Different Types of Phobia

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Different Types of Phobia

Top 13 Phobias

Alektorophobia – Fear of chickens.
Allodoxaphobia – Fear of opinions.
Aphenphosmphobia – Fear of being touched.
Caligynephobia – Fear of beautiful women.
Chrometophobia/Chrematophobia – Fear of money.
Coulrophobia – Fear of clowns.
Ergophobia – Fear of work.
Lachanophobia – Fear of vegetables.
Peladophobia – Fear of bald people.
Theophobia – Fear of gods or religion.
Vestiphobia – Fear of clothing.

Achluophobia – Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia – Fear of noise.
Acrophobia – Fear of heights.
Agoraphobia – Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded places.
Ailurophobia – Fear of cats.
Alektorophobia – Fear of chickens.
Alliumphobia – Fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia – Fear of opinions.
Altophobia – Fear of heights.
Amaxophobia – Fear of riding in a car.
Ambulophobia – Fear of walking.
Ancraophobia – or Anemophobia Fear of wind.
Androphobia – Fear of men.
Anglophobia – Fear of England, English culture, etc.
Anthrophobia – Fear of flowers.
Antlophobia – Fear of floods.
Anuptaphobia – Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia – Fear of infinity.
Aphenphosmphobia – Fear of being touched.
Apiphobia – Fear of bees.
Apotemnophobia – Fear of persons with amputations. Arachnephobia/Arachnophobia Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia – Fear of numbers.
Arrhenphobia – Fear of men. Arsonphobia Fear of fire.
Astraphobia/Astrapophobia – Fear of thunder and lightning.
Astrophobia – Fear of stars/space.
Ataxophobia – Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia – Fear of imperfection.
Athazagoraphobia – Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
Atychiphobia – Fear of failure.
Aurophobia – Fear of gold.
Automatonophobia – Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues
Automysophobia – Fear of being dirty.
Autophobia – Fear of being alone or of oneself.
Aviophobia/Aviatophobia – Fear of flying.
Bacillophobia – Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia – Fear of bacteria.
Bathmophobia – Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Batophobia – Fear of heights.
Batrachophobia – Fear of amphibians (like frogs)
Belonephobia – Fear of pins and needles.
Bibliophobia – Fear of books.
Botanophobia – Fear of plants.
Brontophobia – Fear of thunder and lightning.
Cacophobia – Fear of ugliness.
Cainophobia/Cainotophobia – Fear of newness, novelty.
Caligynephobia – Fear of beautiful women.
Carnophobia – Fear of meat.
Catagelophobia – Fear of being ridiculed.
Catoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors.
Cenophobia / Centophobia – Fear of new things or ideas.
Ceraunophobia – Fear of thunder.
Chaetophobia – Fear of hair.
Chionophobia – Fear of snow.
Chiraptophobia – Fear of being touched.
Chirophobia – Fear of hands.
Chorophobia – Fear of dancing.
Chrometophobia/Chrematophobia – Fear of money.
Chromophobia/Chromatophobia – Fear of colors.
Chronomentrophobia – Fear of clocks.
Cibophobia/Sitophobia/Sitiophobia – Fear of food.
Claustrophobia – Fear of confined spaces.
Climacophobia – Fear of stairs.
Clinophobia – Fear of going to bed.
Coimetrophobia – Fear of cemeteries.
Coulrophobia – Fear of clowns.
Cyberphobia – Fear of computers.
Cyclophobia – Fear of bicycles.
Cymophobia – Fear of waves.
Cynophobia – Fear of dogs.
Demophobia – Fear of crowds.
Dendrophobia – Fear of trees.
Dentophobia – Fear of dentists.
Didaskaleinophobia – Fear of going to school.
Dipsophobia – Fear of drinking.
Dishabiliophobia – Fear of undressing in front of someone.
