List of phobias and fears

Fear of long words and fear of success are only a few of the phobias and fears that people experience. Let's get down with the madness of phobias and fears. We promised you an exhaustive list of phobias and fears, and an exhaustive list of phobias and fears you will get.

This list of phobias include many of the categories used to describe phobias and fears. From social phobias as common as phobia of public speaking, to specific phobias like fear of success, passing through really unusual phobias like fear of long words.

Unfortunately we cannot include all of the phobias and fears that exist, but this list of phobias is pretty complete:

Ablutophobia: Fear of washing or bathing

Anemophobia: Fear of wind

Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers

Batophobia: Fear of being close to high buildings

Bibliophobia: Fear of books

Chaetophobia: Fear of hair

Chionophobia: Fear of snow

Chronophobia: Fear of time

Dendrophobia: Fear of trees

Didaskaleinophobia: Fear of school

Eisoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors

Eosophobia: Fear of daylight

Ergophobia: Fear of work

Geliophobia: Fear of laughter

Graphophobia: Fear of writing

Heliophobia: Fear of the sun

Hemophobia: Fear of blood

Homichlophobia: Fear of fog

Kainophobia: Fear of anything new

Lachanophobia: Fear of vegetables

Logophobia: Fear of written words

Melophobia: Fear of music

Metrophobia: Fear of poetry

Neophobia: Fear of anything new, again...

Oneirophobia: Fear of dreams

Phengophobia: Fear of daylight, again...

Photophobia: Fear of light

Pogonophobia: Fear of beards

Sciophobia: Fear of shadows

Scolionophobia: Fear of school

Sociophobia: Fear of society or people in general

Somniphobia: Fear of sleep

Spectrophobia: Fear of ghosts

Spheksophobia: Fear of wasps

Stenophobia: Fear of narrow things or places

Suriphobia: Fear of mice

Tachophobia: Fear of speed

Taurophobia: Fear of bulls

Technophobia: Fear of technology

Telephonophobia: Fear of telephones

Thalassophobia: Fear of the sea

Thanatophobia or Thantophobia: Fear of death or dying

Tocophobia: Fear of pregnancy or childbirth

Tomophobia: Fear of surgical operations

Traumatophobia: Fear of injury

Trypanophobia: Fear of injections

Urophobia: Fear of urine or urinating

Verbophobia: Fear of verbal words

Venustraphobia: Fear of beautiful women

Verminophobia: Fear of germs

Virginitiphobia: Fear of rape

Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft

Xenoglossophobia: Fear of foreign languages

Xenophobia: Fear of strangers or foreigners

Xyrophobia: Fear of razors

Zeusophobia: Fear of God or gods

Zoophobia: Fear of animals

That's a pretty long list of weird phobias and fears. I would like to call the attention of two phobias that will be discussed in another article, and hopefully in a future list of phobias: Fear of success and fear of long words. Fear of success is not as uncommon as it seems. Many people feel too much pressure in their life to achieve success, therefore, making fear of success an every day thought in their life. Now, fear of long words is plain funny. People actually cringing at the sound of the word 'physiographies' makes me realize I'm not that crazy. For more information on fear of long words read the article in this site.