A-Z of Phobias
Phobia is another word for "fear" but more specifically
refers to abnormal, extreme fears that can cause problems to those
affected: Extreme fears can be debilitating because they can
lead to mental and emotional distress, physical symptopms, and
social impairment / disability.
There are many words for specific fears, some of which
are also defined in the glossary section of
this website.
(Use the links - displayed in pink - in the following list
to view the associated glossary page.)
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Note: The phobias listed below are not all
clinically recognised conditions.
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A
- Abluthophobia: Fear of bathing
- Acarophobia: Fear of itching
or of the insects that cause itching. Fear of skin infestation
by mites or ticks
- Acerophobia: Fear of sourness
- Achluophobia: Fear of darkness
- Achluophobia: Fear of the dark
or of night. Synonyms: Nyctophobia
- Acousticophobia: Fear of
noise
- Acrophobia: Fear of heights
- Aelurophobia: Fear of cats. Synonyms:
Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Gatophobia
- Aeronausiphobia:
Fear of vomiting due to airsickness
- Aerophobia: Fear of draft.
Fear of fresh air. Fear of flying
- Agoraphobia: Fear of open,
public places like markets
- Agrizoophobia: Fear of wild animals
- Agyrophobia: Fear of crossing
streets
- Aibohphobia: Fear of palindromes
- Aichmophobia: Fear of needles
or pointed objects. See also: Belomophobia, Belonephobia
- Ailurophobia:
Fear of cats. Synonyms: Aelurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia,
Gatophobia
- Akousticophobia: Fear of sound or sounds.
- Algophobia: Fear of pain
- Altophobia:
Fear of heights
- Amathophobia: Fear of dust. Synonyms: Koniophobia
- Amaxophobia:
Fear of being in or riding in vehicles
- Ambulophobia: Fear of
walking
- Ancraophobia: Fear of wind
- Androphobia:
Fear of men. Synonyms: Arrhenphobia
- Anginophobia: Fear of narrowness.
Fear of having a sore throat
- Ankylophobia:
Fear of stiff or immobile joints
- Anthrophobia:
Fear ofhuman beings.
- Anthropophobia: Fear of meeting
people or society
- Antlophobia: Fear of floods
- Anuptaphobia: Fear of staying single
- Apeirophobia: Fear of
infinity
- Aphephobia: Fear of touching or being touched
- Apiophobia: Fear
of bees. Synonyms: Apiphobia
- Apiphobia: Fear of bees. Synonyms:
Apiophobia
- Aquaphobia: Fear of water. Synonyms: Hydrophobia.
- Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut
butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
- Arachnephobia: Fear
of spiders. Synonyms: Arachnophobia
- Arachnophobia: Fear of
spiders. Synonyms: Arachnephobia
- Arrhenphobia: Fear of men. Synonyms: Androphobia.
- Asthenophobia: Fear of weakness
- Astraphobia: Fear of lightning.
Synonyms: Astrapophobia
- Astrapophobia: Fear of lightning. Synonyms:
Astraphobia
- Ataxiophobia: Fear of disorder Synonyms: Ataxophobia
- Ataxophobia:
Fear of disorder. Synonyms: Ataxiophobia
- Atelophobia: Fear
of imperfection
- Atephobia: Fear of ruin
- Atychiphobia: Fear of failure
- Aulophobia: Fear of flutes
- Aurophobia: Fear of gold
- Automysophobia: Fear of being dirty.
See also: Misophobia
- Autophobia: Fear of being alone
- Aviatophobia: Fear of flying.See
also: Aerophobia, Ancraophobia, Aviophobia, Batophobia, Hypsophobia,
Hypsiphobia
- Aviophobia: Fear of flying. See also: Aerophobia,
Ancraophobia, Aviatophobia, Batophobia, Hypsophobia, Hypsiphobia
B
- Bacillophobia:
Fear of microbes
- Bacteriophobia: Fear of bacteria
- Ballistophobia: Fear of missles
or bullets
- Barophobia: Fear of gravity
- Basophobia: Inability to stand.
Fear of falling
- Bathmophobia: Fear of walking
- Bathophobia: Fear of depth
- Batophobia: Fear of heights or
being close to high buildings, alternatively - Fear
of walking
- Batrachophobia:
Fear of frogs and toads. Fear of reptiles
- Belonophobia:
Fear of pins and needles.
