A-Z Of Phobias
Below is an A-Z list of the more common phobias along with their latin names:-
Air
Angina / Angina attack Animals Aurora lights |
Aerophobia / anemophobia
Anginophobia Zoophobia Auroraphobia |
Bacteria
Beards Bees Being afraid Being alone Being beaten Being bound Being buried alive Being dirty Being egotistical Being scratched Being stared at Birds Blood Blushing Books Bugs |
Bacteriophobia / Microphobia
Pogonophobia Apiphobia / Melissophobia Phobophobia Autophobia / Monophobia / Eremophobia Rhabdophobia Merinthophobia Taphophobia Automysophobia Autophobia Amychophobia Acopophobia Ornithophobia Hematophobia / Hemophobia Ereuthrophobia / Erythrophobia Bibliophobia Acarophobia |
Cancer
Cats Certain name Chickens Childbirth Children China Choking Cholera Churches Clouds Cold Colours Computers Contamination Corpse Criticism Crossing a bridge Crowds Crystals |
Cancerophobia / Carcinomatophobia
Ailurophobia / Gatophobia Onomatophobia Alektorophobia Tocophobia / Parturiphobia Pediophobia Sinophobia Pnigophobia Cholerophobia Ecclesiaphobia Nephophobia Psychrophobia / Frigophobia Chromatophobia Computerphobia / Cyberphobia Coprophobia / Mysophobia Necrophobia / Thanatophobia Enissophobia Gephyrophobia Ochlophobia Crystallophobia |
Dampness
Darkness Dawn Daylight Death Defecation Deformity Demons, devils Depth Dirt Disease Disorder Dogs Dolls Draught Dreams Drink Drinking Drugs Duration Dust |
Hygrophobia
Achluophobia / Nyctophobia / Scotophobia Eosophobia Phengophobia Necrophobia / Thanatophobia Rhypophobia Dysmorphophobia Demonophobia Bathophobia Coprophobia / Mysophobia / Rhypophobia Nosophobia / Pathophobia Ataxiophobia Cynophobia Pediophobia Anemophobia Oneirophobia Potophobia Dipsophobia Pharmcophobia Chronophobia Amathophobia |
Electricity
Elevated places Empty rooms or spaces Enclosed spaces England, English Erotica (Sexuality) Everything Exhaustion Eyes |
Electrophobia
Acrophobia Kenophobia Claustrophobia Anglophobia Erotophobia Panophobia / Panphobia Kopophobia Ommatophobia |
Faeces
Fear Fever Failure Fatigue or being overworked Feathers Fire Fish Flashes Flogging Flood Flowers Flute Flying Fog Food Foreigners Foreign languages France, French Freedom Fun Fur |
Coprophobia
Phobophobia Febriphobia Kakorraphiaphobia Kopophobia / Ponophobia Pteronophobia Pyrophobia Ichthyophobia Selaphobia Mastigophobia Antlophobia Anthophobia Aulophobia Aerophobia Homichlophobia Sitophobia / Cibophobia Xenophobia / Zenophobia Xenoglossophobia Gallophobia Eleutherophobia Cherophobia Doraphobia |
Gaiety
Germany, German Germs Ghosts Glass God Going to bed Grave Gravity |
Cherophobia
Germanophobia Bacillophobia / Spermophobia Phasmophobia Crystallophobia / Hyalophobia Theophobia Clinophobia Taphophobia Barophobia |
Hair
Hair (excess bodily) Hair (facial in women) Heart disease Heat Heaven Heights Heredity Home surroundings Home Homosexuality Horses Human beings |
Chaetophobia / Trichophobia
Hypertrichophobia Trichopathophobia Cardiophobia Thermophobia Ouranophobia Acrophobia Patroiophobia Ecophobia / Oikophobia Domatophobia Homophobia Hippophobia Anthropophobia |
Ice, frost
Ideas Illness Imperfection Infection Infinity Inoculation Injections Insanity Insects Itching |
Cryophobia
Ideophobia Nosophobia Atelophobia Mysophobia / Molysmophobia Apeirophobia Trypanophobia Trypanophobia Lyssophobia / Maniaphobia Entomophobia Acarophobia / Scabiophobia |
Jealousy
Justice |
Zelophobia
Dikephobia |
Knees
Knowledge |
Genuphobia
Epistemophobia |
Lakes
Large objects Left side Leprosy Lice Light Lightning |
Limnophobia
Macrophobia Levophobia Leprophobia Pediculophobia Photophobia / Phengophobia Astrapophobia / Keraunophobia |
Machinery
Making false statements Many things Marriage Meat Men Metals Meteors Mice Microbes Mind Mirrors Mirrors (breaking of) Missiles Mites Moisture Money Monstrosities Motion |
