List of Fear/Phobias Words | 100+ Important Phobias Words

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List of  Phobia is an important as this topic comes under the General Awareness section and English Vocabulary of various Government Exams and other Competitive Exams.

List of Fear/Phobias Words

Let's move on to the list of phobias. The table below lists 30 significant phobias. Candidates can download the complete list of Phobias in alphabetical order given below the article.

List of Phobias	Fear/Phobias Words
An extreme or irrational fear of heights	Acrophobia
An irrational fear of fresh air or drafts of air	Aerophobia
Fear of being egotistical, being alone or isolated	Autophobia
A phobia of pain	Algophobia
An abnormal fear of heights	Altophobia
An emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat	Anorexia
An extreme or irrational fear of open or public places	Agoraphobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of depths	Bathophobia
Fear or hatred of books	Bibliophobia
Fear of ugliness and things that are ugly	Cacophobia
A dislike of being in the centre	Centrophobia
An extreme fear about beauty	Cellophobia
Fear of time	Chronophobia
Fear of dogs	Cynophobia
An extreme or irrational fear of confined places	Claustrophobia
A delusion of being possessed by evil spirits	Demonomania
An abnormal and persistent fear of drinking alcohol	Dipsophobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of work or finding employment	Ergophobia
Fear of getting married, being in a relationship, or commitment	Gamophobia
Physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse	Genophobia
Fear of old age	Geraphobia
Fear of knowledge	Gnosiophobia
Fear of women	Gynaephobia
Fear of writing or handwriting	Graphophobia
An irrational and intense fear of travel	Hodophobia
An excessive fear or aversion to obtaining pleasure	Hedonophobia
Fear of disease	Hematophobia
An obsessive fear of words	Logophobia
An extreme fear of wind or drafts	Anemophobia
An extreme or irrational fear of the night or of darkness	Nyctophobia
Fear of medication	Pharmacophobia
Fear of death	Thanatophobia
Extreme superstition regarding the number thirteen	Triskaidekaphobia

What is Phobia?

Phobia is a type of anxiety disorder. It is an irrational fear of an object or environment or something that is unlikely to cause any harm to the person. The word phobia is derived from the Greek word 'phobo' which means fear or fear.

Examples of phobias:

• Hydrophobia – Fear of water
• Phobophobia – Fear of Fears
• Agoraphobia – fear of places that triggers helplessness

Important phobias broadly fall under five categories as mentioned below:

1. Fears related to the natural environment such as thunder, heights, darkness, etc.
2. Fears related to animals and insects such as dogs, lizards, spiders etc.
3. Fears related to medical issues, injuries or blood such as falls, broken bones, injections etc. 
4. Fears related to situations or motions like driving, flying, riding an elevator etc.
5. Other fears/phobias are related to drowning, choking, loud noises and more

Categories include infinite situations and objects of fear.

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