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| x Ablutophobia |
Ablutophobia (from Greek: ebliUt, ablute, meaning “to wash”) is the persistent, abnormal and unwarranted fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning. This phobia is a situational specific phobia. Ablutophobia tends to be more common in children and women...
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| x Acrophobia |
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Acrophobia (from the Greek: ἄκρον, ákron , meaning "peak, summit, edge" and φόβος, phóbos, "fear") is an extreme or irrational fear of heights. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort that share both similar...
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| x Agoraphobia |
Agoraphobia (from Greek aγορά, "marketplace"; and φόβος/φοβία, -phobia) is an anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. As a result, sufferers of agoraphobia...
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| x Agraphobia |
Agraphobia (also contreltophobia) is the abnormal fear of sexual abuse. The condition is common but not widely known.
Sufferers of agraphobia have usually had a past experience linking emotional trauma with sexual abuse. Such experiences do not have...
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| x Algophobia |
Algophobia (from the Greek: ἄλγος, álgos, "pain" and φόβος, phóbos, "fear") is a phobia of pain - an abnormal and persistent fear of pain that is far more powerful than that of a normal person. It can be treated with behavioral therapy and anti...
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| x Anglophobia |
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Anglophobia (from Latin Anglus "English" + Greek φόβος -phobos, "fear") means hatred or fear of England or the English people.
The term is sometimes used to refer to general Anti-British sentiment.
In his essay "Notes on Nationalism", written in May...
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| x Anthropophobia |
Anthropophobia or Anthrophobia (literally "fear of people", from the Greek: ἄνθρωπος, ánthropos, "man" and φόβος, phóbos, "fear"), also called interpersonal relation phobia is pathological fear of people or human company. According to the...
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| x Anthrophobia |
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Anthrophobia, or Anthophobia (Greek: antho, "flower" and φόβος, phobos, "fear") is an abnormal or persistent fear of flowers. A person with anthrophobia may also be fearful of florists, wreaths, and bouquets. Anthrophobia is a clinical phobia...
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| x Aquaphobia | Water | Rabies |
Not to be confused with Hydrophobia
Aquaphobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of water. Aquaphobia is a specific phobia that involves a level of fear that is beyond the patient's control or that may interfere with daily life. People suffer...
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| x Astraphobia |
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Astraphobia, also known as Brontophobia, Keraunophobia, or Tonitrophobia, is an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning, a type of specific phobia. It is a treatable phobia that both humans and animals can develop. The term astraphobia comes from the...
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| x Autophobia |
Autophobia (or Monophobia) is the phobia of being alone. The word is derived from the Greek words αὐτός (autós, "self") and φόβος (phóbos, "fear"). A secondary meaning of the term is for the much rarer condition of true autophobia, that is, fear or...
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| x Fear of flying | flying |
A fear of flying is a fear of being on a plane while in flight. It is also sometimes referred to as aerophobia, aviatophobia, aviophobia or pteromerhanophobia.
Fear of flying may be a distinct phobia in itself, or it may be an indirect combination...
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| x Bacillophobia |
From Greek -phobia, fear of... .A term describing one afraid of bacteria or germs, or, more commonly, of being infected by them. Extreme bacteriophobes may refuse to go outside for fear of the germs out there, or insist that their possession and...
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| x Anorexia nervosa |
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Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric illness that describes an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia nervosa are known to control body...
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| x Claustrophobia |
Claustrophobia (from Latin claustrum "a shut in place" and Greek φόβος, phóbos, "fear") is the fear of having no escape, and being closed in. It is typically classified as an anxiety disorder and often results in panic attack. One study indicates...
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| x Coulrophobia | Clowns |
Coulrophobia is abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns. The term is common, but it does not appear to be used in psychology. It is common among children, but is also sometimes found in teenagers and adults as well. Sufferers sometimes acquire a fear...
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| x Decidophobia |
Decidophobia is the fear of making decisions.
The word decidophobia was first mentioned by Princeton University philosopher Walter Kaufmann in his 1973 book Without guilt and justice in which he writes about the phobia in length.
In Without Guilt...
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| x Dental phobia |
Dental phobia is a fear, or phobia, traditionally defined as an irrational and exaggerated fear of dentist and dental procedures, also referred to as dental fear. Some controversy exists with regards to whether the fear is "irrational", as dental...
