General English Different Types of Phobia

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Name of the Phobia	Causes of the Phobia
Ablutophobia	Fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Achluophobia	Fear of darkness
Acrophobia	Fear of heights
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
Agraphobia	Fear of sexual abuse
Agrizoophobia	Fear of wild animals
Agyrophobia	Fear of crossing the road
Aichmophobia	Fear of sharp or pointed objects ( such as a needle or knife )
Ailurophobia	Fear of cats
Algophobia	Fear of pain
Amychophobia	Fear of being scratched
Androphobia	Fear of men

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Fear of flowers
Fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia
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
Fear of spiders
Fear of thunder and lightning
Fear of failure
Fear of being alone or isolated or of one’s self
Fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being
Fear of flying
Fear of depth
Fear of books
Fear of bacteria.
Fear of Thunder and Lightning
Chaetophobia	Fear of hair
Chemophobia	Fear of chemicals
Chiroptophobia	Fear of bats
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Chromophobia	Fear of bright colors
Chronophobia	Fear of time and time moving forward
Cibophobia, sitophobia	Aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa
Claustrophobia	Fear of having no escape and being closed in
Coulrophobia	Fear of clowns ( not restricted to evil clowns )
Cyberphobia	Fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies
Decidophobia	Fear of making decisions
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
Emetophobia	Fear of vomiting
Ergasiophobia	Fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon’s Fear of operating
Ergophobia	Fear of work or functioning
Erotophobia	Fear of sexual love or sexual abuse
Erythrophobia	Pathological blushing
Friggatriskaidekaphobia, paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia	Fear of Friday the 13th
Frigophobia	Fear of becoming too cold
Gamophobia	Fear of marriage, commitment
Gelotophobia	Fear of being laughed at
Gephyrophobia	Fear of bridges
Genophobia, coitophobia	Fear of sexual intercourse
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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
Hadephobia, stigiophobia, stygiophobia	Fear of Hell
Halitophobia	Fear of bad breath
Haphephobia	Fear of being touched
Heliophobia	Fear of 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

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Ichthyophobia		Fear of fish, including Fear of eating fish, or Fear of dead fish
Ipovlopsychophobia		Fear of having one’s photograph taken
Lipophobia		Fear or avoidance of fats in food
Melissophobia		Fear of bees
Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia		Fear of mice and / or rats
Myrmecophobia		Fear of ants

Mysophobia		Fear of germs, contamination or dirt
Necrophobia		Fear of death and / or the dead
Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia		Fear of newness, novelty
Nomophobia		Fear of being out of mobile phone contact
Nosocomephobia		Fear of hospitals
Nosophobia		Fear of contracting a disease
Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia		Fear of darkness
Obesophobia		Fear of obesity
Oikophobia		Fear of home surroundings and household appliances
Ombrophobia		Fear of rain
Omphalophobia		Fear of navels
Ophthalmophobia		Fear of being stared at
Ornithophobia		Fear of birds
Osmophobia, olfactophobia		Fear of bad odours
Panphobia		Fear of everything or constant Fear of an unknown cause
Papaphobia		Fear of the Pope
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Pediophobia		Fear of dolls ( a branch of automatonophobia: Fear of humanoid figures )
Phagophobia		Fear of swallowing
Pharmacophobia		Fear of medications
Philophobia		Fear of love
Phobophobia		Fear of having a phobia or of Fear
Phonophobia		Fear of loud sounds
Pogonophobia		Fear of beards
Pyrophobia		Fear of fire
Radiophobia		Fear of radioactivity or X – rays
Sesquipedalophobia		Fear of long words
Scopophobia		Fear of being looked at or stared at
Sociophobia		Fear of people or social situations
Somniphobia		Fear of sleep
Spectrophobia		Fear of ghosts and phantoms
Stygiophobia		Fear of Hell
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
Thermophobia	Fear of heat
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Tokophobia	Fear of childbirth or pregnancy
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
Turophobia	Fear of cheese
Uranophobia, ouranophobia	Fear of Heaven
Workplace phobia	Fear of the workplace
Xanthophobia	Fear of the yellow colour
Xenophobia	Fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens
Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia	Fear of trees, forests or wood