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List of phobias
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The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (of Greek origin: / ) 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.[1] 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".[2] Such practice is known as content spamming and is used to attract search engines.

Contents
1 Psychological conditions 1.1 A 1.2 B 1.3 C 1.4 D 1.5 E 1.6 F 1.7 G 1.8 H 1.9 I 1.10 K 1.11 L 1.12 M 1.13 N 1.14 O 1.15 P 1.16 R 1.17 S 1.18 T 1.19 U 1.20 W 1.21 X 1.22 Animal phobias 2 Non-psychological conditions 3 Biology, chemistry 4 Prejudices and discrimination 5 Jocular and fictional phobias 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading

Psychological conditions
In many cases specialists prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms, see, e.g. personality disorders, anxiety disorders, avoidant personality disorder, love-shyness.

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
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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 Anthophobia fear of flowers Anthropophobia fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia 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 Atychiphobia fear of failure Autophobia fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self Automatonophobia fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being Aviophobia, aviatophobia fear of flying

B
Blood-injection-injury type phobia a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias Barophobia - fear of gravity

C
Chaetophobia fear of hair Chemophobia fear of chemicals Chiroptophobia fear of bats 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 Cleithrophobia the fear of being trapped[3] Coulrophobia fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns) Cyberphobia fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies

D
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

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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

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[4] Glossophobia fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak Gymnophobia fear of nudity Gynophobia fear of women

H
Hadephobia, stigiophobia, stygiophobia fear of Hell[5] 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

I
Ichthyophobia fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish Ipovlopsychophobia fear of having ones photograph taken

K
Koumpounophobia - fear of buttons.[6]
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Lipophobia fear or avoidance of fats in food

M
Melissophobia - fear of bees Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia - fear of mice and/or rats Myrmecophobia - fear of ants Mysophobia fear of germs, contamination or dirt

N
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

O
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

P
Panphobia fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause Papaphobia fear of the Pope 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

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Radiophobia fear of radioactivity or X-rays

S
Sesquipedalophobia fear of long words[7] 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

T
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 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[8] Turophobia - fear of cheese[9][10][11][12]

U
Uranophobia, ouranophobia fear of Heaven

W
Workplace phobia fear of the workplace

X
Xanthophobia fear of the colour yellow Xenophobia fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia fear of trees, forests or wood

Animal phobias
Main articles: Animal phobia and Zoophobia
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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 Bovinophobia fear/dislike of cattle 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 Selachophobia fear of sharks Scoleciphobia fear of worms Zoophobia fear of animals

Non-psychological conditions
Photophobia hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light Phonophobia hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds Osmophobia hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors

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[13] 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

Further information: List of anti-cultural, anti-national, and anti-ethnic terms
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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 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, pediophobia 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[14] Anachrophobia fear of temporal displacement, from a Doctor Who novel by Jonathan Morris[15] 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[16] and by Peter O'Donnell in his 1985 Modesty Blaise adventure novel Dead Man's Handle[17] Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia fear of long words[18] 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
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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 archnemesis 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[19] Venustraphobia fear of beautiful women, according to a 1998 humorous article published by BBC News.[1] The word is a portmanteau of "Venus trap" and "phobia". Venustraphobia is the title of a 2006 album by Casbah Club

See also
List of paraphilias

References
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Further reading
Aldrich, C. (2 December 2002). The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families. Trafford Publishing. pp. 224236. ISBN 1-55369-886-X. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_phobias&oldid=582027784" Categories: Phobias Medical lists Psychiatric diagnosis Psychology lists This page was last modified on 17 November 2013 at 09:23. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
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