Corrected List of Phobias
Below is a list of phobias that originated on the website of the Canadian Mental Health Association Edmonton Region. The original list had problems, including words based on English, Spanish, and French roots. These problems have been exacerbated by copying this list and passing it from website to website managed by laymen unfamiliar with Greek, Latin or the rules of Greek compound composition.
This list below probably does not solve all the problems. Some of the misconstructions and misspellings have permeated the English-speaking world to such an extent it is probably impossible to correct them. We have tried to draw a line between these and the correctables. For a longer discussion of what we have done, click here.
A person possessed of a phobia is a -phobe, e.g. acrophobe, claustrophobe, Russophobe. The adjective describing these conditions is -phobic, e.g. acrophobic, claustrophobic, Russophobic. You may convert the adjectives into adverbs by simply adding -ly.
For a list of corresponding philias, click here
For a list of corresponding manias, click here
To take the alphaDictionary Phobias Test, click here.
| Phobia | Obsessive Fear of |
| • A • | |
| abibliophobia | being without books |
| ablutophobia | washing or bathing |
| acarophobia | itching |
| acerophobia | sourness or sour things |
| achluophobia | darkness |
| acousticophobia | noise |
| acrophobia | heights, high places |
| aeroacrophobia | open high places |
| aeronauseophobia | airsickness |
| aerophobia | air or drafts |
| agateophobia | insanity |
| agoraphobia | open or public places |
| agathophobia | kindness |
| agriozoophobia | wild animals |
| agyrophobia | streets or crossing them |
| aichmophobia | sharp or pointed objects |
| ailurophobia | cats |
| albuminurophobia | albumen in the urine or kidney disease |
| alektorophobia | roosters or chickens |
| algophobia | pain |
| alliophobia | garlic (Latinized; see scorodophobia) |
| allodoxaphobia | different opinions |
| altophobia | heights, high places (Latinized; see acrophobia) |
| amathophobia | dust |
| amaxophobia | riding in a car or wagon |
| ambulophobia | walking |
| amnesiophobia | forgetting |
| amychophobia | being scratched |
| anablephobia | looking up |
| androphobia | men |
| anemophobia | wind or drafts |
| anginophobia | angina, choking tightness |
| Anglophobia | things English |
| ankylophobia | immobility of a joint |
| anthophobia | flowers |
| anthropophobia | people or society |
| antlophobia | floods |
| anuptophobia | staying single |
| apeirophobia | infinity |
| aphenophobia | riches, wealth |
| apiophobia | bees |
| apotemnophobia | persons with amputations |
| arachibutyrophobia | peanut butter sticking in your mouth |
| arachnephobia | spiders (See also arachnophobia) |
| arachnophobia | spiders (See also arachnephobia) |
| arithmophobia | numbers |
| astrophobia | stars or celestial space |
| asymmetrophobia | asymmetrical things |
| ataxiophobia | loss of muscular coordination |
| ataxophobia | disorder or untidiness |
| atelophobia | imperfection |
| atephobia | ruin or ruins |
| athazagoraphobia | forgetfulness or being forgotton |
| atomosophobia | atomic explosions |
| atychiphobia | failure or misfortune |
| augophobia | bright lights, glare, sunlight |
| aulophobia | flutes |
| aurophobia | gold |
| aurorophobia | the Northern Lights |
| autodysomophobia | bad odors or people with them |
| automatonophobia | automatons |
| automysophobia | being dirty |
| autophobia | solitude, being alone |
| aviatophobia | flying (See also aviophobia) |
| aviophobia | flying (See also aviatophobia) |
| • B • | |
| bacillophobia | microbes |
| bacteriophobia | bacteria |
| ballistophobia | missiles, including bullets |
| barophobia | gravity |
| basiphobia | falling or being unable to stand |
| bathyphobia | depth or deep water |
| batrachophobia | amphibians, such as frogs |
