Last Updated on 6 June 2026
A list of phobias – click the header to sort
| Fear of | Phobia |
|---|---|
| Advanced technology | Technophobia |
| Aging | Gerascophobia |
| Animals | Zoophobia |
| Ants | Myrmecophobia |
| Babies & children | Pedophobia |
| Bad breath | Halitophobia |
| Balloons | Globophobia |
| Bathing | Ablutophobia |
| Beards | Pogonophobia |
| Bees | Apiphobia |
| Being laughed at | Gelotophobia |
| Being poisoned | Toxiphobia |
| Being stared at | Ophthalmophobia |
| Being touched | Haphephobia |
| Being without a mobile phone | Nomophobia |
| Birds | Ornithophobia |
| Blood | Hemophobia |
| Books | Bibliophobia |
| Bridges | Gephyrophobia |
| Butterflies & moths | Lepidopterophobia |
| Clowns | Coulrophobia |
| Cockroaches | Katsaridaphobia |
| Cold | Frigophobia |
| Color purple | Porphyrophobia |
| Computers | Cyberphobia |
| Cooking | Mageirocophobia |
| Corpses | Necrophobia |
| Crossing Streets | Agyrophobia |
| Crowds | Enochlophbia |
| Darkness | Achluophobia |
| Dentists | Dentophobia |
| Doctors | Iatrophobia |
| Dogs | Cynophobia |
| Dreams | Oneirophobia |
| Driving a car | Vehophobia |
| Driving/riding in a car | Amaxophobia |
| Everything | Panphobia |
| Eyes | Ommetaphobia |
| Failure | Atychiphobia |
| Fear itself | Phobophobia |
| Fire | Pyrophobia |
| Fish | Ichthyophobia |
| Flying | Aviophobia |
| Frogs | Ranidaphobia |
| Germs & contamination | Mysophobia |
| Getting a disease | Nosophobia |
| Ghosts | Phasmophobia |
| Graves | Taphophobia |
| Heights | Acrophobia |
| Horses | Equinophobia |
| Hospitals | Nosocomephobia |
| Houses | Domatophobia |
| Illness | Hypochondria |
| Imperfection | Atelophobia |
| Insects | Entomophobia |
| Leaves | Phyllophobia |
| Loud sounds/voices | Phonophobia |
| Masks | Masklophobia |
| Mice & rats | Musophobia |
| Mirrors | Catoptrophobia |
| Mushrooms | Mycophobia |
| Needles & injections | Belonephobia |
| New things | Neophobia |
| Night | Noctiphobia |
| Number 13 | Triskaidekaphobia |
| Number 666 | Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia |
| Numbers | Numerophobia |
| Ocean | Thalassophobia |
| Odors | Osmophobia |
| Old people | Geronotophobia |
| Open/crowded spaces | Agoraphobia |
| Pain | Algophobia |
| Peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth | Arachibutyrophobia |
| Public speaking | Glossophobia |
| Radioactivity | Radiophobia |
| Roller coaster | Veloxrotaphobia |
| Sharks | Galeophobia |
| Shellfish | Ostraconophobia |
| Small/confined spaces | Claustrophbia |
| Snakes | Ophidiophobia |
| Spiders | Arachnophobia |
| Stairs | Bathmophobia |
| Sun | Heliophobia |
| Swallowing | Phagophobia |
| Thunder | Tonitrophobia |
| Thunder & lightning | Astraphobia |
| Tornadoes & hurricanes | Lilapsophobia |
| Trains & railroads | Siderodromophobia |
| Trees | Dendrophobia |
| Wasps | Spheksophobia |
| Water | Aquaphobia |
| Wind | Ancraophobia |
| Work | Ergophobia |
| Your reflection | Eisoptrophobia |
