A phobia is an irrational fear of something that’s unlikely to cause harm. The word itself comes from the Greek word phobic, which means fear or horror.
- Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
- Acousticophobia – fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia
- Acrophobia – fear of heights
- Agoraphobia – fear of helplessness and of leaving safe places
- Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse
- Ablutophobia – Fear of washing or bathing.
- Achluophobia – Fear of darkness.
- Acousticophobia – Fear of noise.
- Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats.
- Alektorophobia – Fear of chickens.
- Androphobia – Fear of men.
- Anthrophobia – Fear of flowers.
- Arithmophobia – Fear of numbers.
- Atychiphobia – fear of failure
- Aurophobia – Fear of gold.
- Barophobia – fear of gravity
- Bathophobia – fear of stairs or slopes
- Botanophobia – fear of plants
- Catoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors.
- Chrematophobia – Fear of money.
- Chromatophobia – Fear of colors.
- Cynophobia – Fear of dogs or rabies.
- Dendrophobia – Fear of trees.
- Dikephobia – Fear of justice.
- Eleutherophobia – Fear of freedom.
- Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects.
- Gamophobia – fear of marriage, commitment
- Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at
- 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
- Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
- Gynophobia – fear of women.
- Heliophobia – fear of sunlight/sun
- Hemophobia – Fear of blood.
- Herpetophobia – fear/dislike of reptiles.
- Hippophobia – Fear of horses.
- Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish.
- Kinetophobia/kinesophobia – fear of movement
- Kleptophobia/cleptophobia – fear of stealing or being stolen
- Mechanophobia – fear of machines
- Melanophobia – fear of the color black
- Melissophobia – fear of bees
- Meteorophobia – fear of meteors
- Methyphobia – fear of alcohol
- Mnemophobia – fear of memories
- Myrmecophobia – fear of ants
- Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead
- Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals
- Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease
- Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals.
- Osmophobia – fear of smells.
- Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
- Potophobia/Methyphobia – Fear of alcohol
- Pyrophobia – Fear of fire
- Selenophobia – Fear of the moon.
- Sophophobia – Fear of learning.
- Tachophobia – Fear of speed.
- Thaasophobia/ Kathisophobia – Fear of sitting.
- Thalassophobia – Fear of the sea.
- Thermophobia – Fear of heat.
- Xanthophobia – fear of the color yellow
- Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens
