Philia Quirks Are All About Strange Love

Philia Quirks are all about strange love, or any love that is about the norm.
For example, Tumblrkids love gifs, but if

you have a massive collection of thousands of gifs on your computer, you may have a philia. (You like that combo
quirk don’t you? We knew you would.)
Here is a massive collection of philia quirks. This is by no means a list of all the things there are to love obsessively
in the world, so don’t feel like you have to stick to only the philias listed here!
 A
o Ablutophilia - Abnormal affection for washing or bathing
o Acarophilia - Abnormal affection for itching or of the insects that cause itching
o Acerophilia - Abnormal affection for sourness
o Achluophilia - Abnormal affection for darkness
o Acousticophilia - Abnormal affection for noise
o Acrophilia - Abnormal affection for heights
o Aerophilia - Abnormal affection for drafts, air-swallowing, or airborne noxious substances
o Aeroacrophilia - Abnormal affection for open high places
o Agateophilia - Abnormal affection for insanity
o Agliophilia - Abnormal affection for pain
o Agoraphilia - Abnormal affection for open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like
markets
o Agraphilia - Abnormal affection for sexual abuse
o Agrizoophilia - Abnormal affection for wild animals
o Agyrophilia - Abnormal affection for streets or crossing the street
o Aichmophilia - Abnormal affection for needles or pointed objects
o Ailurophilia - Abnormal affection for cats
o Alektorophilia - Abnormal affection for chickens
o Algophilia - Abnormal affection for pain
o Alliumphilia - Abnormal affection for garlic
o Altophilia - Abnormal affection for heights
o Amathophilia - Abnormal affection for dust

o Amaxophilia - Abnormal affection for riding in a car
o Ambulophilia - Abnormal affection for walking
o Ammophilia - Love of sand and sandy places
o Amnesiphilia - Abnormal affection for amnesia
o Amychophilia - Abnormal affection for scratches or being scratched
o Anablephilia - Abnormal affection for looking up
o Ancraophilia - Abnormal affection for wind (Anemophilia)
o Androphilia - Abnormal affection for men
o Anemophilia - Abnormal affection for air drafts or wind (Ancraophilia)
o Anginophilia - Abnormal affection for angina, choking or narrowness
o Anglophilia - Abnormal affection for England or English culture, etc
o Angrophilia - Abnormal affection for anger or of becoming angry
o Ankylophilia - Abnormal affection for immobility of a joint
o Anthrophilia or Anthophilia - Abnormal affection for flowers
o Anthropophilia - Abnormal affection for people or society
o Antlophilia - Abnormal affection for floods
o Anuptaphilia - Abnormal affection for staying single
o Apeirophilia - Abnormal affection for infinity
o Aphenphosmphilia - Abnormal affection for being touched (Haphephilia)
o Apiphilia - Abnormal affection for bees
o Apotemnophilia - Abnormal affection for persons with amputations; Desire to amputate a healthy
limb
o Arachibutyrophilia - Abnormal affection for peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
o Arachnephilia or Arachnophilia - Abnormal affection for spiders
o Arithmophilia - Abnormal affection for numbers
o Arrhenphilia - Abnormal affection for men

o Arsonphilia - Abnormal affection for fire
o Asthenophilia - Abnormal affection for fainting or weakness
o Astraphilia or Astrapophilia - Abnormal affection for thunder and lightning (Ceraunophilia,

Keraunophilia)
o Astrophilia - Abnormal affection for stars or celestial space
o Asymmetriphilia - Abnormal affection for asymmetrical things
o Ataxophilia - Abnormal affection for disorder or untidiness
o Atelophilia - Abnormal affection for imperfection
o Atephilia - Abnormal affection for ruin or ruins
o Athazagoraphilia - Abnormal affection for being forgotten or ignored or forgetting
o Atomosophilia - Abnormal affection for atomic explosions
o Atychiphilia - Abnormal affection for failure
o Aulophilia - Abnormal affection for flutes
o Aurophilia - Abnormal affection for gold
o Auroraphilia - Abnormal affection for Northern lights
o Autodysomophilia - Abnormal affection for one that has a vile odor
o Autogynephilia - Love of oneself as a woman
o Automatonophilia - Abnormal affection for ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax