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| x Dental fear |
Dental fear refers to the fear of dentistry and of receiving dental care. A pathological form of this fear (specific phobia) is variously called dental phobia, odontophobia, dentophobia, dentist phobia, or dental anxiety. However, it has been...
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| x Body dysmorphic disorder |
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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) (previously known as Dysmorphophobia is sometimes referred to as body dysmorphia or dysmorphic syndrome) is a (psychological) anxiety disorder in which the affected person is excessively concerned about and preoccupied...
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| x Elephantophobia |
The fear of elephants.
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| x Emetophobia |
Emetophobia is an intense, irrational fear or anxiety pertaining to vomiting. This specific phobia can also include subcategories of what causes the anxiety, including a fear of vomiting in public, a fear of seeing vomit, a fear of watching the...
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| x Ergasiophobia |
Ergasiophobia (also called Ergophobia) refers to an abnormal and persistent fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergasiophobia has several titles, but the most common are: Fear of Work, Fear of Functioning, and Fear of...
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| x Ergophobia |
Ergophobia also called Ergasiophobia, is an abnormal and persistent fear (or phobia) of work or functioning. Sufferers of ergophobia experience undue anxiety about the workplace environment even though they realize their fear is irrational. Their...
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| x Erotophobia |
Erotophobia is a term used by psychologists to describe sexuality on a personality scale. Erotophobes score high on one end of the scale that is characterized by expressions of guilt and fear about sex. Erotophobes are less likely to talk about sex,...
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| x Blushing |
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To blush is to display redness in one's face; the term is usually used when the redness is a result of an emotional response, which could reflect embarrassment, shame, or modesty. Blushing can also be associated with being in love. Blushing is...
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| x Gephyrophobia | Bridges | Anxiety disorder |
Gephyrophobia is an anxiety disorder brought about by the fear of bridges. As a result, sufferers of gephyrophobia may avoid routes that will take them over bridges.
Dr. Liebowitz, founder of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State...
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| x Genophobia |
Genophobia (also known as coitophobia) is the fear of sexual intercourse. This phobia may be caused by actual sexual trauma (such as rape or molestation especially at an early age) or by witnessing a traumatic sexual act in real life or in the media...
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| x Glossophobia |
Glossophobia or speech anxiety is the fear of public speaking. The word glossophobia comes from the Greek γλῶσσα glōssa, meaning tongue, and φόβος phobos, fear or dread.
Stage fright may be a symptom of glossophobia.
Symptoms include:
The more...
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| x Gymnophobia |
Gymnophobia is a fear (phobia) of nudity. Gymnophobics experience anxiety from nudity, even if they realize their fear is irrational. They may worry about seeing others naked or being seen naked, or both. Their fear may stem from a general anxiety...
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| x Gynophobia |
Gynophobia (also spelled as gynephobia) is an abnormal fear of women. In the past, the Latin term was used, horror feminae, meaning "fear of women".
The word caligynephobia is also coined to mean the fear of beautiful women. For the latter one the...
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| x Fear of being touched |
The fear of being touched (also known as aphephobia, haphephobia, haphophobia, hapnophobia, haptephobia, haptophobia, thixophobia) is a rare specific phobia that involves the fear of touching or of being touched. It is an acute exaggeration of the...
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| x Heliophobia |
Heliophobia has two meanings:
Heliophobia is a problem that afflicts hundreds of people, but one that suffers from a lack of true research. The Pacific Health Center suggested that many people have been staying away from the sun because of growing...
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| x Blood phobia |
Blood phobia (also, AE: Hemophobia, BE: Haemophobia) is the extreme and irrational fear of blood. Acute cases of this fear can cause physical reactions that are uncommon in most other fears, specifically vasovagal syncope (fainting). Similar...
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| x Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia |
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (pronounced hexa-koseeo-ee-hexe-konta-hexaphobia) (literally, "fear of [the number] six hundred sixty-six") is the fear that originated from the Biblical verse Revelation 13:18 which indicates that the number 666 is the...
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| x Hoplophobia |
Hoplophobia (pronounced /ˌhɒplɵˈfoʊbiə/), from the Greek hoplon, or weapon, is defined as the "fear of firearms" or alternatively, an irrational fear of weapons in general, and describes a specific phobia.
Firearms instructor Colonel Jeff Cooper...
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| x Klanophobia |
Fear of the Ku Klux Klan.
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| x Ligyrophobia | One's own voice | Hangover |
Phonophobia (also called ligyrophobia) is a fear of loud sounds. It can also mean a fear of voices, or a fear of one's own voice.
