Phobias By Description

We have listed each phobia by its “Phobic Situation”, so, to find your specific phobia, look down the left hand column to find the situation that triggers your phobia, and then in the right hand column you will find your phobias technical name – simply click on the name to visit that specific Phobias page.

Phobic Situation	Technical Name
Alcohol	Methyphobia
Ants	Myrmecophobia
Bad Breath	Halitophobia
Balloons	Globophobia
Bathing	Ablutophobia
Bats	Chiroptophobia
Beards	Pogonophobia
Becoming Cold	Frigophobia
Bees	Melissophobia
Being Buried Alive	Taphophobia
Being Laughed At	Gelotophobia
Being Poisoned	Toxiphobia
Being Robbed	Harpaxophobia
Being Stared At	Opthalmophobia
Being Stared At	Scopophobia
Being Touched	Haphephobia
Blood	Haemophobia
Blushing	Erythrophobia
Body Defects	Dysmorphophobia
Bridges	Gephyrophobia
Buttons	Koumpounophobia
Cats	Ailurophobia
Chemicals	Chemophobia
Childbirth	Tokophobia
Churches	Ecclesiophobia
Climbing	Climacophobia
Clowns	Coulrophobia
Colours	Chromophobia
Contamination	Mysophobia
Contracting a Disease	Nosophobia
Crossing the Road	Agyrophobia
Darkness	Nyctophobia
Death	Necrophobia
Demons	Demonophobia
Dentists	Odontophobia
Dolls	Pediophobia
Dreams	Oneirophobia
Dying	Thanatophobia
Enclosed spaces	Claustrophobia
Everything	Panphobia
Fire	Pyrophobia
Flowers	Anthophobia
Flying	Aviophobia
Foreigners	Xenophobia
Ghosts	Phasmophobia
Gravity	Barophobia
Growing Old	Gerascophobia
Hair	Chaetophobia
Happiness	Cherophobia
Heaven	Uranophobia
Heights	Acrophobia
Hell	Stygiophobia
Hospitals	Nosocomephobia
Household Appliances	Oikophobia
Hurricanes	Lilapsophobia
Isolation	Autophobia
Loud Noises	Phonophobia
Love	Philophobia
Machines	Mechanophobia
Making Decisions	Decidophobia
Medication	Pharmacophobia
Men	Androphobia
Mice	Musophobia
Mirrors	Spectrophobia
Movement	Kinetophobia
Navels	Omphalophobia
Needles	Trypanophobia
New Technology	Cyberphobia
Newness	Neophobia
Not Being Good Enough	Atelophobia
Nudity	Gymnophobia
Number Four	Tetraphobia
Obesity	Obesophobia
Odors	Osmophobia
Open Space	Agoraphobia
Pain	Algophobia
People	Anthropophobia
Phobias	Phobophobia
Pornography	Pornophobia
Public Speaking	Glossophobia
Puppets	Pupaphobia
Radioactivity	Radiophobia
Religion	Theophobia
Riding in a Car	Amaxophobia
Sea	Thalassophobia
Sexual Intercourse	Genophobia
Sexual Love	Erotophobia
Sharp Objects	Aichmophobia
Sleep	Hypnophobia
Social Situations	Sociophobia
Spiders	Arachnophobia
Stairs	Bathmophobia
Standing	Stasiphobia
Stealing	Kleptophobia
Sun	Heliophobia
Swallowing	Phagophobia
Technology	Technophobia
Thunder	Astraphobia
Time	Chronophobia
Trees	Xylophobia
Vomiting	Emetophobia
Water	Aquaphobia
Women	Gynophobia
Work	Ergophobia
Writing in Public	Scriptophobia

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