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For other uses, see Phobia (disambiguation).

A phobia (from the Greek φόβος "Phobos" meaning Fear), is an irrational, intense,
persistent fear of certain 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]

Contents
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• 1 Prevalence
• 2 Causes
• 3 Other uses of term
• 4 The anatomical side of phobias
• 5 Clinical phobias
o 5.1 Phobias in children
o 5.2 Treatments
o 5.3 Non-psychological conditions
• 6 Non-clinical uses of the term
o 6.1 Terms indicating prejudice or class discrimination
• 7 See also
• 8 Notes and references

• 9 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Causes
It is generally accepted that phobias arise from a combination of external events and
internal predispositions. In a famous experiment, Martin Seligman used classical
conditioning to establish phobias of snakes and flowers. The results of the experiment
showed that it took far fewer shocks to create an adverse response to a picture of a snake
than to a picture of a flower, leading to the conclusion that certain objects may have a
genetic predisposition to being associated with fear[3]. 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] The anatomical side of phobias

Phobias are more often than not linked to the amygdala, an area of the brain located
behind the pituitary gland in the limbic system. The amygdala secretes hormones that
control fear and aggression, and aids in the interpretation of this emotion in the facial
expressions of others. When the fear or aggression response is initiated, the amygdala
releases hormones into the body to put the human body into an "alert" state, in which
they are ready to move, run, fight, etc.[4]

Studies have shown a difference between the response cycles of those facing an object of
a phobia and those facing a dangerous object that does not trigger phobia-like responses.
In one case, patients with arachnophobia were shown pictures of a spider (the object of
fear) and a snake (a control picture, intended to induce the normal response). When
flashed up, the arachnophobe responded with brief fear to the snake, but the amygdala
quickly shut down when the logical areas of higher thought analyzed the threat and ruled
it out as unimportant. However, when shown the spider, the arachnophobe's amygdala
reacted, and then did not stop secreting 'alarm' hormones, even after they had rationalized
the situation they were in.[4]

For this reason, a phobia is generally classified as a panic disorder by most psychologists,
since it involves an unnatural or illogical functioning of the brain.[4]

[edit] 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. Social phobias may be further subdivided into
o the general social phobia, also known as social anxiety disorder, and
o specific social phobias, which are cases of anxiety triggered only in
specific situations. [5] 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.

According to the 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, spiders and so forth, are
extensions of fears that a lot of people have. People with these phobias specifically avoid
the entity they fear.

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.

[edit] Phobias in children

Severe fears are present in about 10-15% of children and specific phobias are found in
about 5% of children. Children with specific phobias experience an intense fear of an
object or situation that does not go away easily and continues for an extended period of
time. Children often have specific phobias of the dark, varieties of insects, spiders, bees,
heights, water, choking, snakes, dogs, birds, and other animals. For many children, these
fears and phobias interfere with their participation in and enjoyment of various activities.
It may also interfere with their education, family life, or their social life. However,
effective treatment is available for children who experience phobias.

[edit] Treatments

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 desensitisation
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.

[edit] Non-psychological conditions

The word "phobia" may also signify conditions other than fear. For example, although the
term hydrophobia means a fear of water, it may also mean inability to drink water due to
an illness, or may be used to describe a chemical compound which repels water.
Likewise, the term photophobia may be used to define a physical complaint (i.e. aversion
to light due to inflamed eyes or excessively dilated pupils) and does not necessarily
indicate a fear of light.

[edit] Non-clinical uses of the term

Main article: -phob-

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 non-psychological
condition.

[edit] 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.

Below are some examples:

 • Chemophobia, prejudice against artificial substances in favour of 'natural'
substances.
• Christianophobia, fear or hatred of Christians or Christianity.
• Ephebophobia, fear of youth or adolescents
• Islamophobia, fear-induced prejudice against Muslims or Islamic culture.
• Xenophobia, fear or dislike of strangers or the unknown, sometimes used to
describe nationalistic political beliefs and movements, but most often used in
fictional work to describe the fear or dislike of the alien.
• Bambakomallophobia, fear of cotton wool.

