Opportunities Today : February 2007 Issue

Phobias

 

 All about Phobias!

This a list or various fears and their meanings. The word "phobia" is a term that refers to a group of symptoms brought on by feared objects or situations.A phobia is a persistent, irrational fear that causes a person to feel intense anxiety. People develop phobias about many things like darkness, social situations, spiders, or  blood.

 

Dictionary of Phobias...

H
hadephobia:hell
hagiophobia:saints or holy things
hamartophobia:sinning
haphephobia:being touched
harpaxophobia:being robbed
hedonophobia:feeling pleasure
heliophobia:the sun
hellenologophobia:Greek terms
helminthophobia:worms
hemophobia:blood
herpetophobia:reptiles
heterophobia:the opposite sex (sexophobia)
hierophobia:priests
hippophobia:horses
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia:long words
hobophobia:bums or beggars
hodophobia:road travel
homichlophobia:fog
homilophobia:sermons
hominophobia:men
homophobia:homosexuality
hoplophobia:firearms
hormephobia:shock
hydrargyophobia:mercurial medicines
hydrophobia:water
hydrophobophobia:rabies
hyelophobia or hyalophobia:glass
hygrophobia:liquids, dampness, or moisture
hylephobia:materialism
hylophobia:forests
hypegiaphobia:responsibility
hypnophobia:sleep
hypsiphobia:height

 

I
iatrophobia:doctors
ichthyophobia:fish
ideophobia:ideas
illyngophobia:veritgo
insectophobia:insects
iophobia:poison
isolophobia:solitude, being alone
isopterophobia:termites
ithyphallophobia:erection

 

J
Japanophobia:Japanese
Judeophobia:Jews

 

K
kainolophobia:novelty
kakorraphiaphobia:failure
katagelophobia:ridicule
kathisophobia:sitting down
kenophobia:voids
keraunophobia:thunder
kinetophobia:movement or motion
kleptophobia:stealing
koinoniphobia:rooms
koniophobia:dust (Amathophobia)
kopophobia:fatigue
kosmikophobia:cosmic phenomenon
kymophobia:waves
kynophobia:rabies
kyphophobia:stooping

 

L
lachanophobia:vegetables
laliophobia:speaking
leprophobia:leprosy
leukophobia:the color white
levophobia:things to the left side of the body
ligyrophobia:loud noises
lilapsophobia:tornadoes and hurricanes
limnophobia:lakes
linonophobia:string
liticaphobia:lawsuits
lockiophobia:childbirth
logophobia:words
luiphobia:syphillis
lutraphobia:otters
lygophobia:darkness
lyssophobia:rabies or of
becoming mad

 

M
macrophobia:long waits
mageirocophobia:cooking
maieusiophobia:childbirth
malaxophobia:love play
maniaphobia:insanity
mastigophobia:punishment
mechanophobia:machines
megalophobia:large things
melanophobia:the color black
melissophobia:bees
melophobia:fear or hatred of music
meningitophobia:brain disease
menophobia:menstruation
merinthophobia:being bound or tied up
metallophobia:metal
metathesiophobia:changes
meteorophobia:meteors
methyphobia:alcohol
metrophobia:fear or hatred of poetry
microbiophobia:microbes (bacillophobia)
microphobia:small things
misophobia:being contaminated with dirt of germs
mnemophobia:memories
molysmophobia:dirt or contamination
monophobia:solitude or being alone
motorphobia:automobiles
mottephobia:moths
musophobia:mice
mycophobia:fear or
aversion to mushrooms
mycrophobia:small things
myctophobia:darkness
myrmecophobia:ants
mysophobia:germs or contamination or dirt
mythophobia:myths or stories or false statements
myxophobia:slime (blennophobia)

 

N
nebulaphobia:fog (homichlophobia)
necrophobia:death
nelophobia:glass
neopharmaphobia:new drugs
neophobia:anything new
nephophobia:clouds
noctiphobia:the night
nomatophobia:names
nosemaphobia:illness
nosocomephobia:hospitals
nosophobia:disease
nostophobia:returning home
novercaphobia:step-mothers
nucleomituphobia:nuclear weapons
nudophobia:nudity
numerophobia:numbers
nyctophobia:the dark or of night

 

O
obesophobia:gaining weight
ochlophobia:crowds or mobs
ochophobia:vehicles
octophobia:the figure 8
odontophobia:dental surgery
odynophobia:pain
oenophobia:wines
oikophobia:home surroundings, house
olfactophobia:smells
ombrophobia:rain
ommetaphobia:eyes
oneirogmophobia:wet dreams
oneirophobia:dreams
onomatophobia:hearing a certain word
ophidiophobia:snakes
ophthalmophobia:being stared at
optophobia:opening one's eyes
ornithophobia:birds
orthophobia:property
osmophobia:smells or odors
osphresiophobia:smells
ostraconophobia:shellfish
ouranophobia:heaven

 

