General English Different Types of Phobia
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Name of the Phobia
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Causes of the Phobia
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Ablutophobia
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Fear of bathing, washing, or
cleaning |
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Achluophobia
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Fear of darkness
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Acrophobia
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Fear of heights
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Agoraphobia, agoraphobia without
history of panic disorder |
Fear of places or events where
escape is impossible or when help is unavailable. Fear of open spaces or of being in public places. Fear of leaving a safe place |
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Agraphobia
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Fear of sexual abuse
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Agrizoophobia
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Fear of wild animals
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Agyrophobia
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Fear of crossing the road
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Aichmophobia
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Fear of sharp or pointed objects (
such as a needle or knife ) |
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Ailurophobia
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Fear of cats
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Algophobia
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Fear of pain
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Amychophobia
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Fear of being scratched
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Androphobia
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Fear of men
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Fear of flowers
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Fear of people or the company of
people, a form of social phobia |
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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 |
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Fear of spiders
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Fear of thunder and lightning
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Fear of failure
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Fear of being alone or isolated or
of one’s self |
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Fear of anything that falsely
represents a sentient being |
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Fear of flying
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Fear of depth
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Fear of books
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Fear of bacteria.
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Fear of Thunder and Lightning
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Chaetophobia
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Fear of hair
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Chemophobia
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Fear of chemicals
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Chiroptophobia
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Fear of bats
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Chromophobia
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Fear of bright colors
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Chronophobia
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Fear of time and time moving
forward |
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Cibophobia, sitophobia
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Aversion to food, synonymous
to anorexia nervosa |
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Claustrophobia
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Fear of having no escape and being
closed in |
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Coulrophobia
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Fear of clowns ( not
restricted to evil clowns ) |
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Cyberphobia
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Fear of or aversion
to computers and of learning new technologies |
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Decidophobia
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Fear of making decisions
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Dentophobia, odontophobia
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Fear of dentists and
dental procedures |
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Disposophobia
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Fear of getting rid of or losing
things – sometimes wrongly defined as compulsive hoarding |
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Dysmorphophobia, or body
dysmorphic disorder |
a phobic obsession with a real or
imaginary body defect |
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Emetophobia
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Fear of vomiting
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Ergasiophobia
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Fear of work or functioning, or
a surgeon’s Fear of operating |
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Ergophobia
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Fear of work or functioning
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Erotophobia
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Fear of sexual love or sexual
abuse |
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Erythrophobia
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Pathological blushing
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Friggatriskaidekaphobia,
paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia |
Fear of Friday the 13th
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Frigophobia
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Fear of becoming too cold
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Gamophobia
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Fear of marriage, commitment
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Gelotophobia
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Fear of being laughed at
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Gephyrophobia
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Fear of bridges
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Genophobia, coitophobia
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Fear of sexual intercourse
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Gerascophobia
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Fear of growing old or aging
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Gerontophobia
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Fear of growing old, or a hatred
or Fear of the elderly |
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Globophobia
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Fear of balloons, or balloons
popping, a branch of phonophobia |
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Glossophobia
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Fear of speaking in public or of
trying to speak |
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Gymnophobia
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Fear of nudity
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Gynophobia
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Fear of women
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Hadephobia, stigiophobia,
stygiophobia |
Fear of Hell
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Halitophobia
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Fear of bad breath
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Haphephobia
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Fear of being touched
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Heliophobia
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Fear of sunlight
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Hemophobia, haemophobia
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Fear of blood
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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
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Fear of the number 666
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Hoplophobia
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Fear of weapons,
specifically firearms ( generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented ) |
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Hylophobia
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Fear
of trees, forests or wood |
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Hypnophobia, somniphobia
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Fear of sleep
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Ichthyophobia
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Fear of fish, including Fear
of eating fish, or Fear of dead fish |
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Ipovlopsychophobia
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Fear of having one’s photograph
taken |
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Lipophobia
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Fear or avoidance of fats in food
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Melissophobia
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Fear of bees
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Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia
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Fear of mice and /
or rats |
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Myrmecophobia
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Fear of ants
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Mysophobia
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Fear
of germs, contamination or dirt |
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Necrophobia
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Fear of death and / or
the dead |
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Neophobia, cainophobia,
cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia |
Fear of newness, novelty
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Nomophobia
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Fear of being out of mobile
phone contact |
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Nosocomephobia
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Fear of hospitals
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Nosophobia
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Fear of contracting a disease
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Nyctophobia, achluophobia,
lygophobia, scotophobia |
Fear of darkness
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Obesophobia
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Fear of obesity
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Oikophobia
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Fear of home surroundings and
household appliances |
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Ombrophobia
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Fear of rain
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Omphalophobia
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Fear of navels
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Ophthalmophobia
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Fear of being stared at
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Ornithophobia
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Fear of birds
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Osmophobia, olfactophobia
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Fear of bad odours
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Panphobia
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Fear of everything or
constant Fear of an unknown cause |
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Papaphobia
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Fear of the Pope
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Pediophobia
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Fear of dolls ( a branch
of automatonophobia: Fear of humanoid figures ) |
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Phagophobia
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Fear of swallowing
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Pharmacophobia
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Fear of medications
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Philophobia
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Fear of love
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Phobophobia
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Fear of having a phobia or of Fear
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Phonophobia
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Fear of loud sounds
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Pogonophobia
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Fear of beards
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Pyrophobia
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Fear of fire
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Radiophobia
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Fear of radioactivity or X
– rays |
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Sesquipedalophobia
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Fear of long words
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Scopophobia
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Fear of being looked at or stared
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Sociophobia
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Fear of people or social
situations |
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Somniphobia
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Fear of sleep
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Spectrophobia
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Fear of ghosts and
phantoms |
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Stygiophobia
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Fear of Hell
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Taphophobia, taphephobia
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Fear of the grave, or Fear of
being placed in a grave while still alive |
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Technophobia
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Fear of technology ( see
also Luddite ) |
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Telephone phobia
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Fear or reluctance of making or
taking telephone calls |
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Tetraphobia
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Fear of the number 4
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Thalassophobia
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Fear of the sea, or Fear of being
in the ocean |
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Thanatophobia
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Fear of dying
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Thermophobia
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Fear of heat
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Tokophobia
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Fear
of childbirth or pregnancy |
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Traumatophobia
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a synonym for injury phobia:
Fear of having an injury |
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Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia
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Fear of the number 13
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Trypanophobia, belonephobia,
enetophobia |
Fear of needles or injections
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Trypophobia
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Fear of holes
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Turophobia
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Fear of cheese
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Uranophobia, ouranophobia
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Fear of Heaven
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Workplace phobia
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Fear of the workplace
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Xanthophobia
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Fear of the yellow colour
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Xenophobia
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Fear of
strangers, foreigners, or aliens |
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Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia
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Fear of trees, forests or wood
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