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- Abluthophobia8: Fear of bathing.
- Acarophobia: Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Fear of skin infestation by mites or ticks3
- Acerophobia: Fear of sourness3.
- Achluophobia: Fear of darkness.
- Achluophobia: Fear of the dark or of night3.
Synonyms:
Nyctophobia,
Scotophobia.
- Acousticophobia: Fear of noise
- Acrophobia: Fear of heights.
- Aelurophobia: Fear of cats3.
Synonyms:
Ailurophobia,
Elurophobia,
Felinophobia,
Gatophobia.
- Aeronausiphobia: Fear of vomiting due to airsickness3.
- Aerophobia: Fear of draft. Fear of fresh air3. Fear of flying7.
See also:
Ancraophobia,
Aviatophobia,
Aviophobia,
Batophobia,
Hypsophobia,
Hypsiphobia.
- Agoraphobia[Web|Book]: Fear of open, public (sometimes crowded) places like markets.
See also:
Demophobia.
- Agrizoophobia8: Fear of wild animals.
- Agyrophobia: Fear of crossing streets.
- Aibohphobia: Fear of palindromes. (from Best tag lines)
- Aichmophobia: Fear of needles or pointed objects.
See also:
Belomophobia,
Belonephobia.
- Ailurophobia: Fear of cats.
Synonyms:
Aelurophobia,
Elurophobia,
Felinophobia,
Gatophobia.
- Algophobia: Fear of pain.
See also:
Odynophobia.
- Altophobia: Fear of heights.
- Amathophobia: Fear of dust.
Synonyms:
Koniophobia.
- Amaxophobia: Fear of being in or riding in vehicles.
- Ambulophobia: Fear of walking.
- Ancraophobia: Fear of wind.
- Androphobia: Fear of men.
- Anginophobia: Fear of narrowness. Fear of quinsy or other forms of sore throat3.
- Ankylophobia: Fear of stiff or immobile joints3.
- Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers.
[Book].
- Anthropophobia: Fear of meeting people or society.
- Antlophobia: Fear of floods.
- Anuptaphobia: Fear of staying single.
- Apeirophobia: Fear of infinity.
- Aphephobia: Fear of touching or being touched4.
- Apiophobia: Fear of bees3.
Synonyms:
Apiphobia.
- Apiphobia: Fear of bees.
Synonyms:
Apiophobia.
- Aquaphobia8: Fear of water.
- Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Arachnephobia: Fear of spiders.
Synonyms:
Arachnophobia.
- Arachnophobia[Movie]: Fear of spiders.
Synonyms:
Arachnephobia.
- Arrhenphobia: Fear of men6.
- Asthenophobia: Fear of weakness.
- Astraphobia: Fear of lightning.
Synonyms:
Astrapophobia.
- Astrapophobia: Fear of lightning.
Synonyms:
Astraphobia.
- Ataxiophobia: Fear of disorder3.
Synonyms:
Ataxophobia.
- Ataxophobia: Fear of disorder3.
Synonyms:
Ataxiophobia.
- Atelophobia: Fear of imperfection.
- Atephobia: Fear of ruin.
- Atychiphobia: Fear of failure.
- Aulophobia: Fear of flutes.
- Aurophobia: Fear of gold.
- Automysophobia: Fear of being dirty.
See also:
Misophobia.
- Autophobia: Fear of being alone.
- Aviatophobia8: Fear of flying.
See also:
Aerophobia,
Ancraophobia,
Aviophobia,
Batophobia,
Hypsophobia,
Hypsiphobia.
- Aviophobia8: Fear of flying.
See also:
Aerophobia,
Ancraophobia,
Aviatophobia,
Batophobia,
Hypsophobia,
Hypsiphobia.
- Bacillophobia: Fear of microbes.
- Bacteriophobia: Fear of bacteria3.
- Ballistophobia: Fear of missles or bullets.
- Barophobia: Fear of gravity.
- Basophobia: Inability to stand. Fear of falling.
- Bathmophobia: Fear of walking3.
