Phobias of The Rich and Famous

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ablutophobia:

washing or bathing

acarophobia:

itching

acerophobia:

sourness

achluophobia:

darkness

acousticophobia:

noise

acrophobia:

heights

aeroacrophobia:

open high places

aeronausiphobia:

vomiting secondary to airsickness

aerophobia:

drafts, air

aeruophobia:

flying

agliophobia:

pain

agoraphobia:

open spaces

agraphobia:

sexual abuse

agrizoophobia:

wild animals

agyrophobia:

streets or crossing the street

aichmophobia:

needles or pointed objects

ailurophobia:

cats

albuminurophobia:

kidney disease

alektorophobia:

chickens

algophobia:

pain

alliumphobia:

garlic

allodoxaphobia:

opinions

altophobia:

heights

amathophobia:

dust

amaxophobia:

riding in a car, or vehicles

ambulophobia:

walking

amnesiphobia:

amnesia

amychophobia:

scratches or being scratched

anablephobia:

looking up

ancraophobia:

wind

androphobia:

men

anemophobia:

air drafts or wind

anginophobia:

angina, choking or narrowness

Anglophobia:

England, English culture, etc

angrophobia:

becoming angry

ankylophobia:

immobility of a joint

anthophobia:

flowers

anthrophobia:

people

anthropophobia:

people or society

antlophobia:

floods

anuptaphobia:

staying single

apeirophobia:

infinity

aphenphosmphobia:

being touched

apiphobia:

bees

apotemnophobia:

persons with amputations

arachibutyrophobia:

peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

arachnophobia:

spiders

arithmophobia:

numbers

arrhenphobia:

men

arsonphobia:

fire

asthenophobia:

fainting or weakness

astraphobia:

thunder and lightning

astrophobia:

stars and celestial space

asymmetriphobia:

asymmetrical things

ataxiophobia:

ataxia (muscular incoordination)

ataxophobia:

disorder or untidiness

atelophobia:

imperfection

atephobia:

ruin or ruins

athazagoraphobia:

being forgotten or ignored

atomosophobia:

atomic explosions

atychiphobia:

failure

aulophobia:

flutes

aurophobia:

gold

auroraphobia:

northern lights

autodysomophobia:

one that has a vile odor

automatonophobia:

ventiloquist dummies or wax statues

automysophobia:

being dirty

autophobia:

being alone or of oneself

aviophobia:

flying

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bacillophobia:

microbes

bacteriophobia:

bacteria

bactrachophobia:

reptiles

ballistophobia:

missles or bullets

barophobia:

gravity

basophobia:

inability to stand

bathophobia:

depth

batonophobia:

plants

batophobia:

heights

batrachophobia:

amphibians

belonephobia:

pins and needles

bibliophobia:

books

blennophobia:

slime

bogyphobia:

the bogeyman

Bolshephobia:

Bolsheviks

botanophobia:

plants

bromidrosiphobia:

body smells

brontophobia:

thunder and lightning

bufonophobia:

toads

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cacophobia:

ugliness

cainophobia:

newness, novelty

caligynephobia:

beautiful women

carcinophobia:

cancer

cardiophobia:

the heart

carnophobia:

meat

catagelophobia:

being ridiculed

catapedaphobia:

jumping from high and low places

cathisophobia:

sitting

catoptrophobia:

mirrors

cenophobia:

new things or ideas

ceraunophobia:

thunder

chaetophobia:

hair

cheimaphobia or cheimatophobia:

cold

chemophobia:

chemicals

cherophobia:

gaiety

chionophobia:

snow

chiraptophobia:

being touched

cholerophobia:

anger

chorophobia:

dancing

chrometophobia:

money

chromophobia:

colors

chronomentrophobia:

clocks

chronophobia:

time

cibophobia:

food

claustrophobia:

enclosed spaces

cleisiophobia:

being locked in

cleptophobia:

stealing

climacophobia:

stairs

clinophobia:

going to bed

clithrophobia:

being enclosed

cnidophobia:

stings

coimetrophobia:

cemeteries

cometophobia:

comets

contreltophobia:

sexual abuse

coprastasophobia:

constipation

coprophobia:

feces

coulrophobia:

clowns

cremnophobia:

precipices

cryophobia:

extreme cold, ice or frost

crystallophobia:

crystals or glass

cyberphobia:

computers or working on a computer

cyclophobia:

bicycles

cymophobia:

waves or wave like motions

cynophobia:

dogs

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decidophobia:

making decisions

defecaloesiophobia:

painful bowel movements

deipnophobia:

dining

dementophobia:

insanity

demonophobia:

demons

demophobia:

crowds (Agoraphobia)

dendrophobia:

trees

dentophobia:

dentists

dermatophobia:

skin lesions

dermatosiophobia:

skin disease

dextrophobia:

objects at the right side of the body

diabetophobia:

diabetes

didaskaleinophobia:

going to school

dikephobia:

justice

dinophobia:

dizziness

diplophobia:

double vision

dipsophobia:

drinking

dishabiliophobia:

undressing in front of someone

domatophobia:

houses or being in a house

doraphobia:

fur or skins of animals

dromophobia:

crossing streets

dutchphobia:

the dutch

dysmorphophobia:

deformity

dystychiphobia:

accidents

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ecclesiophobia:

church

eicophobia:

home surroundings

eisoptrophobia:

mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror

electrophobia:

electricity

eleutherophobia:

freedom

elurophobia:

cats (Ailurophobia)

emetophobia:

vomiting

enetophobia:

pins

enochlophobia:

crowds

enosiophobia:

committing an unpardonable sin

entomophobia:

insects

eosophobia:

dawn or daylight

epistaxiophobia:

nosebleeds

epistemophobia:

knowledge

equinophobia:

horses

eremophobia:

being oneself

ereuthrophobia:

blushing

ergasiophobia:

surgical instruments

ergophobia:

work

erotophobia:

sexual love

erythrophobia:

the color red

euphobia:

hearing good news

eurotophobia:

female genitalia

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febriphobia:

fever

felinophobia:

cats

Francophobia:

france, french culture

frigophobia:

cold

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galeophobia:

cats

gallophobia or galiophobia:

fear France, French culture

gamophobia:

marriage

gatophobia:

cats

geliophobia:

laughter

geniophobia:

chins

genophobia:

sex

genuphobia:

knees

gephyrophobia:

crossing bridges

gerascophobia:

growing old

germanophobia:

Germany, German culture

gerontophobia:

old people or of growing old

geumaphobia:

taste

glossophobia:

speaking in public

gnosiophobia:

knowledge

graphophobia:

writing

gymnophobia:

nudity

gynophobia:

women

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hadephobia:

hell

hagiophobia:

saints or holy things

hamartophobia:

sinning

haphephobia:

being touched

harpaxophobia:

being robbed

hedonophobia:

feeling pleasure

heliophobia:

the sun

hellenologophobia:

Greek terms

helminthophobia:

worms

hemophobia:

blood

herpetophobia:

reptiles

heterophobia:

the opposite sex (sexophobia)

hierophobia:

priests

hippophobia:

horses

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia:

long words

hobophobia:

bums or beggars

hodophobia:

road travel

homichlophobia:

fog

homilophobia:

sermons

hominophobia:

men

homophobia:

homosexuality

hoplophobia:

firearms

hormephobia:

shock

hydrargyophobia:

mercurial medicines

hydrophobia:

water

hydrophobophobia:

rabies

hyelophobia or hyalophobia:

glass

hygrophobia:

liquids, dampness, or moisture

hylephobia:

materialism

hylophobia:

forests

hypegiaphobia:

responsibility

hypnophobia:

sleep

hypsiphobia:

height

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iatrophobia:

doctors

ichthyophobia:

fish

ideophobia:

ideas

illyngophobia:

veritgo

insectophobia:

insects

iophobia:

poison

isolophobia:

solitude, being alone

isopterophobia:

termites

ithyphallophobia:

erection

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Japanophobia:

Japanese

Judeophobia:

Jews

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kainolophobia:

novelty

kakorraphiaphobia:

failure

katagelophobia:

ridicule

kathisophobia:

sitting down

kenophobia:

voids

keraunophobia:

thunder

kinetophobia:

movement or motion

kleptophobia:

stealing

koinoniphobia:

rooms

koniophobia:

dust (Amathophobia)

kopophobia:

fatigue

kosmikophobia:

cosmic phenomenon

kymophobia:

waves

kynophobia:

rabies

kyphophobia:

stooping

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lachanophobia:

vegetables

laliophobia:

speaking

leprophobia:

leprosy

leukophobia:

the color white

levophobia:

things to the left side of the body

ligyrophobia:

loud noises

lilapsophobia:

tornadoes and hurricanes

limnophobia:

lakes

linonophobia:

string

liticaphobia:

lawsuits

lockiophobia:

childbirth

logizomechanophobia:

computers

logophobia:

words

luiphobia:

syphillis

lutraphobia:

otters

lygophobia:

darkness

lyssophobia:

rabies or of becoming mad

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macrophobia:

long waits

mageirocophobia:

cooking

maieusiophobia:

childbirth

malaxophobia:

love play

maniaphobia:

insanity

mastigophobia:

punishment

mechanophobia:

machines

megalophobia:

large things

melanophobia:

the color black

melissophobia:

bees

melophobia:

fear or hatred of music

meningitophobia:

brain disease

menophobia:

menstruation

merinthophobia:

being bound or tied up

metallophobia:

metal

metathesiophobia:

changes

meteorophobia:

meteors

methyphobia:

alcohol

metrophobia:

fear or hatred of poetry

microbiophobia:

microbes (bacillophobia)

microphobia:

small things

misophobia:

being contaminated with dirt of germs

mnemophobia:

memories

molysmophobia:

dirt or contamination

monopathophobia:

definite disease

monophobia:

solitude or being alone

motorphobia:

automobiles

mottephobia:

moths

musophobia:

mice

mycophobia:

fear or aversion to mushrooms

mycrophobia:

small things

myctophobia:

darkness

myrmecophobia:

ants

mysophobia:

germs or contamination or dirt

mythophobia:

myths or stories or false statements

myxophobia:

slime (blennophobia)

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nebulaphobia:

fog (homichlophobia)

necrophobia:

death

nelophobia:

glass

neopharmaphobia:

new drugs

neophobia:

anything new

nephophobia:

clouds

noctiphobia:

the night

nomatophobia:

names

nosemaphobia:

illness

nosocomephobia:

hospitals

nosophobia:

disease

nostophobia:

returning home

novercaphobia:

step-mothers

nucleomituphobia:

nuclear weapons

nudophobia:

nudity

numerophobia:

numbers

nyctophobia:

the dark or of night

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obesophobia:

gaining weight

ochlophobia:

crowds or mobs

ochophobia:

vehicles

octophobia:

the figure 8

odontophobia:

dental surgery

odynophobia:

pain

oenophobia:

wines

oikophobia:

home surroundings, house

olfactophobia:

smells

ombrophobia:

rain

ommetaphobia:

eyes

oneirogmophobia:

wet dreams

oneirophobia:

dreams

onomatophobia:

hearing a certain word

ophidiophobia:

snakes

ophthalmophobia:

being stared at

optophobia:

opening one's eyes

ornithophobia:

birds

orthophobia:

property

osmophobia:

smells or odors

osphresiophobia:

smells

ostraconophobia:

shellfish

ouranophobia:

heaven

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pagophobia:

ice or frost

panophobia:

everything

panthophobia:

disease

pantophobia:

fears

Papaphobia:

the pope

papyrophobia:

paper

paralipophobia:

neglecting duty

paraphobia:

sexual perversion

parasitophobia:

parasites

paraskavedekatriaphobia:

Friday the 13th

parthenophobia:

virgins or young girls

parturiphobia:

childbirth

pathophobia:

disease

patroiophobia:

heredity

peccatophobia:

sinning (imaginary crime)

pediculophobia:

lice

pediophobia:

dolls

pedophobia:

children

peladophobia:

bald people

pellagrophobia:

pellagra

peniaphobia:

poverty

pentheraphobia:

mother-in-law

phagophobia:

swallowing

phalacrophobia:

becoming bald

phallophobia:

a penis, esp erect

pharmacophobia:

taking medicine

pharmacophobia:

drugs

phasmophobia:

ghosts

phengophobia:

daylight or sunshine

philemaphobia:

kissing

philophobia:

falling in love

philosophobia:

philosophy

phobophobia:

one's own fears

phonophobia:

noises or voices

photoaugliaphobia:

glaring lights

photophobia:

light

phronemophobia:

thinking

phthiriophobia:

lice (pediculophobia)