statues, anything that falsely represents a sentient being
o Automysophilia - Abnormal affection for being dirty
o Autophilia - Abnormal affection for being alone or of oneself
o Aviophilia or Aviatophilia - Abnormal affection for flying
 B
o Bacillophilia - Abnormal affection for microbes
o Bacteriophilia - Abnormal affection for bacteria
o Ballistophilia - Abnormal affection for missiles or bullets
o Barophilia - Abnormal affection for gravity

o Basophilia or Basiphilia - Inability to stand
o Bathmophilia - Abnormal affection for stairs or steep slopes
o Bathophilia - Abnormal affection for depth
o Batophilia - Abnormal affection for heights or being close to high buildings
o Batrachophilia - Abnormal affection for amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc
o Belonephilia - Abnormal affection for pins and needles (Aichmophilia)
o Bibliophilia - Abnormal affection for books
o Blennophilia - Abnormal affection for slime
o Bogyphilia - Abnormal affection for bogeys or the bogeyman
o Botanophilia - Abnormal affection for plants
o Bromidrosiphilia or Bromidrophilia - Abnormal affection for body smells
o Brontophilia - Abnormal affection for thunder and lightning
o Bufonophilia - Abnormal affection for toads
 C
o Cacophilia - Abnormal affection for ugliness
o Cainophilia or Cainotophilia - Abnormal affection for newness, novelty
o Caligynephilia - Abnormal affection for beautiful women
o Canophilia - Love of dogs
o Cardiophilia - Abnormal affection for the heart
o Carnophilia - Abnormal affection for meat
o Catagelophilia - Abnormal affection for being ridiculed
o Catapedaphilia - Abnormal affection for jumping from high and low places
o Cathisophilia - Abnormal affection for sitting
o Catoptrophilia - Abnormal affection for mirrors
o Cenophilia or Centophilia - Abnormal affection for new things or ideas

o Ceraunophilia or Keraunophilia - Abnormal affection for thunder and lightning (Astraphilia,
Astrapophilia)
o Chaetophilia - Abnormal affection for hair
o Chasmophilia - Love of small places
o Cheimaphilia or Cheimatophilia - Abnormal affection for cold (Frigophilia, Psychophilia)
o Chemophilia - Abnormal affection for chemicals or working with chemicals
o Cherophilia - Abnormal affection for gaiety
o Chionophilia - Abnormal affection for snow
o Chiraptophilia - Abnormal affection for being touched
o Chirophilia - Abnormal affection for hands
o Chiropterophilia - Love of bats
o Cholerophilia - Abnormal affection for anger or the Abnormal affection for cholera
o Chorophilia - Abnormal affection for dancing
o Chrometophilia or Chrematophilia - Abnormal affection for money
o Chromophilia or Chromatophilia - Abnormal affection for colors
o Chronophilia - Abnormal affection for time
o Chronomentrophilia - Abnormal affection for clocks
o Chrysophilia - Love of gold
o Cibophilia - Abnormal affection for food (Sitophilia, Sitiophilia)
o Claustrophilia - Abnormal affection for confined spaces
o Cleithrophilia or Cleisiophilia - Abnormal affection for being locked in an enclosed place
o Cleptophilia - Abnormal affection for stealing
o Climacophilia - Abnormal affection for stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs
o Clinophilia - Abnormal affection for going to bed
o Clithrophilia or Cleithrophilia - Abnormal affection for being enclosed
o Cnidophilia - Abnormal affection for stings

o Cometophilia - Abnormal affection for comets
o Coimetrophilia - Abnormal affection for cemeteries
o Coitophilia - Abnormal affection for coitus
o Contreltophilia - Abnormal affection for sexual abuse
o Coprastasophilia - Abnormal affection for constipation
o Coprophilia - Abnormal affection for feces
o Consecotaleophilia - Abnormal affection for chopsticks
o Coulrophilia - Abnormal affection for clowns
o Counterphilia - The preference by a phobic for fearful situations
o Cremnophilia - Abnormal affection for precipices
o Cryophilia - Abnormal affection for extreme cold, ice or frost
o Crystallophilia - Abnormal affection for crystals or glass
o Cyberphilia - Abnormal affection for computers or working on a computer
o Cyclophilia - Abnormal affection for bicycles
o Cymophilia or Kymophilia - Abnormal affection for waves or wave like motions
o Cynophilia - Abnormal affection for dogs or rabies
o Cypridophilia or Cypriphilia or Cyprianophilia or Cyprinophilia - Abnormal affection for

