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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'a'
The most common mental disorder in the U.S are phobias. Four of the most common begin with A, Arachnophobia, Acrophobia, Agoraphobia and Astraphobia.
Ablutophobia: Fear of washing or bathing.
Acarophobia: Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia: Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia: Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia: Fear of noise.
Acrophobia: Fear of heights.
Aeroacrophobia: Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia: Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Aerophobia: Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
Agliophobia: Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia: Fear of 1) open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets 2) leaving a safe place.
Agraphobia: Fear of sexual abuse.
Agrizoophobia: Fear of wild animals.
Agyrophobia: Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Aichmophobia: Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Ailurophobia: Fear of cats.
Albuminurophobia: Fear of kidney disease.
Alektorophobia: Fear of chickens.
Algophobia: Fear of pain.
Alliumphobia: Fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia: Fear of opinions.
Altophobia: Fear of heights.
Amathophobia: Fear of dust.
Amaxophobia: Fear of riding in a car.
Ambulophobia: Fear of walking.
Amnesiphobia: Fear of amnesia.
Amychophobia: Fear of scratches or being scratched.
Anablephobia: Fear of looking up.
Ancraophobia: Fear of wind.
Androphobia: Fear of men.
Anemophobia: Fear of air drafts or wind.
Anginophobia: Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
Anglophobia: Fear of England, English culture, etc.
Angrophobia: Fear of becoming angry.
Ankylophobia: Fear of immobility of a joint.
Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers.
Anthropophobia: Fear of people or society.
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.
Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia: Fear of numbers.
Arrhenphobia: Fear of men.
Arsonphobia: Fear of fire.
Asthenophobia: Fear of fainting or weakness.
Astraphobia: Fear of thunder and lightning.
Astrophobia: Fear of stars and celestial space.
Asymmetriphobia: Fear of asymmetrical things.
Ataxiophobia: Fear of ataxia.
Ataxophobia: Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia: Fear of imperfection.
Atephobia: Fear of ruin or ruins.
Athazagoraphobia: Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
Atomosophobia: Fear of atomic explosions.
Atychiphobia: Fear of failure.
Aulophobia: Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia: Fear of gold.
Auroraphobia: Fear of Northern lights.
Autodysomophobia: Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Automatonophobia: Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
Automysophobia: Fear of being dirty.
Autophobia: Fear of being alone or of oneself.
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia: Fear of flying.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'b'
The American Psychiatric Association, defines a phobia as an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation.
Bacillophobia: Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia: Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia: Fear of missles or bullets.
Barophobia: Fear of gravity.
Basophobia or Basiphobia: Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
Bathophobia: Fear of depth.
Batonophobia: Fear of plants.
Batophobia: Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
Batrachophobia: Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
Belonephobia: Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)
Bibliophobia: Fear of books.
Blennophobia: Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia: Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
Bolshephobia: Fear of Bolsheviks.
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia: Fear of body smells.
Brontophobia: Fear of thunder and lightning.
Bufonophobia: Fear of toads.
If left untreated phobias can progress to other mental disorders, like depression and substance abuse.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'c'
Approximately one in four adults, or 57.7 million Americans, suffer from a mental health disorder each year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Mental disorders are under-reported in the United States, so the actual numbers could be much higher. Cynophobia is one of the most common phobias.
Cacophobia: Fear of ugliness.
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia: Fear of newness, novelty.
Caligynephobia: Fear of beautiful women.
Cancerophobia: Fear of cancer.
Carcinophobia: Fear of cancer.
Cardiophobia: Fear of the heart.
Carnophobia: Fear of meat.
Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed.
Catapedaphobia: Fear of jumping from high and low places.
Cathisophobia: Fear of sitting.
Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors.
Cenophobia or Centophobia: Fear of new things or ideas.
Ceraunophobia: Fear of thunder.
Chaetophobia: Fear of hair.
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia: Fear of cold.
Chemophobia: Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
Cherophobia: Fear of gaiety.
Chionophobia: Fear of snow.
Chiraptophobia: Fear of being touched.
Cholerophobia: Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
Chorophobia: Fear of dancing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia: Fear of money.
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia: Fear of colors.
Chronomentrophobia: Fear of clocks.
Chronophobia: Fear of time.
Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia: Fear of food.
Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces.
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia: Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
Cleptophobia: Fear of stealing.
Climacophobia: Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs.
Clinophobia: Fear of going to bed.
Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia: Fear of being enclosed.
Cnidophobia: Fear of strings.
Coimetrophobia: Fear of cemeteries.
Coitophobia: Fear of coitus.
Cometophobia: Fear of comets.
Contreltophobia: Fear of sexual abuse.
Coprastasophobia: Fear of constipation.
Coprophobia: Fear of feces.
Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns.
Counterphobia: The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
Cremnophobia: Fear of precipices.
Cryophobia: Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
Crystallophobia: Fear of crystals or glass.
Cyberphobia: Fear of computers or working on a computer.
Cyclophobia: Fear of bicycles.
Cymophobia: Fear of waves or wave like motions.
Cynophobia: Fear of dogs or rabies.
Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia: Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease
Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'd'
Mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the United States among young adults.
Decidophobia: Fear of making decisions.
Defecaloesiophobia: Fear of painful bowels movements.
Deipnophobia: Fear of dining and dinner conversations.
Dementophobia: Fear of insanity.
Demonophobia or Daemonophobia: Fear of demons.
Demophobia: Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
Dendrophobia: Fear of trees.
Dentophobia: Fear of dentists.
Dermatophobia: Fear of skin lesions.
Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia: Fear of skin disease.
Dextrophobia: Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Diabetophobia: Fear of diabetes.
Didaskaleinophobia: Fear of going to school.
Dikephobia: Fear of justice.
Dinophobia: Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
Diplophobia: Fear of double vision.
Dipsophobia: Fear of drinking.
Dishabiliophobia: Fear of undressing in front of someone.
Domatophobia or Oikophobia: Fear of houses or being in a house.
Doraphobia: Fear of fur or skins of animals.
Dromophobia: Fear of crossing streets.
Dutchphobia: Fear of the Dutch.
Dysmorphophobia: Fear of deformity.
Dystychiphobia: Fear of accidents.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'e'
Ecclesiophobia: Fear of church.
Ecophobia: Fear of home.
Eicophobia or Oikophobia: Fear of home surroundings.
Eisoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
Electrophobia: Fear of electricity.
Eleutherophobia: Fear of freedom.
Elurophobia: Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
Emetophobia: Fear of vomiting.
Enetophobia: Fear of pins.
Enochlophobia: Fear of crowds.
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia: Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
Entomophobia: Fear of insects.
Eosophobia: Fear of dawn or daylight.
Epistaxiophobia: Fear of nosebleeds.
Epistemophobia: Fear of knowledge.
Equinophobia: Fear of horses.
Eremophobia: Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
Ereuthrophobia: Fear of blushing.
Ergasiophobia: 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia: Fear of work.
Erotophobia: Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia: 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red
Euphobia: Fear of hearing good news.
Eurotophobia: Fear of female genitalia.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'f'
Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia: Fear of fever.
Felinophobia: Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
Francophobia: Fear of France, French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
Frigophobia: Fear of cold, cold things.
Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'g'
Galeophobia or Gatophobia: Fear of cats.
Gallophobia or Galiophobia: Fear France, French culture. (Francophobia)
Gamophobia: Fear of marriage.
Geliophobia: Fear of laughter.
Geniophobia: Fear of chins.
Genophobia: Fear of sex.
Genuphobia: Fear of knees.
Gephyrophobia, Gephydrophobia, or Gephysrophobia: Fear of crossing bridges.
Gerascophobia: Fear of growing old.
Germanophobia: Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.
Gerontophobia: Fear of old people or of growing old.
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia: Fear of taste.
Glossophobia: Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gnosiophobia: Fear of knowledge.
Graphophobia: Fear of writing or handwriting.
Gymnophobia: Fear of nudity.
Gynephobia or Gynophobia: Fear of women.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'h'
Hadephobia: Fear of hell.
Hagiophobia: Fear of saints or holy things.
Hamartophobia: Fear of sinning.
Haphephobia or Haptephobia: Fear of being touched.
Harpaxophobia: Fear of being robbed.
Hedonophobia: Fear of feeling pleasure.
Heliophobia: Fear of the sun.
Hellenologophobia: Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Helminthophobia: Fear of being infested with worms.
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia: Fear of blood.
