How Many Phobias Are There? A (Nearly) Complete List of 500+ Phobias

Animal Phobias: Fear of specific animals, such as arachnophobia (spiders), ophidiophobia (snakes), and cynophobia (dogs).

Natural Environment Phobias: Fear of natural occurrences like acrophobia (heights), astraphobia (thunder and lightning), and hydrophobia (water).

Situational Phobias: Fear of specific situations, including claustrophobia (confined spaces) and aerophobia (flying).

Blood-Injection-Injury Phobias: Fear of blood, injury, or medical procedures, such as hemophobia (blood) and trypanophobia (injections).

Ablutophobia: Fear of bathing.

Acarophobia: fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching

Acerophobia: fear of sourness

Achluophobia: fear of darkness

Acousticophobia: fear of noise

Acrophobia: fear of heights

Aeroacrophobia: fear of open high places

Aeronausiphobia: fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness

Aerophobia: fear of flying

Agateophobia: fear of insanity

Agliophobia: fear of pain

Agoraphobia: fear of open places

Agraphobia: fear of sexual abuse

Agrizoophobia: fear of wild animals

Agyrophobia: fear of crossing streets

Aichmophobia: fear of sharp objects

Ailurophobia: fear of cats

Albuminurophobia: fear of kidney disease

Alektorophobia: fear of chickens

Algophobia: fear of pain

Altophobia: another name for fear of heights

Amathophobia: fear of dust

Amaxophobia: fear of riding in a car

Ambulophobia: fear of walking

Amnesiphobia: fear of amnesia

Amychophobia: fear of scratches or being scratched

Anablephobia: fear of looking up

Anatidaephobia: fear of ducks

Ancraophobia: fear of wind or drafts

Androphobia: fear of adult men

Anemophobia: fear of air drafts or wind

Anginophobia: fear of angina or choking

Ankylophobia: fear of immobility of a joint

Anthophobia: fear of flowers

Anthropophobia: fear of human beings

Antlophobia: fear of floods

Apeirophobia: fear of infinity

Apeirophobia: fear of infinity, eternity, and the uncountable

Aphenphosmphobia: fear of being touched

Apiphobia: fear of bees

Aporophobia: fear of people without resources

Apotemnophobia: fear of amputees

Aquaphobia: fear of water

Arachnophobia: fear of spiders, sometimes includes other arachnids such as scorpions

