List of Phobias

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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.

Aerophobia - Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airborne noxious substances

Aeroacroehobia - Fear of Open high places.

Aeronauslphobia - Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.

Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets.

Agraphobia - Fear of sexual abuse.

Agrizoophobia - Fear of wild animals.

Agyrophobia - Fear of streets or crossing the street.

Alchmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.

Ailurophobia - Fear of cats.

Albuminurophobia - Fear of kidney disease.

Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.

Algophobia - Fear of pain.

Alliumphobia - Fear of garlic.

Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.

Altopnobia - 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.

Anablepobia - Fear of looking up.

Ancraophobia or Anemophobia - Fear of wind.

Androphobia - Fear of men.

Anemophobia - Fear of air drafts or wind.

Anginophobia - Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.

Anglophobia - Fear of England, English culture, etc.

Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint.

Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.

Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.

Antlophobia - Fear of floods.                             

Anuptaphobia - Fear of staying single.

Apelrophobia - Fear of infinity.

Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)

Apiphobia - Fear of bees.

Apotemnophobia - Fear of persons with amputations.

Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

Arachnephobia - Fear of spiders.

Arithmphobia - Fear of numbers.

Arrhenphobia - Fear of men.

Arsonphobia - Fear of fire.

Asthenophobia - Fear of fainting or weakness.

Astraphobia or Astrapophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.

Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.

Atephobia - Fear of ruins.

Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.

Aulophobia - Fear of flutes.

Aurophobia - Fear of gold.

Auroraphobia - Fear of Northern lights.

Autodysomophobia - Fear of one that has a vile odor.

Automysophobia - Fear of being dirty.

Autophobia - Fear of being alone or of oneself.

Aviophobia or Aviatophobla - Fear of flying.



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Bacillophobia - Fear of microbes.

Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.

Bogyphobia - Fear of bogies or the boogyman.

Ballistophobia - Fear of missles or bullets.

Bolshephobia - Fear of Bolsheviks.

Barophobia - Fear of gravity.

Basophobia or Basiphobia - Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.

Bathophobia - Fear of depth.

Batonophobia - Fear of plants.

Batophobia - Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.

Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.

Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles. (Aichmophobia)

Bibliophobia - Fear of books.

Blennophobia - Fear of slime.

Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia - Fear of body smells.

Brontophobla - Fear of thunder storms.

Bufonophobia - Fear of toads.



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Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.

Cainophobia or Cainotophobia - Fear of newness, novelty.

Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women.

Cardlophobia - Fear of the heart.

Carnophobia - Fear of meat.

Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed.

Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places.

Cathlsophobia - Fear of sitting.

Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.

Cenophobia or Centophobia - Fear of empty rooms, empty spaces.

Ceraunophobia - Fear of thunder.

Chaetophobia - Fear of hair.

Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia - Fear of cold.

Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.

Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety.

Chionophobia - Fear of snow.

Chorophobia - Fear of dancing.

Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia - Fear of money.

Chromophobia or Chromatophobia - Fear of colors.

Chronophobia - Fear of time.

Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia - Fear of food.

Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.

Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia - Fear of being locked in an enclosed place

Cleptophobia - Fear of stealing.

Climacophobia - Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs.

Clinophobia - Fear of going to bed.

Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia - Fear of being enclosed. 

Cnidophobia - Fear of strings.

Cometophobia - Fear of comets.

Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries.

Coitophobia - Fear of coitus.

Contreltophobia - Fear of sexual abuse.

Coprastasophobia - Fear of constipation.

Coprophobia - Fear of feces.

Counterphobia - The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.

Cremnophobia - Fear of precipices.

Cryophobia - Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.

Crystallophobia - Fear of crystals or glass.

Cyberphobla - Fear of computers or working on a computer.

Cyclophobia - Fear of bicyles.

Cymophobia - Fear of waves or wave like motions.

Cynophobia - Fear of dogs.                                                               

Cyprldophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.



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Decidophobla - Fear of making decisions.

Defecaloesiophobia - Fear of painful bowels movements.

Deipnophobia - Fear of dining and dinner conversations.

Dementophobia - Fear of insanity.

Demonophobia or Daemonophobia - Fear of demons.

Demophobia - Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)

Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.

Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.

Dermatophobia - Fear of skin lesions.

Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia - Fear of skin disease.

Dextrophobla - Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

Diabetophobia - Fear of diabetes.

Didaskaleinophobia - Fear of going to school.

Dikephobia - Fear of justice.

