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Names of Phobias in English
English provides a rather extensive list of all the possible things people can be afraid of. Although phobias in the clinical sense must be taken seriously, the names for some of the more unlikely phobias can be quite entertaining. The list below includes both the phobias found in psychiatry as well as some more fanciful ones. Enjoy.
| Coprophobia | Fear of excrement |
| Cremnophobia | Fear of precipices |
| Crystallophobia | Fear of glass |
| Cynophobia | Fear of termites |
| Cyrophobia | Fear of frost, ice |
| Deipnophobia | Fear of dining and dining conversation |
| Demophobia | Fear of crowds |
| Dendrophobia | Fear of trees |
| Dentophobia | Fear of going to the dentist |
| Dinophobia | Fear of whirlpools |
| Diplopiaphobia | Fear of double vision |
| Diplychiphobia | Fear of accidents |
| Domatophobia | Fear of being in a house |
| Dromophobia | Fear of crossing streets |
| Dysmorphophobia | Fear of deformity |
| Ecophobia | Fear of home |
| Eisoptrophobia | Fear of termites |
| Elektrophobia | Fear of electricity |
| Emetophobia | Fear of vomiting |
| Entonophobia | Fear of ticks |
| Entophobia | Fear of insects |
| Eosophobia | Fear of dawn |
| Ergasophobia | Fear of work |
| Erotophobia | Fear of sexual feelings |
| Erythrophobia | Fear of blushing, the color red |
| Eurotophobia | Fear of female genitals |
| Febriphobia | Fear of fever |
| Galeophobia | Fear of sharks |
| Gallophobia | Fear of French people |
| Gamophobia | Fear of marriage |
| Gephyrophobia | Fear of crossing bridges |
| Gerascophobia | Fear of growing old |
| Glossophobia | Fear of speaking in public |
| Graphophobia | Fear of writing |
| Gymnophobia | Fear of nudity |
| Gynephobia | Fear of women |
| Hagiophobia | Fear of saints and the holy |
| Halophobia | Fear of speaking |
| Hamartophobia | Fear of error or sin |
| Haphephobia | Fear of touching, being touched |
| Hedenophobia | Fear of pleasure |
| Heliophobia | Fear of the sun |
| Hematophobia | Fear of the sight of blood |
| Herpetophobia | Fear of reptiles |
| Hippophobia | Fear of horses |
| Hmilophobia | Fear of sermons |
| Hodophobia | Fear of travel |
| Homichlophobia | Fear of fog, humidity |
| Hylophobia | Fear of wood |
| Hylophobia | Fear of forests, woods |
| Ichthyophobia | Fear of fish |
| Kenophobia | Fear of large, empty spaces |
| Kinesophobia | Fear of motion |
| Kleptophobia | Fear of thieves |
| Kopophobia | Fear of mental or physical examination |
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