Saturday, January 12, 2013

75 Phobias I Didn't Know Existed

I got more than a little bored on Google and decided, 'Why not use ridiculous phobias as your next blog post?' (Note: If you actually have any of these phobias, I mean no disrespect; I just find them humorous.)   









9. Barophobia- Fear of gravity.

10. Bibliophobia- Fear of books.

11. Bromidrosiphobia- Fear of body smells.

12. Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places.

13. Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.

14. Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.

15. Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.

16. Chromophobia- Fear of colors.

17. Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.

18. Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.

19. Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles.

20. Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements. (.....I have no words.)

21. Deipnophobia- Fear of dining.

22. Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.

23. Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

24. Domatophobia- Fear of houses or being in a house.

25. Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.

26. Eosophobia- Fear of daylight.

27. Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.

28. Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.

29. Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.

30. Geniophobia- Fear of chins.

31. Genuphobia- Fear of knees.

32. Graphophobia- Fear of handwriting. 

33. Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.

34. Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words. 

35. Hypengyophobia- Fear of responsibility. 

36. Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.

37. Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue.

38. Koniophobia- Fear of dust.

39. Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.

40. Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.

41. Linonophobia- Fear of string.

42. Logophobia- Fear of words.

43. Lutraphobia- Fear of otters. 

44. Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking.

45. Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.

46. Melophobia- Fear of music.

47. Metrophobia- Fear of poetry.

48. Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.

49. Mottephobia- Fear of moths. (This is not ridiculous. This is a plausible fear. Moths are terrifying demons of torture.)

50. Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.

51. Nomatophobia- Fear of names.

52. Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.

53. Odontophobia- Fear of teeth.

54. Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.

55. Ommetaphobia- Fear of eyes.

56. Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons.

57. Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.

58. Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.

59. Phobophobia- Fear of phobias. (Oh, the irony.)

60. Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.

61. Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.

62. Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.

63. Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.

64. Rhabdophobia- Fear of being beaten with a rod.

65. Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness.

66. Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps. (Again: terrifying demons of torture.)

67. Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.

68. Taphephobia- Fear of being buried alive.

69. Tetanophobia- Fear of lockjaw. (Actually, lockjaw sounds absolutely terrifying.)

70. Textophobia- Fear of certain fabrics.

71. Urophobia- Fear of urinating. 

72. Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow.

73. Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.

74. Xylophobia- Fear of wooden objects.

75. Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.

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