A phobia, is an irrational, intense, persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, or people. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. Here are 44 such phobias:Ablutophobia - fear of bathing.
Acerophobia - fear of sourness.
Alliumphobia - fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia - fear of opinions.
Amathophobia - fear of dust.
Anglophobia - fear of England or English culture, etc.
Anthophobia - the fear of flowers.
Arachibutyrophobia- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Aulophobia - fear of flutes.
Automatonophobia - fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues -
anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
Barophobia - fear of gravity.
Bolshephobia - fear of Bolsheviks.
Cacophobia - fear of ugliness.
Caligynephobia - fear of beautiful women.
Chorophobia - fear of dancing.
Cibophobia - fear of food itself.
Consecotaleophobia - fear of chopsticks.
Dikephobia - fear of justice.
Dutchphobia - fear of the Dutch.
Ephebiphobia - fear of teenagers.
Euphobia - fear of hearing good news.
Francophobia - fear of France or French culture.
Geniophobia - fear of chins.
Germanophobia - fear of Germany or German culture.
Hellenologophobia - fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - fear of the number 666.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - fear of long words.
Japanophobia - fear of Japanese.
Judeophobia- fear of Jews.
Lutraphobia - fear of otters.
Mnemophobia - fear of memories.
Mottephobia - fear of moths.
Nomophobia - fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
Odontophobia - fear of teeth.
Omphalophobia - fear of belly buttons.
Panophobia or Pantophobia - fear of everything.
Papaphobia - fear of the Pope.
Phagophobia - fear of swallowing
Spectrophobia - fear of mirrors.
Trichophobia - fear of loose hairs.
Triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13.
Venustraphobia - fear of very beautiful and attractive women.
Vomitophobia - fear of vomiting.
Zemmiphobia - fear of the great mole rat.
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