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fear of skin infestation by mites or ticks Achluophobia fear of darkness or the night Acousticophobia fear of noise Acrophobia fear of heights Aelurophobia fear of cats Aerophobia fear of fresh air Agoraphobia fear of being in crowded, public places Agyrophobia fear of crossing streets Aichmophobia fear of pointed objects Alektrophobia fear of chickens Algophobia fear of pain Amathophobia fear of dust Amaxophobia fear of being or riding in vehicles Amychophobia fear of being scratched Ancraophobia fear of wind Androphobia fear of men Anginophobia fear of quinsy or other forms of sore throat Anglophobia fear of England or the English Ankylophobia dread of stiff or immobile joints Anthophobia fear of flowers Anthropophobia fear of people, especially in groups Antlophobia fear of floods Apeirophobia fear of infinity Apiophobia intense fear of bees Arachibuyrophobia fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth Arachnophobia fear of spiders Asthenophobia fear of weakness Astraphobia fear of lightning Astrophobia fear of impending or anticipated occurrences Ataxiophobia fear of disorder Atelophobia fear of imperfection Atephobia fear of ruin Aulophobia fear of flutes Aurophobia dislike of gold Auroraphobia fear of Auroral lights Automysophobia fear or dislike of being dirty Autophobia fear of being by oneself Bacillophobia fear of missiles Bacteriophobia fear of bacteria Barophobia fear of gravity Bathmophobia dislike or fear of walking Bathophobia intense dislike of bathing; fear of depth Batophobia fear of passing high buildings Batrachophobia fear of frogs and toads Belonephobia fear of pins and needles Bibliophobia dislike for books Blennophobia fear or dislike of slime Bogyphobia dread of demons and goblins Bromidrosiphobia fear of having unpleasant body odour Brontophobia fear of thunder and thunderstorms Cainophobia fear or dislike of novelty Cancerophobia fear of cancer Cardiophobia fear of heart disease Cathisophobia fear or dislike of sitting down Catoptrophobia fear of mirrors Celtophobia intense dislike of Celts Cenophobia fear of a void or of open spaces Chaetophobia fear of hair Cheimaphobia fear or dislike of cold Cherophobia fear of gaiety Chinophobia fear or dislike of snow Cholerophobia fear of cholera Chrematophobia fear or dislike of wealth Chrometophobia fear or dislike of money Chromophobia fear of colours Chronophobia discomfort concerning time Cibophobia fear of food Claustrophobia fear of enclosed spaces Cleptophobia fear of thieves or loss through thievery Clinophobia fear or dislike of going to bed Cnidophobia insect stings Coitophobia fear of sexual intercourse Cometophobia fear of comets Coprophobia fear of excrement/faeces Cremnophobia fear of precipices Cryophobia fear of ice or frost Crystallophobia fear of glass, crystals Cymophobia fear of waves Cynophobia dread of dogs Cypridophobia fear of veneral disease Deipnophobia fear or dislike of dining and dinner conversation Demonophobia fear of spirits, demons Demophobia dislike of crowds Dermatophobia fear of skin disease Dextrophobia fear of objects on the right side of the body Dikephobia fear or dislike 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 contact with animal fur or skin Dysmorphophobia dread of deformity, usually in others Ecclesiophobia fear or dislike of church Ecophobia fear of or aversion to home surroundings Eleutherophobia fear of freedom Electrophobia fear of electricity or of being shocked Emetophobia fear of vomiting Enetophobia fear of needles or pins Entomophobia fear of insects Eosophobia fear of the dawn Ereuthophobia fear of the colour red Ergasiophobia fear or dislike of work Ergophobia hatred of work Erotophobia fear of sexual feelings and their physical expression Euphobia fear of good news Febriphobia fear of fever Galeophobia fear of sharks Gametophobia fear or dislike of marriage Geniophobia fear of chins Genuphobia fear of knees Gephyrophobia fear of crossing a bridge Gerascophobia fear of growing old Geumophobia fear of tastes or flavours Glossophobia fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak Graphophobia dislike of writing Gymnophobia fear of nudity Hadeophobia fear of hell Haemaphobia fear of the sight of blood Hagiophobia dislike for saints and the holy Hamartophobia fear of error or sin Hamaxophobia fear of being or riding in vehicles Haphophobia fear of touch Harpaxophobia fear of robbers Hedonophobia fear of pleasure Heliophobia fear of sunlight Helminthophobia fear of being infested with worms Herpetophobia fear of reptiles Hierophobia fear or dislike of sacred objects, fear of priests Hippophobia fear or horses Hodophobia fear or dislike of travel