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  • Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
  • Acrophobia, Altophobia – fear of heights.
  • Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder – fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
  • Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse.
  • Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (as a needle, knife or a pointing finger).
  • Algophobia – fear of pain.
  • Agyrophobia – fear of crossing roads.
  • Androphobia – fear of men.
  • Anthropophobia – fear of people or being in a company, a form of social phobia.
  • Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
  • Aquaphobia – fear of water.
  • Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia – fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
  • Atychiphobia, fear of failure
  • Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying.
  • Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia – fear of microbes and bacteria.
  • Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
  • Chorophobia – fear of dancing.
  • Cibophobia, Sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
  • Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces.
  • Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
  • Decidophobia – fear of making decisions.
  • Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
  • Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
  • Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
  • Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon’s fear of operating.
  • Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning.
  • Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
  • Erythrophobia – pathological blushing.
  • Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at.
  • Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges.
  • Genophobia, Coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse.
  • Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or aging.
  • Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly.
  • Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
  • Gymnophobia – fear of nudity.
  • Gynophobia – fear of women.
  • Hadephobia – fear of Hell.
  • Halitophobia – fear of bad breath.
  • Haptephobia – fear of being touched.
  • Heliophobia – fear of sunlight.
  • Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood.
  • Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.
  • Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (Generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented).
  • Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises.
  • Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food.
  • Medication phobia – fear of medications.
  • Megalophobia – fear of large/oversized objects.
  • Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
  • Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead.
  • Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty.
  • Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
  • Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease.
  • Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals.
  • Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear of darkness.
  • Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of smells.
  • Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
  • Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause.
  • Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts, spectres or phantasms.
  • Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.
  • Pharmacophobia – same as medication phobia.
  • Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
  • Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds.
  • Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
  • Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
  • Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations.
  • Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at.
  • Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
  • Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors and one’s own reflections.
  • Taphophobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
  • Technophobia – fear of technology (see also Luddite).
  • Telephone phobia, fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls.
  • Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4.
  • Thanatophobia – fear of death.
  • Tokophobia – fear of childbirth.
  • Tomophobia – fear or anxiety of surgeries/surgical operations.
  • Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury.
  • Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13.
  • Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia – fear of needles or injections.
  • Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace.
  • Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
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