List of Phobias

List of Important Phobias for Competitive Exams

• Ablutophobia

  Fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.

• Acarophobia

  Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.

• Achluophobia

  Fear of darkness.

• Acousticophobia

  Fear of noise.

• Acrophobia

  Fear of heights.

• Agliophobia

  Fear of pain.

• Ailurophobia

  Fear of cats.

• Alliumphobia

  Fear of garlic.

• Androphobia or Arrhenphobia

  Fear of men.

• Anthrophobia or Anthophobia

  Fear of flowers.

• Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia

  Fear of spiders.

• Arithmophobia

  Fear of numbers.

• Atychiphobia

  Fear of failure.

• Aurophobia

  Fear of gold.

• Bibliophobia

  Fear of books.

• Cacophobia

  Fear of ugliness.

• Carcinophobia

  Fear of cancer.

• Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia

  Fear of thunder and lightning.

• Chaetophobia

  Fear of hair.

• Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia

  Fear of money.

• Cibophobia

  Fear of food.

• Dendrophobia

  Fear of trees.

• Dentophobia

  Fear of dentists.

• Domatophobia

  Fear of houses.

• Dromophobia

  Fear of crossing streets.

• Electrophobia

  Fear of electricity.

• Emetophobia

  Fear of vomiting.

• Enochlophobia

  Fear of crowds.

• Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia

  Fear of fever.

• Gamophobia

  Fear of marriage.

• Gerascophobia

  Fear of growing old.

• Heliophobia

  Fear of the sun.

• Iatrophobia

  Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.

• Insectophobia

  Fear of insects.

• Kenophobia

  Fear of voids or empty spaces.

• Kleptophobia

  Fear of stealing.

• Lachanophobia

  Fear of vegetables.

• Lockiophobia

  Fear of childbirth.

• Melanophobia

  Fear of the color black.

• Methyphobia

  Fear of alcohol.

• Motorphobia

  Fear of automobiles.

• Musophobia or Muriphobia

  Fear of mice.

• Nephophobia

  Fear of clouds.

• Noctiphobia

  Fear of the night.

• Nosocomephobia

  Fear of hospitals.

• Obesophobia

  Fear of gaining weight.

• Ophidiophobia

  Fear of snakes.

• Phobophobia

  Fear of phobias.

• Plutophobia

  Fear of wealth.

• Quadraphobia

  fear of the number four.

• Quintaphobia

  fear of the number five.

• Rhytiphobia

  Fear of getting wrinkles.

• Rupophobia

  Fear of dirt.

• Somniphobia

  Fear of sleep.

• Tachophobia

  Fear of speed.

• Thalassophobia

  Fear of the sea.

• Venustraphobia

  Fear of beautiful women.

• Wiccaphobia

  Fear of witches and witchcraft

• Xenophobia

  Fear of strangers or foreigners.

• Xerophobia

  Fear of dryness.

• Zelophobia

  Fear of jealousy.

• Zeusophobia

  Fear of God.

• Zoophobia

  Fear of animals.

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