Phobias

The word phobia comes from the Greek word for fear (φόβος, fobos). In medical terms 'Phobia' is an anxiety disorder. It is estimated that in USA - 5.1% to 21.5% people suffer from some kind of phobia.

Women are more prone to have a phobia and this can be the cause for serious disability.

The opposite of the suffix -phobia is a - philia or -philie (meaning "love of").

There are many more phobias described than what are medically acceptable to be called a 'mental anxiety disorder'. Some of these phobias actually mean a 'negative attitude towards something.'

Medindia's 531 listed phobias include both types. 


1 Ablutophobia   Fear of washing or bathing.
2 Acarophobia    Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
3 Acerophobia    Fear of sourness.
4 Achluophobia   Fear of darkness.
5 Acousticophobia  Fear of noise.
6 Acrophobia    Fear of heights.
7 Aeroacrophobia   Fear of open high places.
8 Aeronausiphobia   Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
9 Aerophobia    Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
10 Agliophobia   Fear of Pain
11 Agoraphobia   Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets.
12 Agraphobia    Fear of sexual abuse.
13 Agrizoophobia    Fear of wild animals.
14 Agyrophobia    Fear of streets or crossing the street. 
15 Aichmophobia    Fear of needles or pointed objects.
16 Ailurophobia    Fear of cats.
17 Albuminurophobia    Fear of kidney disease.
18 Alektorophobia    Fear of chickens.
19 Algophobia    Fear of pain.
20 Alliumphobia    Fear of garlic.
21 Allodoxaphobia    Fear of opinions.
22 Altophobia    Fear of heights.
23 Amathophobia    Fear of dust.
24 Amaxophobia    Fear of riding in a car.
25 amaxophobia    Get palpitations and get terrified while riding in any vehicle
26 Ambulophobia    Fear of walking.
27 Amnesiphobia    Fear of amnesia.
28 Amychophobia    Fear of scratches or being scratched.
29 Anablepobia    Fear of looking up.
30 Ancraophobia or Anemophobia    Fear of wind.
31 Androphobia    Fear of men.
32 Anemophobia    Fear of air drafts or wind.
33 Anginophobia    Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
34 Anglophobia     Fear of England, English culture, etc.
35 Angrophobia    Fear of becoming angry.
36 Ankylophobia    Fear of immobility of a joint.
37 Anthrophobia or Anthophobia    Fear of flowers.
38 Anthropophobia    Fear of people or society.
39 Antlophobia    Fear of floods.
40 Anuptaphobia    Fear of staying single.
  
For full list of various phobias, please visit http://www.medindia.net/phobia/