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The English suffix -phobia is used to describe fear or hatred (the latter is often ignored) of a particular thing or subject. Everyday language has established the use of this suffix as a mild or irrational fear with no serious substance; however, its origin is from areas of psychiatry which study serious phobias which disable a person's life. For more information on the psychiatric side of this, including how psychiatry groups phobias as "agoraphobia", "social phobia", or "simple phobia", see phobia.
The following is a list of words ending in -phobia, or a list of fears that have been given names. In most instances the words listed here are neologisms (made-up words) coined to demonstrate a grasp of Greek word roots rather than descriptions of an actual condition. Only a few of the following terms occur in the medical literature. In many cases, the naming of phobias is a word game.
Most of these terms were devised by adding the suffix -phobia to a Greek word for the object of the fear (some use a combination of a Latin root with the Greek suffix, which some consider linguistically impure).
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- Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing.
- Acarophobia - Fear of itching or of insects whose bites cause itching.
- Acerophobia - Fear of sourness.
- Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Nyctophobia, Scotophobia - Fear of darkness.
- Acousticophobia - Fear of noise.
- Acrophobia, Altophobia - Fear of heights.
- Aerophobia - Fear of drafts, air swallowing or airborne noxious substances.
- Aeroacrophobia - Fear of open high places.
- Aeronausiphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
- Agateophobia, Dementophobia, Maniaphobia - Fear of insanity.
- Agliophobia, Algophobia, Odynophobia, Odynephobia - Fear of pain.
- Agoraphobia - Fear of the outdoors, crowds or uncontrolled social conditions.
- Agraphobia, Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse.
- Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals.
- Agyrophobia, Dromophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street.
- AibohphobiaAibohphobia is a humorous term used to describe a fictional irrational fear or phobia of palindromes. The word is, of course, a palindrome itself. It is an intentionally constructed one, however; aiboh is not an existing or meaningful root. The word seems - Fear of palindromeA palindrome is a word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units (like a strand of DNA) which has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of spaces between letters is generally permitted). The word "palindrome" comes froms (not necessarily an actual word; aiboh is not of course Greek or Latin for Palindrome, but is simply intended to make the word itself palindromic)
- Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
- Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia - Fear of catFor alternative meanings see cat (disambiguation). The cat (also called domestic cat or house cat is a small feline carnivorous mammal. Its scientific name is Felis silvestris catus or Felis silvestris domesticus but the species is sometimes referred to as.
- Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease.
- Alektorophobia - Fear of chickenA chicken is a type of domesticated bird which is usually raised as a type of poultry. It is believed to be descended from the wild Asian Red Junglefowl, Gallus gallus''. Habits In the wild, junglefowl sleep in trees. Chickens are omnivores and will feeds.
- Alliumphobia - Fear of garlicGarlic Allium sativum is a bulbous perennial food plant of the family Alliaceae. The word comes to us from Old English grleac meaning "spear leek". Because of its wide cultivation, its origins are uncertain; it has been traced to both southwest Siberia an.
- Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.
- Amathophobia, Koniophobia - Fear of dust.
- Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a carAn automobile usually called a car (an old word for carriage) or a truck is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own engine. Older terms include horseless carriage and motor car with "motor" referring to what is now usually called the engine. The act of ope.
- Ambulophobia, Stasibasiphobia, Stasiphobia - Fear of walking or standing.
- Anemophobia - Fear of air.
- Amerophobia, Columbophobia - Fear of the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in, American culture, etc.
- Amnesiphobia - Fear of amnesiaAmnesia is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma or disease, or use of certain (generally sedative) drugs. Functional causes are psychological.
- Amychophobia - Fear of scratches or being scratched.
- Anablephobia - Fear of looking up.
- Ancraophobia, Anemophobia - Fear of wind.
- Androphobia, Arrhenphobia, Hominophobia - Fear of men.
- Anginophobia - Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
- Anglophobia - Fear of England, English culture, etc.
- Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
- Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint.
- Anthrophobia, Anthophobia - Fear of flowers.
- Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
- Antlophobia - Fear of floods.
- Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single.
- Apeirophobia - Fear of infinity.
- Aphenphosmphobia, Chiraptophobia, Haphephobia, Haptephobia - Fear of being touched.
- Apiphobia, Melissaphobia, Melissophobia - Fear of bees.
- Apotemnophobia - Fear of persons with amputations.
- Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
- Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
- Arsonphobia, Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.
- Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness.
- Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning. It is especially common in young children.
- Astrophobia - Fear of stars and celestial space.
- Asymmetriphobia - Fear of asymmetry.
- Ataxiophobia - Fear of ataxia.
- Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
- Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
- Atephobia - Fear of ruin or ruins.
- Athazagoraphobia - Fear of being forgotten, ignored or forgetting.
- Atomosophobia - Fear of atomic explosions.
- Atychiphobia, Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure.
- Aulophobia - Fear of flutes.
- Aurophobia - Fear of gold.
- Auroraphobia - Fear of the Northern Lights or for Chileans, Argentinians, Falkland Islanders or Antarctic explorers, fear of the Southern Lights .
- Australophobia, Novahollandiaphobia - Fear of Australia, Australians, Australian culture etc.
- Autodysomophobia - Fear that one has a vile odour.
- Automatonophobia - Fear of any inanimate object that represents a sentient being, eg. statues, dummies, robots, etc.
- Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty.
- Autophobia, Eremophobia, Ermitophibia, Isolophobia, Monophobia - Fear of being alone or fear of oneself.
- Aviophobia, Aviatophobia, Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.
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