A phobia (from the Greek: phbos,"aversion",

"fear, morbid fear") is, when used in the context

of clinical psychology, a type of anxiety disorder,
usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or
situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths
in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual
danger posed, often being recognized as irrational. In the
event the phobia cannot be avoided entirely, the sufferer
will endure the situation or object with
marked distress and significant interference in social or
occupational activities.
Psychological conditions
Specialists may prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and

Anthropophobia fear of people or the company

of people, a form of social phobia

Antlophobia fear of floods

Aquaphobia fear of water. Distinct

from hydrophobia, a scientific property that
makes chemicals averse to interaction with
water, as well as an archaic name for rabies

Arachnophobia fear of spiders

Astraphobia fear of thunder and lightning

Astrophobia fear of outer space

Atychiphobia, kakorrhaphiophobia fear

use more descriptive terms such as personality

disorders, anxiety disorders, and avoidant personality
disorder.
A

of failure
Ablutophobia fear of bathing, washing,
or cleaning

Acousticophobia fear of noise a branch

of phonophobia

Acrophobia fear of heights

Agoraphobia fear of helplessness and of

leaving safe places

Agraphobia fear of sexual abuse

Agrizoophobia fear of wild animals, a branch

of zoophobia

Agyrophobia fear of crossing the street

Aichmophobia fear of sharp or pointed objects

(such as a needle or knife)

Ailurophobia fear of cats

Algophobia fear of pain

Amathophobia, koniophobia fear of dust

Amaxophobia, ochophobia, motorphobia,

hamaxophobia fear of riding in a car

Amychophobia fear of being scratched

Androphobia fear of men

Anthophobia fear of flowers

Aurophobia fear of gold a branch

of metallophobia

Automatonophobia fear of anything that

falsely represents a sentient being

Autophobia fear of ones potential actions or

capabilities

Aviophobia, aviatophobia fear of flying

Barophobia fear of gravity

Bathmophobia fear of stairs or slopes

Bibliophobia fear of books

Blood-injection-injury type phobia a DSMIV subtype of specific phobias

Botanophobia fear of plants

Cathisophobia, thaasophobia fear of sitting

Chaetophobia fear of hair

Chemophobia fear of chemicals

Chionophobia fear of snow

Chiroptophobia fear of bats

Chlorophobia fear of the color green[3]

Chromophobia, chromatophobia fear of colors

Epistemophobia, gnosiophobia fear of

knowledge

Chronophobia fear of time and time moving

forward

Ergophobia, ergasiophobia fear of work or

functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating

Chrysophobia fear of the color orange

Cibophobia, sitophobia aversion to food,

[3]

Erotophobia fear of sexual love or sexual

abuse

synonymous to anorexia nervosa

Claustrophobia fear of having no escape and

fear of the color red

being closed in

Cleithrophobia fear of being trapped[4]

Climacophobia fear of climbing

Coimetrophobia fear of cemeteries

Cometophobia fear of comets[5]

Coulrophobia fear of clowns (not restricted

to evil clowns)

Cyanophobia fear of the color blue[3]

Cyberphobia fear of or aversion

to computers and of learning new technologies

Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia

Friggatriskaidekaphobia,
paraskavedekatriaphobia,
paraskevidekatriaphobia fear of Friday the
13th

Frigophobia fear of becoming too cold

Gamophobia fear of marriage, commitment

Gelotophobia fear of being laughed at

Gephyrophobia fear of bridges

Genophobia, coitophobia fear of sexual

intercourse

Decidophobia fear of making decisions

Gerascophobia fear of growing old or aging

Demonophobia, daemonophobia fear

Gerontophobia fear of growing old, or a hatred

of demons

Dentophobia, odontophobia fear

of dentists and dental procedures

Disposophobia fear of getting rid of or losing

things sometimes wrongly defined

or fear of the elderly

popping a branch of phonophobia[6]

