List of phobias

The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (of Greek origin: φόβος/φοβία ) occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g. acidophobia), and in medicine to describe hypersensitivity to a stimulus, usually sensory (e.g. photophobia). In common usage they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject. The suffix is antonymic to -phil-.

For more information on the psychiatric side, including how psychiatry groups phobias such as agoraphobia, social phobia, or simple phobia, see phobia. The following lists include words ending in -phobia, and include fears that have acquired names. In some cases, the naming of phobias has become a word game, of notable example being a 1998 humorous article published by BBC News. In some cases a word ending in -phobia may have an antonym with the suffix -phil-, e.g. Germanophobe / Germanophile.

A large number of -phobia lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name. Sometimes it leads to bizarre results, such as suggestions to cure "prostitute phobia". Such practice is known as content spamming and is used to attract search engines.

Psychological conditions
Specialists may prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms such as personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and avoidant personality disorder.

A

 * 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
 * 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 of failure
 * 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

B

 * Barophobia – fear of gravity
 * Bathmophobia – fear of stairs or slopes
 * Bibliophobia – fear of books
 * Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
 * Botanophobia – fear of plants

C

 * 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
 * Chromophobia, chromatophobia – fear of colors
 * Chronophobia – fear of time and time moving forward
 * Chrysophobia – fear of the color orange
 * Cibophobia, sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa
 * Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in
 * Cleithrophobia – fear of being trapped
 * Climacophobia – fear of climbing
 * Coimetrophobia – fear of cemeteries
 * Cometophobia – fear of comets
 * Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
 * Cyanophobia – fear of the color blue
 * Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies

D

 * Decidophobia – fear of making decisions
 * Demonophobia, daemonophobia – fear of demons
 * Dentophobia, odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
 * Disposophobia – fear of getting rid of or losing things – sometimes wrongly defined as compulsive hoarding
 * 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
 * Eosophobia, phengophobia – fear of daylight
 * Epistemophobia, gnosiophobia – fear of knowledge
 * 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

F

 * Friggatriskaidekaphobia, paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th
 * Frigophobia – fear of becoming too cold

G

 * Gamophobia – fear of marriage, commitment
 * 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, or balloons popping – a branch of phonophobia
 * 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 weapons, specifically firearms (generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented)
 * Hylophobia – 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 stolen
 * Koinoniphobia – fear of rooms
 * Kosmikophobia – fear of cosmic phenomenon
 * Koumpounophobia – fear of buttons

L

 * Logophobia – fear of words
 * Leukophobia – fear of the color white
 * Lilapsophobia – fear of tornadoes or hurricanes
 * Lipophobia – fear or avoidance of fats in food

M

 * Mastigophobia, poinephobia – fear of punishment
 * Mechanophobia – fear of machines
 * Melanophobia – fear of the color black
 * Melissophobia – fear of bees
 * Melophobia – fear of music
 * Metallophobia – fear of metals
 * Meteorophobia – fear of meteors
 * Methyphobia – fear of alcohol
 * Mnemophobia – fear of memories
 * Monophobia – fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self
 * Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia – fear of mice and/or rats
 * Myrmecophobia – fear of ants
 * Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt

N

 * Nebulaphobia, homichlophobia – fear of fog
 * Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead
 * Nelophobia, hyelophobia, hyalophobia – fear of glass
 * Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty
 * Nephophobia – fear of clouds
 * 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
 * Ombrophobia – fear of rain
 * 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
 * Papaphobia – fear of the Pope
 * Papyrophobia – fear of papers
 * 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
 * Psychophobia – fear of mind
 * Pupaphobia – fear of puppets
 * Pyrophobia – fear of fire

R

 * Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays

S

 * Samhainophobia – fear of Halloween
 * Scelerophobia – fear of bad men
 * Sciophobia, sciaphobia – fear of shadows
 * Scolionophobia – fear of school
 * Scriptophobia – fear of writing in public or of trying to write
 * Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at
 * Selenophobia – fear of the moon
 * Sesquipedalophobia – fear of long words – a branch of logophobia
 * Siderodromophobia – fear of trains or railroads
 * 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 of Hell
 * Syngenesophobia - fear of relatives