It may also be related to, caused by, or confused with "hyperacusis", extreme sensitivity to loud sounds. Phonophobia...
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| x Lipophobia |
Lipophobia refers to avoidance of fats in food.
In the United States the onset of the "national eating disorder" of lipophobia dates to 1977 when the nutritional guidelines titled Dietary Goals for the United States were announced by the United...
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| x Mysophobia |
Mysophobia is a term used to describe a pathological fear of contact with dirt, to avoid contamination and germs. Someone who has such a fear is often referred to as a mysophobe. The term was introduced by Dr. William Alexander Hammond in 1879 when...
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| x Necrophobia |
Necrophobia or thanatophobia is the fear of death or dead things (e.g., corpses) as well as things associated with death (e.g., coffins). Necrophobia is derived from Greek nekros (νεκρος) for "corpse" and -phob- for "fear". Thanatophobia is derived...
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| x Neophobia |
Neophobia is the fear of new things or experiences. It is also called cainotophobia.
In psychology, neophobia is defined as the persistent and abnormal fear of anything new. In its milder form, it can manifest as the unwillingness to try new things...
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| x Nomophobia |
Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The term, an abbreviation for "no-mobile-phone phobia", was coined during a study by the UK Post Office who commissioned YouGov, a UK-based research organisation to look at anxieties...
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| x Nosophobia |
Anxiety towards the development of illness.
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| x Nyctophobia |
Nyctophobia is a limiting and disabling disease characterized by a frenzied fear of the darkness. It is triggered by the mind’s disfigured perception of what would or could happen when in a dark environment.
Despite its pervasive nature, there has...
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| x Osmophobia | Odors |
Osmophobia or olfactophobia refers to a fear, aversion, or psychological hypersensitivity to smells or odors. The phobia generally occurs in chronic migraine sufferers who may have odor triggered migraines. Such migraines are most frequently...
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Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on Friday, which superstition holds to be a day of good or bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least once, but at most three times a year.
The fear of Friday the...
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| x Panophobia |
Panphobia, from the Greek 'pan' and 'phobos', also called omniphobia, Pantophobia or Panophobia, is a medical condition known as a "non-specific fear" or "the fear of everything" and is described as "a vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil...
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| x Phagophobia |
Phagophobia is a psychogenic dysphagia, a fear of swallowing. It is expressed in various swallowing complaints without any apparent physical reason detectable by physical inspection and laboratory analyses. An obsolete term for this phobia is...
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| x Pyrophobia |
Fear of fires.
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| x Radiophobia |
Radiophobia is an abnormal fear of ionizing radiation, also used in the sense of fear of X-rays. The term is also used (polemically, not medically) to general opposition to the use of nuclear energy.
Fear of ionizing radiation is not unnatural,...
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Social anxiety disorder (DSM-IV 300.23), also known as social anxiety or social phobia is a diagnosis within psychiatry and other mental health professions referring to excessive social anxiety (anxiety in social situations) causing considerable...
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| x Scopophobia |
Scopophobia or scoptophobia is a morbid fear of being seen.
A 1906 journal in what is called now psychiatry writes:
Then, there is a fear of being seen and a shamefacedness, which one sees in asylums. We called it scopophobia — a morbid dread...
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| x Clinophobia |
Hypnophobia or somniphobia is an abnormal fear of sleep.
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| x Spectrophobia |
Fear of mirrors and one's own reflection.
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| x Spheksophobia |
Spheksophobia is the psychological term for fear of wasps.
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| x Fear of being buried alive |
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Fear of being buried alive is the fear of being placed in a grave while still alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. The abnormal, psychopathological version of this fear is referred to as taphophobia (from Greek taphos, meaning ...
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| x Technophobia |
Technophobia is the fear or dislike of advanced technology or complex devices, especially computers. The term is generally used in the sense of an irrational fear, but others contend fears are justified. It is the opposite of technophilia. First...
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Tetraphobia is an aversion to or fear of the number 4. It is a superstition most common in East Asian regions such as China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
The Chinese word for four (四, pinyin: sì, jyutping: sei), sounds very similar to the word for...
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| x Fear of childbirth |
Tokophobia, or fear of childbirth, is a form of specific phobia. Other terms for the condition include tocophobia and parturiphobia.
In 2000, an article published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (2000, 176: 83-85) described the fear of...
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