Homichlophobia fear of fog Homilophobia hatred of sermons Homophobia fear of homosexuality Hydrophobia fear of water Hydrophophobia fear of rabies Hygrophobia fear of liquids in any form, especially wine and water Hylephobia dislike for wood or woods Hypengyophobia fear of responsibility Hypnophobia fear of sleep Iatrophobia fear of going to the doctor Ichthyophobia fear of fish Iophobia fear of poisons Ignophobia fear of not knowing Isopterophobia fear of termites Kakorrhaphiophobia fear of failure or defeat Katagelophobia fear or dislike of ridicule Kinetophobia fear or dislike of motion Kopophobia fear of fatigue Kopophobia fear of mental or physical examination Laliophobia fear of talking Lepraphobia fear of leprosy Limnophobia fear of lakes Linonophobia fear of string Logophobia fear or dislike of words Lunaphobia fear of the moon Lyssophobia fear of becoming insane Mechanophobia aversion to or fear of machinery Merinthophobia fear of being bound Metallophobia fear of metals Meteorophobia fear of meteors or meteorites Microphobia fear of micro-organisms Misanthropy a hatred of mankind Misophobia fear of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt Misogynism extreme dislike of females Misosophy hatred of wisdom Molysomophobia fear of infection Monopathophobia fear of sickness in a specific part of the body Monophobia fear of one thing Musicophobia dislike of music Musophobia fear of mice Mythophobia fear of making false statements Necrophobia fear of death and corpses Neophobia fear of new things Negrophobia fear of African Americans Nephophobia fear of clouds Noctiphobia fear of the night Nosophobia fear of contracting a disease Nudophobia fear of nudity Ochlophobia fear of crowds Ochophobia fear of vehicles Odontophobia fear of teeth, expecially those of animals Oenophobia dislike of or hatred for wine Ombrophobia fear of rain Ommetaphobia fear of eyes Onomatophobia fear of a certain name Ornithophobia fear of birds Papaphobia fear or dislike of the pope or the papacy Paralipophobia fear of neglect of some duty Paraphobia fear of sexual perversion Parasitophobia fear of parasites Parthenophobia aversion to young girls Pathophobia fear of disease Peccatiphobia fear of sinning Pediculophobia fear of lice Pediophobia fear or dislike of children Peladophobia dread of baldness Peniaphobia fear of poverty Phanmophobia fear of spectres or phantoms Pharmacophobia fear of drugs Phasmophobia fear of ghosts Phenophobia fear of noise Phenogophobia fear of daylight Phobophobia fear of phobias Philosophobia fear or dislike of philosophy or philosophers Phonophobia fear or dislike of noise Photalgiophobia fear of photalgin, pain in the eyes caused by light Photophobia fear of light Phonemophobia fear of thinking Pneumatophobia fear of incorporeal beings, spirits Pnigophobia fear of choking or smothering Pogonophobia fear or dislike of beards Poinephobia fear of punishment Politicophobia dislike or fear of politicians Polyphobia fear of many things Potamophobia fear or rivers Posteriophobia fear of falling behind Potophobia fear of drinks Psychophobia fear of the mind Pteronophobia fear of feathers Pyrexiophobia fear of fever Pyrophobia fear of fire Rectophobia fear of rectum Rhabdophobia fear of being eaten Sciophobia fear of shadows Scopophobia fear of being looked at or stared at Selaphobia fear or dislike of flashes of light Siderophobia fear of the stars Siderodromophobia fear of trains Sinophobia fear of China Sitophobia fear of food Spermatophobia fear of germs Stasibphobia fear or standing or walking Stygiophobia fear of hell Symmetrophobia fear or dislike of symmetry Tabophobia fear of a wasting sickness Tachophobia fear of speed Taphephobia fear of being buried alive Tapinophobia fear of small things Taurophobia fear of bulls Technophobia fear of arts and crafts Telephonophobia fear of the telephone Teratophobia fear of monster or of giving birth to a monster Thaasophobia fear or dislike of being idle Thalassophobia fear of the sea Theatrophobia fear of theatres Theophobia fear of God Thanatophobia fear of death Thermophobia fear or dislike of heat Thixophobia fear of touch Tocophobia fear of childbirth Tomophobia fear of surgical operations Topophobia fear of certain places Toxicophobia fear of being poisoned Traumatophobia fear of war or physical injury Tremophobia fear of trembling Triskaidekaphobia fear of the number 13 Tyrannophobia fear or hatred of tyrants Urophobia fear of urine Vaccinophobia fear of vaccines and vaccination Venereophobia fear of venereal disease Xenophobia fear or hatred of foreigners and strange things Xerophobia fear of dryness and dry places, like deserts Zelophobia fear of jealousy Zoophobia fear of animals |