Common Phobias
A | B | C | D | E | F | G| H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W
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| Fear of Animals. | Zoophobia |
| Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians. | Politicophobia |
| Fear of accidents. | Dystychiphobia |
| Fear of air drafts or wind. | Anemophobia |
| Fear of alcohol. | Methyphobia |
| Fear of alcohol. | Potophobia |
| Fear of amnesia. | Amnesiphobia |
| Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc. | Batrachophobia |
| Fear of an erect penis. | Medorthophobia |
| Fear of anger or of becoming angry. | Angrophobia |
| Fear of anger or the fear of cholera. | Cholerophobia |
| Fear of angina, choking or narrowness. | Anginophobia |
| Fear of ants. | Myrmecophobia |
| Fear of anything new, novelty. | Kainophobia |
| Fear of anything new. | Neophobia |
| Fear of asymmetrical things. | Asymmetriphobia |
| Fear of ataxia (muscular incoordination) | Ataxiophobia |
| Fear of atomic explosions. | Atomosophobia |
| Fear of automobiles. | Motorphobia |
| Fear or aversion to mushrooms. | Mycophobia |
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| Fear of Bolsheviks. | Bolshephobia |
| Fear of bacteria. | Bacteriophobia |
| Fear of bad men, burglars. | Scelerophibia |
| Fear of bald people. | Peladophobia |
| Fear of beards. | Pogonophobia |
| Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people. | Teratophobia |
| Fear of beautiful women. | Caligynephobia |
| Fear of beautiful women. | Venustraphobia |
| Fear of becoming bald. | Phalacrophobia |
| Fear of becoming ill. | Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia |
| Fear of bees. | Apiphobia |
| Fear of bees. | Melissophobia |
| Fear of being alone or of oneself. | Autophobia |
| Fear of being bound or tied up. | Merinthophobia |
| Fear of being buried alive | Taphephobia Taphophobia |
| Fear of being contagious. | Tapinophobia |
| Fear of being contaminated with dirt of germs. | Misophobia |
| Fear of being dirty. | Automysophobia |
| Fear of being enclosed. | Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia |
| Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations. | Social Phobia |
| Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting. | Athazagoraphobia |
| Fear of being infested with worms. | Helminthophobia |
| Fear of being locked in an enclosed place. | Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia |
| Fear of being oneself or of lonliness. | Eremophobia |
| Fear of being ridiculed. | Catagelophobia |
| Fear of being robbed. | Harpaxophobia |
| Fear of being seen or stared at. | Scopophobia or Scoptophobia |
| Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand) | Rhabdophobia |
| Fear of being stared at. | Ophthalmophobia |
| Fear of being tickled by feathers. | Pteronophobia |
| Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia) | Aphenphosmphobia |
| Fear of being touched. | Chiraptophobia |
| Fear of being touched. | Haphephobia or Haptephobia |
| Fear of bicycles. | Cyclophobia |
| Fear of birds. | Ornithophobia |
| Fear of blindness in visual field. | Scotomaphobia |
| Fear of blood. | Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia |
| Fear of blushing. | Ereuthrophobia |
| Fear of body smells. | Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia |
| Fear of bogies or the bogeyman. | Bogyphobia |
| Fear of books. | Bibliophobia |
| Fear of brain disease. | Meningitophobia |
| Fear of bulls. | Taurophobia |
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| Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture. | Sinophobia |
| Fear of cancer. | Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia |
| Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia) | Elurophobia |
| Fear of cats. | Felinophobia, Ailurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia |
| Fear of cemeteries. | Coimetrophobia |
| Fear of certain fabrics. | Textophobia |
| Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright. | Topophobia |
| Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation. | Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia |
| Fear of changes. | Metathesiophobia |
| Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals. | Chemophobia |
| Fear of chickens. | Alektorophobia |
| Fear of childbirth. | Lockiophobia, Maieusiophobia, Parturiphobia |
| Fear of children. | Pedophobia |
| Fear of chins. | Geniophobia |
