A-Z List of Phobias

The following is a complete, alphabetical list of phobias from A to Z:

Ablutophobia – Fear of bathing, cleaning or washing

Acarophobia – Fear of itching or tiny insects that cause itching

Acerophobia – Fear of sourness

Achluophobia – Fear of darkness

Acousticophobia – Fear of noise

Acrophobia – Fear of heights

Aerophobia – Fear of flying, drafts or fresh air

Algophobia – Fear of pain

Agoraphobia – Fear of crowds of people and open spaces

Agrizoophobia – Fear of wild animals

Agyrophobia – Fear of crossing roads

Aichmophobia – Fear of pointed objects, like needles

Ailurophobia – Fear of cats

Albuminurophobia – Fear of kidney disease

Alektorophobia – Fear of chickens

Alliumphobia – Fear of garlic

Allodoxaphobia – Fear of opinions

Amathophobia – Fear of dust

Amaxophobia – Fear of being in a car

Ambulophobia – Fear of walking

Amychophobia – Fear of being scratched

Anablephobia – Fear of looking up

Androphobia – Fear of men

Anemophobia – Fear of wind or drafts

Anglophobia – Fear of England or Britain

Anginophobia – Fear of choking

Anthrophobia – Fear of flowers

Antlophobia – Fear of floods

Anuptaphobia – Fear of staying single

Apeirophobia – Fear of infinity

Anthropophobia – Fear of people or society

Aphenphosmphobia – Fear of intimacy

Apiphobia – Fear of bees or bee stings

Arachibutyrophobia – Fear of peanut butter getting stuck to the roof of the mouth