Glossophobia fear of speaking in public or of

trying to speak

as compulsive hoarding

Globophobia fear of balloons, or balloons

Gymnophobia fear of nudity

disorder a phobic obsession with a real or

Gynophobia fear of women

imaginary body defect

Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic

Halitophobia fear of bad breath

Haphephobia fear of being touched

Harpaxophobia fear of being robbed

Heliophobia fear of the sun or sunlight

Ecclesiophobia fear of churches

Emetophobia fear of vomiting

Enochlophobia - fear of crowds

Eosophobia, phengophobia fear of daylight

Hemophobia, haemophobia fear of blood

Mnemophobia fear of memories

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia fear of

Monophobia fear of being alone or isolated or

the number 666

Hoplophobia fear of weapons,

of one's self

specifically firearms (generally a political term

Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia fear

of mice and/or rats

but the clinical phobia is also documented)

Myrmecophobia fear of ants

Mysophobia fear

Hylophobia fear of trees, forests or wood

Hypnophobia, somniphobia fear of sleep

of germs, contamination or dirt

N

Ichthyophobia fear of fish, including fear of

Nebulaphobia, homichlophobia fear of fog

Necrophobia fear of death and/or the dead

Nelophobia, hyelophobia, hyalophobia fear of

eating fish, or fear of dead fish

K

Kinetophobia, kinesophobia fear of movement

glass

Kleptophobia, cleptophobia fear of stealing or

being stolen

Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia,

centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia fear

Koinoniphobia fear of rooms

Kosmikophobia fear of cosmic phenomenon

Nephophobia fear of clouds

Koumpounophobia fear of buttons[7]

Nomophobia fear of being out of mobile

of newness, novelty

phone contact

Logophobia fear of words

Nosocomephobia fear of hospitals

Leukophobia fear of the color white

Nosophobia fear of contracting a disease

Lilapsophobia fear of tornadoes or hurricanes

Nostophobia, ecophobia fear of returning

Lipophobia fear or avoidance of fats in food

home

Mastigophobia, poinephobia fear

Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia,

scotophobia fear of darkness

of punishment

Obesophobia fear of obesity

Oikophobia fear of home surroundings and

Mechanophobia fear of machines

Melanophobia fear of the color black

Melissophobia fear of bees

Ombrophobia fear of rain

Melophobia fear of music

Omphalophobia fear of navels

Metallophobia fear of metals

Oneirophobia fear of dreams

Meteorophobia fear of meteors[8]

Ophthalmophobia fear of being stared at

Methyphobia fear of alcohol

household appliances

Osmophobia, olfactophobia fear of odors

Scopophobia fear of being looked at or stared

at

Panphobia fear of everything or constant fear

Selenophobia fear of the moon

Sesquipedalophobia fear of long words[9] a

of an unknown cause

Papaphobia fear of the Pope

Papyrophobia fear of papers

Siderodromophobia fear of trains or railroads

Pediophobia fear of dolls (a branch

Siderophobia fear of stars

Sociophobia fear of people or social situations

Sophophobia fear of learning

Spectrophobia fear of mirrors

Stasiphobia fear of standing or walking

Stygiophobia, stigiophobia, hadephobia fear

branch of logophobia

of automatonophobia: fear of humanoid figures)

Phagophobia fear of swallowing

Pharmacophobia fear of medications
Phasmophobia fear of ghosts or phantoms
Philophobia fear of love
Phobophobia - fear of fear itself or of having a

of Hell

phobia

Syngenesophobia - fear of relatives

Phonophobia fear of loud sounds or voices

Pogonophobia fear of beards

Tachophobia fear of speed

Pornophobia - fear of pornography

Taphophobia, taphephobia fear of the grave, or

fear of being placed in a grave while still alive

Porphyrophobia fear of the color purple

Prosophobia fear of progress

Psychophobia fear of mind

Pupaphobia fear of puppets

Pyrophobia fear of fire

also Luddite)