T

 * Tachophobia – fear of speed
 * Taphophobia, taphephobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
 * Technophobia – fear of 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
 * Turophobia – fear of cheese

U

 * Uranophobia, ouranophobia – fear of Heaven

V

 * Vestiphobia – fear of clothing
 * Virginitiphobia – fear of being raped

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

 * 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
 * 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 and/or amphibians
 * Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish
 * Mottephobia – fear/dislike of butterflies and/or moths
 * Murophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/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

 * 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
 * Oleophobicity – a property of oil rejection
 * Ombrophobia – avoidance of rain
 * 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
The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti-ethnic or anti-demographic 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:
 * 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
 * Hispanophobia - fear/dislike of Hispanic people, Hispanic culture and the Spanish language
 * Homophobia – fear/dislike of homosexuality, homosexuals, or gays (as opposed to lesbians)
 * 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
 * Polonophobia – fear/dislike of the Polish
 * Psychophobia – fear/dislike of mental illness or the mentally ill
 * Russophobia – fear/dislike of Russians
 * Sinophobia – fear/dislike of Chinese people
 * Transphobia – fear/dislike of transgendered people
 * Turcophobia – fear/dislike of Turks
 * Xenophobia – fear/dislike of foreigners or extraterrestrials

Jocular and fictional phobias

 * Aibohphobia – a joke term for the fear of palindromes, which is a palindrome itself. The term is a piece of computer humor entered into the 1981 The Devil's DP Dictionary
 * Anachrophobia – fear of temporal displacement, from a Doctor Who novel by Jonathan Morris
 * 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 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 word is used by Charles M. Schulz in a 1982 installment of his Peanuts comic strip and by Peter O'Donnell in his 1985 Modesty Blaise adventure novel Dead Man's Handle
 * Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – fear of long words Hippopoto – "big" due to its allusion to the Greek-derived word hippopotamus (though this is derived as hippo- "horse" compounded with potam-os "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; -sesquipedali- comes from "sesquipedalian" meaning a long word (literally "a foot and a half long" in Latin), -o- is a noun-compounding vowel, and -phobia means "fear". Note: This was mentioned on the first episode of Brainiac Series Five as one of Tickle's Teasers
 * Keanuphobia – fear of Keanu Reeves, portrayed in the Dean Koontz book, False Memory, where a woman has an irrational fear of Reeves and has to see her psychiatrist, Mark Ahriman, each week, unaware that she only has the fear in the first place because the psychotic Ahriman implanted it via hypnotic suggestion to amuse himself. He calls her the "Keanuphobe" in his head
 * Luposlipaphobia – fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor, also from Gary Larson's The Far Side
 * Monkeyphobia – fear of monkeys, as named by Lord Monkey Fist in the animated series Kim Possible. Due to spending a summer in a cabin 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
 * Nihilophobia – fear of nothingness (comes from the combination of the Latin word nihil which means nothing, none, and the suffix -phobia), as described by the Doctor in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Night". Voyager's morale officer and chef Neelix suffers from this condition, having panic attacks while the ship was traversing a dark expanse of space known as the Void. It is also the title of a 2008 album by Neuronium. Also, the animated version of George of the Jungle is seen suffering in one episode of the cartoon, where they are telling scary stories
 * Robophobia – Irrational fear of robots and/or androids, also known as "Grimwade's Syndrome". First heard in the Doctor Who story "The Robots of Death"
 * Semaphobia – fear of average Web developers to use Semantic Web technologies
 * Venustraphobia – fear of beautiful women, according to a 1998 humorous article published by BBC News. The word is a portmanteau of "Venus trap" and "phobia". Venustraphobia is the title of a 2006 album by Casbah Club