prostitutes or venereal disease
 D
o Decidophilia - Abnormal affection for making decisions
o Defecaloesiophilia - Abnormal affection for painful bowels movements
o Deipnophilia - Abnormal affection for dining or dinner conversations
o Dementophilia - Abnormal affection for insanity
o Demonophilia or Daemonophilia - Abnormal affection for demons
o Demophilia - Abnormal affection for crowds (Agoraphilia)
o Dendrophilia - Abnormal affection for trees

o Dextrophilia - Abnormal affection for objects at the right side of the body
o Diabetophilia - Abnormal affection for diabetes
o Didaskaleinophilia - Abnormal affection for going to school
o Dikephilia - Abnormal affection for justice
o Dinophilia - Abnormal affection for dizziness or whirlpools
o Diplophilia - Abnormal affection for double vision
o Dipsophilia - Abnormal affection for drinking
o Dishabiliophilia - Abnormal affection for undressing in front of someone
o Domatophilia - Abnormal affection for houses or being in a house (Eicophilia, Oikophilia)
o Doraphilia - Abnormal affection for fur or skins of animals
o Doxophilia - Abnormal affection for expressing opinions or of receiving praise
o Dromophilia - Abnormal affection for crossing streets
o Dutchphilia - Abnormal affection for the Dutch
o Dysmorphophilia - Abnormal affection for deformity
o Dystychiphilia - Abnormal affection for accidents
 E
o Ecclesiophilia - Abnormal affection for church
o Ecophilia - Abnormal affection for home
o Eicophilia - Abnormal affection for home surroundings (Domatophilia, Oikophilia)
o Eisoptrophilia - Abnormal affection for mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror
o Electrophilia - Abnormal affection for electricity
o Eleutherophilia - Abnormal affection for freedom
o Elurophilia - Abnormal affection for cats (Ailurophilia)
o Emetophilia - Abnormal affection for vomiting
o Enetophilia - Abnormal affection for pins
o Enochlophilia - Abnormal affection for crowds

o Enosiophilia or Enissophilia - Abnormal affection for committing unpardonable sins or of criticism
o Entomophilia - Abnormal affection for insects
o Eosophilia - Abnormal affection for dawn or daylight
o Ephebiphilia - Abnormal affection for teenagers
o Epistaxiophilia - Abnormal affection for nosebleeds
o Epistemophilia - Abnormal affection for knowledge
o Equinophilia - Abnormal affection for horses
o Eremophilia - Abnormal affection for being oneself or of loneliness
o Ereuthrophilia - Abnormal affection for blushing
o Ergasiophilia - 1) Abnormal affection for work or functioning 2) Surgeon’s Abnormal affection for
operating
o Ergophilia - Abnormal affection for work
o Erotophilia - Abnormal affection for sexual love or sexual questions
o Euphilia - Abnormal affection for hearing good news
o Eurotophilia - Abnormal affection for female genitalia
o Erythrophilia or Erytophilia or Ereuthophilia - 1) Abnormal affection for red-lights 2) Blushing 3)

Red
 F
o Felinophilia - Abnormal affection for cats (Ailurophilia, Elurophilia, Galeophilia, Gatophilia)
o Francophilia - Abnormal affection for France or French culture (Gallophilia, Galiophilia)
o Frigophilia - Abnormal affection for cold or cold things (Cheimaphilia, Cheimatophilia,

Psychrophilia)
 G
o Galeophilia or Gatophilia - Abnormal affection for cats
o Gallophilia or Galiophilia - Fear France or French culture (Francophilia)
o Gamophilia - Abnormal affection for marriage
o Geliophilia - Abnormal affection for laughter
o Geniophilia - Abnormal affection for chins

