Phobias Archive
Explore common and rare fears that affect humanity.
Arachnophobia
The intense and irrational fear of spiders and other arachnids.
Ophidiophobia
The irrational fear of snakes.
Acrophobia
An extreme or irrational fear of heights.
Agoraphobia
Fear of being in situations where escape might be difficult or that help wouldn't be available if things go wrong.
Cynophobia
The irrational fear of dogs.
Astraphobia
An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
Claustrophobia
An irrational fear of confined spaces.
Mysophobia
A pathological fear of contamination and germs.
Aerophobia
The fear of flying.
Trypophobia
A fear or disgust of closely packed holes.
Thanatophobia
An intense fear of death or the dying process.
Glossophobia
The fear of public speaking.
Atychiphobia
The abnormal, unwarranted, and persistent fear of failure.
Ornithophobia
The irrational fear of birds.
Coulrophobia
The fear of clowns.
Pyrophobia
An irrational fear of fire.
Nyctophobia
An intense fear of the dark.
Aquaphobia
An irrational fear of water.
Hemophobia
An irrational fear of blood.
Dentophobia
An intense fear of dentists and dental procedures.
Iatrophobia
The fear of doctors.
Trypanophobia
The fear of needles or injections.
Phasmophobia
The fear of ghosts.
Xenophobia
Fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
Technophobia
The fear or dislike of advanced technology or complex devices.
Pediophobia
The fear of dolls.
Social Phobia
Fear of social situations that involve interaction with other people.
Athazagoraphobia
The fear of being forgotten, ignored, or abandoned.
Monophobia
The fear of being alone.
Philophobia
The fear of falling in love or emotional attachment.
Gamophobia
The fear of marriage or commitment.
Tokophobia
The fear of childbirth.
Gerascophobia
The fear of aging.
Nosophobia
The fear of developing a specific disease.
Traumatophobia
The fear of injury.
Tomophobia
The fear of surgery or medical procedures.
Pharmacophobia
The fear of medication.
Nosocomephobia
The fear of hospitals.
Necrophobia
The fear of dead things and things associated with death.
Thalassophobia
The fear of large, deep bodies of water.
Pnigophobia
The fear of choking or suffocation.
Gephyrophobia
The fear of bridges.
Katsaridaphobia
The fear of cockroaches.
Entomophobia
The fear of insects.
Musophobia
The fear of mice and rats.
Spheksophobia
The fear of wasps.
Megalophobia
The fear of large objects.
Emetophobia
The fear of vomiting.
Phonophobia
The fear of loud noises.
Vehophobia
The fear of driving.
Aviatophobia
A fear of flying, often used interchangeably with Aerophobia.
Kinetophobia
The fear of movement or motion.
Automatonophobia
The fear of human-like figures.
Somniphobia
The fear of sleep.
Chronophobia
The fear of time passing.
Ecophobia
The fear of the home.
Phobophobia
The fear of phobias.
Eisoptrophobia
The fear of mirrors or of seeing one's own reflection.
Myrmecophobia
The fear of ants.
Lepidopterophobia
The fear of butterflies and moths.
Globophobia
The fear of balloons.
Anatidaephobia
The fictional fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
Ailurophobia
The fear of cats.
Chiroptophobia
The fear of bats.
Ichthyophobia
The fear of fish.
Ranidaphobia
The fear of frogs and toads.
Scoleciphobia
The fear of worms.
Galeophobia
The fear of sharks.
Metathesiophobia
The fear of change.
Ergophobia
The fear of work.
Autophobia
The fear of being alone, also known as monophobia.
Heliophobia
The fear of the sun or sunlight.
Pogonophobia
The fear of beards.
Trypanophobia
An extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.
Anthophobia
The fear of flowers.
Nomophobia
The fear of being without a mobile phone.
Taphophobia
The fear of being buried alive.
Arithmophobia
The fear of numbers.
Bibliophobia
The fear of books.
Catoptrophobia
The fear of mirrors.
Cyberphobia
The fear of computers or technology.
Ephebiphobia
The fear of teenagers.
Koumpounophobia
The fear of buttons.
Ombrophobia
The fear of rain.
Selenophobia
The fear of the moon.
Somniphobia
The irrational fear of sleep.
Tachophobia
The fear of speed.
Uranophobia
The fear of heaven or the sky.
Verbophobia
The fear of words.
Zemmiphobia
The fear of the great mole rat.
Ablutophobia
The fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
Alektorophobia
The fear of chickens.
Algophobia
The fear of pain.
Androphobia
The fear of men.
Anginophobia
The fear of angina, choking, or narrowness.
Anthropophobia
The fear of people or society.
Aphenphosmphobia
The fear of being touched.
Apiphobia
The fear of bees.
Bacteriophobia
The fear of bacteria.
Barophobia
The fear of gravity.
Batrachophobia
Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
Belonephobia
Fear of needles.
Botanophobia
Fear of plants.