- Bathophobia: Fear of depth.
- Batophobia: 1) Fear of heights or being close to high buildings. 2) Fear of walking2.
- Batrachophobia: Fear of frogs and toads3. Fear of reptiles7
- Belomophobia8: Fear of needles.
See also:
Aichmophobia,
Belonephobia.
- Belonephobia: Fear of pins and needles.
See also:
Aichmophobia,
Belomophobia.
- Bibliophobia: Fear of books2.
- Blennophobia: Fear of slime.
Synonyms:
Myxophobia.
- Bogyphobia: Fear of demons and goblins3.
- Bromidrosiphobia: Fear of bodily odors.
- Brontophobia: Fear of thunder storms.
See also:
Astraphobia,
Ceraunophobia,
Keraunophobia,
Tonitrophobia.
- Cacomorphobia: Fear of fat people5.
- Cainophobia: Fear of novelty3.
- Caligynephobia: Fear of beautiful women.
- Cancerophobia: Fear of cancer.
Synonyms:
Cancerphobia,
Carcinomophobia,
Carcinomat`ophobia,
Carcinophobia.
- Cancerphobia: Fear of cancer.
Synonyms:
Cancerophobia,
Carcinomophobia,
Carcinomatophobia,
Carcinophobia.
- Carcinomatophobia: Fear of cancer.
Synonyms:
Cancerophobia,
Cancerphobia,
Carcinomophobia,
Carcinophobia.
- Carcinomophobia: Fear of cancer.
Synonyms:
Cancerophobia,
Cancerphobia,
Carcinomatophobia,
Carcinophobia.
- Carcinophobia: Fear of cancer.
Synonyms:
Cancerophobia,
Cancerphobia,
Carcinomophobia,
Carcinomatophobia.
- Cardiophobia: Fear of heart disease3.
- Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed.
- Cathisophobia: Fear of sitting.
- Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors3.
- Celtophobia: Fear of Celts3.
- Cenophobia: Fear of empty spaces.
Synonyms:
Kenophobia.
- Ceraunophobia: Fear of thunder3. Fear of thunder and lightning3.
Synonyms:
Keraunophobia,
Tonitrophobia.
See also:
Astraphobia,
Brontophobia.
- Chaetophobia: Fear of hair.
Synonyms:
Trichophobia.
- Cheimaphobia: Fear of cold.
Synonyms:
Cheimatophobia.
See also:
Cryophobia.
- Cheimatophobia: Fear of cold.
Synonyms:
Cheimaphobia.
See also:
Cryophobia.
- Cherophobia: Fear of gaiety.
- Chinophobia: Fear of snow.
- Cholerophobia: Fear of cholera3.
- Chorophobia8: Fear of dancing.
- Chrematophobia: Fear of wealth3.
- Chrometophobia: Fear of money.
- Chromophobia: Fear of colors.
- Chronophobia: Fear of time3.
- Cibophobia: Fear of food.
Synonyms:
Sitophobia,
Sitiophobia.
See also:
Phagophobia.
- Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces.
- Cleptophobia: Fear of thieves or loss through thievery3.
Synonyms:
Kleptophobia.
- Climacophobia: Fear of falling downstairs.
- Clinophobia: 1) Fear of going to bed. 2) Fear of beds2.
- Cnidophobia: Fear of insect stings3.
- Coitophobia: Fear of sexual intercourse.
- Cometophobia: Fear of comets.
- Coprophobia: Fear of feces.
[Book].
- Cryophobia: Fear of ice or frost.
See also:
Cheimaphobia.
- Crystallophobia: Fear of crystals. Fear of glass3
- Cymophobia: Fear of waves.
- Cynophobia: Fear of dogs.
- Cypridophobia: Fear of veneral disease3.
- Deipnophobia: Fear of dining and dinner conversations.
- Decidophobia : Fear of making decisions7.
[Book].
- Demonophobia: Fear of spirits or demons.
- Demophobia: Fear of crowds.
See also:
Agoraphobia.