o Genophilia - Abnormal affection for sex
o Genuphilia - Abnormal affection for knees
o Geophilia - Love of earth or geology
o Gerascophilia - Abnormal affection for growing old
o Germanophilia - Abnormal affection for Germany or German culture
o Gerontophilia - Abnormal affection for old people or of growing old
o Geumaphilia or Geumophilia - Abnormal affection for taste
o Glossophilia - Abnormal affection for speaking in public or of trying to speak
o Gnosiophilia - Abnormal affection for knowledge
o Graphophilia - Abnormal affection for writing or handwriting
o Gymnophilia - Abnormal affection for nudity
o Gynephilia or Gynophilia - Abnormal affection for women
o Gynotikolobomassophilia - Love of biting a female’s earlobes
 H
o Hadephilia - Abnormal affection for the idea or study of hell
o Hagiophilia - Abnormal affection for saints or holy things
o Halophilia - Love of salt or salt-water
o Hamartophilia - Abnormal affection for sinning
o Haphephilia or Haptephilia - Abnormal affection for being touched
o Harpaxophilia - Abnormal affection for being robbed
o Hedonophilia - Abnormal affection for feeling pleasure
o Heliophilia - Abnormal affection for the sun or sunlight
o Hellenologophilia - Abnormal affection for Greek terms or complex scientific terminology
o Helminthophilia - Abnormal affection for being infested with worms
o Hemophilia or Hemaphilia or Hematophilia - Abnormal affection for blood

o Heresyphilia or Hereiophilia - Abnormal affection for challenges to official doctrine or of radical
deviation
o Herpetophilia - Abnormal affection for reptiles or creepy, crawly things
o Heterophilia - Abnormal affection for the opposite sex (Sexophilia)
o Hierophilia - Abnormal affection for priests or sacred things
o Hippophilia - Abnormal affection for horses
o Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophilia - Abnormal affection for long words
o Hobophilia - Abnormal affection for bums or beggars
o Hodophilia - Abnormal affection for road travel
o Hormephilia - Abnormal affection for shock
o Homichlophilia - Abnormal affection for fog
o Homilophilia - Abnormal affection for sermons
o Hominophilia - Abnormal affection for men
o Homophilia - Abnormal affection for sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming

homosexual
o Hoplophilia - Abnormal affection for firearms
o Hydrargyophilia - Abnormal affection for mercurial medicines
o Hydrophilia - Abnormal affection for water
o Hydrophobophilia - Abnormal affection for rabies
o Hyelophilia or Hyalophilia - Abnormal affection for glass
o Hygrophilia - Abnormal affection for liquids, dampness, or moisture
o Hylephilia - Abnormal affection for materialism or the Abnormal affection for epilepsy
o Hylophilia - Abnormal affection for forests
o Hypengyophilia or Hypegiaphilia - Abnormal affection for responsibility
o Hypnophilia - Abnormal affection for sleep or of being hypnotized
o Hypsiphilia - Abnormal affection for height
 I
o Iatrophilia - Abnormal affection for going to the doctor or of doctors
o Ichthyophilia - Abnormal affection for fish
o Iconophilia - Love of pictures and symbols
o Ideophilia - Abnormal affection for ideas
o Illyngophilia - Abnormal affection for vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down
o Iophilia - Abnormal affection for poison
o Insectophilia - Abnormal affection for insects
o Isolophilia - Abnormal affection for solitude, being alone
o Isopterophilia - Abnormal affection for termites, insects that eat wood
o Ithyphallophilia - Abnormal affection for seeing, thinking about, or having an erect penis
 J
o Japanophilia - Abnormal affection for Japanese
o Judeophilia - Abnormal affection for Jews
 K
o Kainolophilia or Kainophilia - Abnormal affection for anything new, novelty
o Kakorrhaphiophilia - Abnormal affection for failure or defeat
o Katagelophilia - Abnormal affection for ridicule
o Kathisophilia - Abnormal affection for sitting down
o Kenophilia - Abnormal affection for voids or empty spaces
o Keraunophilia or Ceraunophilia - Abnormal affection for thunder and lightning (Astraphilia,

Astrapophilia)
o Kinetophilia or Kinesophilia - Abnormal affection for movement or motion
o Kleptophilia - Abnormal affection for stealing
o Koinoniphilia - Abnormal affection for rooms
o Kolpophilia - Abnormal affection for genitals, particularly female
o Kopophilia - Abnormal affection for fatigue