phthisiophobia:

tuberculosis

pinigerophobia:

smothering

placophobia:

tombstones

plutophobia:

wealth

pluviophobia:

rain or of being rained on

pneumatiphobia:

spirits

pnigophobia:

choking or being smothered

pocrescophobia:

gaining weight (obesophobia)

pogonophobia:

beards

poinephobia:

punishment

poliosophobia:

contracting poliomyelitis

politicophobia:

politicians

polyphobia:

many things

ponophobia:

overworking or of pain

porphyrophobia:

the color purple

potamophobia:

rivers or running water

potophobia:

alcohol

proctophobia:

rectum

prosophobia:

progress

psellismophobia:

stuttering

psychophobia:

mind

psychrophobia:

cold

pteromerhanophobia:

flying

pteronophobia:

being tickled by feathers

pupaphobia:

puppets pyrexiophobia

pyrophobia:

fire

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radiophobia:

radiation, x-rays

ranidaphobia:

frogs

rhabdophobia:

being severely punished or beaten by a rod

rhypophobia:

defecation

rhytiphobia:

getting wrinkles

rupophobia:

dirt

Russophobia:

Russians

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samhainophobia:

Halloween

sarmassophobia:

love play

satanophobia:

satan

scabiophobia:

scabies

scelerophibia:

bad men, burglars

schlionophobia:

school

sciophobia:

shadows

scoleciphobia:

worms

scolionophobia:

school

scopophobia:

being stared at

scotomaphobia:

blindness in visual field

scotophobia:

darkness

scriptophobia:

writing in public

selaphobia:

light flashes

selenophobia:

the moon

seplophobia:

decaying matter

sesquipedalophobia:

long words

sexophobia:

the opposite sex

siderodromophobia:

trains

siderophobia:

stars

sinistrophobia:

left-handedness

sinophobia:

chinese, chinese culture

sitophobia:

food or eating

snakephobia:

snakes (ophidiophobia)

soceraphobia:

parents-in-law

social phobia:

being evaluated negatively

sociophobia:

society

somniphobia:

sleep

sophophobia:

learning

soteriophobia:

dependence on others

spacephobia:

outer space

spectrophobia:

specters or ghosts

spermophobia:

germs

sphexsophobia:

wasps

stasibasiphobia:

standing or walking

staurophobia:

crosses or the crucifix

stenophobia:

narrow things or places

stygiophobia:

hell

suriphobia:

mice

symbolophobia:

symbolism

symmetrophobia:

symmetry

syngenesophobia:

relatives

syphilophobia:

syphilis

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tachophobia:

speed

taeniophobia or teniophobia:

tapeworms

taphephobia:

being buried alive

tapinophobia:

being contagious

taurophobia:

bulls

technophobia:

technology

teleophobia:

definate plans

telephonophobia:

telephones

telosphobia:

being last

teratophobia:

bearing a deformed child

testophobia:

taking tests

tetanophobia:

lockjaw, tetanus

teutophobia:

German or German things

textophobia:

certain fabrics

thaasophobia:

sitting

thalassophobia:

the ocean

thanatophobia:

death or dying

theatrophobia:

theatres

theologicophobia:

theology

theophobia:

god(s) or religion

thermophobia:

heat

tocophobia:

childbirth

tomophobia:

surgical operations

tonitrophobia:

thunder

topophobia:

performing (stage fright)

toxiphobia:

poison

traumatophobia:

injury

tremophobia:

trembling

trichinophobia:

trichinosis

trichopathophobia:

hair

triskaidekaphobia:

the number 13

tropophobia:

moving or making changes

trypanophobia:

injections

tuberculophobia:

tuberculosis

tyrannophobia:

tyrants

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uranophobia:

heaven

urophobia:

urine or urinating

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vaccinophobia:

vaccination

venustraphobia:

beautiful women

verbophobia:

words

verminophobia:

germs

vestiphobia:

clothing

virginitiphobia:

rape

vitricophobia:

step-fathers

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Walloonphobia:

the Walloons

wiccaphobia:

witches and witchcraft

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xanthophobia:

the color yellow

xenophobia:

strangers

xerophobia:

dryness

xylophobia:

forests

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zelophobia:

jealousy

zemmiphobia:

the great mole rat

zeusophobia:

God or gods

zoophobia:

animals