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A Strange 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	Phobia
air travel	aerophobia
American people and things	Americophobia
animals	zoophobia
bacteria	bacteriophobia
beards	pogonophobia
beating	mastigophobia
bed	clinophobia
bees	apiphobia
birds	ornithophobia
blood	haemophobia
blushing	erythrophobia
body odour	bromidrosiphobia
bridges	gephyrophobia
bullets	ballistophobia
burial alive	taphephobia
cancer	carcinophobia
cats	ailurophobia
childbirth	tocophobia
children	paedophobia
Chinese people and things	Sinophobia
church	ecclesiophobia
clouds	nephophobia
coitus	coitophobia
cold	cheimaphobia
colour	chromophobia
comets	cometophobia
computers	cyberphobia
constipation	coprostasophobia
corpses	necrophobia
correspondence	epistolophobia
crowds	demophobia/ochlophobia
dampness	hygrophobia
darkness	scotophobia
dawn	eosophobia
death	thanatophobia
depth	bathophobia
dirt	mysophobia
disease	pathophobia/nosophobia
dogs	cynophobia
dreams	oneirophobia
drink	potophobia
drugs	pharmacophobia
dust	koniophobia
electricity	electrophobia
enclosed places	claustrophobia
English people and things	Anglophobia
everything	panophobia/pantophobia
eyes	ommetaphobia
faeces	coprophobia
failure	kakorrhaphiaphobia
fatigue	kopophobia
fear	phobophobia
feathers	pteronophobia
fever	febriphobia
fire	pyrophobia
fish	ichthyophobia
flesh	selaphobia
floods	antlophobia
flowers	anthophobia
fog	homichlophobia
food	cibophobia/sitophobia
foreigners	xenophobia
freedom	eleutherophobia
French people and things	Francophobia/Gallophobia
fur	doraphobia
German people and things	Germanophobia/Teutophobia
germs	bacteriophobia
ghosts	phasmophobia
glass	nelophobia
God	theophobia
gold	chrysophobia/aurophobia
hair	trichophobia
heart disease	cardiophobia
heat	thermophobia
heaven	uranophobia
hell	hadephobia/stygiophobia
heredity	patroiophobia
high buildings	batophobia
high places	acrophobia/hypsophobia
home	oikophobia
homosexuals	homophobia
horses	hippophobia
ice	cryophobia
ideas	ideophobia
idleness	thassophobia
illness	nosophobia
imperfection	atelophobia
infinity	apeirophobia
injury	traumatophobia
inoculation	trypanophobia/vaccinophobia
insanity	lyssophobia/maniphobia
insects	entomophobia
insect stings	cnidophobia
Italian people and things	Italophobia
itching	acarophobia
jealousy	zelotypophobia
justice	dikephobia
lakes	limnophobia
leprosy	leprophobia
lice	pediculophobia
light	photophobia
lightning	astrapophobia
lists	pinaciphobia/katastichophobia
loneliness	autophobia/ermitophobia
machinery	mechanophobia
magic	rhabdophobia
marriage	gamophobia
men	androphobia
metal	metallophobia
mice	musophobia
microbes	bacillophobia/microbiophobia
mirrors	eisoptrophobia
mites	acarophobia
mobs	ochlophobia
money	chrematophobia
monsters, giving birth to	teratophobia
motion	kinetophobia
music	musicophobia
names	onomatophobia
narrowness	anginophobia
needles	belonephobia
new things	neophobia
night	nyctophobia
nudity	gymnophobia
open places	agoraphobia
pain	algophobia
parasites	parasitophobia
people	anthropophobia
philosophy	philosophobia
pins	enetophobia
places	topophobia
pleasure	hedonophobia
poison	toxiphobia
politics	politicophobia
Pope	papaphobia
poverty	peniaphobia
precipices	cremnophobia
priests	hierophobia
punishment	poinephobia
rabies	hydrophobophobia
rail travel	siderodromophobia
religious works of art	iconophobia
reptiles	batrachophobia
responsibility	hypegiaphobia
ridicule	katagelophobia
rivers	potamophobia
robbers	harpaxophobia
ruin	atephobia
Russian people and things	Russophobia
saints	hagiophobia
Satan	Satanophobia
scabies	scabiophobia
Scottish people and things	Scotophobia
sea	thalassophobia
sex	erotophobia
shadows	sciophobia
sharpness	acrophobia
shock	hormephobia
sin	hamartophobia
skin disease	dermatosiophobia/dermatopathophobia
sleep	hypnophobia
slime	blennophobia
small things	microphobia
smell	olfactophobia/osmophobia
smothering	pnigerophobia
snakes	ophidiophobia
snow	chionophobia
solitude	eremophobia
sound	acousticophobia
sourness	acerophobia
speech	lalophobia/laliophobia/glossophobia/phonophobia
speed	tachophobia
spiders	arachnophobia
standing	stasophobia
stars	siderophobia
stealing	kleptophobia
string	linonophobia
stuttering	lalophobia/laliophobia
sun	heliophobia
swallowing	phagophobia
symmetry	symmetrophobia
taste	geumatophobia
technology	technophobia
teeth	odontophobia
telephone	telephonophobia
thinking	phronemophobia
thirteen	triskaidekaphobia
thunder	brontophobia/tonitrophobia/keraunophobia
time	chronophobia
touch	haptophobia
travel	hodophobia
tuberculosis	phthisiophobia
tyrants	tyrannophobia
vehicles	ochophobia
venereal disease	syphilophobia
voids	kenophobia
vomiting	emetophobia
water	hydrophobia
waves	cyrnophobia
weakness	asthenophobia
wind	anemophobia
women	gynophobia
words	logophobia
work	ergophobia
worms	helminthophobia
writing	graphophobia