Arithmophobia: fear of numbers

Arsonphobia: fear of fire

Asthenophobia: fear of fainting or weakness

Astraphobia: fear of thunder and lightning

Astrophobia: fear of stars or celestial space

Asymmetriphobia: fear of asymmetrical things

Ataxiophobia: fear of ataxia

Ataxophobia: fear of disorder or untidiness

Atelophobia: fear of imperfection

Atephobia: fear of ruin or ruins

Athazagoraphobia: fear of being forgotten

Atomosophobia: fear of atomic explosions

Atychiphobia: fear of failure

Autophobia: fear of isolation

Aulophobia: fear of flutes

Aurophobia: fear of gold

Auroraphobia: fear of Northern lights

Autodysomophobia: fear of one that has a vile odor

Automatonophobia: fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues

Automysophobia: fear of being dirty

Bacillophobia: fear of microbes

Bacteriophobia: fear of bacteria

Ballistophobia: fear of missiles or bullets

Barophobia: fear of gravity

Basophobia: fear of falling

Bathmophobia: fear of stairs or steep slopes

Bathophobia: fear of depth

Batophobia: fear of heights or being close to high buildings

Batrachophobia: fear of frogs and other amphibians

Belonephobia: fear of needles or pins

Bibliophobia: fear of books

Bibliophobia: fear or hatred of books

Biphobia: fear of bisexuality or bisexuals

Blennophobia: fear of slime

Bogyphobia: fear of bogeys or the bogeyman

Botanophobia: fear of plants

Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia: fear of body smells

Brontophobia: fear of thunder and lightning

Bufonophobia: fear of toads

Cacophobia: fear of ugliness

Cainophobia or Cainotophobia: fear of newness, novelty

Caligynephobia: fear of beautiful women

Carcinophobia: fear of cancer

Cardiophobia: fear of the heart

Carnophobia: fear of meat

Catagelophobia: fear of being ridiculed

Catapedaphobia: fear of jumping from high and low places

Cathisophobia: fear of sitting

Catoptrophobia: fear of mirrors

Cenophobia: fear of new things or ideas

Chaetophobia: fear of hair

Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia: fear of cold

Chemophobia: fear of chemicals

Cherophobia: fear of happiness

Chionophobia: fear of snow

Chiraptophobia: fear of being touched

Chirophobia: fear of hands

Chiclephobia: fear of chewing gum

Chiroptophobia: fear of bats

Cholerophobia: fear of anger or the fear of cholera

Chorophobia: fear of dancing

Christianophobia: fear of Christians

Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia: fear of money

Chromophobia: fear of colors

Chronomentrophobia: fear of clocks

Chronophobia: fear of time and time moving forward

Cibophobia: fear of food

Claustrophobia: fear of having no escape and being closed in

Cleithrophobia: fear of being locked in an enclosed place

Cleptophobia: fear of stealing

Climacophobia: fear of stairs

Clinophobia: fear of going to bed

Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia: fear of being enclosed

Cnidophobia: fear of stings

Coimetrophobia: fear of cemeteries

Coitophobia: fear of coitus

Cometophobia: fear of comets

Consecotaleophobia: fear of chopsticks

Contreltophobia: fear of sexual abuse

Coprastasophobia: fear of constipation

Coprophobia: fear of feces or defecation

Coronaphobia: fear of COVID-19

Coulrophobia: fear of clowns

Cremnophobia: fear of precipices

Cryophobia: fear of extreme cold, ice, or frost

Crystallophobia: fear of crystals or glass

Cyberphobia: fear of computers

Cyclophobia: fear of bicycles

Cymophobia: fear of waves or wave-like motions

Cynophobia: fear of dogs

Cypridophobia: fear of prostitutes or venereal disease

Decidophobia: fear of making decisions

Defecaloesiophobia: fear of painful bowel movements

Dementophobia: fear of insanity

Demonophobia: fear of demons

Dendrophobia: fear of trees

Deipnophobia: fear of dining with others

Dentophobia: fear of dentists

Dermatophobia: fear of skin lesions

Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia: fear of skin disease

Dextrophobia: fear of objects on the right side of the body

Diabetophobia: fear of diabetes

Diagraphephobia: fear of losing your computer data

Didaskaleinophobia: fear of going to school

Dikephobia: fear of justice

Dinophobia: fear of dizziness or whirlpools

Diplophobia: fear of double vision

Dipsophobia: fear of drinking

Dishabiliophobia: fear of undressing in front of someone

Disposophobia: fear of throwing stuff out

Domatophobia: fear of houses

Doraphobia: fear of fur or skins of animals

Doxophobia: fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise

Dromophobia: fear of crossing streets

Dysmorphophobia: fear of a real or imaginary body defect

Dystychiphobia: fear of accidents

Ecclesiophobia: fear of church

Ecophobia: fear of cataclysmic environmental change

Ecophobia: fear of home

Eicophobia: fear of home surroundings(Domatophobia, Oikophobia)

Eisoptrophobia: fear of mirrors or seeing one’s reflection in a mirror

Electrophobia: fear of electricity

Eleutherophobia: fear of freedom

Emetophobia: fear of vomiting

Enetophobia: fear of pins

Enochlophobia: fear of crowds

Enosiophobia or Enissophobia: fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism

Entomophobia: fear of insects

Eosophobia: fear of dawn or daylight

Ephebiphobia: fear of youth

Epistaxiophobia: fear of nosebleeds

Epistemophobia: fear of knowledge

Equinophobia: fear of horses

Eremophobia: fear of being oneself or of loneliness

Ereuthrophobia: fear of blushing

Ergophobia: fear of work

Erotophobia: fear of sexual love or sexual abuse

Erythrophobia: fear of the color red or fear of blushing

Euphobia: fear of hearing good news

Eurotophobia: aversion to female genitals

Fibriophobia: fear of fever

Felinophobia: another expression for the fear of cats

Frigophobia: fear of cold or cold things

Gelotophobia: fear of being laughed at

Geniophobia: fear of chins

Genophobia: fear of sexual intercourse

Genuphobia: fear of knees or the act of kneeling

Gephyrophobia: fear of bridges

Gerascophobia: fear of growing old or aging

Gerontophobia: fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly

Gerontophobia: fear of aging or the elderly

Geumaphobia or Geumophobia: fear of taste

Globophobia: fear of balloons

Glossophobia: fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak

Gnosiophobia: fear of knowledge

Graphophobia: fear of writing or handwriting

Gymnophobia: fear of nudity

Gynophobia: fear of adult women

Hadephobia: fear of hell

Hagiophobia: fear of saints or holy things

Halitophobia: fear of bad breath

Hamartophobia: fear of sinning

Haphephobia or Haptephobia: fear of being touched

Haphephobia: fear of being touched

Harpaxophobia: fear of being robbed

Hedonophobia: fear of obtaining pleasure

Heliophobia: fear of sunlight

Helminthophobia: fear of worms

Hemophobia: fear of blood

Heptadekaphobia: fear of the number 17

Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia: fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation

Herpetophobia: fear of reptiles or amphibians

Heterophobia: fear of heterosexuals

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia: fear of the number 666

Hippophobia: fear of horses

Hippopotomonsrosesquippedaliophobia: fear of long words

Hierophobia: fear of priests or sacred things

Hobophobia: fear of beggars

Hodophobia: fear of travel

Homichlophobia: fear of fog

Homilophobia: fear of sermons

Hominophobia: fear of men

Homophobia: fear of homosexuality or gay people — more commonly used to refer to a prejudice against gay people.

Hoplophobia: fear of firearms

Hormephobia: fear of shock

Hydrophobia: fear of water

Hydrophobophobia: fear of rabies

Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia: fear of glass

Hygrophobia: fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture

Hylephobia: fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy

Hylophobia: fear of forests

Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia: fear of responsibility

Hypnophobia: fear of sleep 

Hypochondria: fear of illness

Hypsiphobia: fear of height

Iatrophobia: fear of going to the doctor or of doctors

Ichthyophobia: fear of fish

Ideophobia: fear of ideas

Illyngophobia: fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down

Insectophobia: fear of insects

Iophobia: fear of poison

Islamophobia: fear of Muslims, but more commonly used to refer to a prejudice against Islam and Muslims

Isolophobia: fear of solitude, being alone

Isopterophobia: fear of termites, insects that eat wood

Italophobia: fear of Italians

Ithyphallophobia: fear of seeing, thinking about, or having an erect penis

Kakorrhaphiophobia: fear of failure or defeat

Katagelophobia: fear of ridicule

Kathisophobia: fear of sitting down

Katsaridaphobia: fear of cockroaches

Kenophobia: fear of voids or empty spaces

Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia: fear of thunder and lightning

Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia: fear of movement or motion

Kleptophobia: fear of stealing

Koinoniphobia: fear of rooms

Kolpophobia: fear of genitals, particularly female

Koniophobia: fear of dust

Kopophobia: fear of fatigue

Kosmikophobia: fear of space or the cosmos

Koumpounophobia: fear of buttons on clothing

Kymophobia: fear of waves 

Kynophobia: fear of rabies

Kyphophobia: fear of stooping

Lachanophobia: fear of vegetables

Laliophobia or Lalophobia: fear of speaking

Lepidopterophobia: fear of butterflies and moths

Leprophobia or Lepraphobia: fear of leprosy

Lesbophobia: fear of lesbians

Leukophobia: fear of the color white

Levophobia: fear of things to the left side of the body

Ligyrophobia: fear of loud noises

Lilapsophobia: fear of tornadoes or hurricanes

Limnophobia: fear of lakes

Linonophobia: fear of string

Lipophobia: fear of fats in food

Liticaphobia: fear of lawsuits

Lockiophobia: fear of childbirth

Logizomechanophobia: fear of computers

Logophobia: fear of words

Luiphobia: fear of lues, syphilis

Lutraphobia: fear of otters

Lygophobia: fear of darkness

Lyssophobia: fear of rabies or of becoming mad

Macrophobia: fear of long waits

Mageiricophobia: fear of cooking

Maieusiophobia: fear of childbirth

Malaxophobia: fear of love play 

Maniaphobia: fear of insanity

Masklophobia: fear of people in masks, costumes, and mascots

Mastigophobia: fear of punishment

Mechanophobia: fear of machines

Medomalacuphobia: fear of losing an erection

Medorthophobia: fear of an erect penis

Megalophobia: fear of large objects

Melanophobia: fear of the color black

Melissophobia: fear of bees

Melophobia: fear of music

Meningitophobia: fear of brain disease

Menophobia: fear of menstruation

Merinthophobia: fear of being bound or tied up

Metallophobia: fear of metal

Metathesiophobia: fear of changes

Meteorophobia: fear of meteors

Methyphobia: fear of alcohol

Metrophobia: fear or hatred of poetry

Microbiophobia: fear of microbes

Microphobia: fear of small things

Misophobia or Mysophobia: fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs

Mnemophobia: fear of memories

Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia: fear of dirt or contamination