Cacophobia
Fear of ugliness.
Catagelophobia
Fear of being ridiculed.
Chaetophobia
Fear of hair.
Chemophobia
Fear of chemicals.
Cherophobia
Fear of happiness or gaiety.
Chromophobia
Fear of colors.
Chronomentrophobia
Fear of clocks.
Cibophobia
Fear of food.
Cleithrophobia
Fear of being trapped.
Coimetrophobia
Fear of cemeteries.
Coprophobia
Fear of feces.
Crystallophobia
Fear of crystals or glass.
Cyberphobia
Fear of computers and technology.
Decidophobia
Fear of making decisions.
Demonophobia
Fear of demons.
Dikephobia
Fear of justice.
Disposophobia
Fear of getting rid of stuff, leading to compulsive hoarding.
Doraphobia
Fear of fur or animal skins.
Dromophobia
Fear of crossing streets.
Dutchphobia
Fear of the Dutch.
Dysmorphophobia
Fear of a physical defect.
Ebulliophobia
Fear of bubbles.
Ecclesiophobia
Fear of churches.
Elurophobia
An alternate name for Ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
Enochlophobia
Fear of crowds.
Entomophobia
A more general term for the fear of insects.
Eosophobia
Fear of dawn or daylight.
Equinophobia
Fear of horses.
Eremophobia
Fear of being oneself or of loneliness.
Euphobia
Fear of hearing good news.
Eurotophobia
Fear of female genitalia.
Febriphobia
Fear of fever.
Francophobia
Fear of France or French culture.
Frigophobia
Fear of cold or cold things.
Galeophobia
An alternate name for the fear of sharks.
Germanophobia
Fear of Germany or German culture.
Genuphobia
Fear of knees.
Gymnophobia
Fear of nudity.
Gynophobia
Fear of women.
Hadephobia
Fear of hell.
Hagiophobia
Fear of saints or holy things.
Hamartophobia
Fear of sinning.
Haptephobia
Fear of being touched.
Harpaxophobia
Fear of being robbed.
Hedonophobia
Fear of feeling pleasure.
Hellenologophobia
Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Helminthophobia
Fear of being infested with worms.
Hemophobia
An alternate name for the fear of blood.
Heresyphobia
Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
Herpetophobia
Fear of reptiles, such as lizards or snakes.
Heterophobia
Fear of the opposite sex.
Hierophobia
Fear of priests or sacred things.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Fear of long words.
Hobophobia
Fear of bums or beggars.
Hodophobia
Fear of road travel.
Homichlophobia
Fear of fog.
Hominophobia
Fear of men.
Hoplophobia
Fear of firearms.
Hydrophobia
Fear of water, often a symptom of rabies.
Hylephobia
Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
Hylophobia
Fear of forests.
Hypnophobia
Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
Hypsiphobia
Fear of height.
Ideophobia
Fear of ideas.
Illyngophobia
Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
Iophobia
Fear of poison.
Isolophobia
Fear of solitude, being alone.
Isopterophobia
Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
Japanophobia
Fear of the Japanese.
Judeophobia
Fear of Jews.
Kainolophobia
Fear of anything new, novelty.
Kakorrhaphiophobia
Fear of failure or defeat.
Kenophobia
Fear of voids or empty spaces.
Kopophobia
Fear of fatigue.
Koniophobia
Fear of dust.
Kosmikophobia
Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
Kyphophobia
Fear of stooping.
Lachanophobia
Fear of vegetables.
Laliophobia
Fear of speaking.
Leprophobia
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 syphilis.
Lutraphobia
Fear of otters.
Lygophobia
Fear of darkness.
Lyssophobia
Fear of rabies or of becoming insane.
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.
Megalohydrothalassophobia
Fear of large underwater creatures or objects.
Melanophobia
Fear of the color black.
Melissophobia
Fear of bees.
Melophobia
Fear or hatred of music.
Meningitophobia
Fear of brain disease.
Merinthophobia
Fear of being bound or tied up.
Metallophobia
Fear of metal.
Metathesiophobia
Fear of changes.
Meteorophobia
Fear of meteors or meteorites.
Methyphobia
Fear of alcohol.
Metrophobia
Fear of poetry.
Microbiophobia
Fear of microbes (bacteriophobia).
Microphobia
Fear of small things.
Mnemophobia
Fear of memories.
Molysmophobia
Fear of dirt or contamination.
Monopathophobia
Fear of definite disease.
Motorphobia
Fear of automobiles.
Mottephobia
Fear of moths.
Muriphobia
Fear of mice.
Mycetophobia
Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
Myrmecophobia
Fear of ants.
Mythophobia
Fear of myths or stories or of stating false statements.
Nebulaphobia
Fear of fog (homichlophobia).
Nelophobia
Fear of glass.
Neopharmaphobia
Fear of new drugs.
Neophobia
Fear of anything new.
Noctiphobia
Fear of the night.
Nomatophobia
Fear of names.
