Paraphilias[edit]

Paraphilia

Focus of erotic interest

Abasiophilia

People with impaired mobility[3]

Acrotomophilia People with amputations[4][5]

Agalmatophilia Statues, mannequins and immobility[6]
Algolagnia
Pain, particularly involving an erogenous zone; differs from masochism as
there is a biologically different interpretation of the sensation rather than a subjective
interpretation[7]
Andromimetophilia
Anililagnia

Trans men[3][8]

Attraction by young men to older women[9]

Anthropophagolagnia Raping and then cannibalizing another person.[10]

Anthropophagy Ingesting human flesh[10]
Apotemnophilia

Being an amputee[4][11]

Asphyxiophilia Being asphyxiated or strangled[4]

Attraction to disability People with one or more physical disabilities.[12]
Autagonistophilia

Being on stage or on camera[13][14]

Autassassinophilia

Being in life-threatening situations[4]

Autoandrophilia
male[15][16]

An AFAB (assigned female at birth) female imagining herself as a

Autoerotic asphyxiation
unconsciousness[14]

Self-induced asphyxiation, sometimes to the point of near

Autogynephilia An AMAB (assigned male at birth) male imagining himself as a female[17]

Auto-haemofetishism Bleeding oneself (does not involve ingestion of blood). Type of
autovampirism.[18]
Autonepiophilia

The image of one's self in the form of an infant.[13]

Autopedophilia The image of one's self in the form of a child.[19]

Autoplushophilia
animal.[19]

The image of one's self in the form of a plush or anthropomorphized

Autovampirism The image of one's self in the form of a vampire.[20] Involves ingesting or
seeing one's own blood.[18]

Autozoophilia The image of one's self in the form of an animal or anthropomorphized

animal.[19]
Biastophilia

Raping a person.[4]

Chremastistophilia

Being robbed or held up[13]

Chronophilia

Partners of a widely differing chronological age[13]

Coprophilia

Feces; also known as scat, scatophilia or fecophilia[2][21]

Dacryphilia

Tears or crying[22]

Diaper fetishism

Diapers; considerable overlap with paraphilic infantilism[23]

Dendrophilia

Trees[4]

Emetophilia

Vomit[3]

Eproctophilia

Flatulence[24]

Erotic asphyxiation

Asphyxia of oneself or others[25]

Erotophonophilia

Murder, often of strangers (also known as dacnolagnomania).[10]

Exhibitionism Exposing one's genitals to unsuspecting and nonconsenting others[2]

Feederism

Eating, feeding, and weight gain.[26]

Formicophilia Being crawled on by bugs[13][27]

Forniphilia

Turning a human being into a piece of furniture[28]

Frotteurism

Rubbing against a non-consenting person[2]

Gerontophilia Elderly people[29]

Gynandromorphophilia Transsexual or transgender women[3][30]
Gynemimetophilia

Transsexual or transgender women[3][30]

Hematolagnia Drinking or looking at blood[31]

Heterophilia Idealization of heterosexuality and/or people who are "straight-acting,"
especially by non-heterosexual people.[32][33][34]
Homeovestism Wearing clothing emblematic of one's own sex[35][36]
Hoplophilia

Firearms, guns [37]

Hybristophilia Criminals, particularly for cruel or outrageous crimes[13][38]

Infantophilia Pedophilia with a focus on children five years old or younger, a recently
suggested term that is not in general use[39]

Kleptophilia

Stealing; also known as kleptolagnia[3]

Klismaphilia

Enemas, either giving or having[3]

Lactophilia

Breast milk[40]

Liquidophilia

Immersing genitals in liquids[40]

Macrophilia

Giants, giantesses.[40]

Maschalagnia Armpits[41]
Masochism

Suffering; being beaten, bound or otherwise humiliated[2]

Mechanophilia Cars or other machines; also "mechaphilia."[42][43][44]

Melolagnia

Music[45]

Menophilia

Menstruation[40]

Metrophilia

Poetry[45]

Microphilia

Tiny beings.

Morphophilia Particular body shapes or sizes[14]

Mucophilia

Mucus[40]

Mysophilia

Dirtiness, soiled or decaying things[3]

Narratophilia

Obscene words[3]

Nasophilia

Noses[40]

Necrophilia

Corpses[2][3][46]

Objectophilia Specific inanimate objects[2]

Oculolinctus

Licking the eyeballs[47]

Oculophilia
Eyes and activities directly relating to and/or involving the eyes. Voyeurism
does not meet classification for this term.
Olfactophilia

Smells[3][13]

Paraphilic infantilism Dressing or being treated like a baby, also known as

autonepiophilia[13] or "adult baby syndrome";[48] considerable overlap with diaper
fetishism[23]
Partialism

Specific, non-genital body parts[2][3]

Pedophilia
Prepubescent children, also spelled paedophilia; often confused with
hebephilia, ephebophilia, and pederasty[2][49]