- Dentophobia: Fear of dentists.
- Dermatophobia: Fear of skin disease3.
- Dermatosiophobia: Fear of skin.
- Dextrophobia: Fear of objects on the right side of the body3.
See also:
Levophobia
- Dikephobia: Fear of justice.
- Dinophobia: Fear of whirlpools3.
- Diplopiaphobia: Fear of double vision3.
- Dipsophobia: Fear of drinking3.
- Domatophobia: Fear of being in a house3.
- Doraphobia: Fear of fur. Fear of contact with animal fur or skin3
- Dromophobia: Fear of crossing streets.
- Dysmorphophobia: Fear of deformity, usually in others3.
- Dystychiphobia: Fear of accidents.
- Ecclesiophobia: Fear of church.
- Ecophobia: Fear of home.
Synonyms:
Oecophobia,
Oikophobia.
- Eisoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors. Fear of looking into mirrors2.
- Electrophobia: Fear of electricity.
- Eleutherophobia: Fear of freedom.
- Elurophobia: Fear of cats3.
Synonyms:
Ailurophobia,
Aelurophobia,
Felinophobia,
Gatophobia.
- Emetophobia: Fear of vomiting3.
- Enetophobia: Fear of needles or pins.
- Enosiophobia: Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin.
- Entomophobia: Fear of insects.
- Eosophobia: Fear of dawn
- Eremophobia: Fear of lonliness. Fear of being alone7.
- Ergasiophobia: 1) Fear of work. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.
- Ergophobia: Fear of work2.
- Erotophobia: Fear of sexual love.
- Erythrophobia: 1) Fear of red lights. 2) Fear of blushing.
- Eurotophobia: Fear of the color red; fear of blushing3.
- Febriphobia: Fear of fever3.
- Felinophobia8: Fear of cats.
Synonyms:
Aelurophobia,
Ailurophobia,
Elurophobia,
Gatophobia.
- Frigophobia8: Fear of cold.
- Galeophobia: Fear of sharks3.
- Gallophobia8: Fear of France or the French.
- Gametophobia: Fear of marriage3.
Synonyms:
Gamophobia.
- Gamophobia: Fear of marriage.
Synonyms:
Gametophobia.
- Gatophobia7: Fear of cats.
Synonyms:
Aelurophobia,
Ailurophobia,
Elurophobia,
Felinophobia.
- Genophobia: Fear of sex.
- Gephyrophobia: Fear of crossing bridges.
- Gerascophobia: Fear of growing old.
- Geumophobia: Fear of tastes or flavors3.
- Glossophobia: Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
- Graphophobia: Fear of writing.
- Gymnophobia: Fear of nudity.
Synonyms:
Nudophobia.
- Gynephobia: Fear of women.
Synonyms:
Gynophobia.
- Gynophobia: Fear of women3.
Synonyms:
Gynephobia.
- Hadeophobia: Fear of hell3.
Synonyms:
Stygiophobia.
- Haemaphobia: Fear of blood3.
Synonyms:
Haematophobia,
Hemaphobia,
Hematophobia,
Hemophobia.
- Haematophobia8: Fear of blood.
Synonyms:
Haemaphobia,
Hemaphobia,
Hematophobia,
Hemophobia.
- Hagiophobia: Fear of saints.
- Hamartophobia: Fear of sinning.
- Haphophobia: Fear of touch.
Synonyms:
Haptophobia,
Thixophobia.
- Haptophobia: Fear of touch.
Synonyms:
Haphophobia,
Thixophobia.
- Harpaxophobia: Fear of being robbed.
- Hedonophobia: Fear of pleasure.
- Heliophobia: Fear of the sun. Fear of (or abnormal sensitivity to) sunlight3.
Synonyms:
Solophobia.
- Helminthophobia: Fear of being infested with worms.
- Hemaphobia: Fear of blood.
Synonyms:
Haemaphobia,
Haematophobia,
Hematophobia,
Hemophobia.
- Hematophobia: Fear of blood.