Dromophobia – Fear of crossing streets.
Eisoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors.
Elurophobia – Fear of cats.
Emetophobia – Fear of vomiting.
Entomophobia – Fear of insects.
Ephebiphobia – Fear of teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia – Fear of nosebleeds.
Equinophobia – Fear of horses.
Ergophobia – Fear of work.
Felinophobia – Fear of cats.
Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia – Fear of fever.
Francophobia – Fear of France, French culture.
Frigophobia – Fear of cold, cold things.
Gamophobia – Fear of marriage.
Geliophobia – Fear of laughter.
Genophobia – Fear of sex.
Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia – Fear of crossing bridges.
Gerascophobia – Fear of growing old.
Glossophobia – Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak. Gynephobia/Gynophobia Fear of women.
Haphephobia/Haptephobia – Fear of being touched.
Harpaxophobia – Fear of being robbed.
Heliophobia – Fear of the sun.
Hemophobia/Hemaphobia/Hematophobia – Fear of blood.
Hierophobia – Fear of priests or sacred things.
Hominophobia – Fear of men.
Hylophobia – Fear of forests.
Iatrophobia – Fear of doctors.
Ichthyophobia – Fear of fish.
Japanophobia – Fear of Japanese.
Judeophobia – Fear of Jews.
Keraunophobia – Fear of thunder and lightning.
Kymophobia – Fear of waves.
Lachanophobia – Fear of vegetables.
Ligyrophobia – Fear of loud noises.
Limnophobia – Fear of lakes.
Liticaphobia – Fear of lawsuits.
Lockiophobia – Fear of childbirth.
Logizomechanophobia – Fear of computers.
Logophobia – Fear of words.
Lygophobia – Fear of darkness.
Macrophobia – Fear of long waits.
Mageirocophobia – Fear of cooking.
Maieusiophobia – Fear of childbirth.
Megalophobia – Fear of large things.
Melissophobia – Fear of bees.
Methyphobia – Fear of alcohol.
Microphobia – Fear of small things.
Misophobia – Fear of being contaminated with dirt/germs.
Monophobia – Fear of solitude or being alone.
Motorphobia – Fear of automobiles.
Musophobia/Murophobia – Fear of mice.
Necrophobia – Fear of death / dead things.
Neophobia – Fear of anything new.
Nosocomephobia – Fear of hospitals.
Numerophobia – Fear of numbers.
Ochlophobia – Fear of crowds or mobs.
Ophidiophobia – Fear of snakes.
Ophthalmophobia – Fear of being stared at.
Ornithophobia – Fear of birds.
Pedophobia – Fear of children.
Peladophobia – Fear of bald people.
Phasmophobia – Fear of ghosts.
Placophobia – Fear of tombstones.
Plutophobia – Fear of wealth.
Pogonophobia – Fear of beards.
Potamophobia – Fear of rivers or running water.
Pteronophobia – Fear of being tickled by feathers.
Pupaphobia – Fear of puppets.
Pyrophobia – Fear of fire.
Rhytiphobia – Fear of getting wrinkles.
Rupophobia – Fear of dirt.
Scolionophobia – Fear of school.
Selachophobia – Fear of sharks.
Sesquipedalophobia – Fear of long words.
Tachophobia – Fear of speed.
Technophobia – Fear of technology.
Telephonophobia – Fear of telephones.
Testophobia – Fear of taking tests.
Theophobia – Fear of gods or religion.
Trypanophobia – Fear of injections.
Venustraphobia – Fear of beautiful women.
Verbophobia – Fear of words.
Verminophobia – Fear of germs.
Vestiphobia – Fear of clothing.
Xanthophobia – Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
Xenoglossophobia – Fear of foreign languages.
Xenophobia – Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Xerophobia – Fear of dryness.
Xylophobia – 1) Fear of wooden objects and/or Forests.
Xyrophobia – Fear of razors. Zelophobia
Zemmiphobia – Fear of the great mole rat
Zeusophobia – Fear of God or gods
Zoophobia – Fear of animals

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