What kinds of phobias are known to people?

We are all afraid of something: exams, dentist, public speaking. However, at some point, fears become obsessive. What phobias do you know? The fear of confined spaces (claustrophobia) probably immediately comes to your mind. In fact, there are a lot of them. Psychologists divide the existing phobias to natural, social and existential. The majority of us do not even guess what fears other people experience.

General phobias:

• Fear of everything - panophobia
• Fear of many things - polyphobia
• Fear of everything new - neophobia

Natural phenomena phobias:

• Fear of air - anemophobia
• Fear of clouds - nephophobia
• Fear of cold, ice and frost - cryophobia
• Fear of night - nyctophobia
• Fear of darkness - scotophobia
• Fear of the day - eosophobia
• Fear of sunlight - phengophobia
• Fear of light - photophobia
• Fear of flashes of light - selaphobia
• Fear of thunder and lightning - brontophobia
• Fear of electricity - electrophobia
• Fear of bright light - photoaugliaphobia
• Fear of loud noise - ligyrophobia
• Fear of cosmic phenomena - cosmophobia
• Fear of meteors - meteorophobia
• Fear of comets - cometophobia
• Fear of the moon - selenophobia
• Fear of Northern Lights - auroraphobia
• Fear of stars - astrophobia
• Fear of the sun - heliophobia
• Fear of droughts - xerophobia
• Fear of floods - antlophobia
• Fear of fog - homichlophobia
• Fear of hurricanes - lilapsophobia
• Fear of lakes - limnophobia
• Fear of rivers or running water - potamophobia
• Fear of seas and oceans - thalassophobia
• Fear of cliffs - cremnophobia
• Fear of rain - ombrophobia
• Fear of shadows - sciopophobia
• Fear of snow - chionophobia
• Fear of water - hydrophobia
• Fear of wind - ancraophobia
• Fear of heights - acrophobia
• Fear of forests - hylophobia
• Fear of plants - botanophobia
• Fear of trees - dendrophobia
• Fear of mushrooms - mycophobia
• Fear of flowers - anthrophobia
• Fear of smells - olfactophobia

Situations phobias:

• Fear of others staring at you - scoptophobia
• Fear of touch - aphenphosmophobia
• Fear of sexual harassment - contreltophobia
• Fear of raping - virginitiphobia
• Fear of an accident - dystychiphobia
• Fear of atomic explosion - atomosophobia
• Fear of radiation - radiophobia
• Fear of physical or mental punishment - rhabdophobia
• Fear of spanking - mastigophobia
• Fear of critics - enissophobia
• Fear of getting tied up - merinthophobia
• Fear of being strangled - pnigophobia
• Fear of choking - anginophobia
• Fear of crowd - ochlophobia
• Fear of lunch and lunch talk - deipnophobia
• Fear of getting dirty - rhypopnobia
• Fear of being hypnotized - hypnophobia
• Fear of litigation - liticaphobia
• Fear of marriage - gamophobia
• Fear of surgery - tomophobia
• Fear of religious ceremonies - teleophobia
• Fear of being alone - isolophobia
• Fear of hearing the good news - eupohobia
• Fear of being unnoticed - athazagoraphobia
• Fear of being ridiculed - katagelophobia

Substances phobias:

• Fear of alcohol - methylophobia
• Fear of wine - oenophobia
• Fear of noxious vapors - aerophobia
• Fear of dust - amathophobia
• Fear of feces - coprophobia
• Fear of rotting matter - seplophobia
• Fear of food - cibophobia
• Fear of garlic - alliumphobia
• Fear of meat - carnophobia
• Fear of vegetables - lachanophobia
• Fear of gold - aurophobia
• Fear of metal - metallophobia
• Fear of poison - iophobia

States phobias:

• Fear of pain - alginophobia
• Fear of vertigo when looking down - illyngophobia
• Fear of nausea - dinophobia
• Fear of fainting or weakness - asthenophobia
• Fear of fatigue - kopophobia
• Fear of night ejaculation - oneirogmophobia
• Fear of menstruation - menophobia
• Fear of aging - gerontophobia
• Fear of dreams - oneirophobia
• Fear of loneliness - monophobia
• Fear of anger - angrophobia
• Fear of failure - kakorrhaphiophobia
• Fear of addiction to others - soteriophobia
• Fear of small failures - atychiphobia
• Fear of forgetting something or being forgotten - athazagoraphobia
• Fear of freedom - eleutherophobia
• Fear of fun - cherophobia
• Fear of imperfections - atelophobia
• Fear of jealousy - zeiophobia
• Fear of laughter - geliophobia
• Fear of love - erotophobia
• Fear of falling in love - philophobia
• Fear of memories - mnemophobia
• Fear of poverty - peniaphobia
• Fear of wealth - plutophobia
• Fear of gratitude and acknowledgments - doxophobia
• Fear of pleasure - hedonophobia
• Fear of responsibility – hypengiophobia

Diseases phobias:

• Fear of diseases in general - pathophobia
• Fear of a certain disease - monopathophobia
• Fear of angina - anginophobia
• Fear of memory loss - amnesiphobia
• Fear of blindness - scotomaphobia
• Fear of brain diseases - meningitophobia
• Fear of cancer - cancerophobia
• Fear of heart attack - cardiophobia
• Fear of cholera - chorophobia
• Fear of constipation - coprastasophobia
• Fear of infections - molysmophobia
• Fear of diabetes - diabetophobia
• Fear of flu - febriphobia
• Fear of wounds - trypanophobia
• Fear of trauma - traumatophobia
• Fear of insanity - dementophobia
• Fear of itchy skin - acarophobia
• Fear of leprosy - leprophobia
• Fear of lice - phthiriophobia
• Fear of runny nose - epistaxiophobia
• Fear of phobias - phobiophobia
• Fear of poisoning - toxicophobia
• Fear of poliomyelitis - poliosophobia
• Fear of hemorrhoids - proctophobia
• Fear of shock - hormephobia
• Fear of sexual perversion - paraphobia
• Fear of skin diseases - dermatosiophobia
• Fear of syphilis - luiphobia
• Fear of tuberculosis - phthisiophobia
• Fear of vaccinations - vaccinophobia
• Fear of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) - cypridophobia

Animal world phobias:

• Fear of animals - zoophobia
• Fear of animal fur and skin - doraphobia
• Fear of wildlife - agrizoophobia
• Fear of ants - myrmecophobia
• Fear of bees - apiphobia
• Fear of birds - ornithophobia
• Fear of bulls - taurophobia
• Fear of horses - hippophobia
• Fear of cats - aclurophobia
• Fear of chicken - alektorophobia
• Fear of canine - cynophobia
• Fear of mice - musophobia
• Fear of rats - zemmiphobia
• Fear of otters - lutraphobia
• Fear of fish - ichthyophobia
• Fear of sharks - selachophobia
• Fear of clams - ostraconophobia
• Fear of frogs - batrachophobia
• Fear of toads - bufonophobia
• Fear of bacteria and microbes - verminophobia
• Fear of small insects - acarophobia
• Fear of moth - mottephobia
• Fear of parasites - parasitophobia
• Fear of reptiles - herpetophobia
• Fear of snakes - ophidiophobia
• Fear of spiders - arachnophobia
• Fear of worms – scoleciphobia

Items phobias:

• Fear of asymmetric things - asymmetriphobia
• Fear of small objects - microphobia
• Fear of large objects - megalophobia
• Fear of sacred items - hagiophobia
• Fear of motor vehicles - motorophobia
• Fear of bicycles - cyclophobia
• Fear of books - bibliophobia
• Fear of watches and timepiece - chronometrophobia
• Fear of computers - cyberphobia
• Fear of crosses and crucifixes - staurophobia
• Fear of crystal and glass - crystallophobia
• Fear of puppets and dolls - pediophobia
• Fear of new drugs - neopharmophobia
• Fear of tissue —textophobia
• Fear of bird feathers - pteronophobia
• Fear of flutes - aulophobia
• Fear of mechanisms - mechanophobia
• Fear of mirrors - catoptrophobia
• Fear of money - chrometophobia
• Fear of needles and prickly objects - aichmophobia
• Fear of bullets - ballistophobia
• Fear of firearms - hoplophobia
• Fear of nuclear weapons - nucleomituphobia
• Fear of paper - papyrophobia
• Fear of pins - enetophobia
• Fear of razors - xyrophobia
• Fear of telephones – telephonophobia

Phobias/Fear of people:

(Please be sure that we always strive for respect for all people, not depending on their race, age, skin color, religious beliefs, gender, sexual preferences, etc.! Following is just a list of existing phobias in people for general information.)
• Fear of people in general - anthropophobia
• Fear of society - sociophobia
• Fear of bald people - peladophobia
• Fear of bearded people - pogonophobia
• Fear of beautiful women - caligynephobia
• Fear of freaks and ugly people - teratophobia
• Fear of self-reflection in the mirror - eisoptrophobia
• Fear of beggars and poor - hobophobia
• Fear of thieves - scelerophobia
• Fear of children - pedophobia
• Fear of innocent girls - parthenophobia
• Fear of Chinese - sinophobia
• Fear of clowns - coulrophobia
• Fear of dentists - dentophobia
• Fear of foreigners - xenophobia
• Fear of Englishmen - anglophobia
• Fear of French - francophobia
• Fear of Germans - teutophobia
• Fear of Greeks - hellophobia
• Fear of homosexuals - homophobia
• Fear of men - androphobia
• Fear of Japanese - japanophobia
• Fear of Jews - judeophobia
• Fear of mother-in-law - pentheraphobia
• Fear of old people - gerontophobia
• Fear of Pope - papaphobia
• Fear of politicians - politicophobia
• Fear of priests - hierophobia
• Fear of prostitutes - whorephobia
• Fear of bobbers - harpaxophobia
• Fear of Russians - russophobia
• Fear of relatives - syngenesophobia
• Fear of women - gynophobia
• Fear of adolescent - ephebiphobia
• Fear of people of the opposite sex - heterophobia
• Fear of wizards and witches – wiccaphobia

Action phobias:

• Fear of swimming - ablutophobia
• Fear of going to bed - clinophobia
• Fear of driving - amaxophobia
• Fear of giving birth/labor - maleusiophobia
• Fear of relocating - tropophobia
• Fear of dressing - vestiphobia
• Fear of working at the computer - cyberphobia
• Fear of cooking - mageirocophobia
• Fear of crossing the street - agyrophobia
• Fear of dancing - chorophobia
• Fear of making decisions - decidophobia
• Fear of not performing your duty - paralipophobia
• Fear of being treated - pharmacophobia
• Fear of visiting the doctor - latrophobia
• Fear of treating your teeth - odontophobia
• Fear of drinking - dipsophobia
• Fear of eating, swallowing - phagophobia
• Fear of flying - aviophobia
• Fear of conducting an operation/surgery (in surgeons) - ergasiophobia
• Fear of writing - graphophobia
• Fear of kissing - philemaphobia
• Fear of learning - sophophobia
• Fear of treating (in doctors) - opiophobia
• Fear of moving - kinetophobia
• Fear of expressing your opinion - doxophobia
• Fear of traveling by train - siderodromophobia
• Fear of traveling - hodophobia
• Fear of going to school - didaskaleinophobia
• Fear of talking - laliophobia
• Fear of talking on the phone - phonophobia
• Fear of speaking publicly - glossophobia
• Fear of sleeping - somniphobia
• Fear of sitting - kathisophobia
• Fear of thinking - phronemophobia
• Fear of working - ergophobia
• Fear of walking - ambulophobia
• Fear of washing - abultophobia
• Fear of having sex - coitophobia
• Fear of sinning- enosiophobia
• Fear of losing innocence - primeisodophobia
• Fear of stealing - kleptophobia
• Fear of getting naked in public - dishabillophobia
• Fear of peeing - urophobia
• Fear of waiting for a long time - macrophobia
• Fear of getting fat - obesophobia
• Fear of opening eyes - optophobia
• Fear of coming home – nostophobia