Synonyms:
Haemaphobia,
Haematophobia,
Hemaphobia,
Hemophobia.
- Hemophobia: Fear of blood.
Synonyms:
Haemaphobia,
Haematophobia,
Hemaphobia,
Hematophobia.
- Herpetophobia: Fear of reptiles.
- Hierophobia: Fear of priests. Fear of sacred objects3.
- Hippophobia: Fear of horses.
- Hodophobia: Fear of road travel.
- Homichlophobia: Fear of fog.
- Homilophobia: Fear of sermons3.
- Homophobia: Fear of sameness, monotony. Fear of homosexuality.
[Book].
- Hydrophobia: Fear of water.
[Book].
- Hydrophobophobia: Fear of rabies.
See also:
Kynophobia.
- Hygrophobia: Fear of liquids. Fear of liquids, esp. wine and water3.
- Hylephobia: Fear of wood or woods3.
- Hypegiaphobia: Fear of responsibility.
Synonyms:
Hypengyophobia.
- Hypengyophobia: Fear of responsibility.
Synonyms:
Hypegiaphobia.
- Hypnophobia: Fear of sleep.
- Hypsiphobia: Fear of high places4.
Synonyms:
Hypsophobia
- Hypsophobia: Fear of high places4.
Synonyms:
Hypsiphobia
- Iatrophobia: Fear of going to the doctor.
- Ichthyophobia: Fear of fish.
- Ideophobia: Fear of ideas.
- Iophobia: Fear of poisons3.
- Isopterophobia: Fear of termites3.
- Japanophobia: Fear of Japanese.
[Book].
- Judeophobia: Fear of Jews.
[Book].
- Kakorrhaphiophobia: Fear of failure or defeat. [How apt it would be to get this word in a spelling contest.]
- Katagelophobia: Fear of ridicule3.
- Kenophobia: Fear of empty spaces3.
Synonyms:
Cenophobia.
- Kenophobia: Fear of voids.
- Keraunophobia: Fear of thunder2. Fear of thunder and lightning3.
Synonyms:
Ceraunophobia,
Tonitrophobia.
See also:
Astraphobia,
Brontophobia.
- Kinetophobia: Fear of movement or motion.
- Kleptophobia: Fear of thieves or loss through thievery3.
Synonyms:
Cleptophobia.
- Koniophobia: Fear of dust.
See also:
Amathophobia.
- Koniophobia: Fear of dust3.
Synonyms:
Amathophobia.
- Kopophobia: Fear of fatigue. Fear of mental or physical examination3.
- Kynophobia: Fear of dogs4.
- Kyphophobia: Fear of stooping2.
- Laliophobia: Fear of speaking.
- Lepraphobia3: Fear of leprosy.
Synonyms:
Leprophobia.
- Leprophobia8: Fear of leprosy.
Synonyms:
Lepraphobia.
- Levophobia: Fear of objects on the left side of the body3.
See also:
Dextrophobia.
- Ligyrophobia: Fear of loud noises.
- Lilapsophobia: Fear of tornadoes.
- Limnophobia: Fear of lakes.
- Linonophobia: Fear of string.
- Logophobia: Fear of words.
- Lunaphobia: Fear of the moon3.
- Lygophobia: Fear of darkness.
- Lyssophobia: Fear of becoming insane.
- Macrophobia: Fear of long waits.
- Maieusiophobia: Fear of childbirth.
- Maniaphobia: Fear of insanity.
- Mastigophobia: Fear of punishment. Fear of flogging8.
- Mechanophobia: Fear of machines or machinery.
- Megalophobia: Fear of large things.
- Melissophobia: Fear of bees.
- Melophobia: Fear of music.
- Merinthophobia: Fear of being bound3.
- Metallophobia: Fear of metal.
- Meteorophobia: Fear of meteors or meteorites3.
- Metrophobia: Fear of poetry.
- Microbiophobia: Fear of microbes.
Synonyms:
Microphobia.
See also:
Bacillophobia.
