Weird phobias

Ablutophobia: Fear of washing or bathing.

Acarophobia: Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.

Acerophobia: Fear of sourness.

Achluophobia: Fear of darkness.

Acousticophobia: Fear of noise.

Acrophobia: Fear of heights.

Aeroacrophobia: Fear of open high places.

Aeronausiphobia: Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.

Aerophobia: Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.

Agliophobia: Fear of pain.

Agoraphobia: Fear of 1) open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets 2) leaving a safe place.

Agraphobia: Fear of sxual abuse.

Agrizoophobia: Fear of wild animals.

Agyrophobia: Fear of streets or crossing the street.

Aichmophobia: Fear of needles or pointed objects.

Ailurophobia: Fear of cats.

Albuminurophobia: Fear of kidney disease.

Alektorophobia: Fear of chickens.

Algophobia: Fear of pain.

Alliumphobia: Fear of garlic.

Allodoxaphobia: Fear of opinions.

Altophobia: Fear of heights.

Amathophobia: Fear of dust.

Amaxophobia: Fear of riding in a car.

Ambulophobia: Fear of walking.

Amnesiphobia: Fear of amnesia.

Amychophobia: Fear of scratches or being scratched.

Anablephobia: Fear of looking up.

Ancraophobia: Fear of wind.

Androphobia: Fear of men.

Anemophobia: Fear of air drafts or wind.

Anginophobia: Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.

Anglophobia: Fear of England, English culture, etc.

Angrophobia: Fear of becoming angry.

Ankylophobia: Fear of immobility of a joint.

Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers.

Anthropophobia: Fear of people or society.

Antlophobia: Fear of floods.

Anuptaphobia: Fear of staying single.

Apeirophobia: Fear of infinity.

Aphenphosmphobia: Fear of being touched.

Apiphobia: Fear of bees.

Apotemnophobia: Fear of persons with amputations.

Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders.

Arithmophobia: Fear of numbers.

Arrhenphobia: Fear of men.

Arsonphobia: Fear of fire.

Asthenophobia: Fear of fainting or weakness.

Astraphobia: Fear of thunder and lightning.

Astrophobia: Fear of stars and celestial space.

Asymmetriphobia: Fear of asymmetrical things.

Ataxiophobia: Fear of ataxia.

Ataxophobia: Fear of disorder or untidiness.

Atelophobia: Fear of imperfection.

Atephobia: Fear of ruin or ruins.

Athazagoraphobia: Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.

Atomosophobia: Fear of atomic explosions.

Atychiphobia: Fear of failure.

Aulophobia: Fear of flutes.

Bacillophobia: Fear of microbes.

Bacteriophobia: Fear of bacteria.

Ballistophobia: Fear of missles or bullets.

Barophobia: Fear of gravity.

Basophobia or Basiphobia: Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.

Bathophobia: Fear of depth.

Batonophobia: Fear of plants.

Batophobia: Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.

Batrachophobia: Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.

Belonephobia: Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)

Bibliophobia: Fear of books.

Blennophobia: Fear of slime.

Bogyphobia: Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.

Bolshephobia: Fear of Bolsheviks.


Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia: Fear of body smells.

Brontophobia: Fear of thunder and lightning.

Bufonophobia: Fear of toads.

Cacophobia: Fear of ugliness.

Cainophobia or Cainotophobia: Fear of newness, novelty.

Caligynephobia: Fear of beautiful women.

Cancerophobia: Fear of cancer.

Carcinophobia: Fear of cancer.

Cardiophobia: Fear of the heart.

Carnophobia: Fear of meat.

Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed.

Catapedaphobia: Fear of jumping from high and low places.

Cathisophobia: Fear of sitting.

Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors.

Cenophobia or Centophobia: Fear of new things or ideas.

Ceraunophobia: Fear of thunder.

Chaetophobia: Fear of hair.

Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia: Fear of cold.

Chemophobia: Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.

Cherophobia: Fear of gaiety.