Monopathophobia: fear of definite disease

Monophobia: fear of being alone or isolated or of one’s self

Motorphobia: fear of automobiles

Motorphobia: fear of automobiles

Mottephobia: fear of moths

Musophobia: fear of mice or rats

Mycophobia: fear of mushrooms

Mycrophobia: fear of small things

Myctophobia: fear of darkness

Myrmecophobia: fear of ants

Mysophobia: fear of germs, contamination, or dirt

Mythophobia: fear of myths or stories or false statements

Myxophobia: fear of slime 

Nebulaphobia: fear of fog 

Necrophobia: fear of death or the dead

Negrophobia: fear of black people

Nelophobia: fear of glass

Neopharmaphobia: fear of new drugs

Neophobia: fear of anything new

Neophobia: fear of newness, novelty, change, or progress

Nephophobia: fear of clouds

Noctiphobia: fear of the night

Nomatophobia: fear of names

Nomophobia: fear of being out of mobile phone 

Nosocomephobia: fear of hospitals

Nosophobia: fear of contracting a disease

Nostophobia: fear of returning home

Novercaphobia: fear of your stepmother

Nucleomituphobia: fear of nuclear weapons

Nudophobia: fear of nudity

Numerophobia: fear of numbers

Nyctohylophobia: fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night

Nyctophobia: fear of darkness

Obesophobia: fear of gaining weight

Ochlophobia: fear of crowds or mobs

Ochophobia: fear of vehicles

Octophobia : fear of the figure 8

Odontophobia: fear of dentists

Odynophobia or Odynephobia: fear of pain 

Oenophobia: fear of wines

Oikophobia: fear of home surroundings and household appliances

Olfactophobia: fear of smells

Ombrophobia: fear of rain or of being rained on

Omphalophobia: fear of belly buttons

Oneirogmophobia: fear of wet dreams

Ommetaphobia: fear of eyes

Oneirophobia: fear of dreams

Onomatophobia: fear of hearing a certain word or names

Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes

Ophthalmophobia: fear of being stared at

Opiophobia: fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients

Optophobia: fear of opening one’s eyes

Ornithophobia: fear of birds

Orthophobia: fear of property

Osmophobia: fear of smells

Ostraconophobia: fear of shellfish

Uranophobia: fear of heaven

Pagophobia: fear of ice or frost

Panphobia: fear of everything or the constant fear of an unknown cause

Papaphobia: fear of the Pope

Papyrophobia: fear of paper

Paralipophobia: fear of neglecting duty or responsibility

Paraphobia: fear of sexual perversion

Parasitophobia: fear of parasites

Paraskavedekatriaphobia: fear of Friday the 13th

Parturiphobia: fear of childbirth

Pathophobia: fear of disease

Patroiophobia: fear of heredity

Peccatophobia: fear of sinning or imaginary crimes

Pediculophobia: fear of lice

Pediophobia: fear of dolls

Pedophobia: fear of babies or children

Peladophobia: fear of bald people

Pellagrophobia: fear of pellagra

Peniaphobia: fear of poverty

Pentheraphobia: fear of mother-in-law 

Phagophobia: fear of swallowing

Phalacrophobia: fear of becoming bald

Phallophobia: fear of erections

Pharmacophobia: fear of drugs

Pharmacophobia: fear of medications

Phasmophobia: fear of ghosts

Phengophobia: fear of daylight or sunshine

Philemaphobia or Philematophobia: fear of kissing

Philophobia: fear of love

Philosophobia: fear of philosophy

Phobophobia: fear of fear itself or of having a phobia

Phonophobia: fear of loud sounds or voices

Photophobia: fear of light

Phronemophobia: fear of thinking

Phthiriophobia: fear of lice

Phthisiophobia: fear of tuberculosis

Phyllophobia: fear of leaves

Placophobia: fear of tombstones

Plutophobia: fear of wealth

Pluviophobia: fear of rain or of being rained on

Pneumatiphobia: fear of spirits

Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia: fear of choking or being smothered

Pocrescophobia: fear of gaining weight 

Plutophobia: fear of money

Pogonophobia: fear of beards

Poinephobia: fear of punishment

Politicophobia: fear or abnormal dislike of politicians

Polyphobia: fear of many things

Ponophobia: fear of overworking or of pain

Pornophobia: fear of pornography

Porphyrophobia: fear of the color purple

Potamophobia: fear of rivers or running water

Potophobia: fear of alcohol

Proctophobia: fear of rectums

Prosophobia: fear of progress

Psellismophobia: fear of stuttering

Psychophobia: fear of mental illness or the mentally ill

Psychrophobia: fear of cold

Pteronophobia: fear of being tickled by feathers

Pupaphobia: fear of puppets

Pyrexiophobia: fear of fever

Pyrophobia: fear of fire

Quadraphobia: fear of the number four

Quadriplegiphobia: fear of people with quadriplegia or fear of becoming a quadriplegic

