Monday, April 09, 2007

Phobophobia!

A
[ ] Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.
[x] Acrophobia - Fear of heights.
[x] Agliophobia - Fear of pain.
[ ] Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds.
[x] Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or pointed objects.
[ ] Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car.
[ ] Androphobia - Fear of men.
[ ] Anginophobia - Fear of choking.
[ ] Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.
[ ] Anthropophobia - Fear of people or society.
[ ] Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being touched.
[ ]Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.
[ ] Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
[ ] Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and lightening. (Strangely, I find it much easier to sleep in thunderstorms)
[ ] Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or untidiness.
[ ] Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.
[ ] Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.
[ ] Autophobia - Fear of being alone.

B
[ ] Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.
[ ] Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
[ ] Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
[ ] Batrachophobia - Fear of amphibians.
[x] Belonephobia - Fear of pins and needles. (Depends mostly on function)
[ ] Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
[ ] Botanophobia - Fear of plants.

C
[ ] Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
[ ] Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed.
[ ] Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
[ ] Chionophobia - Fear of snow.
[ ] Chromophobia - Fear of colors.
[ ] Chronomentrophobia - Fear of clocks.
[ ] Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
[ ] Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
[ ] Cyberphobia - Fear of computers.
[ ] Cynophobia - Fear of dogs.

D
[ ] Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
[ ] Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.
[ ] Domatophobia - Fear of houses.
[ ] Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.

E
[ ] Ecophobia - Fear of the home.
[ ] Elurophobia - Fear of cats.
[ ] Entomophobia - Fear of insects.
[ ] Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.
[x] Equinophobia - Fear of horses. (I have a hard time around animals more than 40% of my body mass.)

F
[x] Flo-Beephobia - Fear of vacuum cleaners.

G
[ ] Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.
[ ] Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
[ ] Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in public.
[ ] Gynophobia - Fear of women.

H
[ ] Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.
[x] Hemophobia - Fear of blood. (I'm squeamish.)
[ ] Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.
[ ] Homophobia- Fear Of Homosexuals
[ ] Hydrophobia - Fear of water.

I
[ ] Iatrophobia - Fear of doctors.
[ ] Insectophobia - Fear of insects.

K
[ ] Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.

L
[ ] Leukophobia - Fear of the color white.
[ ] Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
[ ] Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth.

M
[ ] Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.
[ ] Melanophobia - Fear of the color black.
[ ] Microphobia - Fear of small things.
[ ] Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs.

N
[ ] Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
[ ] Noctiphobia - Fear of the night
[ ] Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.

O
[ ] Obesophobia - Fear of gaining weight.
[ ] Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
[ ] Ombrophobia - Fear of rain.
[ ] Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes.
[ ] Ornithophobia - Fear of birds.
[x] Ostroconaphobia - Fear of seafood. (Specifically shellfish. I had a bad experience.)

P
[ ] Papyrophobia - Fear of paper.
[ ] Pathophobia - Fear of disease.
[ ] Pedophobia - Fear of children.
[ ] Philophobia - Fear of love.
[ ] Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.
[ ] Podophobia - Fear of feet.
[ ] Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple.
[ ] Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns.
[/] Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying. (In Armored Core. Conquered it in AC4. Lost some matches online because I went out of bounds through the 'ceiling')
[x] Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.

S
[ ] Scolionophobia - Fear of school.
[ ] Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
[ ] Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation.
[ ] Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.

T
[ ] Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
[/] Technophobia - Fear of technology. (Cellphone technology only.)
[ ] Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder. (Again, I sleep through thunderstorms.)
[ ] Trypanophobia - Fear of injections. (Just don't show me the needle)

V
[ ] Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women.
[ ] Verminophobia - Fear of germs.

W
[ ] Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and witchcraft.

X
[ ] Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners.

Z
[ ] Zoophobia - Fear of animals.

(Via Shalini)

5 comments:

Joshua said...

I have I guess you'd call it apivespiphobia. Fear of bees and wasps. (But not ants, alas, which would have allowed me to use the more compact apocritaphobia.) And also really, really severe blattaphobia (fear of cockroaches).

Hooray for -phobia neologisms!

Let me tell you, growing up in the tropics was fun.

Infophile said...

No "Infophobia" in the list? I'm almost insulted! It's the perfect word to describe all those woos who are afraid of information that might conflict with their fragile views.

Anonymous said...

They forgot two.

Nickedaphobia: Fear of the doctor getting the hiccups during your hernia operation.

Zappedaphobia: Fear of having a bedwetting accident while using an electric blanket.

(MAD magazine's book of fears and phobias. I highly recommend it.)

-Berlzebub

xiangtao said...

As a former gymnast (specializing in the trampoline) we coined the word catapedacrophobia: fear of jumping high, to describe a member of our club who seemed afflicted with it.

Ryan Michael said...

Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth

Count me in if that could mean "Fear of knocking a chick up".