Novercaphobia
Fear of your step-mother.
Numerophobia
Fear of numbers.
Obesophobia
Fear of gaining weight.
Ochlophobia
Fear of crowds or mobs.
Ochophobia
Fear of vehicles.
Octophobia
Fear of the figure 8.
Odontophobia
Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
Odynephobia
Fear of pain.
Oenophobia
Fear of wines.
Oikophobia
Fear of home surroundings, house.
Olfactophobia
Fear of smells.
Ommetaphobia
Fear of eyes.
Oneirophobia
Fear of dreams.
Onomatophobia
Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
Optophobia
Fear of opening one's eyes.
Ostraconophobia
Fear of shellfish.
Ouranophobia
Fear of heaven.
Pagophobia
Fear of ice or frost.
Panthophobia
Fear of suffering and disease.
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.
Peccatophobia
Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
Pediculophobia
Fear of lice.
Peniaphobia
Fear of poverty.
Pentheraphobia
Fear of mother-in-law.
Phagophobia
Fear of swallowing.
Phalacrophobia
Fear of becoming bald.
Phallophobia
Fear of a penis, esp. erect.
Phasmophobia
An alternate name for the fear of ghosts.
Phengophobia
Fear of daylight or sunshine.
Philemaphobia
Fear of kissing.
Philosophobia
Fear of philosophy.
Phonophobia
An alternate name for the fear of loud noises.
Photoaugliaphobia
Fear of glaring lights.
Photophobia
Fear of light.
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.
Pocrescophobia
Fear of gaining weight.
Poinephobia
Fear of punishment.
Poliosophobia
Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
Politicophobia
Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
Polyphobia
Fear of many things.
Ponophobia
Fear of overworking or of pain.
Porphyrophobia
Fear of the color purple.
Potamophobia
Fear of rivers or running water.
Potophobia
Fear of alcohol.
Proctophobia
Fear of rectums.
Prosophobia
Fear of progress.
Psellismophobia
Fear of stuttering.
Psychophobia
Fear of mind.
Psychrophobia
Fear of cold.
Pteridophobia
Fear of ferns.
Pteronophobia
Fear of being tickled by feathers.
Pupaphobia
Fear of puppets.
Radiophobia
Fear of radiation, x-rays.
Rhypophobia
Fear of defecation.
Rhytiphobia
Fear of getting wrinkles.
Rupophobia
Fear of dirt.
Russophobia
Fear of Russians.
Samhainophobia
Fear of Halloween.
Sarmassophobia
Fear of love play.
Satanophobia
Fear of Satan.
Scabiophobia
Fear of scabies.
Scatophobia
Fear of fecal matter.
Scelerophibia
Fear of bad men, burglars.
Sciophobia
Fear of shadows.
Scolionophobia
Fear of school.
Scopophobia
Fear of being seen or stared at.
Scotomaphobia
Fear of blindness in visual field.
Scotophobia
Fear of darkness.
Scriptophobia
Fear of writing in public.
Sexophobia
Fear of the opposite sex.
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
Fear of food or eating.
Soceraphobia
Fear of parents-in-law.
Sociophobia
Fear of society or people in general.
Sophophobia
Fear of learning.
Soteriophobia
Fear of dependence on others.
Spacephobia
Fear of outer space.
Spectrophobia
Fear of specters or ghosts.
Spermatophobia
Fear of germs.
Stasibasiphobia
Fear of standing or walking.
Staurophobia
Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
Stenophobia
Fear of narrow things or places.
Stygiophobia
Fear of hell.
Suriphobia
Fear of mice.
Symbolophobia
Fear of symbolism.
Symmetrophobia
Fear of symmetry.
Syngenesophobia
Fear of relatives.
Syphilophobia
Fear of syphilis.
Taeniophobia
Fear of tapeworms.
Tapinophobia
Fear of being contagious.
Taurophobia
Fear of bulls.
Teleophobia
Fear of definite plans; or 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.
Teutophobia
Fear of Germany or German things.
Textophobia
Fear of certain fabrics.
Theatrophobia
Fear of theatres.
Theologicophobia
Fear of theology.
Theophobia
Fear of gods or religion.
Thermophobia
Fear of heat.
Tocophobia
An alternate spelling for Tokophobia, the fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
Tonitrophobia
Fear of thunder.
Topophobia
Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
Toxicophobia
Fear of poison or of being accidentally poisoned.
Traumatophobia
An alternate name for the fear of injury.
Trichinophobia
Fear of trichinosis.
Trichopathophobia
Fear of hair disease.
Triskaidekaphobia
Fear of the number 13.
Tropophobia
Fear of moving or making changes.
Tyrannophobia
Fear of tyrants.
Urophobia
Fear of urine or urinating.
Vaccinophobia
Fear of vaccination.
Venustraphobia
Fear of beautiful women.
Vermiphobia
An alternate name for the fear of worms.
Vitricophobia
Fear of step-father.
Panphobia
The fear of everything.