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia: Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
Herpetophobia: Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
Heterophobia: Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
Hierophobia: Fear of priests or sacred things.
Hippophobia: Fear of horses.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: Fear of long words.
Hobophobia: Fear of bums or beggars.
Hodophobia: Fear of road travel.
Homichlophobia: Fear of fog.
Homilophobia: Fear of sermons.
Hominophobia: Fear of men.
Homophobia: Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
Hoplophobia: Fear of firearms.
Hormephobia: Fear of shock.
Hydrargyophobia: Fear of mercurial medicines.
Hydrophobia: Fear of water or of rabies.
Hydrophobophobia: Fear of rabies.
Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia: Fear of glass.
Hygrophobia: Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
Hylephobia: Fear of 1) materialism 2) the fear of epilepsy.
Hylophobia: Fear of forests.
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia: Fear of responsibility.
Hypnophobia: Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
Hypsiphobia: Fear of height.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'i'
Iatrophobia: Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
Ichthyophobia: Fear of fish.
Ideophobia: Fear of ideas.
Illyngophobia: Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
Insectophobia: Fear of insects.
Iophobia: Fear of poison.
Isolophobia: Fear of solitude, being alone.
Isopterophobia: Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
Ithyphallophobia: Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'k'
Kainolophobia: Fear of novelty.
Kainophobia: Fear of anything new, novelty.
Kakorrhaphiophobia: Fear of failure or defeat.
Katagelophobia: Fear of ridicule.
Kathisophobia: Fear of sitting down.
Kenophobia: Fear of voids or empty spaces.
Keraunophobia: Fear of thunder and lightning.
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia: Fear of movement or motion.
Kleptophobia: Fear of stealing.
Koinoniphobia: Fear of rooms.
Kolpophobia: Fear of genitals, particularly female.
Koniophobia: Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
Kopophobia: Fear of fatigue.
Kosmikophobia: Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
Kymophobia: Fear of waves.
Kynophobia: Fear of rabies.
Kyphophobia: Fear of stooping.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'l'
Lachanophobia: Fear of vegetables.
Laliophobia or Lalophobia: Fear of speaking.
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia: Fear of leprosy.
Leukophobia: Fear of the color white.
Levophobia: Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Ligyrophobia: Fear of loud noises.
Lilapsophobia: Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
Limnophobia: Fear of lakes.
Linonophobia: Fear of string.
Liticaphobia: Fear of lawsuits.
Lockiophobia: Fear of childbirth.
Logizomechanophobia: Fear of computers.
Logophobia: Fear of words.
Luiphobia: Fear of lues, syphillis.
Lutraphobia: Fear of otters.
Lygophobia: Fear of darkness.
Lyssophobia: Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'm'
Macrophobia: Fear of long waits.
Mageirocophobia: Fear of cooking.
Maieusiophobia: Fear of childbirth.
Malaxophobia: Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)
Maniaphobia: Fear of insanity.
Mastigophobia: Fear of punishment.
Mechanophobia: Fear of machines.
Medomalacuphobia: Fear of losing an erection.
Medorthophobia: Fear of an erect penis.
Megalophobia: Fear of large things.
Melanophobia: Fear of the color black.
Melissophobia: Fear of bees.
Melophobia: Fear or hatred of music.
Meningitophobia: Fear of brain disease.
Menophobia: Fear of menstruation.
Merinthophobia: Fear of being bound or tied up.
Metallophobia: Fear of metal.
Metathesiophobia: Fear of changes.
Meteorophobia: Fear of meteors.
Methyphobia: Fear of alcohol.
Metrophobia: Fear or hatred of poetry.
Microbiophobia: Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia)
Microphobia: Fear of small things.
Misophobia: Fear of being contaminated with dirt of germs.
Mnemophobia: Fear of memories.
Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia: Fear of dirt or contamination.
Monopathophobia: Fear of definite disease.
Monophobia: Fear of solitude or being alone.
Motorphobia: Fear of automobiles.
Mottephobia: Fear of moths.
Musophobia or Murophobia: Fear of mice.
Mycophobia: Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
Mycrophobia: Fear of small things.
Myctophobia: Fear of darkness.
Myrmecophobia: Fear of ants.
Mysophobia: Fear of germs or contamination or dirt.
