The word “-phobia” is an English suffix of Greek origin. A ‘phobia’ is an irrational or excessive fear of something. Here is a list of phobias –
|
Fear of |
Phobia |
|
Accidents |
Dystychiphobia |
|
Aeroplanes/ Flying |
Aerophobia |
|
Animals |
Zoophobia |
|
Baldness |
Phalacrophobia |
|
Blood |
Haemophobia, Haematophobia |
|
Confined spaces |
Claustrophobia |
|
Crossing streets |
Dromophobia |
|
Crowds |
Demophobia |
|
Dark |
Nyctophobia, Lygophobia |
|
Death/ dead bodies |
Necrophobia, Thanatophobia |
|
Dentists |
Dentophobia |
|
Depths/ deep places |
Bathophobia |
|
Dogs |
Cynophobia |
|
Electricity |
Electrophobia |
|
Fire |
Pyrophobia |
|
Germs |
Verminophobia |
|
Ghosts |
Phasmophobia |
|
Heights |
Acrophobia |
|
Hospitals |
Nosocomephobia |
|
Illness |
Pathophobia |
|
Injections |
Trypanophobia |
|
Lightning |
Astrapophobia |
|
Loneliness |
Monophobia |
|
Machines |
Mechanophobia |
|
Madness/ Insanity |
Maniaphobia |
|
New things |
Neophobia |
|
Old age |
Gerascophobia |
|
Open spaces/ going out in public |
Agoraphobia |
|
Outer space |
Spacephobia |
|
Pain |
Algophobia |
|
Sharks |
Galeophobia |
|
Snakes |
Ophidiophobia |
|
Society or people in general |
Sociophobia |
|
Speaking/ public speaking |
Lalophobia, Glossophobia |
|
Surgery |
Tomophobia |
|
Vehicles |
Ochophobia |
|
Voids or empty spaces |
Kenophobia |
|
Water |
Hydrophobia |
The word “-phobia” is an English suffix of Greek origin. A ‘phobia’ is an irrational or excessive fear of something. Here is a list of phobias –
|
Fear of |
Phobia |
|
Accidents |
Dystychiphobia |
|
Aeroplanes/ Flying |
Aerophobia |
|
Animals |
Zoophobia |
|
Baldness |
Phalacrophobia |
|
Blood |
Haemophobia, Haematophobia |
|
Confined spaces |
Claustrophobia |
|
Crossing streets |
Dromophobia |
|
Crowds |
Demophobia |
|
Dark |
Nyctophobia, Lygophobia |
|
Death/ dead bodies |
Necrophobia, Thanatophobia |
|
Dentists |
Dentophobia |
|
Depths/ deep places |
Bathophobia |
|
Dogs |
Cynophobia |
|
Electricity |
Electrophobia |
|
Fire |
Pyrophobia |
|
Germs |
Verminophobia |
|
Ghosts |
Phasmophobia |
|
Heights |
Acrophobia |
|
Hospitals |
Nosocomephobia |
|
Illness |
Pathophobia |
|
Injections |
Trypanophobia |
|
Lightning |
Astrapophobia |
|
Loneliness |
Monophobia |
|
Machines |
Mechanophobia |
|
Madness/ Insanity |
Maniaphobia |
|
New things |
Neophobia |
|
Old age |
Gerascophobia |
|
Open spaces/ going out in public |
Agoraphobia |
|
Outer space |
Spacephobia |
|
Pain |
Algophobia |
|
Sharks |
Galeophobia |
|
Snakes |
Ophidiophobia |
|
Society or people in general |
Sociophobia |
|
Speaking/ public speaking |
Lalophobia, Glossophobia |
|
Surgery |
Tomophobia |
|
Vehicles |
Ochophobia |
|
Voids or empty spaces |
Kenophobia |
|
Water |
Hydrophobia |