See also: List of anti-ethnic and anti-national terms

[edit] See also

• Angst
• Anxiety
• Disability
• List of phobias
• Panic
• Panic attack

[edit] Notes and references

1. ^ Edmund J. Bourne, The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, 4th ed, New Harbinger
Publications, 2005, ISBN 1-57224-413-5
2. ^ Kessler etal, Prevalence, Severity, and Comorbidity of 12-Month DSM-IV Disorders in
the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, June 2005, Archive of General Psychiatry,
Volume 20
3. ^ http://www.allpsych.com/journal/phobias.html
4. ^ a b c Winerman, Lea. "Figuring Out Phobia," American Psychology Association:
Monitor on Psychology, August 2007.
5. ^ Crozier, W. Ray; Alden, Lynn E. International Handbook of Social Anxiety: Concepts,
Research, and Interventions Relating to the Self and Shyness, p. 12. New York John
Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (UK), 2001. ISBN 0-471-49129-2.

• Lynne L. Hall, Fighting Phobias, the Things That Go Bump in the Mind, FDA
Consumer Magazine, Volume 31 No. 2, March 1997 [3]

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Phobias
Phobia: A persistent, abnormal, or irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that
compels one to avoid the feared stimulus.
Common symptoms include shortness of breath, redness in the face, heart palpitations,
excessive sweating, dizziness, nausea and an inability to speak or think clearly. Various
sufferers experience various combinations of these symptoms (and other symptoms).

If you experience some or all of these symptoms and the avoidance of the anxiety-
producing situation is causing problems in your life you may have a phobia.

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LIST OF PHOBIAS

A
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 flying, drafts, air swallowing, or airborne noxious substances
Aeroacrophobia: Fear of open high places
Aeronausiphobia: Fear of vomiting secondary to air sickness
Agliophobia: Fear of pain
Agoraphobia: Fear of open spaces, being in crowded, public places or leaving a safe place
Agraphobia: Fear of sexual abuse
Agrizoophobia: Fear of wild animals
Agyrophobia: streets or crossing the street
Aichmophobia: needles or pointed objects
Ailurophobia: cats
Albuminurophobia: kidney disease
Alektorophobia: chickens
Algophobia: pain
Alliumphobia: garlic
Allodoxaphobia: opinions
Altophobia: heights
Amathophobia: dust
Amaxophobia: riding in a car
Ambulophobia: walking
Amnesiphobia: amnesia
Amychophobia: scratches or being scratched
Anablephobia: looking up
Ancraophobia or Anemophobia: wind
Androphobia: men
Anemophobia: air drafts or wind
Anginophobia: angina, choking or narrowness
Anglophobia: England, English culture, etc
 Angrophobia: becoming angry
Ankylophobia: immobility of a joint
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia: flowers
Anthropophobia: people or society
Antlophobia: floods
Anuptaphobia: staying single
Apeirophobia: infinity
Aphenphosmphobia: being touched (Haphephobia)
Apiphobia: bees
Apotemnophobia: persons with amputations
Arachibutyrophobia: peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia: spiders
Arithmophobia: numbers
Arrhenphobia: men
Arsonphobia: fire
Asthenophobia: fainting or weakness
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia: thunder and lightning
Astrophobia: stars and celestial space
Asymmetriphobia: asymmetrical things
Ataxiophobia: ataxia (muscular incoordination)
Ataxophobia: disorder or untidiness
Atelophobia: imperfection
Atephobia: ruin or ruins
Athazagoraphobia: being forgotten or ignored or forgetting
Atomosophobia : atomic explosions
Atychiphobia: failure
Aulophobia: flutes
Aurophobia: gold
Auroraphobia: Northern lights
Autodysomophobia: one that has a vile odor
Automatonophobia: ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything
that falsely represents a sentient being
Automysophobia: being dirty
Autophobia: being alone or of oneself
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia: flying