Mythophobia: Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
Myxophobia: Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'n'
Nebulaphobia: Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)
Necrophobia: Fear of death or dead things.
Nelophobia: Fear of glass.
Neopharmaphobia: Fear of new drugs.
Neophobia: Fear of anything new.
Nephophobia: Fear of clouds.
Noctiphobia: Fear of the night.
Nomatophobia: Fear of names.
Nosocomephobia: Fear of hospitals.
Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia: Fear of becoming ill.
Nostophobia: Fear of returning home.
Novercaphobia: Fear of your step-mother.
Nucleomituphobia: Fear of nuclear weapons.
Nudophobia: Fear of nudity.
Numerophobia: Fear of numbers.
Nyctohylophobia: Fear of dark wooded areas, of forests at night
Nyctophobia: Fear of the dark or of night.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'o'
Obesophobia: Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia)
Ochlophobia: Fear of crowds or mobs.
Ochophobia: Fear of vehicles.
Octophobia: Fear of the figure 8.
Odontophobia: Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
Odynophobia or Odynephobia: Fear of pain. (Algophobia)
Oenophobia: Fear of wines.
Oikophobia: Fear of home surroundings, house.
Olfactophobia: Fear of smells.
Ombrophobia: Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia: Fear of eyes.
Oneirogmophobia: Fear of wet dreams.
Oneirophobia: Fear of dreams.
Onomatophobia: Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
Ophidiophobia: Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)
Ophthalmophobia: Fear of being stared at.
Optophobia: Fear of opening one's eyes.
Ornithophobia: Fear of birds.
Orthophobia: Fear of property.
Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia: Fear of smells or odors.
Ostraconophobia: Fear of shellfish.
Ouranophobia: Fear of heaven.
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Fear or Phobias beginning with the letter P
Pagophobia: Fear of ice or frost.
Panophobia or Pantophobia: Fear of everything.
Panthophobia: Fear of suffering and disease.
Papaphobia: Fear of the Pope.
Papyrophobia: Fear of paper.
Paralipophobia: Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
Paraphobia: Fear of sexual perversion.
Parasitophobia: Fear of parasites.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia: Fear of Friday the 13th.
Parthenophobia: Fear of virgins or young girls.
Parturiphobia: Fear of childbirth.
Pathophobia: Fear of disease.
Patroiophobia: Fear of heredity.
Peccatophobia: Fear of sinning. (imaginary crime)
Pediculophobia: Fear of lice.
Pediophobia: Fear of dolls.
Pedophobia: Fear of children.
Peladophobia: Fear of bald people.
Pellagrophobia: Fear of pellagra.
Peniaphobia: Fear of poverty.
Pentheraphobia: Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)
Phagophobia: Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
Phalacrophobia: Fear of becoming bald.
Phallophobia: Fear of a penis, esp erect.
Pharmacophobia: Fear of taking medicine.
Pharmacophobia: Fear of drugs.
Phasmophobia: Fear of ghosts.
Phengophobia: Fear of daylight or sunshine.
Philemaphobia or Philematophobia: Fear of kissing.
Philophobia: Fear of falling in love or being in love.
Philosophobia: Fear of philosophy.
Phobophobia: Fear of phobias.
Phonophobia: Fear of 1) noises or voices or one's own voice 2) of telephones.
Photoaugliaphobia: Fear of glaring lights.
Photophobia: Fear of light.
Phronemophobia: Fear of thinking.
Phthiriophobia: Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia)
Phthisiophobia: Fear of tuberculosis.
Placophobia: Fear of tombstones.
Plutophobia: Fear of wealth.
Pluviophobia: Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Pneumatiphobia: Fear of spirits.
Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia: Fear of choking of being smothered.
Pocrescophobia: Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)
Pogonophobia: Fear of beards.
Poinephobia: Fear of punishment.
Poliosophobia: Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
Politicophobia: Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
Polyphobia: Fear of many things.
Ponophobia: Fear of overworking or of pain.
Porphyrophobia: Fear of the color purple.
Potamophobia: Fear of rivers or running water.
Potophobia: Fear of alcohol.
Proctophobia: Fear of rectum.
Prosophobia: Fear of progress.
Psellismophobia: Fear of stuttering.
Psychophobia: Fear of mind.
Psychrophobia: Fear of cold.
