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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.
| Lachanophobia | Fear of vegetables |
| Ladiophobia | Fear of talking |
| Lepraphobia | Fear of leprosy |
| Lilapsophobia | Fear of tornadoes |
| Linonophobia | Fear of string |
| Lygophobia | Fear of dark |
| Lyssiophobia | Fear of becoming mad |
| Macrophobia | Fear of long waits |
| Maieusiophobia | Fear of childbirth |
| Merinthophobia | Fear of being bound |
| Metereophobia | Fear of weather |
| Methalophobia | Fear of large things |
| Metrophobia | Fear of poetry |
| Molysomophobia | Fear of infection |
| Monophobia | Fear of being alone |
| Motorphobia | Fear of motor vehicles |
| Musciophobia | Fear of music |
| Musophobia | Fear of mice |
| Myrmecophobia | Fear of lice |
| Nephophobia | Fear of clouds |
| Nosophobia | Fear of becoming ill |
| Novercaphobia | Fear of one's stepmother |
| Nyctophobia | Fear of darkness |
| Ochlophobia | Fear of crowds |
| Odontophobia | Fear of teeth, especially those of animals |
| Odynophobia | Fear of pain |
| Oenophobia | Fear of wine |
| Olfactophobia | Fear of smells |
| Ombrophobia | Fear of rain |
| Onomatophobia | Fear of a certain word or name |
| Ophthalmophobia | Fear of being stared at |
| Ornithophobia | Fear of birds |
| Pantophobia | Fear of everything |
| Papaphobia | Fear of the pope or the papacy |
| Paralipophobia | Fear of responsibility |
| Paraphobia | Fear of sexual perversion |
| Parthenophobia | Fear of young girls |
| Peccatiphobia | Fear of sinning |
| Pedophobia | Fear of dolls |
| Peniaphobia | Fear of poverty |
| Pentheraphobia | Fear of one's mother-in-law |
| Phagophobia | Fear of eating are swallowing |
| Pharmacophobia | Fear of drugs |
| Phengophobia | Fear of daylight |
| Philophobia | Fear of falling in love or being loved |
| Phobophobia | Fear of fear |
| Photophobia | Fear of light |
| Pnigophobia | Fear of choking |
| Politicophobia | Fear of politicians |
| Ponophobia | Fear of fatigue |
| Potomophobia | Fear of rivers |
| Pyrophobia | Fear of fire |
| Rhabdophobia | Fear of criticism, punishment, being beaten |
| Rhytiphobia | Fear of getting wrinkles |
| Russophobia | Fear of Russian people |
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