| Beatlephobia | The Beatles |
| belonephobia | sharp, pointed objects (See also aichmophobia) |
| bibliophobia | books |
| blennophobia | slime |
| blogoophobia | blogs, writing them |
| Bolshephobia | Bolsheviks |
| botanophobia | plants |
| bromidrophobia | body smells (Questionable; see also bromidrosiphobia) |
| bromidrosiphobia | body smells (Questionable; see also bromidrophobia) |
| brontophobia | thunder and lightning |
| bufonophobia | toads |
| • C • | |
| cacophobia | ugliness |
| cainophobia | newness, novelty, change (See also cainotophobia) |
| cainotophobia | newness, novelty, change (See also cainophobia) |
| caligynephobia | beautiful women |
| cancerophobia | cancer (Better: carcinophobia) |
| carcinophobia | cancer (Preferable to cancerophobia) |
| cardiophobia | heart, the |
| carnophobia | meat |
| catagelophobia | being ridiculed |
| catapedophobia | jumping |
| cathisophobia | sitting |
| catoptrophobia | mirrors |
| cenophobia | empty spaces |
| centophobia | new things or ideas |
| ceraunophobia | thunder and lightning |
| chaetophobia | hair |
| cheimatophobia | the cold or cold things |
| chemophobia | chemicals |
| cherophobia | gaiety |
| chionophobia | snow |
| chiraptophobia | being touched |
| chirophobia | hands |
| cholerophobia | anger or cholera |
| chorophobia | dancing |
| chromatophobia | colors |
| chrometophobia | money |
| chronomentrophobia | clocks |
| chronophobia | time |
| chrysophobia | gold |
| cibophobia | food (See also Sitiophobia) |
| claustrophobia | confinement |
| cleithrophobia | being enclosed (See also clithrophobia) |
| cleptophobia | stealing |
| clinophobia | going to bed |
| clithrophobia | being enclosed |
| cnidophobia | stings |
| coimetrophobia | cemeteries |
| coitophobia | sex or sexual relations |
| cometophobia | comets |
| contreltophobia | sexual abuse |
| coprastasophobia | constipation |
| coprophobia | feces |
| coulrophobia | clowns |
| counterphobia | fearful situations |
| cremnophobia | cliffs and precipices |
| cryophobia | extreme cold, ice or frost |
| crystallophobia | crystals or glass |
| cyberphobia | Internet, the |
| cyclophobia | cycles or bicycles |
| cymophobia | waves or waviness |
| cynophobia | dogs or rabies |
| cyprianophobia | prostitutes or venereal disease |
| cypridophobia | venereal disease |
| cyprinophobia | prostitutes |
| • D • | |
| daimonophobia | ghosts or demons |
| decalcophobia | decals |
| defecaloesiophobia | painful bowels movements |
| deipnophobia | dining |
| dementophobia | insanity |
| demonophobia | ghosts or demons |
| demophobia | people |
| dendrophobia | trees |
| dentophobia | dentists or dentistry |
| dermatophobia | skin disease (See also dermatosiophobia) |
| dermatosiophobia | skin disease (See also dermatophobia) |
| dextrophobia | things on the right |
| diabetophobia | diabetes |
| didaskaleinophobia | going to school |
| dikephobia | justice, lawsuits |
| dinophobia | dizziness or whirlpools |
| diplophobia | double vision |
| dipsophobia | drinking (spirits. alcohol) |
| dishabiliophobia | undressing in front of someone |
| dontophobia | teeth |
| dorophobia | fur animal skins |
| doxophobia | opinions or praise |
| dromophobia | crossing streets |
| dysmorphophobia | physical deformity |
| dystychiphobia | accidents |
| • E • | |
| ecclesiophobia | church |
| ecophobia | the home or houses (See also oikophobia) |
| eisoptrophobia | mirrors |
| electrophobia | electricity |
| eleutherophobia | freedom |
| emetophobia | vomiting |
| enetophobia | pins |
| enissophobia | attack or criticism |
| enochlophobia | crowds |
| entomophobia | insects |
| eosophobia | dawn or daylight |
| ephebophobia | teenagers |
| epistaxiophobia | nosebleeds |
| epistemophobia | knowledge |
| equinophobia | horses (Better hippophobia) |
| eremophobia | being oneself or of loneliness |
| ereuthophobia | red or anything red (See also erythrophobia, erytophobia) |