Peodeiktophilia Exposing one's penis[4]

Pedovestism

Dressing like a child[50]

Podophilia

Feet[51]

Pictophilia

Pornography or erotic art, particularly pictures[3][13]

Piquerism
Piercing the flesh of another person, most commonly by stabbing or cutting
the body with sharp objects[52]
Plushophilia

Stuffed toy animals (Plushies).[53]

Pygophilia

Buttocks[54]

Pyrophilia

Fire[55]

Raptophilia

Committing rape, possibly consensual rape fantasy[13]

Sadism Inflicting pain on others[2]

Salirophilia

Soiling or dirtying others[3]

Sexual fetishism

Nonliving objects[2]

Somnophilia

Sleeping or unconscious people[3][13]

Sophophilia

Learning[56]

Sthenolagnia

Muscles and displays of strength[40]

Stigmatophilia Body piercings and tattoos[4][40]

Symphorophilia Witnessing or staging disasters such as car accidents[4]
Telephone scatologia Obscene phone calls, particularly to strangers; also known as
telephonicophilia[2][13] and scatophilia[57]
Teratophilia

Deformed or monstrous people[58]

Toucherism

Touching an unsuspecting, non-consenting person with the hand[59]

Toxophilia

Archery[45]

Transvestic fetishism
transvestism[2]

Wearing clothes associated with the opposite sex; also known as

Transvestophilia

A transvestite sexual partner[13]

Trichophilia

Hair[40]

Troilism
Cuckoldism, watching one's partner have sex with someone else, possibly
without the third party's knowledge[14][60]

Urolagnia
Urination, particularly in public, on others, and/or being urinated on. Also
referred to as "water sports"[2][3][13][14]
Vampirism

Blood[61][62]

Vorarephilia The idea of one person or creature eating or being eaten by another; usually
swallowed whole, in one piece[63]
Voyeurism
Watching others while naked or having sex, generally without their knowledge;
also known as scopophilia or scoptophilia[2][14]
Zoophilia

Animals[2][3][13]

Zoosadism

Inflicting pain on or seeing animals in pain[64]

List of phobias
A
Ablutophobia fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Acousticophobia fear of noise a branch of phonophobia
Acrophobia fear of heights
Agoraphobia fear of open 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
Amaxophobia, ochophobia, motorphobia, hamaxophobia fear of riding in a car
Amychophobia fear of being scratched
Anthophobia fear of flowers
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

Atelophobia fear of not being good enough or imperfection[citation needed]
Atychiphobia, kakorrhaphiophobia fear of failure
Automatonophobia fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being
Autophobia fear of isolation[3]
Aviophobia, aviatophobia fear of flying
B
Barophobia fear of gravity
Bathmophobia fear of stairs or slopes
Blood-injection-injury type phobia a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
C
Chaetophobia fear of hair
Chemophobia fear of chemicals
Cherophobia fear of happiness
Chiroptophobia fear of bats
Chlorophobia fear of the color green[4]
Chromophobia, chromatophobia fear of colors
Chronophobia fear of time and time moving forward
Chrysophobia fear of the color orange[4]
Cibophobia, sitophobia aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa
Claustrophobia fear of having no escape and being closed in
Cleithrophobia fear of being trapped[5]
Climacophobia fear of climbing
Coimetrophobia fear of cemeteries
Coulrophobia fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
Cyanophobia fear of the color blue[4]
Cyberphobia fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies

Cynophobia fear of dogs

D
Decidophobia fear of making decisions
Demonophobia, daemonophobia fear of demons
Dendrophobia see hylophobia
Dentophobia, odontophobia fear of dentists and dental procedures
Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary
body defect
E
Ecclesiophobia fear of churches
Emetophobia fear of vomiting
Enochlophobia fear of crowds
Ergophobia, ergasiophobia fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating
Erotophobia fear of sexual love or sexual abuse
Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia fear of the color red, or fear of blushing
F
Frigophobia fear of becoming too cold
G
Gelotophobia fear of being laughed at
Gephyrophobia fear of bridges
Genophobia, coitophobia fear of sexual intercourse
Gerascophobia fear of growing old or aging
Gerontophobia fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
Globophobia fear of balloons
Glossophobia fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
Gymnophobia fear of nudity
Gynophobia fear of women
H

Halitophobia fear of bad breath

Haphephobia fear of being touched
Harpaxophobia fear of being robbed
Heliophobia fear of the sun or sunlight
Hemophobia, haemophobia fear of blood
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia fear of the number 666
Hoplophobia fear of firearms
Hylophobia, dendrophobia fear of trees, forests or wood
Hypnophobia, somniphobia fear of sleep
I
Ichthyophobia fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish
K
Kinetophobia, kinesophobia fear of movement
Kleptophobia, cleptophobia fear of stealing or being robbed
Koinoniphobia fear of rooms or shared spaces
Koumpounophobia fear of buttons[6]
L
Leukophobia fear of the color white
Lilapsophobia fear of tornadoes or hurricanes
M
Mechanophobia fear of machines
Melanophobia fear of the color black
Melissophobia fear of bees
Methyphobia fear of alcohol
Monophobia fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self
Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia fear of mice or rats
Myrmecophobia fear of ants