o Koniophilia - Abnormal affection for dust (Amathophilia)
o Kosmikophilia - Abnormal affection for cosmic phenomenon
o Kymophilia - Abnormal affection for waves (Cymophilia)
o Kynophilia - Abnormal affection for rabies
o Kyphophilia - Abnormal affection for stooping
 L
o Lachanophilia - Abnormal affection for vegetables
o Laliophilia or Lalophilia - Abnormal affection for speaking
o Leprophilia or Lepraphilia - Abnormal affection for leprosy
o Leukophilia - Abnormal affection for the color white
o Levophilia - Abnormal affection for things to the left side of the body
o Ligyrophilia - Abnormal affection for loud noises
o Lilapsophilia - Abnormal affection for tornadoes and hurricanes
o Limnophilia - Abnormal affection for lakes, ponds, or marshes
o Linonophilia - Abnormal affection for string
o Lithophilia - Love of stones
o Lockiophilia - Abnormal affection for childbirth
o Logizomechanophilia - Abnormal affection for computers
o Logophilia - Abnormal affection for words
o Lutraphilia - Abnormal affection for otters
o Lygophilia – Love of darkness
o Lyssophilia - Abnormal affection for rabies or of becoming mad
 M
o Macrophilia - Abnormal affection for long waits
o Mageirocophilia - Abnormal affection for cooking
o Maieusiophilia - Abnormal affection for childbirth

o Malaxophilia - Abnormal affection for love play (Sarmassophilia)
o Maniaphilia - Abnormal affection for insanity
o Mastigophilia - Abnormal affection for punishment
o Mechanophilia - Abnormal affection for machines
o Megalophilia - Abnormal affection for large things
o Melissophilia - Abnormal affection for bees
o Melanophilia - Abnormal affection for the color black
o Melophilia - Love of music
o Menophilia - Abnormal affection for menstruation
o Merinthophilia - Abnormal affection for being bound or tied up
o Metallophilia - Abnormal affection for metal
o Metathesiophilia - Abnormal affection for changes
o Meteorophilia - Abnormal affection for meteors
o Methyphilia - Abnormal affection for alcohol
o Metrophilia - Love of poetry
o Microphilia - Abnormal affection for small things
o Misophilia or Mysophilia - Abnormal affection for being contaminated with dirt or germs
o Molysmophilia or Molysomophilia - Abnormal affection for dirt or contamination
o Monophilia - Abnormal affection for solitude or being alone
o Monopathophilia - Abnormal affection for definite disease
o Mottephilia - Abnormal affection for moths
o Musophilia or Muriphilia - Abnormal affection for mice
o Mycophilia – Love of mushrooms
o Mycrophilia - Abnormal affection for small things
o Myctophilia - Abnormal affection for darkness
o Myrmecophilia - Abnormal affection for ants

o Mythophilia - Abnormal affection for myths or stories or false statements
 N
o Myxophilia - Abnormal affection for slime (Blennophilia)
o Nebulaphilia - Abnormal affection for fog (Homichlophilia)
o Necrophilia - Abnormal affection for death or dead things
o Negrophilia - Love of black people
o Nelophilia - Abnormal affection for glass
o Neophilia - Abnormal affection for anything new; Love of the latest novelties and trends
o Nephophilia - Abnormal affection for clouds
o Noctiphilia or Nyctophilia - Abnormal affection for the night
o Nomatophilia - Abnormal affection for names
o Nosocomephilia - Abnormal affection for hospitals
o Nosophilia or Nosemaphilia - Abnormal affection for becoming ill
o Nudophilia - Abnormal affection for nudity
o Numerophilia - Abnormal affection for numbers
o Nyctohylophilia - Abnormal affection for dark wooded areas or of forests at night
 O
o Obesophilia - Abnormal affection for gaining weight (Pocrescophilia)
o Ochlophilia - Abnormal affection for crowds or mobs
o Ochophilia - Abnormal affection for vehicles
o Octophilia - Abnormal affection for the figure 8
o Odynophilia or Odynephilia - Abnormal affection for pain (Algophilia)
o Oenophilia - Abnormal affection for wines
o Oikophilia - Abnormal affection for home surroundings, house (Domatophilia, Eicophilia)
o Olfactophilia - Abnormal affection for smells
o Ombrophilia - Abnormal affection for rain or of being rained on

