pregnancy.

Biology, chemistry:

Biologists use a number of -phobia/-phobic terms to describe predispositions by plants and animals against certain conditions. For antonyms, see here.

* Acidophobia/Acidophobic – preference for non-acidic conditions.
* Heliophobia/Heliophobic – aversion to sunlight.
* Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic – a property of being repelled by water.
* Lipophobicity – a property of fat rejection
* Ombrophobia – avoidance of rain
* Photophobia/Photophobic – a negative phototaxis or phototropism response.
* Superhydrophobe – the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet.
* Thermophobia/Thermophobic – aversion to heat.
* Xerophobia/Xerophobic – aversion to dryness.

Prejudices and discrimination:
The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti-ethnic or anti-demographic sentiment, such as Europhobia, Francophobia, Hispanophobia, and Indophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix "anti-" already exists (e.g., Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism). Anti-religious sentiments are expressed in terms such as Christianophobia and Islamophobia.

Other prejudices include:
* Biphobia – dislike of bisexuals
* Chemophobia – prejudice against artificial substances in favour of 'natural' substances.
* Ephebiphobia – fear/dislike of youth.
* Gerontophobia, Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or a hatred of the elderly.
* Heterophobia – fear/dislike of heterosexuals.
* Homophobia – aversion to homosexuality or fear of homosexuals. (This word has become a common political term, and many people interpret it as a slur.)
* Hoplophobia – aversion to firearms or firearms owners. This word has also gained a certain political notoriety as a dysphemism for "gun control advocate"
* Judeophobia – fear/dislike of Jews
* Lesbophobia – fear/dislike of lesbian women
* Pedophobia, Pediophobia – fear/dislike of children
* Psychophobia – fear/dislike of mentally ill
* Transphobia – fear or dislike of transgender or transsexual people.
* Xenophobia – fear or dislike of foreigners

Miscellaneous:
* Arachnophobia – "fear/dislike of spiders," a film
* Chromophobia – "hatred/fear of colors," a film
* Choreophobia – hatred of dance, a book by Anthony Shay about Iranian dance and its prohibition after the Iranian Revolution
* Entomophobia – a genus of orchids. The word means "fear of insects"
* Philophobia, an album by Arab Strap
* Robophobia – a novel by Richard Evans

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