Quintaphobia: fear of the number five

Radiophobia: fear of radioactivity or X-rays

Ranidaphobia: fear of frogs

Rhypophobia: fear of defecation

Rhytiphobia: fear of getting wrinkles

Rupophobia: fear of dirt

Samhainophobia: fear of Halloween

Satanophobia: fear of Satan

Scabiophobia: fear of scabies

Scatophobia: fear of fecal matter

Scelerophibia: fear of burglars

Sciophobia: fear of shadows

Scoleciphobia: fear of worms

Scolionophobia: fear of school

Scopophobia: fear of being looked at or stared at

Scotomaphobia: fear of blindness in the visual field

Scotophobia: fear of darkness

Scriptophobia: fear of writing in public

Selachophobia: fear of sharks

Selaphobia: fear of light flashes

Selenophobia: fear of the moon

Seplophobia: fear of decaying matter

Sesquipedalophobia: fear of long words

Sexophobia: fear of sexual organs or sexual activities

Siderodromophobia: fear of trains or railroads

Siderophobia: fear of stars

Sinistrophobia: fear of things to the left or left-handed

Sitophobia or Sitiophobia: fear of food or eating

Snakephobia: fear of snakes

Soceraphobia: fear of parents-in-law

Sociophobia: fear of society or people in general

Somniphobia: fear of sleep

Sophophobia: fear of learning

Soteriophobia: fear of dependence on others

Spacephobia: fear of outer space

Spermatophobia: fear of germs

Spheksophobia: fear of wasps

Stasiphobia: fear of standing or walking

Staurophobia: fear of crosses or the crucifix

Stenophobia: fear of narrow things or places

Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia: fear of hell

Submechanophobia: fear of partially or fully submerged man-made objects

Suriphobia: fear of mice

Symbolophobia: fear of symbolism

Symmetrophobia: fear of symmetry

Syngenesophobia: fear of relatives

Syphilophobia: fear of syphilis

Tachophobia: fear of speed

Taeniophobia or Teniophobia: fear of tapeworms

Taphephobia Taphophobia: fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries

Taphophobia: fear of graves or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive

Tapinophobia: fear of being contagious

Taurophobia: fear of bulls

Technophobia: fear of advanced technology

Telephobia: fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls

Teratophobia: fear of giving birth to a monster

Testophobia: fear of taking tests

Tetanophobia: fear of lockjaw, tetanus

Tetraphobia: fear of the number 4

Textophobia: fear of certain fabrics

Thaasophobia: fear of sitting

Thalassophobia: fear of the sea or fear of being in the ocean

Thanatophobia: fear of dying

Theatrophobia: fear of theaters

Thermophobia: fear of intolerance to high temperatures

Tokophobia: fear of childbirth or pregnancy

Tomophobia: fear of invasive medical procedure

Tonitrophobia: fear of thunder

Topophobia: fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright

Toxiphobia: fear of being poisoned

Transphobia: fear of transgender people

Traumatophobia: fear of having an injury

Tremophobia: fear of trembling

Trichinophobia: fear of trichinosis

Trichophobia: fear of hair loss

Triskaidekaphobia: fear of the number 13

Tropophobia: fear of moving or making changes

Trypanophobia: fear of needles or injections

Trypophobia: fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes

Tuberculophobia: fear of tuberculosis

Tyrannophobia: fear of tyrants

Uranophobia or Ouranophobia: fear of Heaven

Urophobia: fear of urine or urinating

Vaccinophobia: fear of vaccination

Vehophobia: fear of driving

Venustraphobia: fear of beautiful women

Verbophobia: fear of words

Verminophobia: fear of germs

Vestiphobia: fear of clothing

Virginitiphobia: fear of rape

Wiccaphobia: fear of witches and witchcraft

Xanthophobia: fear of the color yellow

Xenoglossophobia: fear of foreign languages

Xenophobia: fear of foreigners

Xerophobia: fear of dryness

Xylophobia: fear of wooden objects or forests

Xyrophobia: fear of razors

Zelophobia: fear of jealousy

Zemmiphobia: fear of the great mole rat

Zeusophobia: fear of God or gods

Zoophobia: fear of animals