- Bibliophobia:
Fear of books
- Blennophobia: Fear of slime. Synonyms: Myxophobia
- Bogyphobia:
Fear of demons and goblins
- Bromidrosiphobia: Fear of bodily
odors
- Brontophobia: Fear of thunder storms.
C
- Cacomorphobia:
Fear of fat people
- Cainophobia: Fear of novelty
- Caligynephobia: Fear of beautiful
women
- Cancerophobia: Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerphobia,
Carcinomophobia, Carcinomat`ophobia, Carcinophobia
- Cancerphobia:
Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerophobia, Carcinomophobia, Carcinomatophobia,
Carcinophobia
- Carcinomatophobia: Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerophobia,
Cancerphobia, Carcinomophobia, Carcinophobia
- Carcinomophobia:
Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerophobia, Cancerphobia, Carcinomatophobia,
Carcinophobia
- Carcinophobia: Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerophobia,
Cancerphobia, Carcinomophobia, Carcinomatophobia
- Cardiophobia:
Fear of heart disease
- Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed
- Cathisophobia: Fear
of sitting
- Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors
- Celtophobia: Fear of Celts
- Cenophobia: Fear of empty spaces.
Synonyms: Kenophobia
- Ceraunophobia: Fear of thunder. Fear of
thunder and lightning. Synonyms: Keraunophobia, Tonitrophobia
- Chaetophobia:
Fear of hair. Synonyms: Trichophobia
- Cheimaphobia: Fear of cold.
Synonyms: Cheimatophobia.
- Cheimatophobia:
Fear of cold. Synonyms: Cheimaphobia. See also: Cryophobia. Cherophobia: Fear
of gaiety
- Chinophobia: Fear of snow
- Cholerophobia: Fear of cholera
- Chorophobia Fear of dancing
- Chrematophobia: Fear of wealth
- Chrometophobia: Fear of money
- Chromophobia: Fear of colors
- Chronophobia: Fear of time
- Cibophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms:
Sitophobia, Sitiophobia. See also: Phagophobia
- Claustrophobia:
Fear of confined spaces
- Cleptophobia: Fear of thieves or loss
through thievery. Synonyms: Kleptophobia.
- Climacophobia: Fear
of falling downstairs.
- Clinophobia: Fear of going to bed, alternatively -
Fear of beds.
- Cnidophobia: Fear of insect stings
- Coitophobia: Fear of sexual
intercourse.
- Cometophobia: Fear of comets.
- Coprophobia: Fear of faeces.
- Cryophobia: Fear of ice or frost.
- Crystallophobia: Fear of crystals.
Fear of glass
- Cymophobia: Fear of waves.
- Cynophobia: Fear of dogs.
- Cypridophobia: Fear of veneral disease.
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- Deipnophobia: Fear
of dining and dinner conversations.
- Decidophobia : Fear of
making decisions.
- Demonophobia: Fear of spirits or demons.
- Demophobia: Fear of
crowds.
- Dentophobia: Fear of dentists.
- Dermatophobia: Fear of skin
disease.
- Dermatosiophobia: Fear of skin.
- Dextrophobia: Fear of objects
on the right side of the body
- Dikephobia: Fear of justice.
- Dinophobia: Fear of whirlpools.
- Diplopiaphobia: Fear of double
vision.
- Dipsophobia: Fear of drinking.
- Domatophobia: Fear of being
in a house.
- Doraphobia: Fear of fur. Fear of contact with animal
fur or skin
- Dromophobia: Fear of crossing streets.
- Dysmorphophobia: Fear
of deformity, usually in others.
- Dystychiphobia: Fear of accidents.
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- Ecclesiophobia: Fear of
church.
- Ecophobia: Fear of home. Synonyms: Oecophobia, Oikophobia.
- Eisoptrophobia:
Fear of mirrors. Fear of looking into mirrors.
- Electrophobia:
Fear of electricity.
- Eleutherophobia: Fear of freedom.
- Elurophobia: Fear of cats.
Synonyms: Ailurophobia, Aelurophobia, Felinophobia,
Gatophobia.
