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PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS o Dental phobia, Dentophobia,
o Ablutophobia – fear of
bathing, washing, or cleaning.
o Acrophobia, Altophobia – fear
of heights.
o Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia
Without History of Panic
Disorder – fear of places or
events where escape is
impossible or when help is
unavailable.
o Agraphobia – fear of sexual
abuse.
o Aichmophobia – fear of sharp
or pointed objects (as a
needle, knife or a pointing
finger).
o Algophobia – fear of pain.
o Agyrophobia – fear of crossing
roads.
o Androphobia – fear of men.
o Anthropophobia – fear of
people or being in a company,
a form of social phobia.
o Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
o Aquaphobia – fear of water.
Distinct from Hydrophobia, a
scientific property that makes
chemicals averse to
interaction with water.
o Astraphobia, Astrapophobia,
Brontophobia, Keraunophobia –
fear of thunder, lightning and
storms; especially common in
young children.
o Atychiphobia, fear of failure
o Aviophobia, Aviatophobia –
fear of flying.
o Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia,
Microbiophobia – fear of
microbes and bacteria.
o Blood-injection-injury type
phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of
specific phobias
o Chorophobia - fear of dancing.
o Cibophobia, Sitophobia –
aversion to food, synonymous
to Anorexia nervosa.
o Claustrophobia – fear of
confined spaces.
o Coulrophobia – fear of clowns
(not restricted to evil
clowns).
o Decidophobia – fear of making
decisions.
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Odontophobia – fear of
dentists and dental procedures
o Dysmorphophobia, or body
dysmorphic disorder – a phobic
obsession with a real or
imaginary body defect.
o Emetophobia – fear of
vomiting.
o Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia –
fear of work or functioning,
or a surgeon's fear of
operating.
o Ergophobia – fear of work or
functioning.
o Erotophobia – fear of sexual
love or sexual questions.
o Erythrophobia – pathological
blushing.
o Gelotophobia - fear of being
laughed at.
o Gephyrophobia – fear of
bridges.
o Genophobia, Coitophobia – fear
of sexual intercourse.
o Gerascophobia – fear of
growing old or aging.
o Gerontophobia – fear of
growing old, or a hatred or
fear of the elderly.
o Glossophobia – fear of
speaking in public or of
trying to speak.
o Gymnophobia – fear of nudity.
o Gynophobia – fear of women.
o Halitophobia - fear of bad
breath.
o Haptephobia – fear of being
touched.
o Heliophobia – fear of
sunlight.
o Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear
of blood.
o Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
– fear of the number 666.
o Hoplophobia – fear of weapons,
specifically firearms
(Generally a political term
but the clinical phobia is
also documented).
o Ligyrophobia – fear of loud
noises.
o Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of
fats in food.
o Medication phobia - fear of
medications.
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o Megalophobia - fear of
large/oversized objects.
o Mysophobia – fear of germs,
contamination or dirt.
o Necrophobia – fear of death
and/or the dead.
o Neophobia, Cainophobia,
Cainotophobia, Cenophobia,
Centophobia, Kainolophobia,
Kainophobia – fear of newness,
novelty.
o Nomophobia – fear of being out
of mobile phone contact.
o Nosophobia – fear of
contracting a disease.
o Nosocomephobia - fear of
hospitals.
o Nyctophobia, Achluophobia,
Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear
of darkness.
o Osmophobia, Olfactophobia –
fear of smells.
o Paraskavedekatriaphobia,
Paraskevidekatriaphobia,
Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear
of Friday the 13th.
o Panphobia – fear of everything
or constant fear of an unknown
cause.
o Phasmophobia - fear of ghosts,
spectres or phantasms.
o Phagophobia – fear of
swallowing.
o Pharmacophobia – same as
medication phobia.
o Phobophobia – fear of having a
phobia.
o Phonophobia – fear of loud
sounds.
o Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
o Radiophobia – fear of
radioactivity or X-rays.
o Sociophobia – fear of people
or social situations.
o Scopophobia – fear of being
looked at or stared at.
o Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
o Spectrophobia – fear of
mirrors and one's own
reflections.
o Taphophobia – fear of the
grave, or fear of being placed
in a grave while still alive.
o Technophobia – fear of
technology (see also Luddite).
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o Telephone phobia, fear or
reluctance of making or taking
phone calls.
o Tetraphobia – fear of the
number 4.
o Thanatophobia – fear of death.
o Tokophobia – fear of
childbirth.
o Tomophobia – fear or anxiety
of surgeries/surgical
operations.
o Traumatophobia – a synonym for
injury phobia: fear of having
an injury.
o Triskaidekaphobia,
Terdekaphobia – fear of the
number 13.
o Trypanophobia, Belonephobia,
Enetophobia – fear of needles
or injections.
o Workplace phobia – fear of the
workplace.
o Xenophobia – fear of
strangers, foreigners, or
aliens.
NON-PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION
 Hydrophobia – fear of water (a
symptom of rabies).
 Photophobia – hypersensitivity
to light causing aversion to
light
 Phonophobia – hypersensitivity
to sound causing aversion to
sounds.
 Osmophobia – hypersensitivity
to smells causing aversion to
odors.
ANIMAL PHOBIAS
 Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of
cats.
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 Animal phobia - fear of

certain animals, a category of
specific phobias.
 Apiphobia – fear/dislike of
bees (also known as
Melissophobia).
 Arachnophobia – fear/dislike
of spiders and other
arachnids.
 Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike
of bats.
 Cynophobia – fear/dislike of
dogs.
 Entomophobia – fear/dislike of
insects.
 Equinophobia – fear/dislike of
horses (also known as
Hippophobia).
 Herpetophobia - fear/dislike
of reptiles and/or amphibians.
 Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike
of fish.
 Musophobia – fear/dislike of
mice and/or rats.
 Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike
of snakes.
 Ornithophobia – fear/dislike
of birds.
 Scoleciphobia – fear of worms.
 Zoophobia – a generic term for
animal phobias.

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