Appendix:English unattested phobias
A well known set of words in the modern world is the "Phobia list". There are hundreds of web-sites and books containing them. Some of these are real words that are actually used outside of the lists, for those real words, see our phobias category. A good deal more of them are simply made up words, something that sounds plausible + -phobia. This list is an attempt to document these made up words. Please note that the phobias here may become real words in their own right, in which case they will be moved to real dictionary entries and added to the phobias category.
- The words in this list should link to their Citations page, feel free to add usage cites (as required by Criteria for inclusion) there so that we can identify those words that do actually exist. Citations should be formatted as at this exemplar page.
- Please don't create real dictionary entries for these words without the necessary three independent, durably archived, citations, they will just be (re-)deleted.
- Only add words to this list that would meet CFI if mentions were valid cites. i.e. there must be three independent durably archived mentions spanning at least a year.
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List of invented phobias[edit]
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- acerophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- An aversion to sourness
- achluophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of the dark.
- (in one source: fear of dark alleys)
- acidophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of acid; also said of plants which don't grow well in acidic soil.
- aeroacrophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of open heights
- aeronausiphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- A fear of vomitting due to air-sickness
- agrizoophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of wild animals.
- albuminurophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of kidney disease.
- aliumphobia[talk][citations]
- The fear of garlic
- allodoxaphobia[talk][citations]
- Aversion to onions.
- amychophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Pathological fear of scratches.
- anemophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of winds or gales.
- apeirophoia[talk][citations]
- Fear of eternity.
- arachibutyrophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Aversion to peanut butter, particularly when stuck to the roof of one's mouth.
- athazagoraphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of being forgotten or ignored.
- aurophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Aversion to gold.
- automatonophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- A fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being: particularly ventriloquist's dummies.
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- ballistophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of projectiles, normally weaponry.
- batrachophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of amphibians.
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- catoptrophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of mirrors.
- chrematophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of money
- caligynephobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of beautiful women
- cenosillicaphobia[talk][citations]
- Fear of an empty glass.
- coprastasophobia[talk][citations]
- Fear of being constipated or suffering of the effects of constipation.
- ctenophobia[talk][citations]
- Fear of combs.
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- didaskaleinophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of attending school.
- dikephobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of justice.
- dinophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Aversion to dizziness or fear of whirlpools
- dipsophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of drinking alcohol or becoming inebriated
- dishabiliophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- A fear of removing one's clothes in front of another.
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f[edit]
- friggatriskaidekaphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of Friday the thirteenth
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- gatophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of cats (cf. ailurophobia, the real name for this fear)
- gametophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of marriage
- gamophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of marriage.
- geliophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of laughter.
- geniophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Aversion to chins.
- genuphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Aversion to knees.
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- hagiophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of holiness and holy things.
- haphephobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of being touched.
- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of the number 666.
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i[edit]
- ichthyophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- A fear of, or aversion to fish
- islamophobia[talk][citations]
- A fear of islam or of muslims. Commonly used to label critics of islam and not as a medical diagnosis. See also Islamophobia.
- ithyphallophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of the erect penis
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l[edit]
- lachanophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- A fear of vegetables.
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- macrophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- A fear of long waits
- A fear of macros.
- melissophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of stinging insects, in particular bees.
- menophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of menstruation.
- one source gives "being alone"
- meteorophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of meteors
- myrmecophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear or ants.
- maeiusophobia[talk][citations]
- The fear of pregnant or nursing women
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n[edit]
- nucleomituphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of nuclear weapons
- nyctohylophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of woods at night.
- nycto- + hylo- + -phobia
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o[edit]
- odenyphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of pain.
- oenophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Fear of wine.
- oneirogmophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Aversion to wet dreams.
- onomatophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- A fear of, or aversion to a certain word or name.
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- peladophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- Aversion to baldness or fear of bald people.
- peniaphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of poverty.
- phronemophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of thought or thinking.
- pentheraphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of one's mother-in-law.
- pnigophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of being unable to breathe.
- pocrescophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of becoming fat.
- poinephobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of punishment
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- ranidaphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of frogs
- rhytiphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of getting wrinkles.
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- seplophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of things that are decaying
- sesquipedalophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of long words.
- See also hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
- scholionophobia[talk][citations]
- The fear of school
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- zelophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of becoming jealous or of jealousy itself.
- zemmiphobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of "the great mole rat", occasionally interpreted as rats or moles
- zeusophobia[entry][talk][citations]
- The fear of god or gods;
