Arachibutyrophobia: It is an abnormal and exaggerated fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. The person having the phobia may get extremely annoyed or embarrassed to pull out the stuck butter from the upper part of the mouth, especially in a crowded or public place. Bogyphobia: It is a morbid fear of goblins, demons, bogeys or bogeyman. The fear is also termed as demonophobia or daemonophobia. Coimetrophobia: It is an intense and morbid fear of cemeteries. Dendrophobia: It is an abnormal and unwarranted fear related to trees and forests. Eosophobia: It is an abnormal and exaggerated fear of dawn or sunlight. The phobia is also known as phengophobia. Frigophobia: It is an exaggerated fear pertaining to cold or cold things. The fear is also known by terms like cheimaphobia, cheimatophobia or psychrophobia. Gephyrophobia: It is a persistent and abnormal fear of crossing bridges. Hadephobia: It is an intense and morbid fear of hell or the creatures and demons that are supposed to inhabit hell. The phobia is also known by the terms, stygiophobia or stigiophobia. Insectophobia: It is a common fear of or aversion to insects, bugs, worms and anthropods; also known as entomophobia. Koinoniphobia: It is a strong and intense fear related to rooms or places full of people. Lyssophobia: The fear of becoming insane. Mythophobia: It is an irrational and exaggerated fear of myths, stories or false statements. Necrophobia: It is an overwhelming and intense fear of death or dead things, like, corpses, coffins, etc. The phobia is also termed as thanatophobia and thantophobia. Ophidiophobia: People having intense fear of snakes are known to suffer from this phobia; also known as herpetophobia, which is a common term for the fear of reptiles and amphibians. Pneumatiphobia: People who are considered to bear the fear of spirits, i.e. any incorporeal supernatural being that can turn visible or audible to human beings, are victims of this phobia. Ranidaphobia: People having intense fear of or aversion towards frogs are said to suffer from this phobia. Samhainophobia: It is the dread of pranks played by young people before the eve of All Saint’s Day and those who suffer from it are known to bear the fear of Halloween, termed as samhainophobia. Triskaidekaphobia: It is an irrational and intense fear of the number 13, a number commonly associated with bad luck. The term triskaidekaphobia comes from the Greek ‘tris’ meaning ‘3’, ‘kai’ meaning ‘and’, and ‘deka’ meaning ‘10’. Uranophobia: It is an abnormal and persistent fear of heaven; also termed as ouranophobia. Vestiphobia: People having intense fear of clothes or clothing are known to suffer from this phobia. Wiccaphobia: It is an irrational and persistent fear related to witches and witchcraft. Xanthophobia: It is an unusual and morbid fear of the color yellow or the word yellow. Zoophobia: It is an irrational and exaggerated fear or aversion towards animals. Here a a few others I thought might be interesting to include as well: Turophobia - a fear of cheese Hylophobia - a fear of trees Nomophobia- fear of being without mobile phone coverage - (something I’m personally afraid of happening as I’m talking with someone on the phone about something important.) Papaphobia- fear of the pope Kinemortophobia - fear of zombies.
Edited by Chris 10/24/2014 11:45
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