- Microphobia: Fear of microbes3.
Synonyms:
Microbiophobia.
See also:
Bacillophobia.
- Misanthropy: Hatred of mankind; pessimistic distrust of human nature expressed in thought and behaviour.
[Book].
- Misogynism: Hatred of females3.
Synonyms:
Misogyny.
- Misogyny: Hatred of females3.
Synonyms:
Misogynism.
- Misophobia: Fear of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt.
[Book].
See also:
Automysophobia,
Rhypophobia.
- Misosophy: Hatred of wisdom3.
- Molysomophobia: Fear of dirt or contamination. Fear of infection3.
- Monopathophobia: Fear of sickness in a specific part of the body
- Monophobia: Fear of being alone. Fear of one thing3.
- Musicophobia: Fear of music3.
- Musophobia: Fear of mice.
- Mycrophobia: Fear of small things.
- Mysophobia: Fear of dirt or contamination.
- Mythophobia: Fear of making false statements3.
- Myxophobia: Fear of slime.
See also:
Blennophobia.
- Myxophobia: Fear of slime3.
Synonyms:
Blennophobia.
- Nebulaphobia: Fear of fog.
See also:
Homichlophobia.
- Necrophobia: Fear of dead things. Fear of death3.
- Neophobia: Fear of anything new.
- Nephophobia: Fear of clouds.
- Noctiphobia: Fear of the night.
- Nosophobia: Fear of becoming ill.
- Novercaphobia: Fear of your mother-in-law.
- Nudophobia: Fear of nudity3.
Synonyms:
Gymnophobia.
- Nyctophobia: Fear of the dark or of night.
Synonyms:
Achluophobia,
Scotophobia.
- Ochlophobia: Fear of crowds or mobs.
- Ochophobia: Fear of vehicles.
- Odontophobia: Fear of teeth.
- Odynophobia: Fear of pain.
See also:
Algophobia.
- Oecophobia: Fear of home3.
Synonyms:
Ecophobia,
Oikophobia.
- Oenophobia: Fear of wine3.
Synonyms:
Oinophobia.
- Oikophobia: Fear of home3.
Synonyms:
Ecophobia,
Oecophobia.
- Oinophobia: Fear of wine3.
Synonyms:
Oenophobia.
- Olfactophobia: Fear of smells.
See also:
Geumophobia.
- Ombrophobia: Fear of rain or of being rained on.
- Ommetaphobia: Fear of eyes.
- Onomatophobia: Fear of hearing a certain word or words, or name or names.
- Ophidiophobia: Fear of snakes3.
See also:
Herpetophobia.
- Ophthalmophobia: Fear of being stared at.
- Ornithophobia: Fear of birds.
- Orthophobia: Fear of property.
- Osmophobia: Fear of smells.
- Panphobia: Fear of everything. A nonspecific fear; A state of general anxiety3.
Synonyms:
Pantophobia.
- Panthophobia: Fear of suffering and disease.
- Pantophobia: Fear of everything. A nonspecific fear; A state of general anxiety3.
Synonyms:
Panphobia.
- Papaphobia: Fear of the Pope.
- Paralipophobia: Fear of responsibility. Fear of neglect of responsibility3.
- Paraphobia: Fear of sexual perversion3.
- Parasitophobia: Fear of parasites3.
- Parthenophobia: Fear of virgins or young girls.
- Pathophobia: Fear of disease3.
- Peccatophobia: Fear of sinning.
- Pediculophobia: Fear of lice.
- Pediaphobia8: Fear of children.
Synonyms:
Pedophobia.
- Pedophobia: Fear of children.
Synonyms:
Pediaphobia.
- Peladophobia: Fear of baldness3.
- Peniaphobia: Fear of poverty.
- Peniaphobia: Fear of poverty.
- Pentheraphobia: Fear of mother-in-law. See also Novercaphobia.
- Phagophobia: Fear of swallowing. Fear of eating3.
- Pharmacophobia: Fear of drugs.
Synonyms:
Pharmcophobia.