| Fear of choking of being smothered. | Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia |
| Fear of church. | Ecclesiophobia |
| Fear of clocks. | Chronomentrophobia |
| Fear of clothing. | Vestiphobia |
| Fear of clouds. | Nephophobia |
| Fear of clowns. | Coulrophobia |
| Fear of coitus. | Coitophobia |
| Fear of cold, cold things. | Frigophobia |
| Fear of cold. | Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia |
| Fear of cold. | Psychrophobia |
| Fear of colors. | Chromophobia or Chromatophobia |
| Fear of comets. | Cometophobia |
| Fear of computers or working on a computer. | Cyberphobia |
| Fear of computers. | Logizomechanophobia |
| Fear of confined spaces. | Claustrophobia |
| Fear of constipation. | Coprastasophobia |
| Fear of contracting poliomyelitis. | Poliosophobia |
| Fear of cooking. | Mageirocophobia |
| Fear of cosmic phenomenon. | Kosmikophobia |
| Fear of crosses or the crucifix. | Staurophobia |
| Fear of crossing bridges. | Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia |
| Fear of crossing streets. | Dromophobia |
| Fear of crowds or mobs. | Ochlophobia |
| Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia) | Demophobia |
| Fear of crowds. | Enochlophobia |
| Fear of crystals or glass. | Crystallophobia |
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| Fear of dancing. | Chorophobia |
| Fear of dark wooded areas, of forests at night | Nyctohylophobia |
| Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia) | Scotophobia |
| Fear of darkness. | Achluophobia |
| Fear of darkness. | Lygophobia |
| Fear of darkness. | Myctophobia |
| Fear of dawn or daylight. | Eosophobia |
| Fear of daylight or sunshine. | Phengophobia |
| Fear of death or dead things. | Necrophobia |
| Fear of death or dying. | Thanatophobia or Thantophobia |
| Fear of decaying matter. | Seplophobia |
| Fear of defecation. | Rhypophobia |
| Fear of definite disease. | Monopathophobia |
| Fear of definite plans. | Teleophobia |
| Fear of deformity. | Dysmorphophobia |
| Fear of demons. | Demonophobia or Daemonophobia |
| Fear of dentists. | Dentophobia |
| Fear of dependence on others. | Soteriophobia |
| Fear of depth. | Bathophobia |
| Fear of diabetes. | Diabetophobia |
| Fear of dining or dinner conversations. | Deipnophobia |
| Fear of dirt or contamination. | Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia |
| Fear of dirt. | Rupophobia |
| Fear of disease. | Pathophobia |
| Fear of disorder or untidiness. | Ataxophobia |
| Fear of dizziness or whirlpools. | Dinophobia |
| Fear of dogs or rabies. | Cynophobia |
| Fear of dolls. | Pediophobia |
| Fear of double vision. | Diplophobia |
| Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances. | Aerophobia |
| Fear of dreams. | Oneirophobia |
| Fear of drinking. | Dipsophobia |
| Fear of drugs. | Pharmacophobia |
| Fear of dryness. | Xerophobia |
| Fear of dust. (Amathophobia) | Koniophobia |
| Fear of dust. | Amathophobia |
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| Fear of electricity. | Electrophobia |
| Fear of everything. | Panophobia or Pantophobia |
| Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise. | Doxophobia |
| Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost. | Cryophobia |
| Fear of eyes. | Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia |
| Fear of England, English culture, etc. | Anglophobia |
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| Fear of Fever. | Pyrexiophobia |
| Fear of France, French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia) | Francophobia |
| Fear of Friday the 13th. | Paraskavedekatriaphobia |
| Fear of failure or defeat. | Kakorrhaphiophobia |
| Fear of failure. | Atychiphobia |
| Fear of fainting or weakness. | Asthenophobia |
| Fear of falling in love or being in love. | Philophobia |
| Fear of fatigue. | Kopophobia |
| Fear of fecal matter. | Scatophobia |
| Fear of feces. | Coprophobia |
| Fear of feeling pleasure. | Hedonophobia |
| Fear of female genitalia. | Eurotophobia |
| Fear of fever. | Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia |
| Fear of fire. | Arsonphobia |
| Fear of fire. | Pyrophobia |
| Fear of firearms. | Hoplophobia |
| Fear of fish. | Ichthyophobia |
| Fear of floods. | Antlophobia |
| Fear of flowers. | Anthrophobia or Anthophobia |
| Fear of flutes. | Aulophobia |
| Fear of flying. | Aviophobia or Aviatophobia |
| Fear of flying. | Pteromerhanophobia |
| Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia) | Nebulaphobia |
| Fear of fog. | Homichlophobia |
| Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia) | Sitophobia or Sitiophobia |
| Fear of food. | Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia |
| Fear of foreign languages. | Xenoglossophobia |
| Fear of forests. | Hylophobia |
| Fear of freedom. | Eleutherophobia |
| Fear of frogs. | Ranidaphobia |
| Fear of fur or skins of animals. | Doraphobia |
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| Fear of German or German things. | Teutophobia |
| Fear of Germany, German culture, etc. | Germanophobia |
| Fear of God or gods. | Zeusophobia |
| Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology. | Hellenologophobia |
| Fear of gaiety. | Cherophobia |
| Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia) | Pocrescophobia |
| Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia) | Obesophobia |
| Fear of garlic. | Alliumphobia |
| Fear of genitals, particularly female. | Kolpophobia |
| Fear of germs or contamination or dirt. | Mysophobia |
| Fear of germs. | Spermatophobia or Spermophobia |
| Fear of germs. | Verminophobia |
| Fear of getting wrinkles. | Rhytiphobia |
| Fear of ghosts. | Phasmophobia |
| Fear of glaring lights. | Photoaugliaphobia |
| Fear of glass. | Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia |
| Fear of glass. | Nelophobia |
| Fear of gods or religion. | Theophobia |
| Fear of going to bed. | Clinophobia |
| Fear of going to school. | Didaskaleinophobia |
| Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors. | Iatrophobia |
| Fear of gold. | Aurophobia |
| Fear of gravity. | Barophobia |
| Fear of growing old. | Gerascophobia |
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| Fear of Halloween. | Samhainophobia |
| Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia) | Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia or Hypertrichophobia |
| Fear of hair. | Chaetophobia |
| Fear of hands. | Chirophobia |
| Fear or hatred of music. | Melophobia |
| Fear or hatred of poetry. | Metrophobia |
| Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism. | Enosiophobia or Enissophobia |
| Fear of hearing a certain word or of names. | Onomatophobia |
| Fear of hearing good news. | Euphobia |
| Fear of heat. | Thermophobia |
| Fear of heaven. | Ouranophobia |
| Fear of heaven. | Uranophobia |
| Fear of height. | Hypsiphobia |
| Fear of heights or being close to high buildings. | Batophobia |
| Fear of heights. | Acrophobia |
| Fear of heights. | Altophobia |
| Fear of hell. | Hadephobia |
| Fear of hell. | Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia |
| Fear of heredity. | Patroiophobia |
| Fear of home surroundings, house. | Oikophobia |
| Fear of home surroundings. | Eicophobia or Oikophobia |
| Fear of home. | Ecophobia |
| Fear of horses. | Equinophobia |
| Fear of horses. | Hippophobia |
| Fear of hospitals. | Nosocomephobia |
| Fear of houses or being in a house. | Domatophobia or Oikophobia |
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| I | |
| Fear of ice or frost. | Pagophobia |
| Fear of ideas. | Ideophobia |
| Fear of immobility of a joint. | Ankylophobia |
| Fear of imperfection. | Atelophobia |
| Fear of infinity. | Apeirophobia |
| Fear of injections. | Trypanophobia |
| Fear of injury. | Traumatophobia |
| Fear of insanity. | Agateophobia |
| Fear of insanity. | Dementophobia |
| Fear of insanity. | Maniaphobia |
| Fear of insects. | Entomophobia |
| Fear of insects. | Insectophobia |
| Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. | Acarophobia |
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| J | |
| Fear of Japanese. | Japanophobia |
| Fear of Jews. | Judeophobia |
| Fear of jealousy. | Zelophobia |
| Fear of jumping from high and low places. | Catapedaphobia |
| Fear of justice. | Dikephobia |
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| K | |
| Fear of kidney disease. | Albuminurophobia |
| Fear of kissing. | Philemaphobia or Philematophobia |
| Fear of knees. | Genuphobia |
| Fear of knowledge. | Epistemophobia |
| Fear of knowledge. | Gnosiophobia |
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| Fear of lakes. | Limnophobia |
| Fear of large things. | Megalophobia |
| Fear of laughter. | Geliophobia |
| Fear of lawsuits. | Liticaphobia |
| Fear of learning. | Sophophobia |
| Fear of leprosy. | Leprophobia or Lepraphobia |
| Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia) | Phthiriophobia |
| Fear of lice. | Pediculophobia |
| Fear of light flashes. | Selaphobia |
| Fear of light. | Photophobia |
| Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture. | Hygrophobia |
| Fear of lockjaw, tetanus. | Tetanophobia |
| Fear of long waits. | Macrophobia |
| Fear of long words. | Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia |
| Fear of long words. | Sesquipedalophobia |
| Fear of looking up. | Anablephobia |
| Fear of losing an erection. | Medomalacuphobia |
| Fear of loud noises. | Ligyrophobia |
| Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia) | Sarmassophobia |
| Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia) | Malaxophobia |
| Fear of lues, syphillis. | Luiphobia |
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| M | |
| Fear of machines. | Mechanophobia |
| Fear of making decisions. | Decidophobia |
| Fear of many things. | Polyphobia |
| Fear of marriage. | Gamophobia |
| Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy. | Hylephobia |
| Fear of meat. | Carnophobia |
| Fear of memories. | Mnemophobia |
| Fear of men. | Androphobia |
| Fear of men. | Arrhenphobia |
| Fear of men. | Hominophobia |
| Fear of menstruation. | Menophobia |
| Fear of mercurial medicines. | Hydrargyophobia |
| Fear of metal. | Metallophobia |
| Fear of meteors. | Meteorophobia |
| Fear of mice. | Musophobia or Murophobia |
| Fear of mice. | Suriphobia |
| Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia) | Microbiophobia |
| Fear of microbes. | Bacillophobia |
| Fear of mind. | Psychophobia |
| Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror. | Eisoptrophobia |
| Fear of mirrors. | Catoptrophobia |
| Fear of missiles or bullets. | Ballistophobia |
| Fear of money. | Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia |
| Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia) | Pentheraphobia |
| Fear of moths. | Mottephobia |
| Fear of movement or motion. | Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia |
| Fear of moving or making changes. | Tropophobia |
| Fear of myths or stories or false statements. | Mythophobia |
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| Fear of names. | Nomatophobia |
| Fear of narrow things or places. | Stenophobia |
| Fear of needles or pointed objects. | Aichmophobia |
| Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility. | Paralipophobia |
| Fear of new drugs. | Neopharmaphobia |
| Fear of new things or ideas. | Cenophobia or Centophobia |
| Fear of newness, novelty. | Cainophobia or Cainotophobia |
| Fear of noise. | Acousticophobia |
| Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones. | Phonophobia |
| Fear of nosebleeds. | Epistaxiophobia |
| Fear of novelty. | Kainolophobia |
| Fear of nuclear weapons. | Nucleomituphobia |
| Fear of nudity. | Gymnophobia |
| Fear of nudity. | Nudophobia |
| Fear of numbers. | Arithmophobia |
| Fear of numbers. | Numerophobia |
| Fear of Northern lights. | Auroraphobia |
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| Fear of objects at the right side of the body. | Dextrophobia |
| Fear of old people or of growing old. | Gerontophobia |
| Fear of one that has a vile odor. | Autodysomophobia |
| Fear of open high places. | Aeroacrophobia |
| Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place. | Agoraphobia |
| Fear of opening one's eyes. | Optophobia |
| Fear of opinions. | Allodoxaphobia |
| Fear of otters. | Lutraphobia |
| Fear of outer space. | Spacephobia |
| Fear of overworking or of pain. | Ponophobia |
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| Fear of pain. (Algophobia) | Odynophobia or Odynephobia |
| Fear of pain. | Agliophobia |
| Fear of pain. | Algophobia |
| Fear of painful bowels movements. | Defecaloesiophobia |
| Fear of paper. | Papyrophobia |
| Fear of parasites. | Parasitophobia |
| Fear of parents-in-law. | Soceraphobia |
| Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. | Arachibutyrophobia |
| Fear of pellagra. | Pellagrophobia |
| Fear of penis, esp erect. | Phallophobia |
| Fear of people or society. | Anthropophobia |
| Fear of persons with amputations. | Apotemnophobia |
| Fear of philosophy. | Philosophobia |
| Fear of phobias. | Phobophobia |
| Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia) | Belonephobia |
| Fear of pins. | Enetophobia |
| Fear of plants. | Botanophobia |
| Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned. | Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia |
| Fear of poison. | Iophobia |
| Fear of poverty. | Peniaphobia |
| Fear of precipices. | Cremnophobia |
| Fear of pregnancy or childbirth. | Tocophobia |
| Fear of priests or sacred things. | Hierophobia |
| Fear of progress. | Prosophobia |
| Fear of property. | Orthophobia |
| Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease. | Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia |
| Fear of punishment. | Mastigophobia |
| Fear of punishment. | Poinephobia |
| Fear of puppets. | Pupaphobia |
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| Fear of Russians. | Russophobia |
| Fear of rabies or of becoming mad. | Lyssophobia |
| Fear of rabies. | Hydrophobophobia |
| Fear of rabies. | Kynophobia |
| Fear of radiation, x-rays. | Radiophobia |
| Fear of rain or of being rained on. | Ombrophobia |
| Fear of rain or of being rained on. | Pluviophobia |
| Fear of rape. | Virginitiphobia |
| Fear of razors. | Xyrophobia |
| Fear of rectum or rectal diseases. | Rectophobia |
| Fear of rectum. | Proctophobia |
| Fear of relatives. | Syngenesophobia |
| Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things. | Herpetophobia |
| Fear of responsibility. | Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia |
| Fear of returning home. | Nostophobia |
| Fear of ridicule. | Katagelophobia |
| Fear of riding in a car. | Amaxophobia |
| Fear of rivers or running water. | Potamophobia |
| Fear of road travel. | Hodophobia |
| Fear of rooms. | Koinoniphobia |
| Fear of ruin or ruins. | Atephobia |
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| Fear of Satan. | Satanophobia |
| Fear of saints or holy things. | Hagiophobia |
| Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual. | Homophobia |
| Fear of scabies. | Scabiophobia |
| Fear of school. | Scolionophobia |
| Fear of scratches or being scratched. | Amychophobia |
| Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis. | Ithyphallophobia |
| Fear of sermons. | Homilophobia |
| Fear of sex. | Genophobia |
| Fear of sexual abuse. | Agraphobia |
| Fear of sexual abuse. | Contreltophobia |
| Fear of sexual love or sexual questions. | Erotophobia |
| Fear of sexual perversion. | Paraphobia |
| Fear of shadows. | Sciophobia Sciaphobia |
| Fear of sharks. | Selachophobia |
| Fear of shellfish. | Ostraconophobia |
| Fear of shock. | Hormephobia |
| Fear of sinning. (imaginary crime) | Peccatophobia |
| Fear of sinning. | Hamartophobia |
| Fear of sitting down. | Kathisophobia |
| Fear of sitting. | Cathisophobia |
| Fear of sitting. | Thaasophobia |
| Fear of skin disease. | Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia |
| Fear of skin lesions. | Dermatophobia |
| Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized. | Hypnophobia |
| Fear of sleep. | Somniphobia |
| Fear of slime. (Blennophobia) | Myxophobia |
| Fear of slime. | Blennophobia |
| Fear of small things. | Microphobia |
| Fear of small things. | Mycrophobia |
| Fear of smells or odors. | Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia |
| Fear of smells. | Olfactophobia |
| Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia) | Snakephobia |
| Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia) | Ophidiophobia |
| Fear of snow. | Chionophobia |
| Fear of society or people in general. | Sociophobia |
| Fear of solitude or being alone. | Monophobia |
| Fear of solitude, being alone. | Isolophobia |
| Fear of sourness. | Acerophobia |
| Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak. | Glossophobia |
| Fear of speaking. | Laliophobia or Lalophobia |
| Fear of specters or ghosts. | Spectrophobia |
| Fear of speed. | Tachophobia |
| Fear of spiders. | Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia |
| Fear of spirits. | Pneumatiphobia |
| Fear of stairs or steep slopes. | Bathmophobia |
| Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs. | Climacophobia |
| Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia) | Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia |
| Fear of stars and celestial space. | Astrophobia |
| Fear of stars. | Siderophobia |
| Fear of staying single. | Anuptaphobia |
| Fear of stealing. | Cleptophobia |
| Fear of stealing. | Kleptophobia |
| Fear of step-father. | Vitricophobia |
| Fear of stings. | Cnidophobia |
| Fear of stooping. | Kyphophobia |