- Emetophobia:
Fear of vomiting.
- Enetophobia: Fear of needles or pins.
- Enosiophobia: Fear of
having committed an unpardonable sin.
- Entomophobia: Fear of
insects.
- Eosophobia: Fear of dawn
- Eremophobia: Fear of lonliness. Fear
of being alone.
- Ergasiophobia: Fear of work, alternatively - Surgeon's
fear of operating.
- Ergophobia: Fear of work.
- Erotophobia: Fear of sexual love.
- Erythrophobia: Fear of
red lights, alternatively - Fear of blushing.
- Eurotophobia: Fear of the
color red; fear of blushing.
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- Febriphobia: Fear of fever.
- Felinophobia: Fear of cats. Synonyms:
Aelurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Gatophobia.
- Frigophobia:
Fear of cold.
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- Galeophobia: Fear of sharks.
- Gallophobia: Fear of France or
the French.
- Gametophobia: Fear of marriage. Synonyms: Gamophobia.
- Gamophobia:
Fear of marriage. Synonyms: Gametophobia.
- Gatophobia: Fear
of cats. Synonyms: Aelurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia,
Felinophobia.
- Genophobia: Fear of sex.
- Gephyrophobia: Fear of crossing bridges.
- Gerascophobia: Fear
of growing old.
- Geumophobia: Fear of tastes or flavors.
- Glossophobia: Fear
of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
- Graphophobia:
Fear of writing.
- Gymnophobia: Fear of nudity. Synonyms: Nudophobia.
- Gynephobia:
Fear of women. Synonyms: Gynophobia.
- Gynophobia: Fear of women.
Synonyms: Gynephobia.
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- Hadeophobia: Fear of hell. Synonyms:
Stygiophobia.
- Haemaphobia: Fear of blood. Synonyms: Haematophobia,
Hemaphobia, Hematophobia, Hemophobia.
- Haematophobia: Fear
of blood. Synonyms: Haemaphobia, Hemaphobia,
Hematophobia, Hemophobia.
- Hagiophobia: Fear of saints.
- Hamartophobia: Fear of sinning.
- Haphophobia: Fear of touch.
Synonyms: Haptophobia, Thixophobia.
- Haptophobia: Fear of touch.
Synonyms: Haphophobia, Thixophobia.
- Harpaxophobia: Fear of
being robbed.
- Hedonophobia: Fear of pleasure.
- Heliophobia: Fear of the sun.
Fear of (or abnormal sensitivity to) sunlight. Synonyms: Solophobia.
- Helminthophobia:
Fear of being infested with worms.
- Hemaphobia: Fear of blood.
Synonyms: Haemaphobia, Haematophobia, Hematophobia,
Hemophobia.
- Hematophobia:
Fear of blood. Synonyms: Haemaphobia, Haematophobia,
Hemaphobia, Hemophobia.
- Hemophobia: Fear of blood. Synonyms:
Haemaphobia, Haematophobia, Hemaphobia, Hematophobia.
- Herpetophobia:
Fear of reptiles.
- Hierophobia: Fear of priests. Fear of sacred
objects.
- Hippophobia: Fear of horses.
- Hodophobia: Fear of road travel.
- Homichlophobia: Fear of fog.
- Homilophobia: Fear of sermons.
- Homophobia: Fear of homosexuality.
- Hydrophobia: Fear of water.
- Hydrophobophobia: Fear of rabies.
- Hygrophobia: Fear of liquids. Fear of
liquids, esp. wine and water.
- Hylephobia: Fear of wood or woods.
- Hypegiaphobia: Fear of responsibility.
Synonyms: Hypengyophobia.
- Hypengyophobia: Fear of responsibility.
Synonyms: Hypegiaphobia.
- Hypnophobia: Fear of sleep.
- Hypsiphobia: Fear of high places.
Synonyms: Altophobia, Hypsophobia
- Hypsophobia: Fear of high places. Synonyms:
Altophobia, Hypsiphobia
I
- Iatrophobia: Fear of going to the doctor.
- Ichthyophobia: Fear
of fish.
- Ideophobia: Fear of ideas.
- Iophobia: Fear of poisons.
- Isopterophobia: Fear of termites.
J
- Japanophobia: Fear of Japanese.