Telephone phobia fear or reluctance of making

or taking telephone calls

Tetraphobia fear of the number 4

Thalassophobia fear of the sea, or fear of being

in the ocean

Radiophobia fear of radioactivity or X-rays

Technophobia fear of technology (see

Thanatophobia fear of dying

Samhainophobia fear of Halloween

Theophobia fear of religion or gods

Scelerophobia fear of bad men

Thermophobia fear of heat

Sciophobia, sciaphobia fear of shadows

Tokophobia fear of childbirth or pregnancy

Scolionophobia fear of school

Toxiphobia fear of being poisoned

Scriptophobia fear of writing in public or of

Traumatophobia a synonym for injury phobia:

trying to write

fear of having an injury

Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia fear of

Ichthyophobia fear/dislike of fish

Mottephobia fear/dislike

the number 13

Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia

of butterflies and/or moths

fear of needles or injections

Murophobia fear/dislike of mice and/or rats

pattern of holes[10]

Ophidiophobia fear/dislike of snakes

Turophobia fear of cheese[11][12][13][14]

Ornithophobia fear/dislike of birds

Ranidaphobia fear/dislike of frogs

Scoleciphobia fear of worms

Trypophobia fear of holes or textures with a

Uranophobia, ouranophobia fear of Heaven

Vestiphobia fear of clothing

Selachophobia fear of sharks

Virginitiphobia fear of being raped

Zoophobia fear of animals

Non-psychological conditions
Workplace phobia fear of the workplace

X
Xanthophobia fear of the color yellow

Xenophobia fear of strangers, foreigners, or

aliens

Main article: Zoophobia

Agrizoophobia fear of wild animals

Ailurophobia fear/dislike of cats

Apiphobia fear/dislike of bees (also known as

melissophobia, from the Greek melissa "bee")
Arachnophobia fear/dislike of spiders and

Chiroptophobia fear/dislike of bats

Cynophobia fear/dislike of dogs

Entomophobia fear/dislike of insects

Equinophobia, hippophobia fear/dislike

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

Herpetophobia fear/dislike
of reptiles and/or amphibians

Acidophobia/Acidophobic preference for nonacidic conditions

Heliophobia/Heliophobic aversion to sunlight

Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic a property of being

repelled by water

Lipophobicity a property of fat rejection

Oleophobicity a property of oil rejection

Ombrophobia avoidance of rain[15]

Photophobia (biology) a
negative phototaxis or phototropism response,

of horses

Photophobia hypersensitivity to light causing

aversion to light

other arachnids

Phonophobia hypersensitivity to sound

causing aversion to sounds

Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia fear of

trees, forests or wood

Animal phobias

Osmophobia hypersensitivity to smells

causing aversion to odors

or a tendency to stay out of the light

Superhydrophobe the property given to

materials that are extremely difficult to get wet

Thermophobia aversion to heat

Prejudices and discrimination

Polonophobia fear/dislike of the Polish

Psychophobia fear/dislike of mental illness or

Further information: List of anti-cultural, anti-

the mentally ill

national, and anti-ethnic terms

The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote
a particular anti-ethnic or anti-demographic
sentiment, such
as Americanophobia, Europhobia, Francophobia, Hi
spanophobia, and Indophobia. Often a synonym

Russophobia fear/dislike of Russians

Sinophobia fear/dislike of Chinese people

Transphobia fear/dislike of transgendered

people

with the prefix "anti-" already exists

(e.g. Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism). Anti-

Turcophobia fear/dislike of Turks

Xenophobia fear/dislike

religious sentiments are expressed in terms such

asChristianophobia and Islamophobia.

of foreigners or extraterrestrials

Other prejudices include:

Jocular and fictional phobias

Anglophobia fear/dislike of England or
English culture

of palindromes, which is a palindrome itself.