- Pharmcophobia8: Fear of drugs.
Synonyms:
Pharmacophobia.
- Phasmophobia: Fear of ghosts.
- Phenogophobia: Fear of daylight3.
- Philophobia: Fear of falling in love or being in love.
- Philosophobia: Fear of philosophy.
- Phobophobia: Fear of phobias.
[Book].
- Phonemophobia: Fear of thinking3.
- Phonophobia: Fear of noises or voices.
- Photalgiophobia: Fear of photalgin, pain in the eyes caused by light3.
- Photophobia: Fear of light. Fear of (strong) light8.
- Phthiriophobia: Fear of lice.
See also:
Pediculophobia
- Placophobia: Fear of tombstones.
- Pluviophobia: Fear of rain or of being rained on.
- Pneumatophobia: Fear of spirits or noncorporeal beings.
- Pnigerophobia: Fear of choking3. Fear of smothering7.
- Pnigophobia: Fear of choking.
- Pogonophobia: Fear of beards.
- Poinephobia: Fear of punishment.
- Politicophobia: Fear of politicians.
- Polyphobia: Fear of many things3.
- Ponophobia: Fearear of overworking. Fear of fatigue, esp. thru overworking3.
- Potamophobia: Fear of rivers.
- Potophobia: Fear of alcohol or acoholic beverages.
- Prosophobia: Fear of progress.
- Psellismophobia: Fear of stuttering.
- Psychophobia: Fear of the cold3.
See also:
Cheimaphobia.
- Psychophobia: Fear of the mind3.
- Pteronophobia: Fear of being tickled by feathers. Fear of feathers3.
- Pyrexiophobia: Fear of fever3.
See also:
Thermophobia.
- Pyrophobia: Fear of fire.
- Rectophobia: Fear of rectum.
- Rhabdophobia: Fear of magic. Fear of being eaten3.
- Rhypophobia: Fear of filth3.
- Rhytiphobia: Fear of getting wrinkles.
- Russophobia: Fear of Russians.
[Book].
- Satanophobia: Fear of Satan.
- Scholionophobia7: Fear of school.
Synonyms:
Scolionophobia.
- Sciophobia: Fear of shadows.
- Scoleciphobia: Fear of worms3.
See also:
Helminthophobia.
- Scolionophobia: Fear of school6.
Synonyms:
Scholionophobia.
- Scopophobia: Fear of being seen or looked at.
- Scotophobia: Fear of darkness.
See also:
Achluophobia.
- Scotophobia: Fear of the dark or of night3.
Synonyms:
Nyctophobia,
Achluophobia.
- Selaphobia: Fear of light flashes.
- Septophobia: Fear of decaying matter.
- Siderodromophobia: Fear of train travel.
- Siderophobia: Fear of stars.
- Sinophobia: Fear of Chinese.
- Sitiophobia: Fear of food.
Synonyms:
Cibophobia,
Sitophobia.
See also:
Phagophobia.
- Sitiophobia: Fear of food.
Synonyms:
Sitophobia.
See also:
Cibophobia.
- Sitophobia: Fear of food.
Synonyms:
Cibophobia,
Sitiophobia.
See also:
Phagophobia.
- Sitophobia: Fear of food.
Synonyms:
Sitiophobia.
See also:
Cibophobia.
- Soceraphobia: Fear of parents-in-law.
- Solophobia: Fear of the sun3. Fear of (or abnormal sensitivity to) sunlight3.
Synonyms:
Heliophobia.
- Sophophobia: Fear of learning.
- Specrophobia: Fear of specters or phantoms3.
See also:
Phasmophobia,
Pneumatophobia.
- Spectrophobia: Fear of looking in a mirror.
- Spermatophobia: Fear of germs.
Synonyms:
Spermophobia.
- Spermophobia: Fear of germs.
Synonyms:
Spermatophobia.
- Spheksophobia : Fear of wasps7.
- Stasibasiphobia: Fear of standing or walking. Conviction that one cannot stand or walk3.