- Judeophobia: Fear of Jews.
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- Kakorrhaphiophobia: Fear of failure
or defeat.
- Katagelophobia: Fear
of ridicule.
- Kenophobia: Fear of empty spaces. Synonyms: Cenophobia.
- Kenophobia:
Fear of voids.
- Keraunophobia: Fear of thunder. Fear of thunder
and lightning. Synonyms: Ceraunophobia, Tonitrophobia.
- Kinetophobia:
Fear of movement or motion.
- Kleptophobia: Fear of thieves or
loss through thievery. Synonyms: Cleptophobia.
- Koniophobia:
Fear of dust.
- Koniophobia: Fear of
dust. Synonyms: Amathophobia.
- Kopophobia: Fear of fatigue.
Fear of mental or physical examination.
- Kynophobia: Fear of
dogs.
- Kyphophobia: Fear of stooping.
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- Laliophobia: Fear of speaking.
- Lepraphobia: Fear of leprosy.
Synonyms: Leprophobia.
- Leprophobia: Fear of leprosy. Synonyms:
Lepraphobia.
- Levophobia: Fear of objects on the left side of
the body.
- Ligyrophobia: Fear of loud noises.
- Lilapsophobia: Fear of tornadoes.
- Limnophobia: Fear of lakes.
- Linonophobia: Fear of string.
- Logophobia: Fear of words.
- Lunaphobia: Fear of the moon.
- Lygophobia: Fear of darkness.
- Lyssophobia: Fear of becoming
insane.
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- Macrophobia: Fear of long waits.
- Maieusiophobia: Fear of childbirth.
- Maniaphobia: Fear of insanity.
- Mastigophobia: Fear of punishment.
Fear of flogging.
- Mechanophobia: Fear of machines or machinery.
- Megalophobia:
Fear of large things.
- Melissophobia: Fear of bees. Synonyms: Apiphobia.
- Melophobia: Fear of music.
- Merinthophobia: Fear of being bound.
- Metallophobia: Fear of
metal.
- Meteorophobia: Fear of meteors or meteorites.
- Metrophobia:
Fear of poetry.
- Microbiophobia: Fear of microbes. Synonyms:
Microphobia. See also: Bacillophobia.
- Microphobia: Fear of
microbes. Synonyms: Microbiophobia. See also: Bacillophobia.
- Misogynism:
Hatred of females. Synonyms: Misogyny.
- Misogyny: Hatred of
females. Synonyms: Misogynism.
- Misophobia: Fear of dirt, especially
of being contaminated by dirt.
- Misosophy: Hatred of wisdom.
- Molysomophobia: Fear of dirt or
contamination. Fear of infection.
- Monopathophobia: Fear of
sickness in a specific part of the body
- Monophobia: Fear of
being alone. Fear of one thing.
- Musicophobia: Fear of music.
- Musophobia: Fear of mice.
- Mycrophobia: Fear of small things.
- Mysophobia: Fear of dirt
or contamination.
- Mythophobia: Fear of making false statements.
- Myxophobia: Fear
of slime. Synonyms: Blennophobia.
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- Nebulaphobia: Fear of fog.
- Necrophobia: Fear of dead things.
Fear of death.
- Neophobia: Fear of anything new.
- Nephophobia: Fear of clouds.
- Noctiphobia: Fear of the night.
- Nosophobia: Fear of becoming
ill.
- Novercaphobia: Fear of your mother-in-law.
- Nudophobia: Fear
of nudity. Synonyms: Gymnophobia.
- Nyctophobia: Fear
of the dark or of night. Synonyms: Achluophobia, Scotophobia.
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- Ochlophobia:
Fear of crowds or mobs.
- Ochophobia: Fear of vehicles.
- Odontophobia: Fear of teeth.
- Odynophobia: Fear of pain.
- Oecophobia: Fear of home. Synonyms: Ecophobia,
Oikophobia.
- Oenophobia: Fear of wine. Synonyms: Oinophobia.
- Oikophobia:
Fear of home. Synonyms: Ecophobia, Oecophobia.
- Oinophobia:
Fear of wine. Synonyms: Oenophobia.
- Olfactophobia: Fear of
smells.
