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Aerophobia / Pteromerhanophobia

Fear of flying or of air

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Zoophobia

Fear of animals

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Apiphobia / Melissaphobia

Fear of bees

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Ornithophobia

Fear of birds

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Haemophobia / Haematophobia

Fear of blood

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Gephyrophobia

Fear of bridges (especially crossing them)

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Taphophobia

Fear of being buried alive; fear of graves

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Ailurophobia / Gatophobia

Fear of cats

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Pedophobia

Fear of children

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Pnigophobia

Fear of choking or being smothered

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Cheimophobia / Cryophobia

Fear of cold, winter or ice

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Claustrophobia / Clithrophobia

Fear of enclosed spaces; fear of being trapped or locked in

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Ochlophobia / Demophobia

Fear of crowds

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Scotophobia / Nyctophobia / Lygophobia / Achluophobia

Fear of darkness

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Necrophobia / Thanatophobia

Fear of dead things (necrophobia); fear of death (thanatophobia)

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Bathophobia

Fear of depth or deep places

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Xerophobia

Fear of dryness or deserts

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Rupophobia

Fear of dirt

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Cynophobia

Fear of dogs

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Dipsophobia

Fear of drinking (alcohol)

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Phobophobia

Fear of fear itself

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Pyrophobia

Fear of fire

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Xenophobia

Fear of foreigners or strangers

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Dorophobia

Fear of gifts

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Microbiophobia

Fear of germs or microbes

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Phasmophobia

Fear of ghosts

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Thermophobia

Fear of heat

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Acrophobia / Hypsophobia

Fear of heights

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Hippophobia

Fear of horses

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Nosophobia / Pathophobia

Fear of disease

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Monophobia

Fear of being alone

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Traumatophobia

Fear of injury or wounds

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Entomophobia

Fear of insects

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Astrophobia

Fear of stars or outer space

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Maniphobia

Fear of insanity or madness

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Androphobia

Fear of men

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Gynophobia

Fear of women

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Onomatophobia

Fear of names or certain words

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Nyctophobia

Fear of night

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Phonophobia

Fear of noise or loud sounds

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Agoraphobia / Kenophobia

Fear of open or public spaces (agoraphobia); fear of empty spaces (kenophobia)

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Algophobia / Odynophobia

Fear of pain

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Topophobia

Fear of particular places; stage fright

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Toxicophobia / Iophobia

Fear of poison

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Musophobia

Fear of mice or rats

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Thalassophobia

Fear of the sea

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Galeophobia

Fear of sharks

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Hypnophobia

Fear of sleep

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Ophidiophobia

Fear of snakes

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Lalophobia / Glossophobia

Fear of speaking, especially in public

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Tokophobia

Fear of childbirth or pregnancy

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Dromophobia

Fear of crossing streets

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Tomophobia

Fear of surgical operations

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Brontophobia / Tonitrophobia

Fear of thunder

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Siderodromophobia

Fear of trains or railway travel

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Hodophobia

Fear of travel

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Hydrophobia / Aquaphobia / Hygrophobia

Fear of water (hygrophobia: fear of dampness or moisture)

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Helminthophobia

Fear of worms