Pteromerhanophobia: Fear of flying.
Pteronophobia: Fear of being tickled by feathers.
Pupaphobia: Fear of puppets
Pyrexiophobia: Fear of Fever.
Pyrophobia: Fear of fire.
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Radiophobia: Fear of radiation, x-rays.
Ranidaphobia: Fear of frogs.
Rectophobia: Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
Rhabdophobia: Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.
Rhypophobia: Fear of defecation.
Rhytiphobia: Fear of getting wrinkles.
Rupophobia: Fear of dirt.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 's'
Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween.
Sarmassophobia: Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia)
Satanophobia: Fear of Satan.
Scabiophobia: Fear of scabies.
Scatophobia: Fear of fecal matter.
Scelerophibia: Fear of bad men, burglars.
Sciophobia Sciaphobia: Fear of shadows.
Scoleciphobia: Fear of worms.
Scolionophobia: Fear of school.
Scopophobia or Scoptophobia: Fear of being seen or stared at.
Scotomaphobia: Fear of blindness in visual field.
Scotophobia: Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)
Scriptophobia: Fear of writing in public.
Selaphobia: Fear of light flashes.
Selenophobia: Fear of the moon.
Seplophobia: Fear of decaying matter.
Sesquipedalophobia: Fear of long words.
Sexophobia: Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia)
Siderodromophobia: Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
Siderophobia: Fear of stars.
Sinistrophobia: Fear of things to the left, left:handed.
Sinophobia: Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
Sitophobia or Sitiophobia: Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia)
Snakephobia: Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)
Soceraphobia: Fear of parents-in-law.
Social Phobia: Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
Sociophobia: Fear of society or people in general.
Somniphobia: Fear of sleep.
Sophophobia: Fear of learning.
Soteriophobia: Fear of dependence on others.
Spacephobia: Fear of outer space.
Spectrophobia: Fear of specters or ghosts.
Spermatophobia or Spermophobia: Fear of germs.
Spheksophobia: Fear of wasps.
Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia: Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia)
Staurophobia: Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
Stenophobia: Fear of narrow things or places.
Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia: Fear of hell.
Suriphobia: Fear of mice.
Symbolophobia: Fear of symbolism.
Symmetrophobia: Fear of symmetry.
Syngenesophobia: Fear of relatives.
Syphilophobia: Fear of syphilis.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 't'
Tachophobia: Fear of speed.
Taeniophobia or Teniophobia: Fear of tapeworms.
Taphophobia: Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
Tapinophobia: Fear of being contagious.
Taurophobia: Fear of bulls.
Technophobia: Fear of technology.
Teleophobia: 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony.
Telephonophobia: Fear of telephones.
Teratophobia: Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.
Testophobia: Fear of taking tests.
Tetanophobia: Fear of lockjaw, tetanus.
Teutophobia: Fear of German or German things.
Textophobia: Fear of certain fabrics.
Thaasophobia: Fear of sitting.
Thalassophobia: Fear of the sea.
Thanatophobia or Thantophobia: Fear of death or dying.
Theatrophobia: Fear of theatres.
Theologicophobia: Fear of theology.
Theophobia: Fear of gods or religion.
Thermophobia: Fear of heat.
Tocophobia: Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
Tomophobia: Fear of surgical operations.
Tonitrophobia: Fear of thunder.
Topophobia: Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia: Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.
Traumatophobia: Fear of injury.
Tremophobia: Fear of trembling.
Trichinophobia: Fear of trichinosis.
Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia or Hypertrichophobia: Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia)
Triskaidekaphobia: Fear of the number 13.
Tropophobia: Fear of moving or making changes.
Trypanophobia: Fear of injections.
Tuberculophobia: Fear of tuberculosis.
Tyrannophobia: Fear of tyrants.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'v'
Vaccinophobia: Fear of vaccination.
Venustraphobia: Fear of beautiful women.
Verbophobia: Fear of words.
Verminophobia: Fear of germs.
Vestiphobia: Fear of clothing.
Virginitiphobia: Fear of rape.
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Phobias beginning with X
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. 2) Forests.
Xyrophobia: Fear of razors.
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Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'z'
Zelophobia: Fear of jealousy.
Zemmiphobia: Fear of the great mole rat.
Zoophobia: Fear of animals.
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