Do not fear. But if you really have to...

[Mat]

Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing
Anablephobia- Fear of looking up
Androphobia- Fear of men
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single
Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes
Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights
Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting
Chirophobia- Fear of hands
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors
Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed
Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease
Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body
Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking
Ecophobia- Fear of home
Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia
Geliophobia- Fear of laughter
Hadephobia- Fear of hell
Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words
Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect *****
Judeophobia- Fear of Jews
Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms
Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables
Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth
Malaxophobia- Fear of love play
Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect *****
Mnemophobia- Fear of memories
Nomatophobia- Fear of names
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother
Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia- Fear of eyes
Opiophobia- Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients
Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything
Papyrophobia- Fear of paper
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th
Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young girls
Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law
Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten
Phalacrophobia- Fear of becoming bald
Phallophobia- Fear of a *****, esp erect
Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love
Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians
Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers
Russophobia- Fear of Russians
Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite sex
Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left or left-handed
Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry
Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones
Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things
Tocophobia- Fear of pregnancy or childbirth
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13
Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating
Verbophobia- Fear of words
Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods

[Contratrombone64]

Matophilia- love of mat

[greatcyber]

postophobia; I'm afraid of this thread.

[marval]

Well at least we can say that the members here do not have Verbophobia- Fear of words.


Margaret

[Corno Dolce]

And it was poor Schoenberg who suffered from both acute and chronic Triskaidecaphobia.

[Corno Dolce]

And maybe that fear stemmed from his having layed the ground work for the twelve-tone system, since it probably threatened his philosophical framework. After all, he learnt composition on his own...

Just a thought.............can't confirm or deny.............

[rojo]

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

I think this would be the worst one to have-

Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything

That can't be good.

[methodistgirl]

Someone here has arachnophobia and it isn't me.
judy tooley

[marval]

Hi Judy, that would be me as one of them.

I don't know why, they are smaller than me, and looking in the mirror I am much scarier.


Margaret

[Corno Dolce]

Oh no Ms. Margaret - Don't say such a thing about yourself

[marval]

Thank you CD, but at least I know if I look in the mirror in the morning I am going to have one laugh each day.


Margaret

[Corno Dolce]

Goodness; such self-deprecation...