Atheophobia fear/dislike of atheists

The term is a piece of computer humor entered

into the 1981 The Devil's DP Dictionary[16]

Biphobia fear/dislike of bisexuality or

bisexuals

Christianophobia fear/dislike of Christians

Ephebiphobia fear/dislike of youth

Germanophobia fear/dislike of Germans

Gerontophobia, gerascophobia fear/dislike of

Heterophobia fear/dislike of heterosexuals

Hispanophobia - fear/dislike of Hispanic people,

Anachrophobia fear of temporal displacement,

from a Doctor Who novel by Jonathan Morris[17]

Anatidaephobia the fictional fear that

somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
From Gary Larson's The Far Side

Anoraknophobia a portmanteau of "anorak"

and "arachnophobia". Used in the Wallace and

aging or the elderly

Aibohphobia a joke term for the fear

Gromit comic book Anoraknophobia. Also the

title of an album by Marillion

Arachibutyrophobia fear of peanut

butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. The

Hispanic culture and the Spanish language

word is used by Charles M. Schulz in a 1982

Homophobia fear/dislike of homosexuality,

installment of his Peanuts comic strip[18] and

homosexuals, or gays (as opposed to lesbians)

byPeter O'Donnell in his 1985 Modesty

Blaise adventure novel Dead Man's Handle[19]

Islamophobia fear/dislike of Muslims

Judeophobia fear/dislike of Jews

Lesbophobia fear/dislike of lesbians

Negrophobia fear/dislike of black people

Nipponophobia fear/dislike of the Japanese

Pedophobia fear/dislike of children

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia fear of
long words[20] Hippopoto "big" due to its
allusion to the Greek-derived
word hippopotamus (though this is derived
as hippo-"horse" compounded with potamos "river", so originally meaning "river horse";
according to the Oxford English,
"hippopotamine" has been construed as large
since 1847, so this coinage is reasonable);
-monstr- is from Latin words meaning

"monstrous", -o- is a noun-compounding vowel;

Nihilophobia fear of nothingness (comes from

-sesquipedali- comes from "sesquipedalian"

the combination of the Latin word nihil which

meaning a long word (literally "a foot and a half

means nothing, none, and the suffix -phobia), as

long" in Latin), -o- is a noun-compounding

described by the Doctor in theStar Trek:

vowel, and -phobia means "fear". Note: This

Voyager episode "Night". Voyager's morale

was mentioned on the first episode

officer and chef Neelix suffers from this

of Brainiac Series Five as one of Tickle's

condition, having panic attacks while the ship

Teasers

was traversing a dark expanse of space known

as the Void. It is also the title of a 2008 album

Keanuphobia fear of Keanu Reeves, portrayed

by Neuronium. Also, the animated version

in the Dean Koontz book, False Memory, where

of George of the Jungle is seen suffering in one

a woman has an irrational fear of Reeves and

episode of the cartoon, where they are telling

has to see her psychiatrist, Mark Ahriman, each

scary stories

week, unaware that she only has the fear in the

first place because the psychotic Ahriman

Robophobia Irrational fear of robots and/or

implanted it via hypnotic suggestion to amuse

androids, also known as "Grimwade's

himself. He calls her the "Keanuphobe" in his

Syndrome". First heard in the Doctor Who story

head

"The Robots of Death"

Luposlipaphobia fear of being pursued by

Semaphobia fear of average Web developers to

use Semantic Web technologies[21]

timber wolves around a kitchen table while

wearing socks on a newly waxed floor, also
from Gary Larson's The Far Side

Venustraphobia fear of beautiful women,

according to a 1998 humorous article published

Monkeyphobia fear of monkeys, as named by

by BBC News.[1] The word is a portmanteau of

Lord Monkey Fist in the animated series Kim

"Venus trap" and "phobia".Venustraphobia is

Possible. Due to spending a summer in a cabin

the title of a 2006 album by Casbah Club

with a crazy chimp mascot, Ron Stoppable has a

fear of monkeys, which he gets over several
times, usually during battles with Monkey Fist,
who is essentially Ron's nemesis

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