B
Bacillophobia: microbes
Bacteriophobia: bacteria
Ballistophobia: missiles or bullets
Bolshephobia: Bolsheviks
Barophobia: gravity
Basophobia or Basiphobia: inability to stand or of walking or falling
Bathophobia: depth
Batonophobia: plants
 Batophobia: heights or being close to high buildings
Batrachophobia: amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc
Belonephobia: pins and needles (Aichmophobia)
Bibliophobia: books
Blennophobia: slime
Bogyphobia: bogies or the bogeyman
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia: body smells
Brontophobia: thunder and lightning
Bufonophobia: toads

C
Cacophobia: ugliness
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- of newness, novelty
Caligynephobia: beautiful women
Cancerophobia: cancer
Carcinophobia: cancer
Cardiophobia: the heart
Carnophobia: meat
Catagelophobia: being ridiculed
Catapedaphobia: jumping from high and low places
Cathisophobia: sitting
Catoptrophobia: mirrors
Cenophobia or Centophobia: new things or ideas
Ceraunophobia: thunder
Chaetophobia: hair
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia: cold
Chemophobia: chemicals or working with chemicals
Cherophobia: gaiety
Chionophobia: snow
Chiraptophobia: being touched
Cholerophobia: anger or the of cholera
Chorophobia: dancing
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia: money
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia: colors
Chronophobia: time
Chronomentrophobia: clocks
Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia: food
Claustrophobia: confined spaces
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia: being locked in an enclosed place
Cleptophobia: stealing
Climacophobia: stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs
Clinophobia: going to bed
Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia: being enclosed
Cnidophobia: strings
Cometophobia: comets
 Coimetrophobia: cemeteries
Coitophobia: coitus
Contreltophobia: sexual abuse
Coprastasophobia: constipation
Coprophobia: feces
Coulrophobia: clowns
Counterphobia: the preference by a phobic for ful situations
Cremnophobia: precipices
Cryophobia: extreme cold, ice or frost
Crystallophobia: crystals or glass
Cyberphobia: computers or working on a computer
Cyclophobia: bicycles
Cymophobia: waves or wave like motions
Cynophobia: dogs or rabies
Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia: prostitutes or venereal
disease

D
Decidophobia making decisions
Defecaloesiophobia: painful bowels movements
Deipnophobia: dining and dinner conversations
Dementophobia: insanity
Demonophobia or Daemonophobia: demons
Demophobia: crowds (Agoraphobia)
Dendrophobia: trees
Dentophobia: dentists
Dermatophobia: skin lesions
Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia: skin disease
Dextrophobia: objects at the right side of the body
Diabetophobia: diabetes
Didaskaleinophobia: going to school
Dikephobia: justice
Dinophobia: dizziness or whirlpools
Diplophobia: double vision
Dipsophobia: drinking
Dishabiliophobia: undressing in front of someone
Domatophobia or Oikophobia: houses or being in a house
Doraphobia: fur or skins of animals
Dromophobia: crossing streets
Dutchphobia: the Dutch
Dysmorphophobia: deformity
Dystychiphobia: accidents
 E
Ecclesiophobia: church
Ecophobia: home
Eicophobia or Oikophobia: home surroundings
Eisoptrophobia: mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror
Electrophobia: electricity
Eleutherophobia: freedom
Elurophobia: cats (Ailurophobia)
Emetophobia: vomiting
Enetophobia: pins
Enochlophobia: crowds
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia: having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism
Entomophobia: insects
Eosophobia: dawn or daylight
Epistaxiophobia: nosebleeds
Epistemophobia: knowledge
Equinophobia: horses
Eremophobia: being oneself or of loneliness
Ereuthrophobia: blushing
Ergasiophobia: work or functioning; for a surgeon: operating
Ergophobia: work
Erotophobia: sexual love or sexual questions
Euphobia: hearing good news
Eurotophobia: female genitalia
Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia: red lights, blushing, red

F
Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia: fever
Felinophobia: cats (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
Francophobia: France, French culture (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
Frigophobia: cold, cold things