Mysophobia fear of germs, contamination or dirt

N
Necrophobia fear of death or the dead
Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia fear of
newness, novelty
Nomophobia fear of being out of mobile phone contact
Nosocomephobia fear of hospitals
Nosophobia fear of contracting a disease
Nostophobia, ecophobia fear of returning home
Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia fear of darkness
O
Obesophobia fear of obesity
Oikophobia fear of home surroundings and household appliances
Omphalophobia fear of navels
Oneirophobia fear of dreams
Ophthalmophobia fear of being stared at
Osmophobia, olfactophobia fear of odors
P
Panphobia fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause
Pediophobia fear of dolls (a branch 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 phobia
Phonophobia fear of loud sounds or voices
Pogonophobia fear of beards
Pornophobia fear of pornography

Porphyrophobia fear of the color purple

Prosophobia fear of progress
Pupaphobia fear of puppets
Pyrophobia fear of fire
R
Radiophobia fear of radioactivity or X-rays
S
Sanguivoriphobia fear of vampires
Scriptophobia fear of writing in public or of trying to write
Scopophobia fear of being looked at or stared at
Sesquipedalophobia fear of long words[7]
Siderodromophobia fear of trains or railroads
Sociophobia fear of people or social situations
Spectrophobia fear of mirrors
Stasiphobia fear of standing or walking
Stygiophobia, stigiophobia, hadephobia fear of Hell
T
Taphophobia, taphephobia fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still
alive
Technophobia fear of advanced technology (see 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
Thanatophobia fear of dying
Theophobia fear of religion or gods
Thermophobia fear of heat
Tokophobia fear of childbirth or pregnancy
Toxiphobia fear of being poisoned

Traumatophobia a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury

Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia fear of the number 13
Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia fear of needles or injections
Trypophobia fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes[8]
Turophobia fear of cheese[9][10][11][12]
U
Uranophobia, ouranophobia fear of Heaven
W
Workplace phobia fear of the workplace
X
Xanthophobia fear of the color yellow
Xenophobia fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens
Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia fear of trees, forests or wood
Animal phobias
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 other arachnids
Batrachophobia fear/dislike of frogs and other amphibians
Chiroptophobia fear/dislike of bats
Cynophobia fear/dislike of dogs
Entomophobia fear/dislike of insects
Equinophobia, hippophobia fear/dislike of horses
Herpetophobia fear/dislike of reptiles or amphibians
Ichthyophobia fear/dislike of fish
Mottephobia fear/dislike of butterflies or moths

Murophobia fear/dislike of mice or rats

Ophidiophobia fear/dislike of snakes
Ornithophobia fear/dislike of birds
Ranidaphobia fear/dislike of frogs
Scoleciphobia fear of worms
Selachophobia fear of sharks
Zoophobia fear of animals
Non-psychological conditions
Bibliophobia fear or hatred of books, as a cultural phenomenon[13]
Hoplophobia a political term for fear of weapons, specifically firearms
Lipophobia avoidance of fats in food[14][15][16] (see also Lipophobicity)
Osmophobia hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors
Phonophobia hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds
Photophobia hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light
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 (sometimes also called lipophobia)
Oleophobicity a property of oil rejection
Photophobia (biology) a negative phototaxis or phototropism response, 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

Further information: List of anti-cultural, anti-national, and anti-ethnic terms

The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti-ethnic or antidemographic sentiment, such as Americanophobia, 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:

Albanophobia - fear/dislike of Albanians

Anglophobia fear/dislike of England or English culture
Atheophobia fear/dislike of atheists
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 aging or the elderly
Heterophobia fear/dislike of heterosexuals
Hinduphobia - fear/dislike of Hindus
Hispanophobia fear/dislike of Hispanic people, Hispanic culture and the Spanish language
Homophobia fear/dislike of homosexuality, homosexuals, or gays (as opposed to lesbians)
Indophobia - fear/dislike of India or Indian culture
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
Koryophobia fear/dislike of the Koreans
Pedophobia fear/dislike of children

Polonophobia fear/dislike of the Polish

Psychophobia fear/dislike of mental illness or the mentally ill
Russophobia fear/dislike of Russians
Shiaphobia - fear/dislike of Shiites
Sinophobia fear/dislike of Chinese people
Sunniphobia - fear/dislike of Sunnis
Transphobia fear/dislike of transgender people
Turcophobia fear/dislike of Turks
Xenophobia fear/dislike of foreigners or extraterrestrials