Situational phobias
Fears tied to places and situations, from flying and heights to small spaces, storms and public speaking.
- Fear of balloons (globophobia)
- Fear of bridges (gephyrophobia)
- Fear of buttons (koumpounophobia)
- Fear of clowns (coulrophobia)
- Fear of clusters of holes (trypophobia)
- Fear of crossing roads (agyrophobia)
- Fear of crowded places (agoraphobia)
- Fear of crowds (enochlophobia)
- Fear of the dark (nyctophobia)
- Fear of dolls (pediophobia)
- Fear of driving (vehophobia)
- Fear of earthquakes (seismophobia)
- Fear of falling (basophobia)
- Fear of fire (pyrophobia)
- Fear of flying (aerophobia)
- Fear of Friday the 13th (paraskevidekatriaphobia)
- Fear of going to school (didaskaleinophobia)
- Fear of heights (acrophobia)
- Fear of human-like figures (automatonophobia)
- Fear of lifts (elevator phobia)
- Fear of loud noises (ligyrophobia)
- Fear of men (androphobia)
- Fear of mirrors (catoptrophobia)
- Fear of pregnancy and childbirth (tokophobia)
- Fear of public speaking (glossophobia)
- Fear of public toilets
- Fear of rain (ombrophobia)
- Fear of riding in cars (amaxophobia)
- Fear of roller coasters (veloxrotaphobia)
- Fear of the sea (thalassophobia)
- Fear of small spaces (claustrophobia)
- Fear of snow (chionophobia)
- Fear of stairs and steep slopes (bathmophobia)
- Fear of submerged objects (submechanophobia)
- Fear of the sun (heliophobia)
- Fear of thunder and lightning (astraphobia)
- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes (lilapsophobia)
- Fear of trains and railways (siderodromophobia)
- Fear of travel (hodophobia)
- Fear of very large objects (megalophobia)
- Fear of water (aquaphobia)
- Fear of women (gynophobia)
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