List of Phobias – Common phobias from A to Z

List of 99 Phobias – Common Phobias from A to Z

What is Phobia?

A phobia is fear of a specific object, situation, or activity. It goes beyond a typical fear response and can cause intense anxiety or panic when faced with a phobic stimulus. Phobias can cause significant distress and can impact a person’s daily life, often requiring therapy or treatment to manage.

List of common 99 phobias

1.	Acrophobia	Fear of heights.
2.	Arachnophobia	Fear of spiders.
3.	Claustrophobia	Fear of confined spaces.
4.	Agoraphobia	Fear of situations where escape might be difficult or help unavailable.
5.	Ophidiophobia	Fear of snakes.
6.	Trypophobia	Fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps.
7.	Cynophobia	Fear of dogs.
8.	Hemophobia	Fear of blood.
9.	Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder)	Fear of social situations and scrutiny by others.
10.	Mysophobia	Fear of germs or dirt.
11.	Astraphobia	Fear of thunder and lightning.
12.	Nomophobia	Fear of being without a mobile phone or being unable to use it.
13.	Ergophobia	Fear of work or functioning.
14.	Xenophobia	Fear or dislike of strangers or foreigners.
15.	Triskaidekaphobia	Fear of the number 13.
16.	Glossophobia	Fear of public speaking.
17.	Thanatophobia	Fear of death or dying.
18.	Pteromerhanophobia	Fear of flying.
19.	Ablutophobia	Fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
20.	Automatonophobia	Fear of human-like figures, such as mannequins, robots, or animatronics.
21.	Coulrophobia	Fear of clowns.
22.	Nyctophobia	Fear of darkness or night.
23.	Zoophobia	Fear of animals.
24.	Emetophobia	Fear of vomiting.
25.	Entomophobia	Fear of insects.
26.	Phonophobia	Fear of loud noises or sounds.
27.	Aquaphobia	Fear of water.
28.	Nosophobia	Fear of contracting a disease.
29.	Ephebiphobia	Fear of teenagers or adolescence.
30.	Ornithophobia	Fear of birds.
31.	Taphophobia	Fear of being buried alive.
32.	Genuphobia	Fear of knees or kneeling.
33.	Pogonophobia	Fear of beards.
34.	Aichmophobia	Fear of needles or pointed objects.
35.	Coulrophobia	Fear of clowns.
36.	Chromophobia	Fear of colors.
37.	Ligyrophobia	Fear of loud noises.
38.	Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia	Fear of long words.
39.	Pediophobia	Fear of dolls.
40.	Selenophobia	Fear of the moon.
41.	Anuptaphobia	Fear of staying single or unmarried.
42.	Chronophobia	Fear of time or time passing.
43.	Necrophobia	Fear of death or dead things.
44.	Anginophobia	Fear of choking or narrowness.
45.	Emetophobia	Fear of vomiting.
46.	Coulrophobia	Fear of clowns.
47.	Nyctohylophobia	Fear of dark wooded areas or forests at night.
48.	Phasmophobia	Fear of ghosts.
49.	Selachophobia	Fear of sharks.
50.	Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia	Fear of the number 666.
51.	Dermatophobia	Fear of skin diseases.
52.	Athazagoraphobia	Fear of being forgotten or ignored.
53.	Mageirocophobia	Fear of cooking.
54.	Amaxophobia	Fear of riding in a car.
55.	Heliophobia	Fear of the sun or sunlight.
56.	Chiroptophobia	Fear of bats.
57.	Catoptrophobia	Fear of mirrors.
58.	Eisoptrophobia	Fear of mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror.
59.	Haphephobia	Fear of being touched.
60.	Athazagoraphobia	Fear of being forgotten or ignored.
61.	Ombrophobia	Fear of rain or being rained on.
62.	Philophobia	Fear of falling in love or emotional attachment.
63.	Spheksophobia	Fear of wasps.
64.	Gymnophobia	Fear of nudity.
65.	Scriptophobia	Fear of writing in public.
66.	Euphobia	Fear of good news.
67.	Arithmophobia	Fear of numbers.
68.	Barophobia	Fear of gravity.
69.	Astrophobia	Fear of stars or celestial space.
70.	Spectrophobia	Fear of mirrors or one’s own reflection.
71.	Theophobia	Fear of God or religion.
72.	Kakorrhaphiophobia	Fear of failure or defeat.
73.	Geniophobia	Fear of chins.
74.	Koinoniphobia	Fear of rooms full of people.
75.	Phobophobia	Fear of fear or developing a phobia.
76.	Spectrophobia	Fear of ghosts or specters.
77.	Papyrophobia	Fear of paper.
78.	Bibliophobia	Fear of books.
79.	Deipnophobia	Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
80.	Venustraphobia	Fear of beautiful women.
81.	Verbophobia	Fear of words.
82.	Tocophobia	Fear of childbirth or pregnancy.
83.	Iatrophobia	Fear of doctors or going to the doctor.
84.	Myrmecophobia	Fear of ants.
85.	Xylophobia	Fear of wooden objects or forests.
86.	Apeirophobia	Fear of infinity.
87.	Coitophobia	Fear of sexual intercourse.
88.	Paraskavedekatriaphobia	Fear of Friday the 13th.
89.	Athazagoraphobia	Fear of being forgotten or ignored.
90.	Allodoxaphobia	Fear of opinions.
91.	Rhytiphobia	Fear of getting wrinkles.
92.	Symmetrophobia	Fear of symmetry or symmetrical things.
93.	Zemmiphobia	Fear of the great mole rat.
94.	Cibophobia	Fear of food or eating.
95.	Nomatophobia	Fear of names.
96.	Phronemophobia	Fear of thinking.
97.	Papaphobia	Fear of the Pope or the papacy.
98.	Novercaphobia	Fear of stepmothers.
99.	Zelophobia	Fear of jealousy or jealousy itself.

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