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Phobias

Definition and List of phobias

The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g. acidophobia), and in medicine to describe hypersensitivity to a stimulus, usually sensory (e.g. photophobia). In common usage, they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject (e.g. homophobia). The suffix is antonymic to -phil-.

A

  • Ablutophobia – fear of bathingwashing, or cleaning
  • Acousticophobia – fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia
  • Acrophobia – fear of heights
  • Aerophobia - fear of flying
  • Agoraphobia – fear of open places
  • Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals, a branch of zoophobia
  • Agyrophobia – the irrational fear that crossing streets will cause bodily harm to oneself, even if no actual threat is posed.
  • Aibohphobia - fear of palindromes; words, phrases, numbers or other sequence of characters which can be read the same backward or forward
  • Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife)
  • Ailurophobia – fear of cats
  • Algophobia – fear of pain
  • Amychophobia – fear of being scratched
  • Androphobia - fear of adult men
  • Anthropophobia – fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia
  • Aquaphobia – fear of water. Distinct from hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies
  • Arachnophobia – fear of spiders
  • Astraphobia – fear of thunder and lightning
  • Autophobia – fear of isolation
  • Aviophobia, aviatophobia – fear of flying

B

  • Barophobia – fear of gravity – there are two forms: fear of being crushed by gravity's pressure when it becomes too great, or fear that gravity will disappear causing everything and everyone to simply float away – also, fear of being overweight
  • Basophobia (also "basiphobia") – fear associated with astasia-abasia (fear of walking/standing erect) and a fear of falling
  • Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias

C

  • Chemophobia – fear of chemicals
  • Chiroptophobia – fear of bats
  • Chlorophobia – fear of the color green
  • Chromophobia, chromatophobia – fear of colors
  • Chronophobia – fear of time and time moving forward
  • Chrysophobia – fear of the color orange
  • Cibophobiasitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa
  • Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in
  • Cleithrophobia – fear of being trapped
  • Coimetrophobia – fear of cemeteries
  • Colorphobia – fear or a strong aversion towards a particular color
  • Coprophobia – fear of feces or defecation
  • Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
  • Cyanophobia – fear of the color blue
  • Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies
  • Cynophobia – fear of dogs

D

  • Decidophobia – fear of making decisions
  • Demonophobia, daemonophobia – fear of demons
  • Dendrophobia – see hylophobia
  • Dentophobia, odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
  • Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect

E

  • Eurotophobia – fear of female genitals
  • Eleutherophobia – fear of freedom
  • Emetophobia – fear of vomiting
  • Enochlophobia – fear of crowds
  • Ephebiphobia – fear of youth; inaccurate, exaggerated and sensational characterization of young people
  • Ergophobia, ergasiophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating
  • Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual abuse
  • Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia – fear of the color red, or fear of blushing

F

  • Frigophobia – fear of becoming too cold

G

  • Gamophobia – fear of cohabitationmarriage or nuptials
  • Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at
  • Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges
  • Genophobia, coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse
  • Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or aging
  • Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
  • Globophobia – fear of balloons
  • Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
  • Gymnophobia – fear of nudity
  • Gynophobia – fear of women

H

  • Halitophobia – fear of bad breath
  • Haphephobia – fear of being touched
  • Harpaxophobia – fear of being robbed
  • Hedonophobia – fear of obtaining pleasure
  • Heliophobia – fear of the sun or sunlight
  • Hemophobia, haemophobia – fear of blood
  • Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666
  • Hoplophobia – fear of firearms
  • Hylophobia, dendrophobia – fear of treesforests or wood
  • Hypnophobia, somniphobia – fear of sleep

I

  • Ichthyophobia – fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish

L

  • Lilapsophobia – fear of tornadoes or hurricanes

M

  • Mechanophobia – fear of machines
  • Melanophobia – fear of the color black
  • Melissophobia, apiphobia – fear of bees
  • Monophobia – fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self
  • Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia – fear of mice or rats
  • Myrmecophobia – fear of ants
  • Mysophobia – fear of germscontamination or dirt

N

  • Necrophobia – fear of death or the dead
  • Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia, metathesiophobia, prosophobia – fear of newnessnoveltychange or progress
  • Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact
  • Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals
  • Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease
  • Nostophobia, ecophobia – fear of returning home
  • Numerophobia, fear of numbers
  • Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia – fear of darkness

O

  • Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances
  • Oneirophobia – fear of dreams
  • Ophthalmophobia – fear of being stared at
  • Osmophobia, olfactophobia – fear of odors

P

  • Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause
  • Pediophobia – fear of dolls
  • Pedophobia – fear of children
  • Phagophobia – fear of swallowing
  • Phallophobia – fear of erections
  • Pharmacophobia – fear of medications
  • Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts or phantoms
  • Philophobia – fear of love
  • Phobophobia – fear of fear itself or of having a phobia
  • Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds or voices
  • Pogonophobia – fear of beards
  • Pornophobia – fear of pornography
  • Pupaphobia – fear of puppets
  • Pyrophobia – fear of fire

