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Friday, June 2, 2017

The Most Common Phobias


    1. Acrophobia: fear of heights
    2. Aerophobia:  fear of flying
    3. Agliophobia: fear of pain
    4. Agoraphobia: fear of open or crowded spaces
    5. Ailurophobia / Gatophobia: fear of cats
    6. Allodoxaphobia: fear of opinions (what people think of you)
    7. Androphobia: fear of men
    8. Anthropophobia: fear of people
    9. Aphenphosmphobia: fear of intimacy
    10. Apiphobia : fear of bees
    11. Aquaphobia: fear of water
    12. Arachnophobia: fear of spiders
    13. Astraphobia: fear of thunder/lightning
    14. Atychiphobia: The fear of failure
    15. Autophobia: fear of abandonment and being abandoned by someone
    16. Bathophobia: fear of depths
    17. Chronophobia: fear of the future
    18. Claustrophobia: fear of small spaces
    19. Coasterphobia: fear of roller coasters
    20. Coulrophobia: fear of clowns
    21. Cynophobia: fear of dogs
    22. Didaskaleinophobia: fear of school
    23. Enochlophobia: fear of crowds
    24. Entomophobia: fear of bugs and insects
    25. Equinophobia: fear of horses
    26. Galeophobia: fear of sharks
    27. Gerascophobia: fear of getting old
    28. Glossophobia: fear of public speaking
    29. Gynophobia: fear of women
    30. Hemophobia: fear of blood
    31. Iatrophobia: fear of doctors
    32. Katsaridaphobia: fear of cockroaches
    33. Kinemortophobia: fear of zombies
    34. Metathesiophobia: fear of change
    35. Monophobia: fear of being alone
    36. Mottephobia: fear of moths
    37. Musophobia: fear of mice
    38. Myrmecophobia: fear of ants
    39. Mysophobia: fear of germs
    40. Nosocomephobia: fear of hospitals
    41. Nyctophobia: fear of darkness
    42. Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes
    43. Panophobia: fear of the happenings of terrible things
    44. Pediophobia: fear of dolls
    45. Phasmophobia: fear of ghosts
    46. Philophobia: fear of love
    47. Pogonophobia: fear of beards / bearded men
    48. Pyrophobia: fear of fire
    49. Ranidaphobia: fear of frogs
    50. Scelerophobia: fear of crime
    51. Scoleciphobia: fear of worms
    52. Spheksophobia: fear of wasps
    53. Taphophobia: fear of being buried alive
    54. Thalassophobia: fear of the ocean
    55. Tokophobia: fear of pregnancy
    56. Thanatophobia: fear of deaths
    57. Trypanophobia: fear of needles
    58. Vehophobia: fear of driving
    59. Xenophobia:fear of the unknown
    60. Zoophobia: fear of animals

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