Acarophobia – fear of itching or insects that cause itching
Acrophobia – fear of heights
Aerophobia – fear of flying or draughts
Agoraphobia – fear of open spaces
Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects
Watching the real knife stop a quarter inch from Tom Cruise’s eye in Mission: Impossible 2 is enough to trigger aichmophobia, the visceral fear of sharp, pointed objects, because the danger isn’t implied or simulated but terrifyingly real.
Ailurophobia – fear of cats
Algophobia – fear of pain
Amathophobia – fear of dust
Amaxophobia – fear of riding in a car
Ambulophobia – fear of walking
Anglophobia – fear of England or the English
Anthrophobia – fear of humans
Anuptaphobia – fear of staying single
Aquaphobia – fear of water
Arachnibutyrophobia – fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Arachnophobia – fear of spiders
Astraphobia – fear of being struck by lightning
Astrapophobia – fear of thunder and lightning
Automysophobia – fear of being dirty
Autophobia – fear of solitude
Ballistophobia – fear of missiles
Bathophobia – fear of falling from a high place
Batophobia – fear of heights or being close to tall buildings
Batrachophobia – fear of frogs and toads
Belonephobia – fear of pins and needles
Bibliophobia – fear of books
Blennophobia – fear of slime
Brontophobia – fear of thunder and lightning
Cancerophobia – fear of cancer
Cathisophobia – fear of sitting
Cenophobia – fear of empty spaces
Chrematophobia – fear of money
Cibophobia – fear of or distaste for food
Claustrophobia – fear of closed spaces
Climacophobia – fear of falling down stairs
Clinophobia – fear of staying in bed
Cremnophobia – fear of cliffs and precipices
Cyberphobia – fear of computers
Cynophobia – fear of dogs
Dromophobia – fear of crossing streets
Dysmorphophobia – fear of physical deformities
Ecophobia – fear of home
Eleutherophobia – fear of freedom
Eosophobia – fear of dawn
Ergasiophobia – fear of work
Ergophobia – fear of work
Erotophobia – fear of sex
Erythrophobia – fear of red lights or of blushing
Euphobia – fear of good news
Francophobia – fear of France or the French
Gallophobia – fear of France or the French
Gamophobia – fear of marriage
Geniophobia – fear of chins
Genophobia – fear of sex
Gerascophobia – fear of growing old
Graphophobia – fear of writing
Gymnophobia – fear of nudity
Heliophobia – fear of sunlight
Herpetophobia – fear of snakes
Hierophobia – fear of sacred things
Homichlophobia – fear of fog
Homophobia – fear of homosexuals
Hydrophobia – fear of water
Hypsophobia – fear of high places
Iatrophobia – fear of going to the doctor
Iconophobia – fear or hatred of images
Kainotophobia – fear of change
Kakorrhaphiophobia – fear of failure
Kenophobia – fear of empty spaces
Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises
Linonophobia – fear of string
Lygophobia – fear of darkness
Lyssophobia – fear of hydrophobia
Macrophobia – fear of prolonged waiting
Metrophobia – fear of poetry
Monophobia – fear of being alone
Muriphobia – fear of mice
Myophobia – fear of mice
Mysophobia – fear of contamination or dirt
Nebulaphobia – fear of fog
Necrophobia – fear of corpses
Negrophobia – fear of blacks
Neophobia – fear of novelty
Nosophobia – fear of disease
Novercaphobia – fear of one’s stepmother
Nyctophobia – fear of the night or darkness
Ochlophobia – fear of crowds
Oenophobia – fear or hatred of wine
Ombrophobia – fear of rain
Onomatophobia – fear of hearing a certain word
Ophidiophobia – fear of snakes
Ophthalmophobia – fear of being stared at
Optophobia – fear of opening one’s eyes
Ornithophobia – fear of birds
Paedophobia – fear of children; fear of dolls
Panophobia – melancholia marked by groundless fears
Pantophobia – fear of everything
Parthophobia – fear of virgins
Pathophobia – fear of disease
Pediculophobia – fear of lice
Pentheraphobia – fear or hatred of one’s mother-in-law
Phagophobia – fear of eating
Phengophobia – fear of daylight
Phonophobia – fear of noise or of speaking aloud
Photophobia – fear of light
Pogonophobia – fear of beards
Psychrophobia – fear of the cold
Pteronophobia – fear of being tickled by feathers
Pyrophobia – fear of fire
Russophobia – fear of Russia or Russians
Satanophobia – fear of the devil
Sciaphobia – fear of shadows
Scopophobia – fear of being looked at
Scoptophobia – fear of being looked at
Scotophobia – fear of the dark
Sitiophobia – fear of food
Sitophobia – fear of food or eating
Spectrophobia – fear of looking in a mirror
Symmetrophobia – fear of symmetry
Syphilophobia – fear of syphilis
Taphephobia – fear of being buried alive
Technophobia – fear of technology
Thalassophobia – fear of the sea
Thanatophobia – fear of death
Theophobia – fear of God
Tocophobia – fear of pregnancy or childbirth
Tonitrophobia – fear of thunder
Topophobia – fear of performing; fear of certain places
Toxicophobia – fear of poisoning
Toxiphobia – fear of poison or being poisoned
Triskaidekaphobia – fear of the number thirteen
Uranophobia – fear of heaven
Xenophobia – fear of foreigners
Zelophobia – fear of jealousy
Zoophobia – fear of animals
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