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The Spellzone dictionary defines ‘phobia’ as: ‘an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations’.

The word has been used in English since the 1780s, perhaps modelled on its use in French. It originally comes from the Greek ‘phobia’, from ‘phobos’ meaning ‘fear, panic, terror, outward show of fear, object of fear or terror’. Before this ‘phobia’ meant ‘flight’ and the word took on the meaning ‘fear’ from the idea of fleeing in panic or fright.

Today we’re going to look at a list of different type of phobias – how many do you recognise?

Name of Phobia:

acarophobia
acarophobia
acrophobia/hypsophobia
aerophobia
agoraphobia
ailurophobia
algophobia
anthophobia
anthropophobia
antlophobia
apeirophobia
apiphobia
arachnophobia
astrapophobia
atelophobia
autophobia/ermitophobia
bacteriophobia
ballistophobia
batophobia
batrachophobia
belonephobia
blennophobia
brontophobia/tonitrophobia/keraunophobia
claustrophobia
cnidophobia
cryophobia
cyberphobia
cynophobia
cyrnophobia
demophobia/ochlophobia
doraphobia
ecclesiophobia
eisoptrophobia
entomophobia
eremophobia
ergophobia
febriphobia
graphophobia
hadephobia/stygiophobia
haemophobia
hippophobia
hodophobia
homichlophobia
hydrophobia
hypegiaphobia
hypnophobia s
ichthyophobia
kakorrhaphiaphobia
katagelophobia
kleptophobia
logophobia
lyssophobia/maniphobia
mechanophobia
musophobia
mysophobia
nelophobia
nosophobia
nyctophobia
odontophobia
oneirophobia
ophidiophobia
ornithophobia
panophobia/pantophobia
parasitophobia
pathophobia/nosophobia
pharmacophobia
phasmophobia
phobophobia
poinephobia
politicophobia
pteronophobia
pyrophobia
sciophobia
scotophobia
tachophobia
taphephobia
technophobia
telephonophobia
thalassophobia
thanatophobia
theophobia
thermophobia
toxiphobia
traumatophobia
trichophobia
triskaidekaphobia
zoophobia

Fear of:

itching
mites
high places
air travel
open places
cats
pain
flowers
people
floods
infinity
bees
spiders
lightning
imperfection
loneliness
germs
bullets
high buildings
reptiles
needles
slime
thunder
enclosed places
insect stings
ice
computers
dogs
waves
crowds
fur
church
mirrors
insects
solitude
work
fever
writing
hell
blood
horses
travel
fog
water
responsibility
sleep
fish
failure
ridicule
stealing
words
insanity
machinery
mice
dirt
glass
illness
night
teeth
dreams
snakes
birds
everything
parasites
disease
drugs
ghosts
fear
punishment
politics
feathers
fire
shadows
darkness
speed
burial alive
technology
telephone
sea
death
God
heat
poison
injury
hair
thirteen
animals

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Sources:
Oxford Dictionaries


30 Nov 2015
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