G
Galeophobia or Gatophobia: cats
Gallophobia or Galiophobia: France, French culture (Francophobia)
Gamophobia: marriage
Geliophobia: laughter
Geniophobia: chins
Genophobia: sex
Genuphobia: knees
Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia: crossing bridges
Germanophobia: Germany, German culture, etc
Gerascophobia: growing old
 Gerontophobia: old people or of growing old
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia: taste
Glossophobia: speaking in public or of trying to speak
Gnosiophobia: knowledge
Graphophobia: writing or handwriting
Gymnophobia: nudity
Gynephobia or Gynophobia: women

H
Hadephobia: hell
Hagiophobia: saints or holy things
Hamartophobia: sinning
Haphephobia or Haptephobia: being touched
Harpaxophobia: being robbed
Hedonophobia: feeling pleasure
Heliophobia: the sun
Hellenologophobia: Greek terms or complex scientific terminology
Helminthophobia: being infested with worms
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia: blood
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia: challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation
Herpetophobia: reptiles or creepy, crawly things
Heterophobia: the opposite sex (Sexophobia)
Hierophobia: priests or sacred things
Hippophobia: horses
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: long words
Hobophobia: bums or beggars
Hodophobia: road travel
Hormephobia: shock
Homichlophobia: fog
Homilophobia: sermons
Hominophobia: men
Homophobia: sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual
Hoplophobia: firearms
Hydrargyophobia: mercurial medicines
Hydrophobia: water or of rabies
Hydrophobophobia: rabies
Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia: glass
Hygrophobia: liquids, dampness, or moisture
Hylephobia: materialism OR the of epilepsy
Hylophobia: forests
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia: responsibility
Hypnophobia: sleep or of being hypnotized
Hypsiphobia: height
 I
Iatrophobia: going to the doctor or of doctors
Ichthyophobia: fish
Ideophobia: ideas
Illyngophobia: vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down
Iophobia: poison
Insectophobia : insects
Isolophobia: solitude, being alone

J
Japanophobia: Japanese
Judeophobia: Jews

K
Kenophobia: voids or empty spaces
Keraunophobia: thunder and lightning
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia: movement or motion
Kleptophobia: stealing
Koinoniphobia: rooms
Kolpophobia: genitals, particularly female
Kopophobia: fatigue
Koniophobia: dust (Amathophobia)
Kosmikophobia: cosmic phenomenon
Kymophobia: waves
Kynophobia: rabies
Kyphophobia: stooping

L
Lachanophobia vegetables
Laliophobia or Lalophobia: speaking
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia: leprosy
Leukophobia: the color white
Levophobia: things to the left side of the body
Ligyrophobia: loud noises
Lilapsophobia: tornadoes and hurricanes
Limnophobia: lakes
Linonophobia: string
Liticaphobia: lawsuits
Lockiophobia: childbirth
Logizomechanophobia: computers
Logophobia: words
Luiphobia: lues, syphilis
 Lutraphobia: otters
Lygophobia: darkness
Lyssophobia: rabies or of becoming mad

M
Macrophobia long waits
Mageirocophobia: cooking
Maieusiophobia: childbirth
Malaxophobia: love play (Sarmassophobia)
Maniaphobia: insanity
Mastigophobia: punishment
Mechanophobia: machines
Medomalacuphobia: losing an erection
Medorthophobia: an erect penis
Megalophobia: large things
Melissophobia: bees
Melanophobia: the color black
Melophobia: hatred of music
Meningitophobia: brain disease
Menophobia: menstruation
Merinthophobia: being bound or tied up
Metallophobia: metal
Metathesiophobia: changes
Meteorophobia: meteors
Methyphobia: alcohol
Metrophobia: hatred of poetry
Microbiophobia: microbes (Bacillophobia)
Microphobia: small things
Misophobia: being contaminated with dirt of germs
Mnemophobia: memories
Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia: dirt or contamination
Monophobia: solitude or being alone
Monopathophobia: definite disease
Motorphobia: automobiles
Mottephobia: moths
Musophobia or Murophobia: mice
Mycophobia: aversion to mushrooms
Mycrophobia: small things
Myctophobia: darkness
Myrmecophobia: ants
Mysophobia: germs or contamination or dirt
Mythophobia: myths or stories or false statements
Myxophobia: slime (Blennophobia)
 N
Nebulaphobia: fog (Homichlophobia)
Necrophobia: death or dead things
Negrophobia: blacks or Negroes
Nelophobia: glass
Neopharmaphobia: new drugs
Neophobia: anything new
Nephophobia: clouds
Noctiphobia: the night
Nomatophobia: names
Nosocomephobia: hospitals
Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia: becoming ill
Nostophobia: returning home
Novercaphobia: your step-mother
Nucleomituphobia: nuclear weapons
Nudophobia: nudity
Numerophobia: numbers
Nyctohylophobia: dark wooded areas, or forests at night
Nyctophobia: the dark or of night

