List of phobias

We define a phobia as an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to

something. You are probably aware of the more common phobias, such as
arachnophobia (fear of spiders), claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces),
and agoraphobia (fear of open places), but did you know there are also
words which describe the fear of idleness, worms, and even body odour?
Explore the table below to discover the terms for some of the more
interesting phobias you may come across.
Object
air travel
American people and
things
animals
bacteria
beards
beating
bed
bees
birds
blood
blushing
body odour
bridges
bullets
burial alive
cancer
cats
childbirth
children
Chinese people and
things
church
clouds
coitus
cold
colour
comets
computers
constipation
corpses
correspondence
crowds

Phobia
aerophobia
Americophobia
zoophobia
bacteriophobia
pogonophobia
mastigophobia
clinophobia
apiphobia
ornithophobia
haemophobia
erythrophobia
bromidrosiphobia
gephyrophobia
ballistophobia
taphephobia
carcinophobia
ailurophobia
tocophobia
paedophobia
Sinophobia
ecclesiophobia
nephophobia
coitophobia
cheimaphobia
chromophobia
cometophobia
cyberphobia
coprostasophobia
necrophobia
epistolophobia
demophobia/ochlophobia

dampness
darkness
dawn
death
depth
dirt
disease
dogs
dreams
drink
drugs
dust
electricity
enclosed places
English people and
things
everything
eyes
faeces
failure
fatigue
fear
feathers
fever
fire
fish
flesh
floods
flowers
fog
food
foreigners
freedom
French people and
things
fur
German people and
things
germs
ghosts
glass
God
gold
hair
heart disease

hygrophobia
scotophobia
eosophobia
thanatophobia
bathophobia
mysophobia
pathophobia/nosophobia
cynophobia
oneirophobia
potophobia
pharmacophobia
koniophobia
electrophobia
claustrophobia
Anglophobia
panophobia/pantophobia
ommetaphobia
coprophobia
kakorrhaphiaphobia
kopophobia
phobophobia
pteronophobia
febriphobia
pyrophobia
ichthyophobia
selaphobia
antlophobia
anthophobia
homichlophobia
cibophobia/sitophobia
xenophobia
eleutherophobia
Francophobia/Gallophobia
doraphobia
Germanophobia/Teutophobia
bacteriophobia
phasmophobia
nelophobia
theophobia
chrysophobia/aurophobia
trichophobia
cardiophobia

heat
heaven
hell
heredity
high buildings
high places
home
homosexuals
horses
ice
ideas
idleness
illness
imperfection
infinity
injury
inoculation
insanity
insects
insect stings
Italian people and
things
itching
jealousy
justice
lakes
leprosy
lice
light
lightning
lists
loneliness
machinery
magic
marriage
men
metal
mice
microbes
mirrors
mites
mobs
money
monsters, giving birth
to

thermophobia
uranophobia
hadephobia/stygiophobia
patroiophobia
batophobia
acrophobia/hypsophobia
oikophobia
homophobia
hippophobia
cryophobia
ideophobia
thassophobia
nosophobia
atelophobia
apeirophobia
traumatophobia
trypanophobia/vaccinophobia
lyssophobia/maniphobia
entomophobia
cnidophobia
Italophobia
acarophobia
zelotypophobia
dikephobia
limnophobia
leprophobia
pediculophobia
photophobia
astrapophobia
pinaciphobia/katastichophobia
autophobia/ermitophobia
mechanophobia
rhabdophobia
gamophobia
androphobia
metallophobia
musophobia
bacillophobia/microbiophobia
eisoptrophobia
acarophobia
ochlophobia
chrematophobia
teratophobia

motion
music
names
narrowness
needles
new things
night
nudity
open places
pain
parasites
people
philosophy
pins
places
pleasure
poison
politics
Pope
poverty
precipices
priests
punishment
rabies
rail travel
religious works of art
reptiles
responsibility
ridicule
rivers
robbers
ruin
Russian people and
things
saints
Satan
scabies
Scottish people and
things
sea
sex
shadows
sharpness
shock
sin

kinetophobia
musicophobia
onomatophobia
anginophobia
belonephobia
neophobia
nyctophobia
gymnophobia
agoraphobia
algophobia
parasitophobia
anthropophobia
philosophobia
enetophobia
topophobia
hedonophobia
toxiphobia
politicophobia
papaphobia
peniaphobia
cremnophobia
hierophobia
poinephobia
hydrophobophobia
siderodromophobia
iconophobia
batrachophobia
hypegiaphobia
katagelophobia
potamophobia
harpaxophobia
atephobia
Russophobia
hagiophobia
Satanophobia
scabiophobia
Scotophobia
thalassophobia
erotophobia
sciophobia
acrophobia
hormephobia
hamartophobia

skin disease
sleep
slime
small things
smell
smothering
snakes
snow
solitude
sound
sourness
speech
speed
spiders
standing
stars
stealing
string
stuttering
sun
swallowing
symmetry
taste
technology
teeth
telephone
thinking
thirteen
thunder
time
touch
travel
tuberculosis
tyrants
vehicles
venereal disease
voids
vomiting
water
waves
weakness
wind
women

dermatosiophobia/dermatopathophobia
hypnophobia
blennophobia
microphobia
olfactophobia/osmophobia
pnigerophobia
ophidiophobia
chionophobia
eremophobia
acousticophobia
acerophobia
lalophobia/laliophobia/glossophobia/phon
ophobia
tachophobia
arachnophobia
stasophobia
siderophobia
kleptophobia
linonophobia
lalophobia/laliophobia
heliophobia
phagophobia
symmetrophobia
geumatophobia
technophobia
odontophobia
telephonophobia
phronemophobia
triskaidekaphobia
brontophobia/tonitrophobia/keraunophobi
a
chronophobia
haptophobia
hodophobia
phthisiophobia
tyrannophobia
ochophobia
syphilophobia
kenophobia
emetophobia
hydrophobia
cyrnophobia
asthenophobia
anemophobia
gynophobia

words
work
worms
writing

logophobia
ergophobia
helminthophobia
graphophobia