- Ombrophobia: Fear of rain or
of being rained on.
- Ommetaphobia: Fear of eyes.
- Onomatophobia: Fear of hearing
a certain word or words, or name or names.
- Ophidiophobia:
Fear of snakes.
- Ophthalmophobia:
Fear of being stared at.
- Ornithophobia: Fear of birds.
- Orthophobia: Fear of property.
- Osmophobia: Fear of smells.
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- Panphobia: Fear of everything.
A nonspecific fear; A state of general anxiety. Synonyms: Pantophobia.
- Panthophobia:
Fear of suffering and disease.
- Pantophobia: Fear of everything.
A nonspecific fear; A state of general anxiety. Synonyms: Panphobia.
- Papaphobia:
Fear of the Pope.
- Paralipophobia: Fear of responsibility. Fear
of neglect of responsibility.
- Paraphobia: Fear of sexual perversion.
- Parasitophobia: Fear
of parasites.
- Parthenophobia: Fear of virgins or young girls.
- Pathophobia:
Fear of disease.
- Peccatophobia: Fear of sinning.
- Pediculophobia: Fear of lice.
- Pediaphobia: Fear of children.
Synonyms: Pedophobia.
- Pedophobia: Fear of children. Synonyms:
Pediaphobia.
- Peladophobia: Fear of baldness.
- Peniaphobia: Fear of poverty.
- Pentheraphobia: Fear of mother-in-law.
- Phagophobia: Fear of swallowing. Fear
of eating.
- Pharmacophobia: Fear of drugs. Synonyms: Pharmcophobia.
- Pharmcophobia:
Fear of drugs. Synonyms: Pharmacophobia.
- Phasmophobia: Fear
of ghosts.
- Phenogophobia: Fear of daylight.
- Philophobia: Fear of falling
in love or being in love.
- Philosophobia: Fear of philosophy.
- Phobophobia: Fear of phobias.
- Phonemophobia: Fear of thinking.
- Phonophobia: Fear of noises
or voices.
- Photalgiophobia: Fear of photalgin, pain in the
eyes caused by light.
- Photophobia: Fear of light. Fear of (strong)
light.
- Phthiriophobia: Fear of lice.
- Placophobia:
Fear of tombstones.
- Pluviophobia: Fear of rain or of being
rained on.
- Pneumatophobia: Fear of spirits or noncorporeal
beings.
- Pnigerophobia: Fear of choking. Fear of smothering.
- Pnigophobia:
Fear of choking.
- Pogonophobia: Fear of beards.
- Poinephobia: Fear of punishment.
- Politicophobia: Fear of politicians.
- Polyphobia: Fear of many
things.
- Ponophobia: Fearear of overworking. Fear of fatigue,
esp. thru overworking.
- Potamophobia: Fear of rivers.
- Potophobia: Fear of alcohol or
acoholic beverages.
- Prosophobia: Fear of progress.
- Psellismophobia: Fear of stuttering.
- Psychophobia: Fear of
the cold
- Psychophobia: Fear of the mind.
- Pteronophobia: Fear of being
tickled by feathers. Fear of feathers.
- Pyrexiophobia: Fear
of fever.
- Pyrophobia: Fear of fire.
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- Rectophobia: Fear of rectum.
- Rhabdophobia: Fear of magic. Fear
of being eaten.
- Rhypophobia: Fear of filth.
- Rhytiphobia: Fear of getting wrinkles.
- Russophobia: Fear of
Russians.
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- Satanophobia: Fear of Satan.
- Scholionophobia: Fear of school.
Synonyms: Scolionophobia.
- Sciophobia: Fear of shadows.
- Scoleciphobia: Fear of worms.
- Scolionophobia: Fear of school.
Synonyms: Scholionophobia.
- Scopophobia: Fear of being seen
or looked at.
- Scotophobia: Fear of darkness.
- Scotophobia:
Fear of the dark or of night. Synonyms: Nyctophobia,
Achluophobia.
- Selaphobia: Fear of light flashes.
- Septophobia: Fear of decaying
matter.
- Siderodromophobia: Fear of train travel.
- Siderophobia: Fear
of stars.
- Sinophobia: Fear of Chinese.
- Sitiophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms:
Cibophobia, Sitophobia.
- Sitiophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms: Sitophobia.
- Sitophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms: Cibophobia,
Sitiophobia.
- Sitophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms: Sitiophobia.
- Soceraphobia: Fear of parents-in-law.
- Solophobia: Fear of the
sun. Fear of (or abnormal sensitivity to)
sunlight. Synonyms: Heliophobia.
- Sophophobia: Fear of learning.
- Specrophobia: Fear of specters
or phantoms.
- Spectrophobia: Fear of looking in a mirror.
- Spermatophobia:
Fear of germs. Synonyms: Spermophobia.
- Spermophobia: Fear of
germs. Synonyms: Spermatophobia.
- Spheksophobia : Fear of wasps.
- Stasibasiphobia: Fear of standing
or walking. Conviction
that one cannot stand or walk.
- Staurophobia: Fear of crosses
or the crucifix.
- Stenophobia: Fear of narrow things or places.
- Stygiophobia: Fear of
hell.
- Stygiophobia: Fear of hell. Synonyms: Hadeophobia.
- Symmetrophobia:
Fear of symmetry.
- Syngenesophobia: Fear of relatives.
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- Tabophobia: Fear of a wasting
sickness.
- Tachophobia: Fear of speed.
- Taphephobia: Fear of being buried
alive or of cemeteries. Synonyms:
Taphophobia.
- Taphophobia: Fear of graves or being buried alive. Synonyms:
Taphephobia.
- Tapinophobia: Fear of being contagious. Fear of
small things.
- Taurophobia: Fear of bulls.
- Technophobia: Fear of arts and
crafts. Fear of technology.
- Teleophobia: Fear of definite
plans, alternatively - Fear of religious ceremony.
- Telephonophobia: Fear
of telephones.
- Teratophobia:
Fear of bearing a deformed child.
- Terdekaphobia Fear of the number 13. Synonyms:
Triskadekaphobia.
- Teutophobia: Fear of German or German things.
- Thaasophobia:
Fear of being idle.
- Thalassophobia: Fear of the sea.
- Thanatophobia: Fear of death
or dying.
- Theatrophobia: Fear of theatres.
- Theologicophobia: Fear of
theology.
- Theophobia: Fear of gods or religion.
- Thermophobia: Fear of
heat.
- Thixophobia: Fear of touch or fear of touching. Synonyms: Haptophobia,
Haphophobia.
- Tocophobia: Fear of pregnancy or childbirth. Synonyms:
Tokophobia.
- Tokophobia: Fear of pregnancy or childbirth. Synonyms:
Tocophobia.
- Tomophobia: Fear of surgical operations.
- Tonitrophobia: Fear
of thunder. Synonyms:
Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia.
- Topophobia: Fear of certain places. Fear
of performing ("Stage
Fright").
- Toxicophobia: Fear of poison. Synonyms: Toxiphobia,
Toxophobia.
- Toxiphobia: Fear of poison. Synonyms: Toxophobia,
Toxicophobia.
- Toxophobia: Fear of poison. Synonyms: Toxiphobia,
Toxicophobia.
- Traumatophobia: Fear of injury. Fear of war.
- Tremophobia: Fear
of trembling.
- Trichophobia: Fear of hair. Synonyms: Chaetophobia.
- Triskadekaphobia:
Fear of the number 13. Synonyms: Terdekaphobia,
- Tropophobia:
Fear of making changes.
- Tyrannophobia: Fear of tyrants.
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- Uranophobia: Fear of heaven.
- Urophobia: Fear of urine.
V
- Vaccinophobia: Fear of vaccines and
vaccination.
- Venereophobia: Fear of venereal disease.
- Verbophobia: Fear
of words.
- Vermiphobia: Fear of (earth, not intestinal) worms.
- Vestiophobia: Fear of clothing.
- Vitricophobia: Fear of
one's step-father.
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- Xanthophobia: Fear of the color yellow
or the word yellow.
- Xenophobia: Fear of strangers or foreigners,
or anything foreign.
- Xerophobia: Fear of dryness and dry
places, esp. deserts.
- Xylophobia: Fear of wooden objects
or forests.
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- Zelophobia: Fear of jealousy.
- Zoophobia:
Fear of animals.
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