O
Obesophobia: gaining weight(Pocrescophobia)
Ochlophobia: crowds or mobs
Ochophobia: vehicles
Octophobia : the figure 8
Odontophobia: teeth or dental surgery
Odynophobia or Odynephobia: pain (Algophobia)
Oenophob ia: wines
Oikophobia: home surroundings, house
Olfactophobia: smells
Ombrophobia: rain or of being rained on
Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia: eyes
Oneirophobia: dreams
Oneirogmophobia: wet dreams
Onomatophobia: hearing a certain word or of names
Ophidiophobia: snakes (Snakephobia)
Ophthalmophobia: being stared at
Optophobia: opening one's eyes
Ornithophobia: birds
Orthophobia: property
Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia: smells or odors
Ostraconophobia: shellfish
Ouranophobia: heaven
 P
Pagophobia: ice or frost
Panthophobia: suffering and disease
Panophobia or Pantophobia: everything
Pathophobia- Fear of disease.
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.
Placophobia- Fear of tombstones.
Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.
Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia- Fear of choking of being smothered.
Pocrescophobia- Fear of gaining weight.
Poinephobia- Fear of punishment.
Potophobia- Fear of alcohol.
Pharmacophobia- Fear of drugs.
Proctophobia- Fear of rectum.
Prosophobia- Fear of progress.
Psellismophobia- Fear of stuttering.
Psychophobia- Fear of mind.
Psychrophobia- Fear of cold.
Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of flying.
Papaphobia: the Pope
Papyrophobia: paper
Paralipophobia: neglecting duty or responsibility
Paraphobia: sexual perversion
Parasitophobia: parasites
Paraskavedekatriaphobia: Friday the 13th
Parthenophobia: virgins or young girls
Pathophobia: disease
Patroiophobia: heredity
Parturiphobia: childbirth
Peccatophobia: sinning (imaginary crime)
Pediculophobia: lice
Pediophobia: dolls
Pedophobia: children
Peladophobia: bald people
Pellagrophobia: pellagra
Peniaphobia: poverty
Pentheraphobia: mother-in-law (Novercaphobia)
Peniaphobia: poverty
Phagophobia: swallowing or of eating or of being eaten
Phalacrophobia: becoming bald
Phallophobia: of a a penis, especially if erect.
Pharmacophobia: taking medicine
 Phasmophobia: ghosts
Phengophobia: daylight or sunshine
Philemaphobia or Philematophobia: kissing
Philophobia: falling in love or being in love
Philosophobia: philosophy
Phobophobia: phobias
Photoaugliaphobia: glaring lights
Photophobia: light
Phonophobia: noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones
Phronemophobia: thinking
Phthiriophobia: lice (Pediculophobia)
Phthisiophobia: tuberculosis
Placophobia: tombstones
Plutophobia: wealth
Pluviophobia: rain or being rained on
Pneumatiphobia: spirits
Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia: choking of being smothered
Pocrescophobia: gaining weight (Obesophobia)
Pogonophobia: beards
Poliosophobia: contracting poliomyelitis
Politicophobia: abnormal dislike of politicians
Polyphobia: many things
Poinephobia: punishment
Ponophobia: overworking or of pain
Porphyrophobia: the color purple
Potamophobia: rivers or running water
Pteronophobia: being tickled by feathers
Pupaphobia : puppets
Pyrexiophobia: fever
Pyrophobia: fire