Aquaphobia – Fear of water

Arachnophobia – Fear of spiders

Arithmophobia – Fear of numbers

Asthenophobia – Fear of fainting

Astraphobia – Fear of thunder and lightning

Astrophobia – Fear of celestial space

Ataxiophobia – Fear of ataxia, which is muscular incoordination

Ataxophobia – Fear of disorder or untidiness

Atelophobia – Fear of imperfection

Athazagoraphobia – Fear of being forgotten or ignored

Atychiphobia – Fear of failure

Aulophobia – Fear of flutes

Aurophobia – Fear of gold

Auroraphobia – Fear of an Aurora, sometimes called northern lights

Automatonophobia – Fear of ventriloquist dummies or wax statues

Automysophobia – Fear of being dirty

Autophobia – Fear of being alone

Aviophobia – Fear of flying

Bacteriophobia – Fear of bacteria

Ballistophobia – Fear of missiles or bullets

Barophobia – Fear of gravity

Basophobia – Fear of falling

Bathmophobia – Fear of steep inclines, slopes and stairs

Bathophobia – Fear of depths

Batrachophobia – Fear of amphibians

Belonephobia – Fear of pins and needles

Bibliophobia – Fear of books or reading aloud

Bogyphobia – Fear of the bogeyman

Botanophobia – Fear of plants

Bovinophobia – Fear of cows or cattle

Bromidrosiphobia – Fear of body smells

Bufonophobia – Fear of toads

Cacophobia – Fear of ugliness

Cainophobia – Fear of newness or novelty

Caligynephobia – Fear of beautiful women

Carcinophobia – Feat of developing cancer

Cardiophobia – Fear of getting heart disease

Carnophobia – Fear of meat

Catagelophobia – Fear of being ridiculed

Catapedaphobia – Fear of jumping

Cathisophobia – Fear of sitting

Catoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors or the undead

Ceraunophobia – Fear of thunder and lightning

Cetaphobia – Fear of whales

Chaetophobia – Fear of hair

Chemophobia – Fear of chemicals or chemistry

Cherophobia – Fear of happiness

Chionophobia – Fear of snow

Chiraptophobia – Fear of being touched

Chirophobia – Fear of hands

Chiroptophobia – Fear of bats

Cholerophobia – Fear of anger, or being afraid of cholera

Chorophobia – Fear of dancing

Chrometophobia – Fear of money

Chromophobia – Fear of colors

Chronomentrophobia – Fear of clocks

Cibophobia – Fear of food

Chloephobia – Fear of newspapers

Chronophobia – Fear of Time

Claustrophobia – Fear of confined spaces

Cleisiophobia – Fear of being locked in a space that is enclosed

Climacophobia – Fear of climbing, especially stairs

Clinophobia – Fear of beds or going to bed

Coimetrophobia – Fear of cemeteries

Contreltophobia – Fear of sexual abuse

Coprastasophobia – Fear of constipation

Coprophobia – Fear of feces or defecation

Coulrophobia – Fear of clowns

Cremnophobia – Fear of steep cliffs

Cryophobia – Fear of extreme cold

Crystallophobia – Fear of crystals or glass

Cyberphobia – Fear of computers

Cyclophobia – Fear of bicycles

Cynophobia – Fear of dogs

Decidophobia – Fear of making decisions

Defecaloesiophobia – Fear of painful bowel movements

Deipnophobia – Fear of dining with others

Dementophobia – Fear of going insane

Demonophobia – Fear of demons

Dendrophobia – Fear of trees

Dentophobia – Fear of dentists

Dermatophobia – Fear of skin lesions or skin disease

Dextrophobia – Fear of having objects to your right

Didaskaleinophobia – Fear of going to school

Dikephobia – Fear of justice

Dinophobia – Fear of dizziness

Diplophobia – Fear of double vision

Dipsophobia – Fear of drinking alcohol

Dishabiliophobia – Fear of undressing in front of another person

Domatophobia – Fear of houses

Doraphobia – Fear of animal fur or skins

Dromophobia – Fear of crossing streets or wandering

Dysmorphophobia – Fear of deformity

Dystychiphobia – Fear of accidents

Ebulliophobia – Fear of bubbles

Ecclesiophobia – Fear of church

Ecophobia – Fear of one’s home

Eisoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror

Electrophobia – Fear of electricity

Eleutherophobia – Fear of freedom

Emetophobia – Fear of vomiting

Enetophobia – Fear of pins

Enochlophobia – Fear of crowds

Enosiophobia – Fear of criticism or committing an unpardonable sin

Entomophobia – Fear of insects

Eosophobia – Fear of dawn or daylight

Ephebiphobia – Fear of adolescents or youth

Epistaxiophobia – Fear of nosebleeds

Epistemophobia – Fear of knowledge

Equinophobia – Fear of horses

Eremophobia – Fear of being oneself

Ereuthrophobia – Fear of blushing

Ergophobia – Fear of work

Erotophobia – Fear of sex or sexual intimacy

Euphobia – Fear of hearing good news

Eurotophobia – fear of female genitalia

Febriphobia – Fear of fever

Francophobia – Fear of France or French people

Frigophobia – Fear of becoming too cold

Gamophobia – Fear of marriage

Geliophobia – Fear of laughter

Geniophobia – Fear of chins

Genuphobia – Fear of knees

Gerascophobia – Fear of growing old

Globophobia – Fear of balloons

Glossophobia – Fear of public speaking

Gymnophobia – Fear of nudity

Gynophobia – Fear of women

Hadephobia – Fear of hell

Hagiophobia – Fear of holy people, places and things, like saints

Harpaxophobia – Fear of being robbed

Hedonophobia – Fear of feeling pleasure

Heliophobia – Fear of the sun

Hemophobia – Fear of blood

Herpetophobia – Fear of reptiles

Heterophobia – Fear of heterosexuals

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia – Fear of long words

Hodophobia – Fear of travel

Homichlophobia – Fear of fog or humidity

Homilophobia – Fear of sermons

Homophobia – Fear of homosexuality

Hoplophobia – Fear of firearms

Hydrophobia – Fear of water

Hylophobia – Fear of forests

Hypegiaphobia – Fear of responsibility

Hypochondria – Fear of illness

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Iatrophobia – Fear of doctors