o Ommetaphilia or Ommatophilia - Abnormal affection for eyes
o Oneirophilia - Abnormal affection for dreams
o Oneirogmophilia - Abnormal affection for wet dreams
o Onomatophilia - Abnormal affection for hearing a certain word or of names
o Ophidiophilia - Abnormal affection for snakes (Snakephilia)
o Ornithophilia - Abnormal affection for birds
o Orthophilia - Abnormal affection for property
o Osmophilia or Osphresiophilia - Abnormal affection for smells or odors
o Ostraconophilia - Abnormal affection for shellfish
o Ouranophilia or Uranophilia - Abnormal affection for heaven
 P
o Pagophilia - Abnormal affection for ice or frost
o Panthophilia - Abnormal affection for suffering and disease
o Panophilia or Pantophilia - Abnormal affection for everything
o Papyrophilia - Abnormal affection for paper
o Paraphilia - Abnormal affection for sexual perversion
o Parasitophilia - Abnormal affection for parasites
o Paraskavedekatriaphilia - Abnormal affection for Friday the 13th
o Parthenophilia - Abnormal affection for virgins or young girls
o Pathophilia - Abnormal affection for disease
o Parturiphilia - Abnormal affection for childbirth
o Peccatophilia - Abnormal affection for sinning or imaginary crimes
o Pediculophilia - Abnormal affection for lice
o Pediophilia - Abnormal affection for dolls
o Pedophilia - Abnormal affection for children
o Peladophilia - Abnormal affection for bald people

o Peniaphilia - Abnormal affection for poverty
o Peristerophilia - Love of pigeons
o Petrophilia - Love of living or spending time in rocky areas
o Phagophilia - Abnormal affection for swallowing or of eating or of being eaten
o Phasmophilia - Abnormal affection for ghosts
o Phengophilia - Abnormal affection for daylight or sunshine
o Philalethia - Love of the truth
o Philemaphilia or Philematophilia - Abnormal affection for kissing
o Phobaphilia - Abnormal affection for falling in love or being in love
o Philosophilia - Abnormal affection for philosophy
o Photoaugliaphilia - Abnormal affection for glaring lights
o Photophilia - Abnormal affection for light
o Phonophilia - Abnormal affection for noises or voices or one’s own voice; of telephones
o Phronemophilia - Abnormal affection for thinking
o Phthiriophilia - Abnormal affection for lice (Pediculophilia)
o Phthisiophilia - Abnormal affection for tuberculosis
o Placophilia - Abnormal affection for tombstones
o Plutophilia - Abnormal affection for wealth
o Pluviophilia - Abnormal affection for rain or of being rained on
o Pneumatiphilia - Abnormal affection for spirits
o Pnigophilia or Pnigerophilia - Abnormal affection for choking of being smothered
o Pocrescophilia - Abnormal affection for gaining weight (Obesophilia)
o Pogonophilia - Abnormal affection for beards
o Poliosophilia - Abnormal affection for contracting poliomyelitis
o Politicophilia - Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians
o Polyphilia - Abnormal affection for many things

o Poinephilia - Abnormal affection for punishment
o Ponophilia - Abnormal affection for overworking or of pain
o Porphyrophilia - Abnormal affection for the color purple
o Potamophilia - Abnormal affection for rivers or running water
o Potophilia - Abnormal affection for alcohol
o Proctophilia - Abnormal affection for rectums
o Prosophilia - Abnormal affection for progress
o Psellismophilia - Abnormal affection for stuttering
o Psychophilia - Abnormal affection for mind
o Psychrophilia - Abnormal affection for cold
o Pteromerhanophilia - Abnormal affection for flying
o Pteronophilia - Abnormal affection for being tickled by feathers
o Pupaphilia - Abnormal affection for puppets
o Pyrophilia - Abnormal affection for fire
 R
o Radiophilia - Abnormal affection for radiation, x-rays
o Ranidaphilia - Abnormal affection for frogs
o Retrophilia - Love of things of the past
o Rhabdophilia - Abnormal affection for being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being
severely criticized; Abnormal affection for magic
o Rheophilia - Love of living or spending time in running water
o Rhypophilia - Abnormal affection for defecation
o Rhytiphilia - Abnormal affection for getting wrinkles
o Rupophilia - Abnormal affection for dirt
o Russophilia - Abnormal affection for Russians
 S
o Samhainophilia: Abnormal affection for Halloween
o Sarcophilia - Love of flesh
o Sarmassophilia - Abnormal affection for love play (Malaxophilia)
o Satanophilia - Abnormal affection for Satan
o Scatophilia - Abnormal affection for fecal matter
o Scelerophibia- Abnormal affection for bad men, burglars
o Sciophilia or Sciaphilia - Abnormal affection for shadows
o Scoleciphilia - Abnormal affection for worms
o Scolionophilia - Abnormal affection for school
o Scopophilia or Scoptophilia - Abnormal affection for being seen or stared at
o Scotomaphilia - Abnormal affection for blindness in visual field
o Scotophilia - Abnormal affection for darkness (Achluophilia)
o Scriptophilia - Abnormal affection for writing in public
o Selachophilia - Abnormal affection for sharks
o Selaphilia - Abnormal affection for light flashes
o Selenophilia - Abnormal affection for the moon
o Seplophilia - Abnormal affection for decaying matter
o Sesquipedalophilia - Abnormal affection for long words
o Sexophilia - Abnormal affection for the opposite sex (Heterophilia)
o Siderodromophilia - Abnormal affection for trains, railroads or train travel
o Siderophilia - Abnormal affection for stars
o Sinistrophilia - Abnormal affection for things to the left or left-handed
o Sinophilia - Abnormal affection for Chinese, Chinese culture
o Sitophilia or Sitiophilia - Abnormal affection for food or eating (Cibophilia)
o Snakephilia - Abnormal affection for snakes (Ophidiophilia)
o Soceraphilia - Abnormal affection for parents-in-law