R

  • Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays

S

  • Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at
  • Sexophobia – fear of sexual organs or sexual activities
  • Siderodromophobia – fear of trains or railroads
  • Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
  • Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors
  • Stasiphobia – fear of standing or walking

T

  • Taphophobia, taphephobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
  • Technophobia – fear of advanced technology (see also Luddite)
  • Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls
  • Teratophobia – fear of disfigured people
  • Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4
  • Thalassophobia – fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean
  • Thanatophobia – fear of dying
  • Thermophobia – intolerance to high temperatures
  • Tokophobia – fear of childbirth or pregnancy
  • Toxiphobia – fear of being poisoned
  • Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury
  • Trichophobia – delusional fear of something in the roots of the hair that stops it from growing,[13] or fear of hair loss
  • Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13
  • Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia – fear of needles or injections
  • Trypophobia – fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes[14]

W

  • Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace

X

  • Xanthophobia – fear of the color yellow
  • Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens
  • Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood

Animal phobias

  • Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals
  • Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats
  • Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as melissophobia, from the Greek melissa "bee")
  • Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders and other arachnids
  • Batrachophobia – fear/dislike of frogs and other amphibians
  • Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats
  • Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs
  • Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects
  • Equinophobia, hippophobia – fear/dislike of horses
  • Herpetophobia – fear/dislike of reptiles or amphibians
  • Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish
  • Murophobia – fear/dislike of mice or rats
  • Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes
  • Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds
  • Ranidaphobia – fear/dislike of frogs
  • Scoleciphobia – fear of worms
  • Selachophobia – fear of sharks
  • Zoophobia – fear of animals

Non-psychological conditions

  • Bibliophobia – fear or hatred of books, as a cultural phenomenon
  • Hoplophobia – a political term for fear of weapons, specifically firearms
  • Lipophobia – avoidance of fats in food
  • Osmophobia – hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors
  • Phonophobia – hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds
  • Photophobia – hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light

Biology, chemistry

Biologists use a number of -phobia/-phobic terms to describe predispositions by plants and animals against certain conditions. For antonyms, see here
  • Acidophobia/Acidophobic – preference for non-acidic conditions
  • Heliophobia/Heliophobic – aversion to sunlight
  • Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic – a property of being repelled by water
  • Lipophobicity – a property of fat rejection (sometimes also called lipophobia)
  • Oleophobicity – a property of oil rejection
  • Photophobia (biology) – a negative phototaxis or phototropism response, or a tendency to stay out of the light
  • Superhydrophobe – the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet
  • Thermophobia – aversion to heat

Prejudices and discrimination

The suffix -phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti-ethnic or anti-demographic sentiment, such as AmericanophobiaEurophobiaFrancophobiaHispanophobia, and Indophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix "anti-" already exists (e.g. Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism). Anti-religious sentiments are expressed in terms such as Christianophobia and Islamophobia.
Other prejudices include:
  • Albanophobia – fear/dislike of Albanians
  • Anglophobia – fear/dislike of England or English culture
  • Atheophobia – fear/dislike of atheists
  • Biphobia – fear/dislike of bisexuality or bisexuals
  • Christianophobia – fear/dislike of Christians
  • Ephebiphobia – fear/dislike of youth
  • Germanophobia – fear/dislike of Germans
  • Gerontophobiagerascophobia – fear/dislike of aging or the elderly
  • Heterophobia – fear/dislike of heterosexuals
  • Hinduphobia – fear/dislike of Hindus
  • Hispanophobia – fear/dislike of Hispanic people, Hispanic culture and the Spanish language
  • Homophobia – fear/dislike of homosexuality, homosexuals, or gays (as opposed to lesbians)
  • Indophobia – fear/dislike of India or Indian culture
  • Islamophobia – fear/dislike of Muslims
  • Judeophobia – fear/dislike of Jews
  • Lesbophobia – fear/dislike of lesbians
  • Negrophobia – fear/dislike of black people
  • Nipponophobia – fear/dislike of the Japanese
  • Koryophobia – fear/dislike of the Koreans
  • Pedophobia – fear/dislike of children
  • Polonophobia – fear/dislike of the Polish
  • Psychophobia – fear/dislike of mental illness or the mentally ill
  • Russophobia – fear/dislike of Russians
  • Shiaphobia – fear/dislike of Shiites
  • Sinophobia – fear/dislike of Chinese people
  • Sunniphobia – fear/dislike of Sunnis
  • Transphobia – fear/dislike of transgender people
  • Turcophobia – fear/dislike of Turks
  • Xenophobia – fear/dislike of foreigners or extraterrestrials

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