We define a phobia as ‘an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something’. You are probably aware of the more common phobias, such as arachnophobia (fear of spiders), claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces), and agoraphobia (fear of open places), but did you know there are also words which describe the fear of idleness, worms, and even body odour?
Explore the list of phobias below to discover the terms for some of the more interesting fears you may encounter. Although if you suffer from logophobia (a fear of words), it’s probably best to step away from this blog now… in fact, this list of phobias may be your worst nightmare!
| Object | Phobia |
| air travel | aerophobia |
| American people and things | Americophobia |
| animals | zoophobia |
| bacteria | bacteriophobia |
| beards | pogonophobia |
| beating | mastigophobia |
| bed | clinophobia |
| bees | apiphobia |
| birds | ornithophobia |
| blood | haemophobia |
| blushing | erythrophobia |
| body odour | bromidrosiphobia |
| bridges | gephyrophobia |
| bullets | ballistophobia |
| burial alive | taphephobia |
| cancer | carcinophobia |
| cats | ailurophobia |
| childbirth | tocophobia |
| children | paedophobia |
| Chinese people and things | Sinophobia |
| church | ecclesiophobia |
| clouds | nephophobia |
| coitus | coitophobia |
| cold | cheimaphobia |
| colour | chromophobia |
| comets | cometophobia |
| computers | cyberphobia |
| constipation | coprostasophobia |
| corpses | necrophobia |
| correspondence | epistolophobia |
| crowds | demophobia/ochlophobia |
| dampness | hygrophobia |
| darkness | scotophobia |
| dawn | eosophobia |
| death | thanatophobia |
| depth | bathophobia |
| dirt | mysophobia |
| disease | pathophobia/nosophobia |
| dogs | cynophobia |
| dreams | oneirophobia |
| drink | potophobia |
| drugs | pharmacophobia |
| dust | koniophobia |
| electricity | electrophobia |
| enclosed places | claustrophobia |
| English people and things | Anglophobia |
| everything | panophobia/pantophobia |
| eyes | ommetaphobia |
| faeces | coprophobia |
| failure | kakorrhaphiaphobia |
| fatigue | kopophobia |
| fear | phobophobia |
| feathers | pteronophobia |
| fever | febriphobia |
| fire | pyrophobia |
| fish | ichthyophobia |
| flesh | selaphobia |
| floods | antlophobia |
| flowers | anthophobia |
| fog | homichlophobia |
| food | cibophobia/sitophobia |
| foreigners | xenophobia |
| freedom | eleutherophobia |
| French people and things | Francophobia/Gallophobia |
| fur | doraphobia |
| German people and things | Germanophobia/Teutophobia |
| germs | bacteriophobia |
| ghosts | phasmophobia |
| glass | nelophobia |
| God | theophobia |
| gold | chrysophobia/aurophobia |
| hair | trichophobia |
| heart disease | cardiophobia |
| heat | thermophobia |
| heaven | uranophobia |
| hell | hadephobia/stygiophobia |
| heredity | patroiophobia |
| high buildings | batophobia |
| high places | acrophobia/hypsophobia |
| home | oikophobia |
| homosexuals | homophobia |
| horses | hippophobia |
| ice | cryophobia |
| ideas | ideophobia |
| idleness | thassophobia |
| illness | nosophobia |
| imperfection | atelophobia |
| infinity | apeirophobia |
| injury | traumatophobia |
| inoculation | trypanophobia/vaccinophobia |
| insanity | lyssophobia/maniphobia |
| insects | entomophobia |
| insect stings | cnidophobia |
| Italian people and things | Italophobia |
| itching | acarophobia |
| jealousy | zelotypophobia |
| justice | dikephobia |
| lakes | limnophobia |
| leprosy | leprophobia |
| lice | pediculophobia |
| light | photophobia |
| lightning | astrapophobia |
| lists | pinaciphobia/katastichophobia |
| loneliness | autophobia/ermitophobia |
| machinery | mechanophobia |
| magic | rhabdophobia |
| marriage | gamophobia |
| men | androphobia |
| metal | metallophobia |
| mice | musophobia |
| microbes | bacillophobia/microbiophobia |
| mirrors | eisoptrophobia |
| mites | acarophobia |
| mobs | ochlophobia |
| money | chrematophobia |
| monsters, giving birth to | teratophobia |
| motion | kinetophobia |
| music | musicophobia |
| names | onomatophobia |
| narrowness | anginophobia |
| needles | belonephobia |
| new things | neophobia |
| night | nyctophobia |
| nudity | gymnophobia |
| open places | agoraphobia |
| pain | algophobia |
| parasites | parasitophobia |
| people | anthropophobia |
| philosophy | philosophobia |
| pins | enetophobia |
| places | topophobia |
| pleasure | hedonophobia |
| poison | toxiphobia |
| politics | politicophobia |
| Pope | papaphobia |
| poverty | peniaphobia |
| precipices | cremnophobia |
| priests | hierophobia |
| punishment | poinephobia |
| rabies | hydrophobophobia |
| rail travel | siderodromophobia |
| religious works of art | iconophobia |
| reptiles | batrachophobia |
| responsibility | hypegiaphobia |
| ridicule | katagelophobia |
| rivers | potamophobia |
| robbers | harpaxophobia |
| ruin | atephobia |
| Russian people and things | Russophobia |
| saints | hagiophobia |
| Satan | Satanophobia |
| scabies | scabiophobia |
| Scottish people and things | Scotophobia |
| sea | thalassophobia |
| sex | erotophobia |
| shadows | sciophobia |
| sharpness | acrophobia |
| shock | hormephobia |
| sin | hamartophobia |
| skin disease | dermatosiophobia/dermatopathophobia |
| sleep | hypnophobia |
| slime | blennophobia |
| small things | microphobia |
| smell | olfactophobia/osmophobia |
| smothering | pnigerophobia |
| snakes | ophidiophobia |
| snow | chionophobia |
| solitude | eremophobia |
| sound | acousticophobia |
| sourness | acerophobia |
| speech | lalophobia/laliophobia/glossophobia/phonophobia |
| speed | tachophobia |
| spiders | arachnophobia |
| standing | stasophobia |
| stars | siderophobia |
| stealing | kleptophobia |
| string | linonophobia |
| stuttering | lalophobia/laliophobia |
| sun | heliophobia |
| swallowing | phagophobia |
| symmetry | symmetrophobia |
| taste | geumatophobia |
| technology | technophobia |
| teeth | odontophobia |
| telephone | telephonophobia |
| thinking | phronemophobia |
| thirteen | triskaidekaphobia |
| thunder | brontophobia/tonitrophobia/keraunophobia |
| time | chronophobia |
| touch | haptophobia |
| travel | hodophobia |
| tuberculosis | phthisiophobia |
| tyrants | tyrannophobia |
| vehicles | ochophobia |
| venereal disease | syphilophobia |
| voids | kenophobia |
| vomiting | emetophobia |
| water | hydrophobia |
| waves | cyrnophobia |
| weakness | asthenophobia |
| wind | anemophobia |
| women | gynophobia |
| words | logophobia |
| work | ergophobia |
| worms | helminthophobia |
| writing | graphophobia |
If you’re feeling stressed from a particular phobia, don’t hesitate to book a Free Consultation with me. I have various solutions that can help you.