Dinophobia - Fear of dizzyness or whirlpools.

Diplophobia - Fear of double vision.

Dipsophobia - Fear of drinking.

Disnabiliophobia - Fear of undressing in front of someone.

Domatophobla or Oikophobia - Fear of houses or being in a house.

Doraphobia - Fear of fur or skins of animals.

Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets.

Dutchphobia - Fear of the Dutch.

Dysmorphophobia - Fear of deformity.

Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.



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Ecclesiophobia - Fear of church.

Ecophobia - Fear of home.

Eicophobia or Oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings.

Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.

Electrophobia - Fear of electricity.

Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom.

Elucophobla - Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)

Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting.

Enetophobia - Fear of pins.

Enochlophobia - Fear of crowds.

Enosiophobia or Enissophobia - Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin.

Entomophobia - Fear of Insects.

Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or daylight.

Epistaxiophobia - Fear of nosebleeds.

Equinophobia - Fear of horses.

Eremophobia - Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.

Ereuthrophobia - Fear of blushing.

Ergasiophobia - 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.

Ergophobla - Fear of work.

Erotophobia - Fear of sexual love.

Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.

Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia.

Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Sreuthophobia - 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing.



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Febriphobia, Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia - Fear of fever.

Felinophobia - Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia) 

Francophobia - Fear of France, French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)

Frigophobia - Fear of cold, cold things.



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Galeophobia or Gatophobia - Fear of cats.

Gallophobia or Galiophobia - Fear France, French culture. (Francophobia)

Gamcphobiao Fear of marriage.

Geliophobia - Fear of laughter.

Geniophobia - Fear of chins.

Genophobia - Fear of sex.

Genuphobia - Fear of knees.

Gephlrophobia - Fear of crossing bridges.

Germanophobia - Fear of Germany, German culture, etc.

Gerascophobia - Fear of growing old.

Gerastophobia - Fear of old people of of growing old.

Geumaphobla or Geumophobla - Fear of taste.

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.

Gynephobia or Gynophobia - Fear of women.



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Hadephobia - Fear of hell.

Hagiophobia - Fear of saints or holy things.

Hamartophobia - Fear of sinning.

Haphephobia or Haptephobia - Fear of being touched.

Harpaxophobia - Fear of being robbed.

Hedonophobia - Fear of feeling pleasure.

Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.

Hellenologophobia - Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.

Helminthphobia - Fear of being infested with worms.

Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia - Fear of blood.

Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia - Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.

Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.

Heterophobia - Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)

Hierophobia - Fear of priests or sacred things.

Hippophobia - Fear of horses.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.

Hodophobia - Fear of road travel.

Hormephobia - Fear of shock.

Homichlophobia - Fear of fog.

Homilophobia - Fear of sermons.

Homophobia - Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.

Hydrargyophobia - Fear of mercurial medicines.

Hyrdrophobla - 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 or of being hypnotized.

Hypsiphobia - Fear of height.



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Iatrophobia - Fear of going to the doctor.

Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish.

Ideophobia - Fear of ideas.

Illyngophobia - Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.

Iophobia - Fear of poison.

Isolophobia - Fear of solitude, being alone.

Isopterophobia - Fear of termites, insects that ear wood.

Ithyphallophobia - Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.



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Japanophobia - Fear of Japanese.

Judeophobia - Fear of Jews.



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Kainclophobia - Fear of novelty.

Kainophobia - Fear of anything new, novelty.

Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure or defeat.

Katagelophobia - Fear of ridicule.

Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down.

Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces.

Keraunophobia - 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.

Kopophobia - Fear of fatigue.

Koniophobia - Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)

Kymophobianobia - Fear of waves.

Kynophobia - Fear of rabies.

Kyphophobia - Fear of stooping.



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Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables.

Leprophobia or Lepraphobia - Fear of leprosy.

Laliophobia or Lalophobia - Fear of speaking.

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 and hurricanes.

Limnophobia - Fear of lakes.

Linonophobia - Fear of string.

Litlcaphobia - Fear of lawsuits.

Logizomechanophobia - Fear of computers.

Logophobia - Fear of words.

Lulphobia - Fear of lues, syphillis.

Lygophobia - Fear of darkness.

Lyssophobia - Fear of becoming mad.



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Macrophobia - Fear of long walts.

Maieusiophobia - Fear of childbirth.

Malaxophobia - Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)

Maniaphobia - Fear of insanity.

Mastigophobia - Fear of punishment.

