Monday, March 05, 2007
Acrophobia, Altophobia — fear of heights.
Agoraphobia — fear of a place or event where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
Algophobia — fear of pain.
Androphobia — fear of
males.
Anthropomorphobia — fear or dislike of
anthropomorphic traits.
Aquaphobia,
Hydrophobia — fear of water
Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia — fear of
thunder,
lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Autophobia — fear of
being alone.
Aviophobia, Aviatophobia — fear of flying.
Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia — fear of
microbes and
bacteria.
Bathophobia — fear of depth.
Cibophobia,
Sitophobia — aversion to
food, synonymous to
Anorexia nervosa.
Claustrophobia — fear of confined spaces.
Clinophobia — fear of going to bed or falling asleep.
Coulrophobia — fear of
clowns (not restricted to
evil clowns).
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.
Erotophobia — fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
Erythrophobia — pathological blushing.
Genophobia, Coitophobia — fear of
sexual intercourse.
Glossophobia — fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gymnophobia — fear of nudity.
Gynophobia— fear of females
Heliophobia — fear of sunlight.
Hemophobia, Haemophobia — fear of
blood.
Hydrophobia-fear of water a sign of rabies
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia — fear of the
number 666.
Hoplophobia — fear of firearms (guns).
Lalophobia, Laliophobia — fear of speaking.
Ligyrophobia — fear of loud noises.
Mysophobia — fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
Necrophobia — fear of death, the dead.
Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia — fear of newness, novelty.
Nosophobia — fear of contracting a disease
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 constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it
Pyrophobia, — fear of fire.
Radiophobia — fear of
radiation or
X-rays.
Sociophobia — fear/dislike of society or people in general (see also "
sociopath").
Taphophobia — fear of the
grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
Technophobia — fear of
technology (see also
Luddite).
Teratophobia - fear of giving birth to a deformed child, fear of monsters or deformed people.
Tokophobia —
fear of childbirth.
Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia — fear of the number
13.
Trypanophobia, Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia — fear of needles, injections or of pointed objects.
Xenophobia — fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
[
edit] Zoophobias
Ailurophobia,
Felinophobia — dislike of
cats.
Apiphobia,
Melissophobia — fear of
bees.
Arachnophobia — fear of
arachnids, usually specific to
spiders.
Arctophobia - fear of
bears.
Chiroptophobia — fear of
bats.
Cynophobia — fear of
dogsEntomophobia — fear of insects.
Equinophobia,
Hippophobia — fear of
horses.
Herpetophobia — fear of
reptiles.
Musophobia — fear of
mice and/or
rats.
Ophidiophobia — fear of
snakes.
Ornithophobia — fear of
birds.
Zoophobia — a generic term for animal phobias
I took this from Wikipedia(best sight on earth)its very interesting, oh and it turns out the word for my disorder is coulrophobia.
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Reesna
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