o Socialphilia - Abnormal affection for being evaluated negatively in social situations
o Sociophilia - Abnormal affection for society or people in general
o Somniphilia - Abnormal affection for sleep
o Sophophilia - Abnormal affection for learning
o Soteriophilia - Abnormal affection for dependence on others
o Spacephilia - Abnormal affection for outer space
o Spectrophilia - Abnormal affection for specters or ghosts
o Spermatophilia or Spermophilia - Abnormal affection for germs
o Spheksophilia - Abnormal affection for wasps
o Staurophilia - Abnormal affection for crosses or the crucifix
o Stenophilia - Abnormal affection for narrow things or places
o Stigmatophilia - Love of tattooing or branding
o Stygiophilia or Stigiophilia - Abnormal affection for hell
o Suriphilia - Abnormal affection for mice
o Symbolophilia - Abnormal affection for symbolism
o Symmetrophilia - Abnormal affection for symmetry
o Syngenesophilia - Abnormal affection for relatives
 T
o Tachophilia - Abnormal affection for speed
o Taeniophilia or Teniophilia - Abnormal affection for tapeworms
o Taphephilia or Taphophilia - Abnormal affection for being buried alive or of cemeteries
o Tapinophilia - Abnormal affection for being contagious
o Taurophilia - Abnormal affection for bulls
o Technophilia - Abnormal affection for technology
o Teleophilia - 1) Abnormal affection for definite plans 2) Religious ceremony
o Telephonophilia - Abnormal affection for telephones

o Teratophilia - Abnormal affection for bearing a deformed child or Abnormal affection for monsters
or deformed people
o Testophilia - Abnormal affection for taking tests
o Teutophilia - Abnormal affection for German or German things
o Textophilia - Abnormal affection for certain fabrics
o Thaasophilia - Abnormal affection for sitting
o Thalassophilia - Abnormal affection for the sea
o Thanatophilia or Thantophilia - Abnormal affection for death or dying
o Theatrophilia - Abnormal affection for theatres
o Theologicophilia - Abnormal affection for theology
o Theophilia - Abnormal affection for gods or religion
o Thermophilia - Abnormal affection for heat
o Tocophilia - Abnormal affection for pregnancy or childbirth
o Tomophilia - Abnormal affection for surgical operations
o Tonitrophilia - Abnormal affection for thunder
o Topophilia - Abnormal affection for certain places or situations
o Toxiphilia or Toxophilia or Toxicophilia - Abnormal affection for poison or of being accidently

poisoned
o Toxophilia - Love of archery
o Traumatophilia - Abnormal affection for injury
o Tremophilia - Abnormal affection for trembling
o Trichinophilia - Abnormal affection for trichinosis
o Trichopathophilia or Trichophilia - Abnormal affection for hair (Chaetophilia, Hypertrichophilia)
o Triskaidekaphilia - Abnormal affection for the number 13
o Tropophilia - Abnormal affection for moving or making changes
o Trypanophilia - Abnormal affection for injections
o Tuberculophilia - Abnormal affection for tuberculosis

