A phobia is a constant and unreasonable fear, which can be from anything, such as; person, animal, object, action, or circumstances. It is a kind of anxiety disorder.
According to the DSM-IV to DSM-5 specific phobias typically fall within five categories:
Specify type: Animal Type (e.g., spiders, insects, dogs) |
Specify type: Natural Environment Type (e.g., heights, storms, water) |
Specify type: Blood-Injection-Injury Type (e.g., needles, invasive medical procedures) |
Specify type: Situational Type (e.g., airplanes, elevators, enclosed places) |
List of Phobias
Ablutophobia | Fear of bathing |
Achluophobia | Fear of darkness |
Acrophobia | Fear of heights |
Aerophobia | Fear of flying |
Algophobia | Fear of pain |
Alektorophobia | Fear of chickens |
Agoraphobia | Fear of public spaces or crowds |
Agyrophobia | Fear of crossing the street |
Aichmophobia | Fear of needles or pointed objects |
Amaxophobia | Fear of riding in a car |
Ambulophobia | Fear of walking |
Anatidaephobia | Fear of somewhere, somehow a duck watching you |
Androphobia | Fear of men |
Anginophobia | Fear of angina or choking |
Anthophobia | Fear of flowers |
Anthropophobia | Fear of people or society |
Aphenphosmphobia | Fear of being touched |
Arachnophobia | Fear of spiders |
Arithmophobia | Fear of numbers |
Astraphobia | Fear of thunder and lightning |
Ataxophobia | Fear of disorder or untidiness |
Atelophobia | Fear of imperfection |
Athazagoraphobia | Fear of forgetting someone or something |
Atychiphobia | Fear of failure |
Autophobia | Fear of being alone |
Bacteriophobia | Fear of bacteria |
Bananaphobia | Fear of bananas |
Barophobia | Fear of gravity |
Bathmophobia | Fear of stairs or steep slopes |
Batrachophobia | Fear of amphibians |
Belonephobia | Fear of pins and needles |
Bibliophobia | Fear of books |
Biophobia | Fear of living things |
Bogyphobia | Fear of the boogeyman |
Botanophobia | Fear of plants |
Cacophobia | Fear of ugliness |
Catagelophobia | Fear of being ridiculed |
Catoptrophobia | Fear of mirrors |
Chaetophobia | Fear of hair |
Cherophobia | Fear of happiness |
Chionophobia | Fear of snow |
Chiroptophobia | Fear of bats |
Chromophobia | Fear of colors |
Chronomentrophobia | Fear of clocks |
Claustrophobia | Fear of confined spaces |
Coulrophobia | Fear of clowns |
Cryophobia | Fear of extreme cold |
Cyberphobia | Fear of computers |
Cynophobia | Fear of dogs |
Decidophobia | Fear of making decisions |
Deipnophobia | Fear of having a dinner conversation |
Dendrophobia | Fear of trees |
Dentophobia | Fear of dentists |
Didaskaleinophobia | Fear of school |
Domatophobia | Fear of houses |
Dumasaphobia | Fear of Dumb people |
Dystychiphobia | Fear of accidents |
Ecophobia | Fear of the home |
Eisoptrophobia | Fear of mirrors |
Elurophobia | Fear of cats |
Entomophobia | Fear of insects |
Ephebiphobia | Fear of teenagers |
Ergophobia | Fear of work |
Equinophobia | Fear of horses |
Euphobia | Fear of hearing good news |
Frigophobia | Fear of cold |
Gamophobia | Fear of marriage |
Genuphobia | Fear of knees |
Genophobia | Fear of sexual intercourse |
Glossophobia | Fear of speaking in public |
Globophobia | Fear of balloons |
Gynophobia | Fear of women |
Heliophobia | Fear of the sun |
Hemophobia | Fear of blood |
Herpetophobia | Fear of reptiles |
Homophobia | Dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people |
Hippopotomonstros-esquippedaliophobia | Fear of long words |
Hydrophobia | Fear of water |
Hypochondria | Fear of illness |
Iatrophobia | Fear of doctors |
Insectophobia | Fear of insects |
Koinoniphobia | Fear of rooms full of people |
Leukophobia | Fear of the color white |
Lilapsophobia | Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes |
Linonophobia | Fear of string |
Lockiophobia | Fear of childbirth |
Lupophobia | Fear of wolves and werewolves |
Maskaphobia | Fear of masks |
Medomalacuphobia | Fear of losing an erection |
Mageirocophobia | Fear of cooking |
Megalophobia | Fear of large things |
Melanophobia | Fear of the color black |
Microphobia | Fear of small things |
Mysophobia | Fear of dirt and germs |
Necrophobia | Fear of death or dead things |
Noctiphobia | Fear of the night |
Nomophobia | Fear of being without your mobile phone |
Nosocomephobia | Fear of hospitals |
Nyctophobia | Fear of the dark |
Obesophobia | Fear of gaining weight |
Octophobia | Fear of the number 8 |
Oikophobia | Fear of home surroundings, certain items of home or home |
Ombrophobia | Fear of rain |
Omphalophobia | Fear of belly buttons |
Ophidiophobia | Fear of snakes |
Optophobia | Fear of opening one’s eyes |
Ornithophobia | Fear of birds |
Ostiophobia | Fear of bones |
Panphobia | Fear of everything |
Papyrophobia | Fear of paper |
Paraskavedekatriaphobia | Fear of Friday the 13th |
Pathophobia | Fear of disease |
Pedophobia | Fear of children |
Pediophobia | Fear of Dolls |
Pentheraphobia | Fear of your mother-in-law |
Phasmophobia | Fear of ghosts |
Philophobia | Fear of love |
Placophobia | Fear of Tombstones |
Phobophobia | Fear of phobias |
Plutophobia | Fear of money |
Podophobia | Fear of feet |
Pogonophobia | Fear of beards |
Porphyrophobia | Fear of the color purple |
Pteridophobia | Fear of ferns |
Pteromerhanophobia | Fear of flying |
Pteronophobia | Fear of being tickled by feathers |
Pyrophobia | Fear of fire |
Samhainophobia | Fear of Halloween |
Sanguivoriphobia | Fear of Vampires |
Scolionophobia | Fear of school |
Scopophobia | Fear of being stared at |
Selenophobia | Fear of the moon |
Sociophobia | Fear of social evaluation |
Somniphobia | Fear of sleep |
Skelephobia | Fear of Skeleton |
Tachophobia | Fear of speed |
Technophobia | Fear of technology |
Teraphobia | Fear of monsters |
Thalassophobia | Fear of the ocean |
Tonitrophobia | Fear of thunder |
Triskaidekaphobia | Fear of the number 13 |
Trypanophobia | Fear of needles or injections |
Trypophobia | Fear of holes |
Venustraphobia | Fear of beautiful women |
Verbophobia | Fear of Words |
Verminophobia | Fear of germs |
Vestiphobia | Fear of clothing |
Wiccaphobia | Fear of witches and witchcraft |
Xenophobia | Fear of strangers or foreigners |
Xanthophobia | Fear of the color yellow |
Zoophobia | Fear of animals |