See also:
Ambulophobia.
- Staurophobia: Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
- Stenophobia: Fear of narrow things or places.
- Stygiophobia: Fear of hell.
- Stygiophobia: Fear of hell3.
Synonyms:
Hadeophobia.
- Symmetrophobia: Fear of symmetry.
- Syngenesophobia: Fear of relatives.
- Tabophobia: Fear of a wasting sickness3.
- Tachophobia: Fear of speed.
- Taphephobia: Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
Synonyms:
Taphophobia.
- Taphophobia8: Fear of graves or being buried alive.
Synonyms:
Taphephobia.
- Tapinophobia: Fear of being contagious. Fear of small things3.
- Taurophobia: Fear of bulls.
- Technophobia: Fear of arts and crafts. Fear of technology7.
[Book].
- Teleophobia: 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Fear of religious ceremony.
- Telephonophobia: Fear of telephones.
- Teratophobia: Fear of monsters. Fear of bearing a deformed child.
- Terdekaphobia8: Fear of the number 13.
Synonyms:
Triskadekaphobia.
- Teutophobia: Fear of German or German things.
- Thaasophobia: Fear of being idle3.
- Thalassophobia: Fear of the sea.
- Thanatophobia: Fear of death or dying.
- Theatrophobia: Fear of theatres3.
- Theologicophobia: Fear of theology.
- Theophobia: Fear of gods or religion.
- Thermophobia: Fear of heat.
- Thixophobia: Fear of touch.
Synonyms:
Haptophobia,
Haphophobia.
- Thixophobia: Fear of touching2.
- Tocophobia: Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
Synonyms:
Tokophobia.
- Tokophobia: Fear of pregnancy or childbirth3.
Synonyms:
Tocophobia.
- Tomophobia: Fear of surgical operations3.
- Tonitrophobia: Fear of thunder.
Synonyms:
Ceraunophobia,
Keraunophobia.
See also:
Astraphobia,
Brontophobia,
- Topophobia: Fear of certain places. Fear of performing ("Stage Fright")7.
- Toxicophobia: Fear of poison.
Synonyms:
Toxiphobia,
Toxophobia.
- Toxiphobia: Fear of poison.
Synonyms:
Toxophobia,
Toxicophobia.
- Toxophobia: Fear of poison.
Synonyms:
Toxiphobia,
Toxicophobia.
- Traumatophobia: Fear of injury. Fear of war3.
- Tremophobia: Fear of trembling3.
- Trichophobia: Fear of hair3.
Synonyms:
Chaetophobia.
- Triskadekaphobia: Fear of the number 13.
Synonyms:
Terdekaphobia,
- Tropophobia: Fear of making changes.
- Tyrannophobia: Fear of tyrants.
- Uranophobia: Fear of heaven.
- Urophobia: Fear of urine.
- Vaccinophobia: Fear of vaccines and vaccination3.
- Venereophobia: Fear of venereal disease3.
- Verbophobia: Fear of words.
- Vermiphobia: Fear of (earth, not intestinal) worms3.
See also:
Helminthophobia.
- Vestiophobia: Fear of clothing2.
- Vitricophobia: Fear of one's step-father.
- Xanthophobia: Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
- Xenophobia: Fear of strangers or foreigners, or anything foreign.
[Book].
- Xerophobia: Fear of dryness and dry places, esp. deserts3.
- Xylophobia: Fear of wooden objects or forests.
- Zelophobia: Fear of jealousy3.
- Zoophobia: Fear of animals3.
footnotes:
2 From The Bathroom Trivia Book, by Jack Kreismer
3 From Tesarta's Alphabetical List of Phobias
4 From Medical Roots: Phob (phobias)
5 Submitted by Lee Daniel Quinn, [email protected], quoting Quinn's Devious Dictionary
6 From The Phobia List
7 From Useful Information on Phobias and Panic
8 From Something to be Afraid of? - ANSWERS (dead url: http://www.thecoo.edu/~mmmeyer/trivia/holden/fearsa.html)
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