o Turophilia - Love of cheese
o Typhlophilia - Love of the blind
 U
o Uranophilia or Ouranophilia - Abnormal affection for heaven
o Urophilia - Abnormal affection for urine or urinating
 V
o Venustraphilia - Abnormal affection for beautiful women
o Verbophilia - Abnormal affection for words
o Verminophilia - Abnormal affection for germs
o Vestiphilia - Abnormal affection for clothing
 W
o Wiccaphilia - Abnormal affection for witches and witchcraft
 X
o Xanthophilia - Abnormal affection for the color yellow or the word yellow
o Xenoglossophilia - Abnormal affection for foreign languages
o Xenophilia - Abnormal affection for strangers or foreigners
o Xerophilia - Abnormal affection for dryness
o Xylophilia - 1) Abnormal affection for wooden objects 2) Forests
o Xyrophilia -Abnormal affection for razors
 Z
o Zelophilia - Abnormal affection for jealousy
o Zeusophilia - Abnormal affection for God or gods
o Zemmiphilia - Abnormal affection for the great mole rat
o Zoophilia - Abnormal affection for animals

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o Ablutophilia - Abnormal affection for washing or bathing

o Acerophilia - Abnormal affection for sourness

o Achluophilia - Abnormal affection for darkness

o Acousticophilia - Abnormal affection for noise

o Acrophilia - Abnormal affection for heights

o Aerophilia - Abnormal affection for drafts, air-swallowing, or airborne noxious substances

o Aeroacrophilia - Abnormal affection for open high places

o Agateophilia - Abnormal affection for insanity

o Agliophilia - Abnormal affection for pain

o Agraphilia - Abnormal affection for sexual abuse

o Agrizoophilia - Abnormal affection for wild animals

o Agyrophilia - Abnormal affection for streets or crossing the street

o Aichmophilia - Abnormal affection for needles or pointed objects

o Ailurophilia - Abnormal affection for cats

o Alektorophilia - Abnormal affection for chickens

o Algophilia - Abnormal affection for pain

o Alliumphilia - Abnormal affection for garlic

o Altophilia - Abnormal affection for heights

o Amathophilia - Abnormal affection for dust

o Ambulophilia - Abnormal affection for walking

o Ammophilia - Love of sand and sandy places

o Amnesiphilia - Abnormal affection for amnesia

o Amychophilia - Abnormal affection for scratches or being scratched

o Anablephilia - Abnormal affection for looking up

o Ancraophilia - Abnormal affection for wind (Anemophilia)

o Androphilia - Abnormal affection for men

o Anemophilia - Abnormal affection for air drafts or wind (Ancraophilia)

o Anginophilia - Abnormal affection for angina, choking or narrowness

o Anglophilia - Abnormal affection for England or English culture, etc

o Angrophilia - Abnormal affection for anger or of becoming angry

o Ankylophilia - Abnormal affection for immobility of a joint

o Anthrophilia or Anthophilia - Abnormal affection for flowers

o Anthropophilia - Abnormal affection for people or society

o Antlophilia - Abnormal affection for floods

o Anuptaphilia - Abnormal affection for staying single

o Apeirophilia - Abnormal affection for infinity

o Aphenphosmphilia - Abnormal affection for being touched (Haphephilia)

o Apiphilia - Abnormal affection for bees

o Arachnephilia or Arachnophilia - Abnormal affection for spiders

o Arithmophilia - Abnormal affection for numbers

o Arrhenphilia - Abnormal affection for men

o Asthenophilia - Abnormal affection for fainting or weakness

o Astraphilia or Astrapophilia - Abnormal affection for thunder and lightning (Ceraunophilia,

o Astrophilia - Abnormal affection for stars or celestial space

o Asymmetriphilia - Abnormal affection for asymmetrical things

o Ataxophilia - Abnormal affection for disorder or untidiness

o Atelophilia - Abnormal affection for imperfection

o Atephilia - Abnormal affection for ruin or ruins

o Athazagoraphilia - Abnormal affection for being forgotten or ignored or forgetting

o Atomosophilia - Abnormal affection for atomic explosions

o Atychiphilia - Abnormal affection for failure

o Aulophilia - Abnormal affection for flutes

o Aurophilia - Abnormal affection for gold

o Auroraphilia - Abnormal affection for Northern lights

o Autodysomophilia - Abnormal affection for one that has a vile odor

o Autogynephilia - Love of oneself as a woman

o Automatonophilia - Abnormal affection for ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax

o Automysophilia - Abnormal affection for being dirty

o Autophilia - Abnormal affection for being alone or of oneself

o Aviophilia or Aviatophilia - Abnormal affection for flying

o Bacillophilia - Abnormal affection for microbes

o Bacteriophilia - Abnormal affection for bacteria