Mechanophobia
Mythophobia Polyphobia Gamophobia Carnophobia Androphobia Metallophobia Meteorophobia Musophobia Bacilliphobia Psychophobia Eisoptrophobia Catotrophobia Ballistophobia Acarphobia Hygrophobia Chrometophobia Teratophobia Kinesophobia |
Nakedness
Names Needles and pins Neglect of duty Narrowness New Night Noise / loud talking Novelty |
Gymnophobia
Nomatophobia Belonophobia Paralipophobia Anginaphobia Neophobia Nyctophobia Phonophobia Cainophobia / Neophobia |
Odours
Odours (body) Oneself One thing Open spaces |
Osmophobia
Osphresiophobia Autophobia Monophobia Agoraphobia / Cenophobia / Kenophobia |
Pain
Parasites Physical love Places Pleasure Points Pointed Instruments Poison Poverty Pregnancy Precipices Punishment |
Algophobia / Odynephobia / Ponophobia
Parasitophobia / Pothiriophobia Erotophobia Topophobia Hedonophobia Aichurophobia Aichmophobia / Belonephobia Toxiphobia Peniaphobia Maieusiophobia Cremnophobia Poinephobia |
Rabies (insanity)
Railways Rain Red (objects) Religion Responsibility Reptiles Ridicule Riding (in a vehicle) Rivers Robbers Ruin Russia (Russian) Rust |
Lyssophobia
Siderodromophobia Ombrophobia Erythrophobia Hierophobia Hypegiaphobia / Ergasiophobia Batrachophobia Katagelophobia Amaxophobia Potamophobia Harpaxophobia Atephobia Russophobia Iophobia |
Sacred things
Satan School Sea Sea swell Sex Sexual activity Sexual intercourse Shadows Sharp objects Shock Sinning Skin Skin diseases Sitting idle Skin of animals Sleep Slime Smell Smothering Snakes Snow Society Solitude Sound Sourness Speaking Speaking aloud Speech Speed Spiders Spirits Standing upright Stars Stealing Stillness Stings Stooping Strangers String Sun Surgical operations Swallowing Swimming Symbols Syphilis |
Hierophobia
Satanophobia Scholionophobia / Didaskaleinophobia Thalassophobia Cymophobia Genophobia Cypridophobia Coitophobia / Cypridophobia Sciophobia Belonophobia Hormephobia Peccatophobia Dermatophobia Dermatosiophobia Thaasophobia Doraphobia Hypnophobia Blennophobia Olfactophobia Pnigerophobia Ophidiophobia Chionophobia Anthropophobia Eremophobia Akousticophobia Acerophobia Halophobia Phonophobia Lalophobia Tachophobia Arachnophobia Demonophobia Stasiphobia Siderophobia Cleptophobia Eremophobia Cnidophobia Kyphophobia Xenophobia Linonophobia Heliophobia Ergasiophobia Phagophobia Aquaphobia Symbolophobia Syphilophobia |
Taste
Teeth Thirteen at table Thunder, thunderstorms Touching, or being touched Travel Trees Trembling Tuberculosis |
Geumatophobia
Odontophobia Triskaidekaphobia Keraunophobia / Tonitrophobia / Brontophobia Haphephobia / Aphephobia Hodophobia Dendrophobia Tremophobia Phthisiophobia / Tuberculophobia |
Uncovering a body | Gymnophobia |
Vehicles
Veneral disease Voice (one's own) Void Vomiting |
Amaxophobia / Ochophobia
Cypridophobia / Venereophobia Phonophobia Kenophobia Emetophobia |
Walking
Wasps Water Weakness Wind Women Words Work Working Worms Wounds, injury Writing |
Basiphobia / Batophobia
Spheksophobia Aquaphobia / Hydrophobia Asthenophobia Anemophobia Gynophobia Logophobia Ergasiophobia / Ponophobia Ergophobia Helminthophobia Traumatophobia Graphophobia |
Young girls | Parthenophobia |
This site is constantly expanding and this list of phobias is by no means complete. If you don't see a particluar phobia in the list that you know and you would like to, please contact me with your suggestion and I will research and add it promptly, with an acknowledgement to you below (if you indicate in your email that you would like me to do that). Thanks in advance!
Terry Didcott
Acknowledgements:
28-01-07 | Chelsea Black (UK) | Kenophobia - voids |
06-02-07 | Brenda Woodman (UK) | Cremnophobia - precipices |