This is the world's biggest collection of phobia words – almost 650 in total. Although most are rare, they have all appeared in print. Where a word is marked 'syn. of' this indicates that it is a synonym of the following word. (In many cases this simply reflects spelling variations.) Sources are listed in brackets after each entry; see the footnotes for the meanings of the abbreviations.

iatrophobia Fear of going to the doctor. [ID] ichthyophobia Fear of fish. [ID, CE] iconophobia Fear of images. [OED] ideophobia Fear of ideas. [ID, CE, WP] illyngophobia Fear of vertigo. [ID] iophobia (1) Fear of rust;

(2) syn. of toxiphobia. [ID, CE] isolophobia syn. of autophobia. [ID] isopterophobia Fear of termites. [ID] Italophobia Fear of Italy or Italians. [OED] ithyphallophobia Fear of erect penises. [ID]

Japanophobia Fear of Japan or the Japanese. [ID] Judaeophobia syn. of Judophobia. [OED, ID] Judeophobia syn. of Judophobia. [ID] Judophobia Fear or hatred of Jews. [ID]

kainophobia Fear of novelty. [ID] kainotophobia syn. of kainophobia. [ID] kakorraphiophobia syn. of kakorrhaphiophobia. [ID] kakorrhaphio-

phobia Fear of failure. [ID] kakorrhphiophobia syn. of kakorrhaphiophobia. [CE] katagelophobia syn. of catagelophobia. [ID, CE] kathisophobia syn. of thaasophobia. [ID] kenophobia Fear of voids. [ID, CE] keraunophobia Fear of thunder and lightning. [ID] kinesophobia Fear of motion. [ID, CE] kinetophobia syn. of kinesophobia. [ID] kleptophobia (1) Fear of thieves;

(2) Fear of becoming a kleptomaniac. [ID, CE] koinoniphobia Fear of rooms full of people. [ID] kolpophobia Fear of the female genitals. [ID] koniophobia syn. of amathophobia. [ID, CE] kopophobia syn. of ponophobia. [ID, CE] kynophobia syn. of cynophobia. [ID]

lachanophobia Fear of vegetables. [ID, CE] laliophobia syn. of glossophobia. [ID, CE] lalophobia syn. of glossophobia. [ID] latrophobia syn. of iatrophobia. [CE] lepraphobia Fear of leprosy. [ID, CE] leprophobia syn. of lepraphobia. [OED, ID] levophobia Fear of leftness and things to the left. [ID, WP] ligyrophobia syn. of acousticophobia. [ID] lilapsophobia Fear of tornadoes or hurricanes. [ID, CE] limnophobia Fear of lakes. [ID] linonophobia Fear of string. [ID, CE, WP] liticaphobia Fear of lawsuits. [CE] logophobia Fear of words. [OED, ID] lunaediesophobia Fear of Mondays. [WP] lygophobia syn. of achluophobia. [ID, CE] lyssiophobia syn. of maniaphobia. [CE] lyssophobia (1) syn. of maniaphobia;

(2) syn. of hydrophobophobia;

(3) Fear of water. [OED, ID, WP]

macrophobia Fear of long waits. [ID, CE] maieusiophobia Fear of childbirth. [ID, CE] malaxophobia syn. of sarmassophobia. [ID] maniaphobia Fear of insanity. [ID] mastigophobia Fear of flogging. [ID, CE] mechanophobia Fear of machinery. [ID, CE] medectophobia Fear of the contour of ones penis being visible through clothes. [ID, WP] medomalacophobia Fear of losing one's erection during coitus. [ID] medorthophobia syn. of ithyphallophobia. [ID] megalophobia Fear of large objects. [ID, CE] melissophobia syn. of apiphobia. [ID] melophobia syn. of musicophobia. [ID, WP] meningitophobia Fear of meningitis. [OED, ID] menophobia Fear of menstruation. [ID, CE] merinthophobia Fear of being bound. [ID, CE] metallophobia Fear of metals. [ID, CE] meteorophobia Fear of meteors and meteorites. [ID, CE] metrophobia Fear of poetry. [ID, CE, WP] microbiophobia Fear of microbes. [ID, CE] microphobia Fear of small objects. [ID] misophobia Fear of contamination. [ID, CE] molysmophobia syn. of misophobia. [ID] molysomophobia syn. of misophobia. [ID, CE] monopathophobia Fear of a specific disease. [ID] monophobia Fear of one thing or solitude. [OED, ID, CE] motorphobia Fear of cars/automobiles. [OED, ID, CE] muriphobia syn. of musophobia. [ID] musicophobia Fear of music. [OED, ID, CE] musophobia Fear of mice. [ID, CE] mycophobia Fear of mushrooms. [OED] myctophobia syn. of achluophobia. [ID] myrmecophobia Fear of ants. [ID, CE] mysophobia syn. of misophobia. [OED, ID] mythophobia Fear of myths (or lying). [ID] myxophobia syn. of blennophobia. [ID]

nebulaphobia syn. of homichlophobia. [ID] necrophobia Fear of corpses. [OED, ID, CE] negrophobia Fear of black people. [OED, ID] nelophobia syn. of crystallophobia. [ID] neopharmaphobia Fear of new medicines. [ID] neophobia syn. of kainophobia. [OED, ID] nephophobia (1) Fear of clouds;

(2) syn. of nosophobia. [ID, CE] noctiphobia Fear of the night. [ID] nomatophobia syn. of onomatophobia. [ID] nosocomephobia Fear of hospitals. [ID, CE] nosophobia Fear of diseases. [OED, ID, CE] nostophobia Fear of returning to home. [ID] novercaphobia Fear of one's stepmother. [ID, CE] nucleomitophobia Fear of atomic energy or nuclear weapons. [ID, CE] nudiphobia syn. of gymnophobia. [ID] nudophobia syn. of gymnophobia. [ID] nyctophobia syn. of noctiphobia. [OED, ID, CE]

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