| ergasiophobia | work or functioning |
| ergophobia | work |
| erophobia | love, love-making |
| erotophobia | the erotic, eroticism |
| erythrophobia | red or anything red (See also erytophobia, ereuthophobia) |
| erytophobia | red or anything red (See also erythrophobia, ereuthophobia) |
| euphobia | goodness or things good |
| eurotophobia | female private parts |
| • F • | |
| febriphobia | fever (See also fibriophobia) |
| fibriophobia | fever (See also febriphobia) |
| Francophobia | things French (See also Gallophobia, Galiophobia) |
| frigophobia | cold or cold things |
| • G • | |
| Gallophobia | things French (See also Francophobia, Galiophobia) |
| gamophobia | marriage |
| geliophobia | laughter |
| geniophobia | chins |
| genophobia | sex |
| genuphobia | knees |
| gephyrophobia | crossing bridges |
| gerascophobia | growing old |
| germanophobia | germany or german culture |
| gerontophobia | old people |
| geumophobia | taste |
| glossophobia | language or speaking |
| gnosiophobia | knowledge |
| goetophobia | witches and witchcraft |
| graphophobia | writing or script |
| gymnophobia | nudity |
| gynephobia | women |
| • H • | |
| hadephobia | hell (See also stygiophobia) |
| hagiophobia | saints or holy things |
| hamartophobia | sinning or sin |
| haphephobia | being touched |
| haptephobia | being touched (See also haphephobia) |
| harpaxophobia | being robbed |
| hedonophobia | feeling pleasure |
| heliophobia | the sun or sunlight |
| Hellenologophobia | Greek words or scientific terms |
| Hellenophobia | things Greek |
| helminthophobia | worms |
| hematophobia | blood |
| hemophobia | blood |
| hereiophobia | heresy, challenges to official doctrine |
| herpetophobia | reptiles |
| hesperophobia | The West |
| heterophobia | the opposite sex |
| hierophobia | priests or sacred things |
| hippophobia | horses (Better than equinophobia) |
| hobophobia | bums or beggars (Joke) |
| hodophobia | road travel |
| homichlophobia | fog |
| homilophobia | sermons |
| homophobia | homosexuals or homosexuality |
| homophobia | people |
| homophobia | sameness |
| hoplophobia | firearms |
| hormephobia | shock |
| hyalophobia | glass (See also hyelophobia) |
| hydrargyophobia | mercurial medicines |
| hydrophobia | water (also medical name of rabies) |
| hydrophobophobia | rabies |
| hyelophobia | glass (See also hyalophobia) |
| hygrophobia | liquid or moisture |
| hygrophobia | liquids, dampness, or moisture |
| hylephobia | materialism or epilepsy |
| hylophobia | forests |
| hypegiaphobia | responsibility |
| hypengyophobia | responsibility |
| hypnophobia | sleep or hypnosis |
| hypsophobia | height |
| iatrophobia | doctors |
| • I • | |
| ichthyophobia | fish |
| iconophobia | pictures or images |
| ideophobia | ideas |
| illyngophobia | vertigo |
| insectophobia | insects |
| iophobia | poison |
| Islamophobia | Islam |
| isolophobia | solitude, being alone |
| isopterophobia | termites |
| • J • | |
| Japanophobia | things Japanese |
| Judeophobia | Jews |
| • K • | |
| kainophobia | novelty, innovation |
| kainotophobia | change |
| kakorrhaphiophobia | failure or defeat |
| katagelophobia | ridicule |
| kathisophobia | sitting down |
| kenophobia | empty spaces |
| keraunophobia | thunder and lightning (See also ceraunophobia) |
| kinesophobia | movement or motion (See also kinetophobia) |
| kinetophobia | movement or motion (See also kinesophobia) |
| kleptophobia | stealing, theifs |
| koinoniphobia | rooms |
| kolpophobia | private parts, particularly female |
| koniophobia | dust (See also amathophobia) |
| kopophobia | fatigue |
| kosmophobia | cosmos, cosmic phenomena |
| kymophobia | waves or undulation (See also cymophobia) |
| kynophobia | dogs or rabies |
| kyphophobia | stooping |
| • L • | |
| lachanophobia | vegetables |
| levophobia | things on the left |
| laliophobia | speaking (See also lalophobia) |