Chionophobia: Fear of snow.

Chiraptophobia: Fear of being touched.

Cholerophobia: Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.

Chorophobia: Fear of dancing.

Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia: Fear of money.

Chromophobia or Chromatophobia: Fear of colors.

Chronomentrophobia: Fear of clocks.

Chronophobia: Fear of time.

Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia: Fear of food.

Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces.

Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia: Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.

Cleptophobia: Fear of stealing.

Climacophobia: Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs.

Clinophobia: Fear of going to bed.

Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia: Fear of being enclosed.

Cnidophobia: Fear of strings.

Coimetrophobia: Fear of cemeteries.

Coitophobia: Fear of coitus.

Cometophobia: Fear of comets.

Contreltophobia: Fear of sxual abuse.

Coprastasophobia: Fear of constipation.

Coprophobia: Fear of feces.

Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns.

Counterphobia: The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.

Cremnophobia: Fear of precipices.

Cryophobia: Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.

Crystallophobia: Fear of crystals or glass.

Cyberphobia: Fear of computers or working on a computer.

Decidophobia: Fear of making decisions.

Defecaloesiophobia: Fear of painful bowels movements.

Deipnophobia: Fear of dining and dinner conversations.

Dementophobia: Fear of insanity.

Demonophobia or Daemonophobia: Fear of demons.

Demophobia: Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)

Dendrophobia: Fear of trees.

Dentophobia: Fear of dentists.

Dermatophobia: Fear of skin lesions.

Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia: Fear of skin disease.

Dextrophobia: Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

Diabetophobia: Fear of diabetes.

Didaskaleinophobia: Fear of going to school.

Dikephobia: Fear of justice.

Dinophobia: Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.

Diplophobia: Fear of double vision.

Dipsophobia: Fear of drinking.

Dishabiliophobia: Fear of undressing in front of someone.

Domatophobia or Oikophobia: Fear of houses or being in a house.

Doraphobia: Fear of fur or skins of animals.

Dromophobia: Fear of crossing streets.

Dutchphobia: Fear of the Dutch.

Dysmorphophobia: Fear of deformity.

Dystychiphobia: Fear of accidents.

Ecclesiophobia: Fear of church.

Ecophobia: Fear of home.

Eicophobia or Oikophobia: Fear of home surroundings.

Eisoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.

Electrophobia: Fear of electricity.

Eleutherophobia: Fear of freedom.

Elurophobia: Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)

Emetophobia: Fear of vomiting.

Enetophobia: Fear of pins.

Enochlophobia: Fear of crowds.

Enosiophobia or Enissophobia: Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.

Entomophobia: Fear of insects.

Eosophobia: Fear of dawn or daylight.

Epistaxiophobia: Fear of nosebleeds.

Epistemophobia: Fear of knowledge.

Equinophobia: Fear of horses.

Eremophobia: Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.

Ereuthrophobia: Fear of blushing.

Ergasiophobia: 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.

Ergophobia: Fear of work.


Erotophobia: Fear of sxual love or sxual questions.

Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia: 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red

Euphobia: Fear of hearing good news.

Francophobia: Fear of France, French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)

Frigophobia: Fear of cold, cold things.

Galeophobia or Gatophobia: Fear of cats.

Gallophobia or Galiophobia: Fear France, French culture. (Francophobia)

Gamophobia: Fear of marriage.

Geliophobia: Fear of laughter.

Geniophobia: Fear of chins.

Genophobia: Fear of sx.

Genuphobia: Fear of knees.

Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia: Fear of crossing bridges.

Gerascophobia: Fear of growing old.

Germanophobia: Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.

Gerontophobia: Fear of old people or of growing old.

Geumaphobia or Geumophobia: Fear of taste.

Glossophobia: Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.

Gnosiophobia: Fear of knowledge.


Graphophobia: Fear of writing or handwriting.

Gymnophobia: Fear of ndity.

Gynephobia or Gynophobia: Fear of women.