P
pagophobia:ice or frost
panophobia:everything
panthophobia:disease
pantophobia:fears
Papaphobia:the pope
papyrophobia:paper
paralipophobia:neglecting duty
paraphobia:sexual perversion
parasitophobia:parasites
paraskavedekatriaphobia:Friday the 13th
parthenophobia:virgins or young girls
parturiphobia:childbirth
pathophobia:disease
patroiophobia:heredity
peccatophobia:sinning (imaginary crime)
pediculophobia:lice
pediophobia:dolls
pedophobia:children
peladophobia:bald people
pellagrophobia:pellagra
peniaphobia:poverty
pentheraphobia:mother-in-law
phagophobia:swallowing
phalacrophobia:becoming bald
phallophobia:a penis, esp erect
pharmacophobia:taking medicine
pharmacophobia:drugs
phasmophobia:ghosts
phengophobia:daylight or sunshine
philemaphobia:kissing
philophobia:falling in love
philosophobia:philosophy
phobophobia:one's own fears
phonophobia:noises or voices
photoaugliaphobia:glaring lights
photophobia:light
phronemophobia:thinking
phthiriophobia:lice (pediculophobia)
phthisiophobia:tuberculosis
pinigerophobia:smothering
placophobia:tombstones
plutophobia:wealth
pluviophobia:rain or of being rained on
pneumatiphobia:spirits
pnigophobia:choking or being smothered
pocrescophobia:gaining weight (obesophobia)
pogonophobia:beards
poinephobia:punishment
poliosophobia:contracting poliomyelitis
politicophobia:politicians
polyphobia:many things
ponophobia:overworking or of pain
porphyrophobia:the color purple
potamophobia:rivers or running water
potophobia:alcohol
proctophobia:rectum
prosophobia:progress
psellismophobia:stuttering
psychophobia:mind
psychrophobia:cold
pteromerhanophobia:flying
pteronophobia:being tickled by feathers
pupaphobia:puppets pyrexiophobia
pyrophobia:fire

 

R
radiophobia:radiation, x-rays
ranidaphobia:frogs
rhabdophobia:being severely punished or beaten by a rod
rhypophobia:defecation
rhytiphobia:getting wrinkles
rupophobia:dirt
Russophobia:Russians

 

S
samhainophobia:Halloween
sarmassophobia:love play
satanophobia:satan
scabiophobia:scabies
scelerophibia:bad men, burglars
schlionophobia:school
sciophobia:shadows
scoleciphobia:worms
scolionophobia:school
scopophobia:being stared at
scotomaphobia:blindness in
visual field
scotophobia:darkness
scriptophobia:writing in public
selaphobia:light flashes
selenophobia:the moon
seplophobia:decaying matter
sesquipedalophobia:long words
sexophobia:the opposite sex
siderodromophobia:trains
siderophobia:stars
sinistrophobia:left-handedness
sinophobia:chinese, chinese culture
sitophobia:food or eating
snakephobia:snakes (ophidiophobia)
soceraphobia:parents-in-law
social phobia:being evaluated negatively
sociophobia:society
somniphobia:sleep
sophophobia:learning
soteriophobia:dependence on others
spacephobia:outer space
spectrophobia:specters or ghosts
spermophobia:germs
sphexsophobia:wasps
stasibasiphobia:standing or walking
staurophobia:crosses or the crucifix
stenophobia:narrow things or places
stygiophobia:hell
suriphobia:mice
symbolophobia:symbolism
symmetrophobia:symmetry
syngenesophobia:relatives
syphilophobia:syphilis

 

T
tachophobia:speed
taeniophobia or teniophobia:tapeworms
taphephobia:being buried alive
tapinophobia:being contagious
taurophobia:bulls
technophobia:technology
teleophobia:definate plans
telephonophobia:telephones
telosphobia:being last
teratophobia:bearing a
deformed child
testophobia:taking tests
tetanophobia:lockjaw, tetanus
teutophobia:German or German things
textophobia:certain fabrics
thaasophobia:sitting
thalassophobia:the ocean
thanatophobia:death or dying
theatrophobia:theatres
theologicophobia:theology
theophobia:god(s) or religion
thermophobia:heat
tocophobia:childbirth
tomophobia:surgical operations
tonitrophobia:thunder
topophobia:performing (stage fright)
toxiphobia:poison
traumatophobia:injury
tremophobia:trembling
trichinophobia:trichinosis
trichopathophobia:hair
triskaidekaphobia:the number 13
tropophobia:moving or making changes
trypanophobia:injections
tuberculophobia:tuberculosis
tyrannophobia:tyrants

 

U
uranophobia:heaven
urophobia:urine or urinating

 

V
vaccinophobia:vaccination
venustraphobia:beautiful women
verbophobia:words
verminophobia:germs
vestiphobia:clothing
virginitiphobia:rape
vitricophobia:step-fathers

 

W
wiccaphobia:witches and witchcraft

 

X
xanthophobia:the color yellow
xenophobia:strangers
xerophobia:dryness
xylophobia:forests

 

Z
zelophobia:jealousy
zemmiphobia:the great mole rat
zeusophobia:God or gods
zoophobia:animals