Fears and phobias

ive been looking on the internet, and there are alot of phobias. some weird, and some not.

i want to know if you have any weird phobias or just got any comments about them

Psychological conditions

• 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.
  
• Aquaphobia, Hydrophobia — fear of water
  
• Arachnaphobia - fear of spiders
  
• 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.
  
• Cibophobia, Sitophobia — aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
  
• Claustrophobia — fear of confined spaces.
  
• 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.
  
• Heliophobia — fear of sunlight.
  
• Hemophobia, Haemophobia — fear of blood.
  
• Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia — fear of the number 666.
  
• Hoplophobia — fear of firearms (guns).
  
• Lalophobia, Laliophobia — fear of speaking.
  
• 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
  
• Phonophobia — fear of loud sounds.
  
• Pyrophobia — fear of fire.
  
• Radiophobia — fear of radioactivity 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).
  
• Tetraphobia - fear of the number 4.
  
• 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.

Zoophobias

• Ailurophobia -- fear of cats
  
• Apiphobia, Melissophobia — fear of bees
  
• Arachnophobia — fear of arachnids, usually specific to spiders
  
• Chiroptophobia — fear of bats
  
• Cynophobia — fear of dogs
  
• Entomophobia — 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
  
• Ranidaphobia -- fear of frogs
  
• Zoophobia — a generic term for animal phobias

Non-psychological conditions

• Hydrophobia — fear of water (a symptom of rabies).
  
• Photophobia — hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light (a symptom of Meningitis).
  
• Phonophobia — hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds.
  
• Osmophobia — hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors.

Biology, chemistry

• Acidophobia/Acidophobic — preference for non-acidic conditions.
  
• Heliophobia/Heliophobic — aversion to sunlight.
  
• Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic — a property of being repelled by water.
  
• Lipophobicity — a property of fat rejection
  
• Photophobia/Photophobic — a negative phototaxis or phototropism response.
  
• Superhydrophobe — the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet.
  
• Thermophobia/Thermophobic — aversion to heat.
  
• Xerophobia/Xerophobic — aversion to dryness.

Prejudices

• Biphobia — dislike of bisexuals, by either monosexually heterosexuals or homosexuals.
  
• Chemophobia — prejudice against artificial substances in favour of 'natural' substances.
  
• Ephebiphobia — fear/dislike of youth.
  
• Gerontophobia — fear of growing old or a hatred of old people.
  
• Heterophobia — fear/dislike of heterosexuals.
  
• Homophobia — aversion to homosexuality or fear of homosexuals. (This word has become a common political term, and many people interpret it as a slur.)
  
• Transphobia — fear or dislike of transgender or transsexual people.
  
• Xenophobia — fear or dislike of foreigners

Jocular and fictional phobias

• Aibohphobia — a joke term for the fear of palindromes, which is a palindrome itself.
  
• Anachrophobia (book title) — fear of temporal displacement.
  
• Anatidaephobia — fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you (fictional, from a Gary Larson cartoon published in The Far Side Gallery, 4).
  
• Anoraknophobia- fear of spiders wearing anoraks: it is a portmanteau of "anorak"

According to the UrbanDictionary...

Ithyphallophobia

Fear of erect penises

Anyone here got that?

Hippopotomonstrosedelaquipelaphobia (God I hope I spelled that right).

The fear of long words.

According to the UrbanDictionary...

 

Ithyphallophobia

Fear of erect penises

 

 

Anyone here got that?

No. Not that that means I like them I just don't fear them.

But I do suffer, as I imagine a lot of people do, terribly from Arachnophobia.

I am pretty freaked out by clowns. They just look like they're about to whip a knife out and stab me whilst smiling/laughing etc.

One of my sister's friends actually went to a psychiatrist this week and was diagnosed as having a phobia for school. O.o

Hippopotomonstrosedelaquipelaphobia (God I hope I spelled that right).

 

The fear of long words.

I'm proud to say I learnt how to say and spell that.

I have a fear of Phones. I hate answering them, I hate making phone calls.

Eh..I got a lot of fears.

I'm proud to say I learnt how to say and spell that.

I have a fear of Phones. I hate answering them, I hate making phone calls.

Did I get it right?

Well i go red just speaking to people, which has led me to hate public speaking or just to people i don't know... maybe i do have Erythrophobia? Dun dun dun!

I don't like not being able to move my legs. Like crawling through a tunnel or having weight on my legs.

I am a bit agoraphobic I think. I feel dizzy in huge spaces.

Did I get it right?

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

You mixed up the 'quippedali' bit.

Psychological conditions

• Acrophobia, Altophobia — fear of heights.
  
• Agoraphobia — fear of a place or event where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
  
• Taphophobia — fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.

If Agoraphobia means exactly that, then I think I have these.

I'm not sure about Taphophobia, though. I'm only scared of being buried alive (one of the most terrifying deaths I can think of).

Zoophobias

• Arachnophobia — fear of arachnids, usually specific to spiders
  
• Entomophobia — fear of insects

Oddly, I have an irrational fear of insects, except spiders (also bees). I never understood why, since many people suffer of the opposite.

Prejudices

• Chemophobia — prejudice against artificial substances in favour of 'natural' substances.

Heh, look at that. I hate prejudice, yet I seem to have one (it's not that big, but it's there to some extent).

Jocular and fictional phobias

 

• Anoraknophobia- fear of spiders wearing anoraks

I don't know about you, but I think an anorak-wearing spider would be quite creepy.

• Xenophobia — fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.

Also, I thought Xenophobia was just prejudice. Why is it listed in the "phobia" section?

tetraphobia lol