Body and body parts phobias:

• Fear of unattractiveness of your own body - dysmorphophobia
• Fear of blood - hemophobia
• Fear of body odors - osmophobia
• Fear of eyes - ommetaphobia
• Fear of everything on the left side of the body - levophobia
• Fear of everything on the right side of the body - dextrophobia
• Fear of erected penis - medorthophobia
• Fear of loss of erection - medomalacuphobia
• Fear of female genitalia - colpophobia
• Fear of hair - chaetophobia
• Fear of hands - chirophobia
• Fear of knees - genuphobia
• Fear of nudity - gymnophobia
• Fear of teeth - odontophobia
• Fear of wrinkles - rhytiphobia
• Fear of hair loss - phalacrophobia

Phobias associated with time and death:

• Fear of death and dying - thanatophobia
• Fear of cemetery - coimetrophobia
• Fear of time - chronophobia
• Fear of corpses - necrophobia
• Fear of decay - seplophobia
• Fear of graves - placophobia
• Fear of being buried alive - taphephobia

Abstract concepts phobias:

• Fear of ideas - ideophobia
• Fear of ideas that differ from the generally accepted - heresyphobia
• Fear of knowledge - gnosiophobia
• Fear of paradise/heavens - uranophobia
• Fear of hell - hadephobia
• Fear of heredity - patroiophobia
• Fear of infinity - apeirophobia
• Fear of justice - dikephobia
• Fear of materialism - hylephobia
• Fear of souls - psychophobia
• Fear of myths and fairy tales - mythophobia
• Fear of music - melophobia
• Fear of names - nomatophobia
• Fear of novelties - cainophobia
• Fear of opinion - allodoxaphobia
• Fear of philosophy - philosophobia
• Fear of poetry - metrophobia
• Fear of progress - prosophobia
• Fear of religions - theophobia
• Fear of complex scientific terminology - hellenologophobia
• Fear of symbols - symbolophobia
• Fear of symmetries - symmetrophobia
• Fear of words - logophobia
• Fear of long words - hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
• Fear of technology - technophobia
• Fear of satan - satanophobia
• Fear of theology - theologicophobia
• Fear of demons - demonophobia
• Fear of ghosts - phasmophobia

Colors phobias:

• Fear of colors in general - chromophobia
• Fear of black color - melanophobia
• Fear of purple color - porphyrophobia
• Fear of yellow color - xanthophobia
• Fear of red color - erythrophobia
• Fear of white color - leukophobia

Numbers phobias:

• Fear of numbers in general - numerophobia
• Fear of number 8 - octophobia
• Fear of number 13 - triskadekaphobia

Places phobias:

• Fear of certain places - topophobia
• Fear of your own home - ecophobia
• Fear of area near your home - eicophobia
• Fear of hospitals - nosocomephobia
• Fear of houses in general - domatophobia
• Fear of empty rooms - cenophobia
• Fear of rooms in general - koinoniphobia
• Fear of ruins - atephobia
• Fear of schools - scolionophobia
• Fear of streets - agyrophobia
• Fear of empty space - spacephobia
• Fear of confined space - claustrophobia
• Fear of open, crowded places - agoraphobia
• Fear of theaters - theatrophobia
• Fear of forests, dark thickets - nyctohylophobia
• Fear of dark places - lygrophobia
• Fear of narrow corridors - stenophobia
• Fear of churches - ecclesiophobia
• Fear of bridges - gephyrophobia
• Fear of tall buildings - batophobia