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Phobia words are words that end in –phobia from the Greek for fear or hatred. You have probably heard of arachnophobia (fear of spiders), claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces), and agoraphobia (fear of open spaces), but did you know there are hundreds of such words, mostly coined by psychologists and doctors over the years?

It probably comes as no surprise to learn that there are words for the fear of heights, snakes, flying, and the sight of blood. But there are also words for the fear of chickens, your stepmother, Chinese people, beards, and even giving birth to monsters!

We have gathered together words for phobias from many sources, creating the largest ever list of such words. Below are almost 650 phobia words. Find out the names for your phobias. Click here to see what they mean.

ablutophobia, acarophobia, acerbophobia, acerophobia, achluophobia, acidophobia, acousticophobia, acrophobia, aelurophobia, aeronausiphobia, aerophobia, agliophobia, agoraphobia, agraphobia, agrizoophobia, agyiophobia, agyrophobia, aibohphobia, aichmophobia, aichurophobia, ailourophobia, ailurophobia, airphobia, albuminurophobia, alcoholophobia, alektorophobia, algophobia, alliumphobia, allodoxaphobia, altophobia, alychiphobia, amathophobia, amaxophobia, ambulophobia, amechophobia, amnesiophobia, amychophobia, anablepophobia, ancraophobia, androphobia, anemiaphobia, anemophobia, anginophobia, Anglophobia, ankylophobia, anophelophobia, anthophobia, anthropophobia, antlophobia, anuptaphobia, apeirophobia, aphephobia, apiophobia, apiphobia, aquaphobia, arachibutyrophobia, arachnephobia, arachniphobia, arachnophobia, arithmophobia, Armenophobia, arrhenophobia, arsonophobia, asthenophobia, astraphobia, astrapophobia, astrophobia, ataxiophobia, ataxophobia, atelophobia, atephobia, atychiphobia, aulophobia, aurophobia, auroraphobia, Austrophobia, automysophobia, autophobia, aviatophobia, bacilliphobia, bacillophobia, bacteriaphobia, bacteriophobia, ballistophobia, ballistrophobia, barophobia, basiphobia, basistasiphobia, basophobia, basostasophobia, batarachophobia, bathmophobia, bathophobia, batophobia, batrachophobia, belonephobia, bibliophobia, blennophobia, blenophobia, bogyphobia, botanophobia, bromidrosiphobia, bromidrosophobia, brontephobia, brontophobia, cacophobia, cacophonophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, calciphobia, cancerophobia, cancerphobia, carcinomatophobia, carcinophobia, cardiophobia, carnophobia, catagelophobia, catapedaphobia, cathisophobia, catophtrophobia, catoptrophobia, celtophobia, cenophobia, cenotophobia, centophobia, ceraunophobia, chactophobia, chaetophobia, cheimaphobia, cheimatophobia, cherophobia, chidophobia, chionophobia, chiraptophobia, choleraphobia, cholerophobia, chorophobia, chrematophobia, chromatophobia, chrometophobia, chromophobia, chronophobia, cibophobia, claustrophobia, cleisiophobia, cleithrophobia, cleptophobia, climacophobia, clinophobia, clithrophobia, cnidophobia, coimetrophobia, coitophobia, colorphobia, cometophobia, contrectophobia, coprophobia, coprostasophobia, corpulophobia, counterphobia, cremnophobia, criticophobia, cryophobia, crystallophobia, cyberphobia, cyclophobia, cymophobia, cynophobia, cyprianophobia, cypridophobia, cyprinophobia, cypriphobia, daemonophobia, decidophobia, defecalgesiophobia, deipnophobia, dementophobia, demonophobia, demophobia, dendrophobia, dentophobia, dermatopathophobia, dermatophobia, dermatosiophobia, dextrophobia, diabetophobia, diametrophobia, didaskaleinophobia, dikephobia, dinophobia, diplopiaphobia, diplychiphobia, dipsomanophobia, dipsophobia, dishabillophobia, domatophobia, doraphobia, dromophobia, dysmorphophobia, dystychiphobia, ecclesiophobia, ecophobia, eisoptrophobia, electrophobia, elektrophobia, eleutherophobia, elurophobia, emetophobia, enetophobia, enissophobia, enochlophobia, enosiophobia, entomophobia, entonophobia, entophobia, eosophobia, eremiophobia, eremophobia, ereuthophobia, ereuthrophobia, ergasiophobia, ergophobia, ermitophobia, erotophobia, erythrophobia, esodophobia, euphobia, euphophobia, eurotophobia, expansophobia, febriphobia, felinophobia, feminophobia, Francophobia, frigophobia, galeophobia, Gallophobia, gametophobia, gamophobia, gatophobia, geliophobia, gelophobia, geniophobia, genophobia, gentianophobia, gephydrophobia, gephyrophobia, gerascophobia, Germanophobia, geumaphobia, geumatophobia, geumophobia, glossophobia, graphophobia, grecophobia, gringophobia, gymnophobia, gynephobia, gynophobia, hadephobia, haematophobia, hagiophobia, halophobia, hamartophobia, haphephobia, hapnophobia, haptephobia, haptophobia, harmatophobia, harpaxophobia, hedonophobia, heliophobia, hellenophobia, helminthophobia, hemaphobia, hematophobia, hemophobia, heresyphobia, herpetophobia, hierophobia, hippophobia, hodophobia, homichlophobia, homilophobia, homophobia, hoplophobia, hormephobia, hyalophobia, hydrophobia, hydrophobophobia, hydrophophobia, hyelophobia, hygrophobia, hylephobia, hylophobia, hypegiaphobia, hypengyophobia, hypnophobia, hypophobia, hypsiphobia, hypsophobia, iatrophobia, ichthyophobia, iconophobia, ideophobia, illyngophobia, iophobia, isolophobia, isopterophobia, Italophobia, ithyphallophobia, Japanophobia, Judaeophobia, Judeophobia, Judophobia, kainophobia, kainotophobia, kakorraphiophobia, kakorrhaphiophobia, kakorrhphiophobia, katagelophobia, kathisophobia, kenophobia, keraunophobia, kinesophobia, kinetophobia, kleptophobia, koinoniphobia, kolpophobia, koniophobia, kopophobia, kynophobia, lachanophobia, laliophobia, lalophobia, latrophobia, lepraphobia, leprophobia, levophobia, ligyrophobia, lilapsophobia, limnophobia, linonophobia, liticaphobia, logophobia, lunaediesophobia, lygophobia, lyssiophobia, lyssophobia, macrophobia, maieusiophobia, malaxophobia, maniaphobia, mastigophobia, mechanophobia, medectophobia, medomalacophobia, medorthophobia, megalophobia, melissophobia, melophobia, meningitophobia, menophobia, merinthophobia, metallophobia, meteorophobia, metrophobia, microbiophobia, microphobia, misophobia, molysmophobia, molysomophobia, monopathophobia, monophobia, motorphobia, muriphobia, musicophobia, musophobia, mycophobia, myctophobia, myrmecophobia, mysophobia, mythophobia, myxophobia, nebulaphobia, necrophobia, negrophobia, nelophobia, neopharmaphobia, neophobia, nephophobia, noctiphobia, nomatophobia, nosocomephobia, nosophobia, nostophobia, novercaphobia, nucleomitophobia, nudiphobia, nudophobia, nyctophobia, obesophobia, ochlophobia, ochophobia, odontophobia, odynophobia, oecophobia, oenophobia, oikophobia, oiuophobia, olfactophobia, ombrophobia, ommatophobia, ommetaphobia, omophagiaphobia, omositiaphobia, oneirogmophobia, onomatophobia, ophiciophobia, ophidiophobia, ophiophobia, ophresiophobia, ophthalmophobia, optophobia, ornithophobia, orthophobia, osmiophobia, osmophobia, osphresiophobia, ostraconophobia, ouranophobia, paedophobia, pamphobia, panophobia, panphobia, pantaphobia, panthophobia, pantophobia, papaphobia, papyrophobia, paralipophobia, paraphobia, parasitophobia, paronomasiaphobia, parthenophobia, paterophobia, pathophobia, patroiophobia, peccatiphobia, peccatophobia, pediculophobia, pediophobia, pedophobia, peladophobia, pellagrophobia, peniaphobia, pentheraphobia, phagophobia, phalacrophobia, phallophobia, pharmacophobia, phasmophobia, phengophobia, philemaphobia, philematophobia, philophobia, philosophobia, phlebophobia, phobia, phobologophobia, phobophobia, phonophobia, photaugiaphobia, photaugiophobia, photophobia, phronemophobia, phthiriophobia, phthisiophobia, phthisophobia, placophobia, pluviophobia, pneumatophobia, pnigerophobia, pnigophobia, pocrescophobia, pogonophobia, poinephobia, policophobia, politicophobia, polyphobia, ponophobia, poperyphobia, porphyrophobia, potamophobia, potomophobia, potophobia, primeisodophobia, proctophobia, profundophobia, prosophobia, proteinphobia, psellismophobia, pseudohydrophobia, psychophobia, psychrophobia, pteronophobia, pyrexeophobia, pyrexiophobia, pyrophobia, radiaphobia, radiophobia, rectophobia, rhabdophobia, rhinophobia, rhypophobia, rhytiphobia, rupophobia, Russophobia, rypophobia, sarmassophobia, Satanophobia, scabiophobia, scatophobia, scelerophobia, sciaphobia, sciophobia, scoleciphobia, scopophobia, scoptophobia, scotomaphobia, scotophobia, scriptophobia, selaphobia, selenophobia, septophobia, sexophobia, sheksophobia, siderodromophobia, siderophobia, sinistrophobia, Sinophobia, sitiophobia, sitophobia, skiaphobia, snakephobia, soceraphobia, sociophobia, soleciphobia, sophophobia, Sovietophobia, spacephobia, spectrophobia, spermatophobia, spermophobia, spheksophobia, stasibasiphobia, stasiphobia, stasobasiphobia, stasophobia, staurophobia, stenophobia, stygiophobia, swinophobia, symbolophobia, symmetrophobia, syngenescophobia, syngenesophobia, syphilidophobia, syphiliphobia, syphilophobia, tabophobia, tachophobia, taeniiphobia, taeniophobia, taphephobia, taphophobia, tapinophobia, taurophobia, technophobia, teleophobia, telephonophobia, teletophobia, teniophobia, teratophobia, Teutonophobia, Teutophobia, textophobia, thaasophobia, thalassophobia, thanatophobia, thassophobia, theatrophobia, theologicophobia, theophobia, thermophobia, thixophobia, tocophobia, tomophobia, tonitrophobia, tonitruphobia, topophobia, toxicophobia, toxiphobia, toxophobia, traumatophobia, tredecaphobia, tremophobia, triakaidekaphobia, trichinophobia, trichopathophobia, trichophobia, tridecaphobia, triskadekaphobia, triskaidekaphobia, tropophobia, tryapanophobia, tuberculophobia, tyrannophobia, uranophobia, urophobia, vacansopapurosophobia, vaccinophobia, venereophobia, venustaphobia, verbaphobia, verbophobia, vermiophobia, vermiphobia, vestiophobia, virgivitiphobia, virgivitphobia, vitricophobia, xenophobia, xerophobia, xylophobia, ylophobia, zelophobia, zenophobia, zoophobia.

Not all phobia words mean fear or hatred. Sometimes the meaning is that of an intolerance or aversion to something. And in the case of hypophobia, it is not a fear or intolerance at all; hypophobia means absence of fear.

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