Vivekanantha Homoeo Clinic & Psychological Counselling Centre
Dr.D.Senthil Kumar, B.H.M.S., M.D (Alt Med)., M.Phil (Psy)
Consulting Homoeopath & Psychologist
Contact: – consult.ur.dr@gmai.com
List of Phobias
1 Ablutophobia – Fear of washing or bathing.
2 Acarophobia - Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
3 Acerophobia - Fear of sourness.
4 Achluophobia – Fear of darkness.
5 Acousticophobia – Fear of noise.
6 Acrophobia – Fear of heights.
7 Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places.
8 Aeronausiphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
9 Aerophobia - Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
10 Agliophobia - Fear of pain.
11 Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets.
12 Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse.
13 Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals.
14 Agyrophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street.
15 Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
16 Ailurophobia - Fear of cats.
17 Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease.
18 Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
19 Algophobia - Fear of pain.
20 Alliumphobia - Fear of garlic.
21 Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.
22 Altophobia - Fear of heights.
23 Amathophobia - Fear of dust.
24 Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
25 Ambulophobia - Fear of walking.
26 Amnesiphobia - Fear of amnesia.
27 Amychophobia - Fear of scratches or being scratched.
28 Anablepobia - Fear of looking up.
29 Ancraophobia or Anemophobia - Fear of wind.
30 Androphobia - Fear of men.
31 Anemophobia - Fear of air drafts or wind.
32 Anginophobia - Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
33 Anglophobia - Fear of England, English culture, etc.
34 Angrophobia - Fear of becoming angry.
35 Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint.
36 Anthrophobia or Anthophobia - Fear of flowers.
37 Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
38 Antlophobia - Fear of floods.
39 Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single.
40 Apeirophobia - Fear of infinity.
41 Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
42 Apiphobia - Fear of bees.
43 Apotemnophobia - Fear of persons with amputations.
44 Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
45 Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
46 Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
47 Arrhenphobia - Fear of men.
48 Arsonphobia - Fear of fire.
49 Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness.
50 Astraphobia or Astrapophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.
51 Astrophobia - Fear of stars and celestial space.
52 Asymmetriphobia - Fear of asymmetrical things.
53 Ataxiophobia - Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination)
54 Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
55 Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
56 Atephobia - Fear of ruins.
57 Athazagoraphobia - Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
58 Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions.
59 Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
60 Aulophobia - Fear of flutes.
61 Aurophobia - Fear of gold.
62 Auroraphobia - Fear of Northern lights.
63 Autodysomophobia - Fear of one that has a vile odor.
64 Automatonophobia - Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues – anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
65 Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty.
66 Autophobia - Fear of being alone or of oneself.
67 Aviophobia or Aviatophobia - Fear of flying.
1 Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes.
2 Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
3 Ballistophobia - Fear of missles or bullets.
4 Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
5 Basophobia or Basiphobia Inability to stand. - Fear of walking or falling.
6 Bathophobia - Fear of depth.
7 bathroomphobia - Fear of going to the bathroom by yourself
8 Batonophobia - Fear of plants.
9 Batophobia - Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
10 Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
11 Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
12 Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
13 Blennophobia - Fear of slime.
14 Bogyphobia - Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
15 Bolshephobia - Fear of Bolsheviks.
16 Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia - Fear of body smells.
17 Brontophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.
18 Bufonophobia - Fear of toads.
1 Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
2 Cainophobia or Cainotophobia - Fear of newness, novelty.
3 Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women.
4 Cancerophobia - Fear of cancer.
5 Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer.
6 Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart.
7 Carnophobia - Fear of meat.
8 Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed.
9 Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places.
10 Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting.
11 Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
12 Cenophobia or Centophobia - Fear of new things or ideas.
13 Ceraunophobia - Fear of thunder.
14 Chaetophobia - Fear of hair.
15 Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia - Fear of cold.
16 Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
17 Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety.
18 Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
19 Chiraptophobia - Fear of being touched.
20 Cholerophobia - Fear of anger or the - Fear of cholera.
21 Chorophobia - Fear of dancing.
22 Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia - Fear of money.
23 Chromophobia or Chromatophobia - Fear of colors.
24 Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
25 Chronophobia - Fear of time.
26 Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia - Fear of food.
27 Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
28 Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia - Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
29 Cleptophobia - Fear of stealing.
30 Climacophobia - Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs.
31 Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed.
32 Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia - Fear of being enclosed.
33 Cnidophobia - Fear of strings.
34 Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries.
35 Coitophobia - Fear of coitus.
36 Cometophobia - Fear of comets.
37 Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse.
