English phobias

‘Phobia’ is a Greek word. It is mostly used as a suffix in the English language. It means an irrational or excessive fear of something. A large number of phobia lists are available on the internet today. English provides an extensive list of all the possible things people can be afraid of. Though clinical phobias are dangerous and must be handled with the advice of a professional psychiatrist, the names for some of the more unlikely phobias can be extremely entertaining. The term phobia is encompassing and usually discussed in terms of specific phobias and social phobias. Specific phobias are nouns such as zoophobia or the fear of animals which is a specific type of fear, and social phobias are phobias within social situations such as public speaking and crowded areas. The list below includes both the phobias found in psychiatry as well as some more entertaining fears. Here is a list of some phobias –

Phobias	Meanings
Aerophobia	Aeroplanes/ Flying
Dystychiphobia	Accidents
Zoophobia	Animals
Phalacrophobia	Baldness
Haemophobia, Haematophobia	Blood
Claustrophobia	Confined spaces
Dromophobia	Crossing streets
Demophobia	Crowds
Nyctophobia, Lygophobia	Dark
Necrophobia, Thanatophobia	Death/ dead bodies
Dentophobia	Dentists
Bathophobia	Depths/ deep places
Cynophobia	Dogs
Electrophobia	Electricity
Pyrophobia	Fire
Verminophobia	Germs
Phasmophobia	Ghosts
Acrophobia	Heights
Nosocomephobia	Hospitals
Pathophobia	Illness
Trypanophobia	Injections
Astrapophobia	Lightning
Monophobia	Loneliness
Mechanophobia	Machines
Maniaphobia	Madness/ Insanity
Neophobia	New things
Gerascophobia	Old age
Agoraphobia	Open spaces/ going out in public
Spacephobia	Outer space
Algophobia	Pain
Galeophobia	Sharks
Ophidiophobia	Snakes
Sociophobia	Society or people in general
Lalophobia, Glossophobia	Speaking/ public speaking
Tomophobia	Surgery
Ochophobia	Vehicles
Kenophobia	Voids or empty spaces
Hydrophobia	Water