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A random selection of phobias.
Animal Phobias
- Mice: Musophobia
- Animals: Zoophobia
- Animal fur: Doraphobia
- Ants: Myrmecophobia
- Bees: Apiphobia
- Birds: Ornithophobia
- Bulls: Taurophobia
- Cats: Ailurophobia
- Chickens: Alektorophobia
- Dogs: Cynophobia
- Fish: Ichthyophobia
- Frogs: Batrachophobia
- Horses: Hippophobia
- Insects: Entomophobia
- Lice: Pediculophobia
- Otters: Lutraphobia
- Reptiles: Herpetophobia
- Sharks: Selacophobia
- Shellfish: Ostraconophobia
- Snakes: Ophidiophobia
- Spiders: Arachnophobia
- Termites: Isopterophobia
- Toads: Bufonophobia
- Wasps: Spheksophobia
- Wild animals: Agrizoophobia
- Worms: Helminthophobia
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Other Phobias
- Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.
- Myctophobia: Fear of darkness(Achluophobia).
- Agyrophobia: Fear of streets or crossing the street.
- Altophobia: Fear of heights.
- Caligynephobia: Fear of beautiful women.
- Cenophobia or Centophobia: Fear of new things or ideas.
- Chronophobia: Fear of time.
- Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces.
- Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns.
- Dextrophobia: Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
- Emetophobia: Fear of vomiting.
- Enochlophobia: Fear of crowds.
- Ergophobia: Fear of work.
- Gamophobia: Fear of marriage.
- Heliophobia: Fear of the sun.
- Helminthophobia: Fear of being infested with worms.
- Homophobia: Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
- Iatrophobia: Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
- Levophobia: Fear of things to the left side of the body.
- Logophobia: Fear of words.
- Olfactophobia: Fear of smells.
- Panophobia or Pantophobia: Fear of everything.
- Sesquipedalophobia: Fear of long words.
- Sociophobia: Fear of society or people in general.
- Zelophobia: Fear of jealousy.
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Famous People with a Fear of Flying
- Ronald Regan
- Cher
- Stanley Kubrick
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Muhammed Ali
- David Bowie
- Billy Bob Thornton
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For even more see:
Phobias at Healthinsite.gov.au