| Fear of strangers or foreigners. | Xenophobia |
| Fear of streets or crossing the street. | Agyrophobia |
| Fear of string. | Linonophobia |
| Fear of stuttering. | Psellismophobia |
| Fear of suffering and disease. | Panthophobia |
| Fear of surgical operations. | Tomophobia |
| Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten. | Phagophobia |
| Fear of symbolism. | Symbolophobia |
| Fear of symmetry. | Symmetrophobia |
| Fear of syphilis. | Syphilophobia |
| Fear of your step-mother. | Novercaphobia |
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| Fear of taking medicine. | Pharmacophobia |
| Fear of taking tests. | Testophobia |
| Fear of tapeworms. | Taeniophobia or Teniophobia |
| Fear of taste. | Geumaphobia or Geumophobia |
| Fear of technology. | Technophobia |
| Fear of teenagers. | Ephebiphobia |
| Fear of teeth or dental surgery. | Odontophobia |
| Fear of telephones. | Telephonophobia |
| Fear of termites, insects that eat wood. | Isopterophobia |
| Fear of the Dutch. | Dutchphobia |
| Fear of the Pope. | Papaphobia |
| Fear of the Walloons. | Walloonphobia |
| Fear of the color black. | Melanophobia |
| Fear of the color purple. | Porphyrophobia |
| Fear of the color white. | Leukophobia |
| Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow. | Xanthophobia |
| Fear of the dark or of night. | Nyctophobia |
| Fear of the figure 8. | Octophobia |
| Fear of the great mole rat. | Zemmiphobia |
| Fear of the heart. | Cardiophobia |
| Fear of the moon. | Selenophobia |
| Fear of the night. | Noctiphobia |
| Fear of the number 13. | Triskaidekaphobia |
| Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia) | Heterophobia |
| Fear of the opposite sex. | Sexophobia |
| Fear of the sea. | Thalassophobia |
| Fear of the sun. | Heliophobia |
| Fear of theatres. | Theatrophobia |
| Fear of theology. | Theologicophobia |
| Fear of things to the left side of the body. | Levophobia |
| Fear of things to the left, left-handed. | Sinistrophobia |
| Fear of thinking. | Phronemophobia |
| Fear of thunder and lightning. | Astraphobia or Astrapophobia |
| Fear of thunder and lightning. | Brontophobia |
| Fear of thunder and lightning. | Keraunophobia |
| Fear of thunder. | Ceraunophobia |
| Fear of thunder. | Tonitrophobia |
| Fear of time. | Chronophobia |
| Fear of toads. | Bufonophobia |
| Fear of tombstones. | Placophobia |
| Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes. | Lilapsophobia |
| Fear of trains, railroads or train travel. | Siderodromophobia |
| Fear of trees. | Dendrophobia |
| Fear of trembling. | Tremophobia |
| Fear of trichinosis. | Trichinophobia |
| Fear of tuberculosis. | Phthisiophobia |
| Fear of tuberculosis. | Tuberculophobia |
| Fear of tyrants. | Tyrannophobia |
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| Fear of ugliness. | Cacophobia |
| Fear of undressing in front of someone. | Dishabiliophobia |
| Fear of urine or urinating. | Urophobia |
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| Fear of vaccination. | Vaccinophobia |
| Fear of vegetables. | Lachanophobia |
| Fear of vehicles. | Ochophobia |
| Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being. | Automatonophobia |
| Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down. | Illyngophobia |
| Fear of virgins or young girls. | Parthenophobia |
| Fear of voids or empty spaces. | Kenophobia |
| Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness. | Aeronausiphobia |
| Fear of vomiting. | Emetophobia |
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| Fear of walking or falling. | Basophobia or Basiphobia |
| Fear of walking. | Ambulophobia |
| Fear of washing or bathing. | Ablutophobia |
| Fear of wasps. | Spheksophobia |
| Fear of water or of rabies. | Hydrophobia |
| Fear of waves or wave like motions. | Cymophobia |
| Fear of waves. | Kymophobia |
| Fear of wealth. | Plutophobia |
| Fear of wet dreams. | Oneirogmophobia |
| Fear of wild animals. | Agrizoophobia |
| Fear of wind. | Ancraophobia or Anemophobia |
| Fear of wines. | Oenophobia |
| Fear of witches and witchcraft. | Wiccaphobia |
| Fear of women. | Gynephobia or Gynophobia |
| Fear of words. | Logophobia |
| Fear of words. | Verbophobia |
| Fear of work. | Ergophobia |
| Fear of worms. | Scoleciphobia |
| Fear of writing in public. | Scriptophobia |
| Fear of writing or handwriting. | Graphophobia |
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