Common Phobias (copy)

This set of flashcards defines various common phobias and their meanings.

Ablutophobia

Fear of bathing

Achluophobia

Fear of darkness

Acrophobia

Fear of heights

Aerophobia

Fear of flying

Algophobia

Fear of pain

Agoraphobia

Fear of open spaces or crowds

Aichmophobia

Fear of needles or pointed objects

Amaxophobia

Fear of riding in a car

Androphobia

Fear of men

Anemophobia

Fear of air

Anginophobia

Fear of angina or choking

Angrophobia

Fear of anger

Anthophobia

Fear of flowers

Anthropophobia

Fear of people or society

Aphenphosmphobia

Fear of being touched

Aquaphobia

Fear of water

Arachibutyrophobia

Fear of peanut butter

Arachnophobia

Fear of spiders

Arithmophobia

Fear of numbers

Astraphobia

Fear of thunder and lightning

Astrophobia

Fear of outer space

Ataxophobia

Fear of disorder or untidiness

Atelophobia

Fear of imperfection

Atychiphobia

Fear of failure

Automatonophobia

Fear of human-like figures

Autophobia

Fear of being alone

Bacteriophobia

Fear of bacteria

Barophobia

Fear of gravity

Bathmophobia

Fear of stairs or steep slopes

Batrachophobia

Fear of amphibians

Belonephobia

Fear of pins and needles

Bibliophobia

Fear of books

Botanophobia

Fear of plants

Bromidrophobia

Fear of smelling bad

Cacophobia

Fear of ugliness

Catagelophobia

Fear of being ridiculed

Catoptrophobia

Fear of mirrors

Chionophobia

Fear of snow

Chrometophobia

Fear of spending money

Chromophobia

Fear of colors

Chronomentrophobia

Fear of clocks

Chronophobia

Fear of time

Cibophobia

Fear of food

Claustrophobia

Fear of confined spaces

Cleithrophobia

Fear of being trapped

Climacophobia

Fear of climbing

Coulrophobia

Fear of clowns

Cyberphobia

Fear of computers

Cynophobia

Fear of dogs

Daemonophobia

Fear of demons

Decidophobia

Fear of making decisions

Dementophobia

Fear of madness or insanity

Dendrophobia

Fear of trees

Dentophobia

Fear of dentists

Domatophobia

Fear of houses

Dysmorphophobia

Fear of deformity

Dystychiphobia

Fear of accidents

Ecophobia

Fear of the home

Elurophobia

Fear of cats

Emetophobia

Fear of vomiting

Enochlophobia

Fear of crowds

Entomophobia

Fear of insects

Ephebiphobia

Fear of teenagers

Erotophobia

Fear of sex

Equinophobia

Fear of horses

Gamophobia

Fear of marriage

Genophobia

Fear of sexual intercourse

Genuphobia

Fear of knees

Glossophobia

Fear of speaking in public

Gynophobia

Fear of women

Haphephobia

Fear of touch

Heliophobia

Fear of the sun

Hemophobia

Fear of blood

Herpetophobia

Fear of reptiles

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

Fear of the number 666

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Fear of long words

Hydrophobia

Fear of water

Hypochondria

Fear of illness

Iatrophobia

Fear of doctors

Insectophobia

Fear of insects

Koinoniphobia

Fear of rooms

Koumpounophobia

Fear of buttons

Leukophobia

Fear of the color white

Lilapsophobia

Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes

Lockiophobia

Fear of childbirth

Mageirocophobia

Fear of cooking

Megalophobia

Fear of large things

Melanophobia

Fear of the color black

Microphobia

Fear of small things

Mysophobia

Fear of dirt and germs

Necrophobia

Fear of death or dead things

Noctiphobia

Fear of the night

Nomophobia

Fear of being without your mobile phone

Nosocomephobia

Fear of hospitals

Nosophobia

Fear of disease

Nyctophobia

Fear of the dark

Obesophobia

Fear of gaining weight

Octophobia

Fear of the figure 8

Ombrophobia

Fear of rain

Ommetaphobia

Fear of eyes