Mechanophobia - Fear of machines.

Medomalacuphobia - Fear of losing an erection.

Medorthophobia - Fear of an erect penis.

Megalophobia - Fear of large things.

Melissophobia - Fear of bees.

Melophobia - Fear or hatred of music.

Meningitophobia - Fear of brain disease.

Menophobia - Fear of menstruation.

Merinthophobia - Fear of being bound or tied up.

Metallophobia - Fear of metal.

Meteorophobia - Fear of meteors.

Methyphobia - Fear of alcohol.

Metrophobia - Fear or hatred of poetry.

Microbiophobia - Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia)

Microphobia - Fear of small things.

Misophobia - Fear of being contaminated with dirt of germs.

Mnemophobia - Fear of memories.

Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia - Fear of dirt or contamination.

Monophobia - Fear of being alone.

Monopathophobia - Fear of definite disease.

Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles.

Mottephobia - Fear of moths.

Musophobia or Murophobia - Fear of mice.

Mycrophobia - Fear of small things.

Myctophobia - Fear of darkness.

Myrmecopbobia - Fear of ants.

Mysophobia - Fear of germs or contamination.

Mythophobia - Fear of myths or stories or false statements.

Myxophobia - Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)



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Nebulaphobia - Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)

Necrophobia - Fear of dead things.

Negrophobia - Fear of Negros.

Nelophobia - Fear of glass.

Neopharmaphobia - Fear of new drugs.

Neophobia - Fear of anything new.

Nephophobia - Fear of clouds.

Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.

Nomatophobia - Fear of names.

NosocomeDhobia - Fear of hospitals.

Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia - Fear of becoming ill.

Nostophobia - Fear of returning home.

Novercaphobia - Fear of your mother-in-law.

Nucleomituphobia - Fear of nuclear weapons.

Nudophobia - Fear of nudity.

Numerophobia - Fear of numbers.

Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark or of night.



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Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight. (Pocrescophobia)

Ochlophobia - Fear of crowds or mobs.

Ochophobia - Fear of vehicles.

Odontophobia - Fear of teeth.

Odynophobia or Odynephobia - Fear of pain. (Algophobia)

Oenophobia - Fear of wines.

Oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings, house.

Olfactophobia - Fear of smells.

Ombrophobia - Fear of rain or of being rained on.

Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia - Fear of eyes.

Oneirophobia - Fear of dreams.

Oneirogmophobia - Fear of wet dreams.

Onomatophobia - Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.

Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)

Ophthalmophobia - Fear of being stared at.

Optophobia - Fear of opening one's eyes.

Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.

Orthophobia - Fear of property.

Osmophobia or Osphreslophobia - Fear of smells or odors.

Ostraconophobia - Fear of shellfish.

Ouranophobia - Fear of heaven.



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Pagophobia - Fear of ice or frost.

Panthophobia - Fear of suffering and disease.

Panophobia or Pantophobia - Fear of everything.

Papaphobia - Fear of the Pope.

Papyrophobia - Fear of paper.

Paralipoehobia - Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.

Paraphobla - Fear of sexual perversion.

Parasitophobia - Fear of parasites.

Parthenophobia - Fear of virgins or young girls.

Pathophobia - Fear of disease.

Patroiophobia - Fear of heredity.

Peccatophobia - Fear of sinning. (imaginary crime)

Pediculophobia - Fear of lice.

Pediophobia - Fear of dolls.

Pedophobia - Fear of children.

Peladophobia - Fear of bald people.

Pellagrophobia - Fear of pellagra.

Peniaphobia - Fear of poverty.

Pentheraphobia - Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)

Peniaphobia - Fear of poverty.

Phagophobia - Fear of swallowing or of eating.

Phalacrophobia - Fear of becoming bald.

Phallophobia - Fear of a penis, especially erect.

Pharmacophobia - Fear of taking medicine.

Phasmophobia - Fear of ghosts.

Phengophobia - Fear of daylight or sunshine.

Philemaphobia or Philematophobia - Fear of kissing.

Philophobia - Fear of falling in love or being in love.

Philosophobia - Fear of philosophy.

Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.

Photoaugliaphobia - Fear of glaring lights.

Photophobia - Fear of light.

Phonophobia - Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones.

Phronemophobia - Fear of thinking.

Phthiriophobia - Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia)

Phthisiophobia - Fear of tuberculosis.

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 of being smothered.

Pogrescophobia - Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)

Pogonophobia - Fear of beards.