Ichthyophobia – Fear of fish

Ideophobia – Fear of new ideas or thoughts

Illyngophobia – Fear of vertigo

Insectophobia – Fear of insects

Iophobia – Fear of poison

Isolophobia – Fear of isolation

Ithyphallophobia – Fear of an erection

Japanophobia – Fear of Japanese people

Judeophobia – Fear of Jews

Kainolophobia – Fear of novelty

Kakorrhaphiophobia – Fear of failure

Katagelophobia – Fear of ridicule

Kathisophobia – Fear of sitting down

Kenophobia – Fear of empty spaces

Kinemortophobia – Fear of zombies

Kinetophobia – Fear of motion

Kleptophobia – Fear of theft

Koinoniphobia – Fear of rooms that are full of people

Kopophobia – Fear of fatigue

Koniophobia – Fear of dust

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Lachanophobia – Fear of vegetables

Leprophobia – Fear of leprosy

Leukophobia – Fear of the color white

Ligyrophobia – Fear of loud noises

Lilapsophobia – Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes

Limnophobia – Fear of lakes

Linonophobia – Fear of string

Liticaphobia – Fear of lawsuits

Lockiophobia – Fear of childbirth

Logophobia – Fear of words

Luiphobia – Fear of syphilis

Lutraphobia – Fear of otters

Lygophobia – Fear of darkness

Mageirocophobia – Fear of cooking

Malaxophobia – Fear of love play

Mastigophobia – Fear of punishment

Mechanophobia – Fear of machines

Megalophobia – Fear of large things

Melanophobia – Fear of the color black

Melophobia – Fear of music

Menophobia – Fear of menstruation

Merinthophobia – Fear of being tied up

Metathesiophobia – Fear of changes

Methyphobia – Fear of drinking alcohol

Metrophobia – Fear of poetry

Microphobia – Fear of small things

Mnemophobia – Fear of memories

Motorphobia – Fear of automobiles

Musophobia – Fear of mice

Mycophobia – Fear of mushrooms

Myrmecophobia – Fear of ants

Mysophobia – Fear of dirt and germs

Myxophobia – Fear of slime

Necrophobia – Fear of death, dying and dead things

Neopharmaphobia – Fear of new drugs

Neophobia – Fear of anything new

Nephophobia – Fear of clouds

Noctiphobia – Fear of the night

Nomatophobia – Fear of names

Nomophobia – Fear of losing or being without your mobile phone

Nosocomephobia – Fear of hospitals

Nostophobia – Fear of returning home

Novercaphobia – Fear of stepmothers

Numerophobia – Fear of numbers

Nyctophobia – Fear of the dark

Obesophobia – Fear of gaining weight

Ochophobia – Fear of vehicles

Octophobia – Fear of the number 8

Odontophobia – Fear of dental surgery

Odynophobia – Fear of pain

Oenophobia – Fear of wines

Oikophobia – Fear of home

Olfactophobia – Fear of odors

Ombrophobia – Fear of rain

Ommetaphobia – Fear of eyes or eye care

Omphalophobia – Fear of belly buttons

Onomatophobia – Fear of certain words or names

Ophidiophobia – Fear of snakes

Ophthalmophobia – Fear of being stared at

Opiophobia – Fear of opioids

Optophobia – Fear of opening one’s eyes

Ornithophobia – Fear of birds

Osphresiophobia – Fear of smells

Ostraconophobia – Fear of shellfish

Ouranophobia – Fear of heaven

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Pagophobia – Fear of ice or frost

