In many cases specialists prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms, see, e.g., personality disorders, anxiety disorders, avoidant personality disorder, love-shyness.
- Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
- Acrophobia, – fear of heights.
- Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder – fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
- Acousticophobia - fear of sound and voice.
- Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse.
- Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife).
- Agyrophobia – fear of crossing roads.
- Androphobia – fear of men.
- Anthropophobia – fear of people or being in a company, a form of social phobia.
- Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
- Aquaphobia – fear of water. Distinct from Hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies.
- Arachnophobia – fear of spiders.
- Aviophobia - fear of planes or flying
- Astraphobia- fear of thunder and lightning.
- Atychiphobia – fear of failure
- Autophobia – fear of loneliness
- Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying.
- Bacillophobia - fear of microbes
- Bacteriophobia - fear of bacteria
- Balenephobia - fear of pins and needles.
- Ballistophobia - fear of missiles or bullets.
- Barophobia - fear of gravity.
- 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.
- Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
- Blennophobia - Fear of slime.
- Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias.
- Bogyphobia - Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
- Bromidrophobia or Bromidrosiphobia - Fear of body smells.
- Brontophobia or Ceraunophobia - 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.
- Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer.
- Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart.
- Carnophobia - Fear of meat.
- Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed or being embarrassed.
- Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places.
- Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting.
- Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
- Cenophobia or Centophobia - Fear of new things or ideas.
- Chaetophobia - Fear of hair.
- Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia - Fear of cold
- Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
- Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety.
- Chiroptophobia - fear of bats.
- Cibophobia, Sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
- Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in.
- Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
- Decidophobia – fear of making decisions.
- Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
- Disposophobia, better known as "compulsive hoarding" – the fear of getting rid of or losing things.
- Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
- Ebulliophobia - fear of bubbles.
- Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
- Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
- Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning.
- Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
- Erythrophobia – pathological blushing.
- Friggatriskaidekaphobia - fear of Friday the 13th.
- Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at.
- Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges.
- Genophobia, Coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse.
- Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or aging.
- Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
- Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
- Gurgephobia - Fear of the abyss, particular the ocean floor or outer space.
- Gymnophobia – fear of nudity.
- Gynophobia – fear of women.
- Halitophobia - fear of bad breath.
- Haptephobia – fear of being touched.
- Heliophobia – fear of sunlight.
- Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood.
- Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.
- Homophobia - fear/hatred of homosexuals
- Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (Generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented).
- Hydrophobia - fear of Rabies (Hydrophobia).
- Hylophobia - fear of trees, forests or wood.
- Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises.
- Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food.
- Medication phobia – fear of medications.
- Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
- Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead.
- Negrophobia - fear of black people.
- Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty.
- Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
- Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease.
- Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals.
- Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear of darkness.
- Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances.
- Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of smells.
- Ordacleaphobia The fear of imperfection
- Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
- Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause.
- Pediophobia - Fear of dolls
- Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.
- Pharmacophobia – same as medication phobia.
- Philophobia - fear of love
- Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
- Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds.
- Porphyrophobia - fear of the color purple.
- Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
- Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
- Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations.
- Scolionophobia - fear of school
- Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at.
- Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
- Spectrophobia – fear of ghost and phantoms.
- Taphophobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
- Technophobia – fear of technology (see also Luddite).
- Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls.
- Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4.
- Thanatophobia – fear of death.
- Tokophobia – fear of childbirth.
- Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury.
- Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13.
- Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia – fear of needles or injections.
- Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace.
- Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
- Xylophobia, Hylophobia, Ylophobia - fear of trees, forests or wood.
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