R
Radiophobia radiation, x-rays
Ranidaphobia: frogs
Rectophobia: rectum or rectal diseases
Rhabdophobia: being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized
Also of magic(wand)
Rhypophobia: defecation
Rhytiphobia: getting wrinkles
Rupophobia: dirt
Russophobia: Russians
 S
Samhainophobia: Halloween
Sarmassophobia: love play (Malaxophobia)
Satanophobia: Satan
Scabiophobia: scabies
Scatophobia: fecal matter
Scelerophibia: bad men, burglars
Sciophobia Sciaphobia: shadows
Scoleciphobia: worms
Scolionophobia: school
Scopophobia or Scoptophobia: Fear of being seen or stared at
Scotomaphobia: blindness in visual field
Scotophobia: darkness (Achluophobia)
Scriptophobia: writing in public
Selaphobia: light flashes
Selenophobia: the moon
Seplophobia: decaying matter
Sesquipedalophobia: long words
Sexophobia: the opposite sex (Heterophobia)
Siderodromophobia: trains, railroads or train travel
Siderophobia: stars
Sinistrophobia: things to the left, left:handed
Sinophobia: Chinese, Chinese culture
Sitophobia or Sitiophobia: food or eating (Cibophobia)
Snakephobia: snakes (Ophidiophobia)
Soceraphobia: parents:in:law
Social Phobia: being evaluated negatively in social situations
Sociophobia: society or people in general
Somniphobia: sleep
Sophophobia: learning
Soteriophobia : dependence on others
Spacephobia: outer space
Spectrophobia: specters or ghosts
Spermatophobia or Spermophobia: germs
Spheksophobia: wasps
Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia: standing or walking (Ambulophobia)
Staurophobia: crosses or the crucifix
Stenophobia: narrow things or places
Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia: hell
Suriphobia: mice
Symbolophobia: symbolism
Symmetrophobia: symmetry
Syngenesophobia: relatives
Syphilophobia: syphilis
 T
Tachophobia: speed
Taeniophobia or Teniophobia: tapeworms
Taphephobia or Taphophobia: being buried alive or of cemeteries
Tapinophobia: being contagious
Taurophobia: bulls
Technophobia: technology
Teleophobia: definite plans; religious ceremony
Telephonophobia: telephones
Teratophobia: bearing a deformed child; or monsters; or deformed people
Testophobia: taking tests
Tetanophobia: lockjaw, tetanus
Teutophobia: German or German things
Textophobia: certain fabrics
Thaasophobia: sitting
Thalassophobia: the sea
Thanatophobia or Thantophobia: death or dying
Theatrophobia: theatres
Theologicophobia: theology
Theophobia: gods or religion
Thermophobia: heat
Tocophobia: pregnancy or childbirth
Tomophobia: surgical operations
Tonitrophobia: thunder
Topophobia: certain places or situations, such as stage fright
Toxiphobia or Toxophobia: poison or of being accidently poisoned
Traumatophobia: injury
Tremophobia: trembling
Trichinophobia: trichinosis
Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia or Hypertrichophobia: hair
Triskadekaphobia: the number 13
Tropophobia: moving or making changes
Trypanophobia: injections
Tuberculophobia: tuberculosis
Tyrannophobia: tyrants

U
Uranophobia: heaven
Urophobia: urine or urinating

V
Vaccinophobia: vaccination
Venustraphobia: beautiful women
Verbophobia: words
 Verminophobia: germs
Vestiphobia: clothing
Virginitiphobia: rape
Vitricophobia: step-father

W
Walloonphobia- the Walloons.
Wiccaphobia: witches and witchcraft.

X
Xanthophobia: the color yellow or the word yellow
Xenophobia: strangers or foreigners
Xerophobia: dryness
Xylophobia: wooden objects or forests

Z
Zelophobia: jealousy
Zeusophobia: God or gods
Zemmiphobia: the great mole rat
Zoophobia: animals

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