Panophobia – Fear of an unknown evil

Papaphobia – Fear of the Pope

Papyrophobia – Fear of paper

Parasitophobia – Fear of parasites

Pathophobia – Fear of disease

Peccatophobia – Fear of sinning

Pediophobia – Fear of dolls

Pedophobia – Fear of children

Pentheraphobia – Fear of your mother-in-law

Phalacrophobia – Fear of going bald

Pharmacophobia – Fear of medicines

Phasmophobia – Fear of ghosts

Philemaphobia – Fear of kissing

Philophobia – Fear of love

Phobophobia – Fear of phobias

Phonophobia – Fear of loud noises

Photophobia – Fear of light

Phthisiophobia – Fear of tuberculosis

Placophobia – Fear of tombstones

Plutophobia – Fear of money or wealth

Podophobia – Fear of feet

Pogonophobia – Fear of beards

Poinephobia – Fear of punishment

Porphyrophobia – Fear of the color purple

Proctophobia – Fear of rectums

Pteridophobia – Fear of ferns

Pteromerhanophobia – Fear of flying

Pupaphobia – Fear of puppets

Pyrophobia – Fear of fire

Quadraphobia – Fearing the number four

Quintaphobia – Fearing the number five

Quadriplegiaphobia – Fearing becoming a quadriplegic or being afraid of quadriplegics

Radiophobia – Fear of radiation, X rays

Ranidaphobia – Fear of frogs

Rhabdophobia – Fear of being beaten or punishment

Rhypophobia – Fear of defecation

Rhytiphobia – Fear of getting wrinkles

Rupophobia – Fear of dirt

Russophobia – Fear of Russians

Samhainophobia – Fear of Halloween

Sarmassophobia – Fear of love play

Satanophobia – Fear of Satan

Scabiophobia – Fear of scabies

Scelerophobia – Fear of bad men, burglars

Sciophobia – Fear of shadows

Scoleciphobia – Fear of worms

Scolionophobia – Fear of school

Scotomaphobia – Fear of blindness

Scriptophobia – Fear of writing in public

Selenophobia – Fear of the moon

Seplophobia – Fear of decaying matter

Sesquipedalophobia – Fear of long words

Siderodromophobia – Fear of trains

Siderophobia – Fear of stars

Sinistrophobia – Fear of left-handedness

Spectrophobia – Fear of mirrors or the undead

Spheksophobia – Fear of wasps

Social Phobia – Fear of social evaluation

Somniphobia – Fear of sleep

Staurophobia – Fear of the crucifix

Stenophobia – Fear of narrow places

Symbolophobia – Fear of symbolism

Symmetrophobia – Fear of symmetry

Syngenesophobia – Fear of relatives

Syphilophobia – Fear of syphilis

Tachophobia – Fear of speed

Taphephobia – Fear of being buried alive

Tapinophobia – Fear of being contagious

Taurophobia – Fear of bulls

Technophobia – Fear of technology

Teleophobia – Fear of definite plans

Testophobia – Fear of taking tests

Thalassophobia – Fear of the sea

Thanatophobia – Fear of death or dying

Theatrophobia – Fear of theaters

Thermophobia – Fear of heat

Tocophobia – Fear of childbirth

Tonitrophobia – Fear of thunder

Toxiphobia – Fear of poison

Traumatophobia – Fear of injury

Tremophobia – Fear of trembling

Trichopathophobia – Fear of hair disease

Trichophobia – Fear of loose hair

Triskaidekaphobia – Fear of the number 13

Trypanophobia – Fear of needles or injections

Turophobia – Fear of cheese

Uranophobia – Fear of heaven

Urophobia – Fear of urine or urinating

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Vaccinophobia – Fear of vaccinations

Venustraphobia – Fear of beautiful women

Verbophobia – Fear of words

Verminophobia – Fear of germs

Vestiphobia – Fear of clothing

Virginitiphobia – Fear of rape

Vitricophobia – Fear of stepfathers

Walloonophobia – Fear of the Walloons, an ethnic group native to Belgium

Wiccaphobia – Fear of witches and witchcraft

Xenophobia – Fear of strangers or foreigners

Xanthophobia – Fear of the color yellow

Xenophobia – Fear of strangers

Xerophobia – Fear of dryness

Xylophobia – Fear of forests

Ymophobia – Fear of being contrary or contrariety in general

Zelophobia – Fear of jealousy

Zemmiphobia – Fear of the great mole rat

Zeusophobia – Fear of God or gods

Zoophobia – Fear of animals