38 Coprastasophobia - Fear of constipation.
39 Coprophobia - Fear of feces.
40 Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
41 Counterphobia The preference by a phobic for - Fearful situations.
42 Cremnophobia - Fear of precipices.
43 Cryophobia - Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
44 Crystallophobia - Fear of crystals or glass.
45 Cyberphobia - Fear of computers or working on a computer.
46 Cyclophobia - Fear of bicycles.
47 Cymophobia - Fear of waves or wave like motions.
48 Cynophobia - Fear of dogs or rabies.
49 Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.
1 Decidophobia - Fear of making decisions.
2 Defecaloesiophobia - Fear of painful bowels movements.
3 Deipnophobia - Fear of dining and dinner conversations.
4 Dementophobia - Fear of insanity.
5 Demonophobia or Daemonophobia - Fear of demons.
6 Demophobia - Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
7 Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
8 Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.
9 Dermatophobia - Fear of skin lesions.
10 Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia - Fear of skin disease.
11 Dextrophobia - Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
12 Diabetophobia - Fear of diabetes.
13 Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of going to school.
14 Dikephobia - Fear of justice.
15 Dinophobia - Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
16 Diplophobia - Fear of double vision.
17 Dipsophobia - Fear of drinking.
18 Dishabiliophobia - Fear of undressing in front of someone.
19 Domatophobia or Oikophobia - Fear of houses or being in a house.
20 Doraphobia - Fear of fur or skins of animals.
21 Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets.
22 Dutchphobia - Fear of the Dutch.
23 Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity.
24 Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.
1 Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church.
2 Ecophobia - Fear of home.
3 Eicophobia or Oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings.
4 eicophobia or oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings
5 Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
6 Electrophobia - Fear of electricity.
7 Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom.
8 Elurophobia - Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
9 Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting.
10 Enetophobia - Fear of pins.
11 Enetophobia - Fear of pins
12 Enochlophobia - Fear of crowds.
13 Enosiophobia or Enissophobia - Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
14 Entomophobia - Fear of insects.
15 Entomophobia - Fear of Insects
16 Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or daylight.
17 Epistaxiophobia - Fear of nosebleeds.
18 Epistemophobia - Fear of knowledge.
19 Equinophobia - Fear of horses.
20 Eremophobia - Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
21 Ereuthrophobia - Fear of blushing.
22 Ergasiophobia 1) - Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon’s - Fear of operating.
23 Ergophobia - Fear of work.
24 Erotophobia - Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
25 Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia 1) - Fear of redlights. 2)Blushing. 3) Red.
26 Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.
27 Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia.
1 Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia - Fear of fever.
2 Felinophobia - Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
3 Flossyphobia - Fear of CandyFloss
4 Francophobia - Fear of France, French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
5 Frigophobia - Fear of cold, cold things.
1 Galeophobia or Gatophobia - Fear of cats.
2 Gallophobia or Galiophobia - Fear France, French culture. (Francophobia)
3 Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.
4 Geliophobia - Fear of laughter.
5 Geniophobia - Fear of chins.
6 Genophobia - Fear of sex.
7 Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
8 Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia - Fear of crossing bridges.
9 Gerascophobia - Fear of growing old.
10 Germanophobia - Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.
11 Gerontophobia - Fear of old people or of growing old.
12 Gerontophobia - Fear of old people or of growing old
13 Geumaphobia or Geumophobia - Fear of taste.
14 Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
15 Gnosiophobia - Fear of knowledge.
16 Graphophobia - Fear of writing or handwriting.
17 Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity.
18 Gynephobia or Gynophobia - Fear of women.
1 Hadephobia - Fear of hell.
2 Hagiophobia - Fear of saints or holy things.
3 Hamartophobia - Fear of sinning.
4 Haphephobia or Haptephobia - Fear of being touched.
5 Harpaxophobia - Fear of being robbed.
6 Hedonophobia - Fear of feeling pleasure.
7 Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
8 Hellenologophobia - Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
9 Helminthophobia - Fear of being infested with worms.
10 Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia - Fear of blood.
11 Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia - Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
12 Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
13 Heterophobia - Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
14 Hierophobia - Fear of priests or sacred things.
15 Hippophobia - Fear of horses.
16 Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.
17 Hobophobia - Fear of bums or beggars.
18 Hodophobia - Fear of road travel.
19 Homichlophobia - Fear of fog.
20 Homilophobia - Fear of sermons.
21 Hominophobia - Fear of men.
22 Homophobia - Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
23 Hoplophobia - Fear of firearms.
24 Hormephobia - Fear of shock.
25 Hydrargyophobia - Fear of mercurial medicines.
26 Hydrophobia - Fear of water or of rabies.
27 Hydrophobophobia - Fear of rabies.