Politicophobia - Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.

Polyphobia - Fear of many things.

Polnephobia - Fear of punishment.

Penophobia - Fear of overworking.

Potamphobia - Fear of rivers.

Potophobia - Fear of alcohol.

Pharmacophobia - Fear of drugs.

Proctophobia - Fear of rectum.

Prosophobia - Fear of progress.

Psellismophobia - Fear of stuttering.

Psychophobia - Fear of mind.

Pteronophobia - Fear of being tickled by feathers.

Pyrexiophobia - Fear of fever.

Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.



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Radiophobia - Fear of radiation, x-rays.

Ranidaphobia - Fear of frogs.

Rectophobia - Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.

Rhabdophobia - Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic. (wand)

Rhypophobia - Fear of defecation.

Rhytiphobia - Fear of getting wrinkles.

Rupophobia - Fear of dirt.

Russophobia - Fear of Russians.



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Sarmassophobia - Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia)

Satanophobia - Fear of Satan.

Scatophobia - Fear of fecal matter.

Scelerophibia - Fear of bad men, burglars.

Sciophobia Sciaphobia - Fear of shadows.

Scoleciphobia - Fear of worms.

Scolionophobia - Fear of school.

Scopophobia or Scoptophobia - Fear of being seen or stared at.

Scotomaphobia - Fear of blindness in visual field.

Scotophobia - Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)

Scriptophobia - Fear of writing in public.

Selaphobia - Fear of light flashes.

Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.

Seplophobia - Fear of decaying matter.

Sexophobia - Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia)

Siderodromophobia - Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.

Siderophobia - Fear of stars.

Sinistrophobia - Fear of things to the left, left-handed.

Sinophobia - Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.

Sitophobia or Sitiophobia - Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia)

Snakephobia - Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)

Soceraphobia - Fear of parents-in-law.

Social Phobia - Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.

Sociophobia - Fear of society or people in general.

Sophophobia - Fear of learning.

Spacephobia - Fear of outer space.

Spectrophobia - Fear of specters or ghosts.

Spermatophobia or Spermophobia- Fear of germs.

Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.

Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia - Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia}

Staurophobia - Fear of crosses or the crucifix.

Stenophobia - Fear of narrow things or places.

Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia - Fear of hell.

Suriphobia - Fear of mice.

Symbolophobia - Fear of symbolism.

Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry.

Syngeresophobia - Fear of relatives.

Syphilophobia - Fear of syphilis.



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Tachophobia - Fear of speed.

Taeniophobia - Fear of tapeworms.

Taphephobia Taphophobia - Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.

Tapinophobia - Fear of being contagious.

Taurophobia - Fear of bulls.

Technophobia - Fear of technology.

Teleophobia - 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony.

Telephonophobia - Fear of telephones.

Teratophobia - Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.

Testophobla - Fear of taking tests.

Tetanophobia - Fear of lockjaw, tetanus.

Teutophobia - Fear of German or German things.

Textophobia - Fear of certain fabrics.

Thaasophobia - Fear of sitting.

Thalassophobia - Fear of the sea.

Thanatophobia - Fear of death or dying.

Theatrophobia - Fear of theatres

Theologlcophobia - Fear of theology.

Theophobia - Fear of gods or religion.

Thermophobia - Fear of heat.

Tocopnobia - Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.

Tomopnobia - Fear of surgical operations.

Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.

Topophobia - Fear of certain places.

Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia - Fear of poison.

Traumatophobia - Fear of injury.

Tremophobia - Fear of trembling.

Trichinophobia - Fear of trichinosis.

Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia - Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia)

Triskadekaphobia - Fear of the number 13.

Tropophobia - Fear of moving or making changes.

Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.

Tuberculophobia - Fear of tuberculosis.

Tyrannophobia - Fear of tyrants.



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Uranophobia - Fear of heaven.

Urophobia - Fear of urine or urinating.



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Vaccinophobia - Fear of vaccination.

Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.

Verbophobia - Fear of words.

Verminophobia - Fear of germs.

Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing.

Virgiuiyiphobia - Fear of rape.

Vitricopobia - Fear of stepfather.



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Walloonphobia - Fear of the Walloons.



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Xanthophobia - Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.

Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners.

Xerophobia - Fear of dryness.

Xylophobia - 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.



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Zelophobia - Fear of jealousy.

Zemmiphobia - Fear of the great mole rat.

ZooPhobia - Fear of animals.