Abstract phobias
Fears that are harder to point at, like failure, love, being alone, or anxiety that seems to be about everything.
- Fear of being alone (monophobia)
- Social anxiety (social phobia)
- Fear of blushing (ereuthophobia)
- Fear of change (metathesiophobia)
- Fear of demons (demonophobia)
- Fear of dining with others (deipnophobia)
- Fear of experiencing pleasure (hedonophobia)
- Fear of failure (atychiphobia)
- Fear of fear (phobophobia)
- Fear of being forgotten or ignored (athazagoraphobia)
- Generalised anxiety (panophobia)
- Fear of ghosts (phasmophobia)
- Fear of happiness (cherophobia)
- Fear of imperfection (atelophobia)
- Fear of infinity and eternity (apeirophobia)
- Fear of intimacy (aphenphosmphobia)
- Fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia)
- Fear of love (philophobia)
- Fear of marriage and commitment (gamophobia)
- Fear of the number 13 (triskaidekaphobia)
- Fear of numbers (arithmophobia)
- Fear of people (anthropophobia)
- Fear of people in masks and costumes (masklophobia)
- Fear of phone calls (telephobia)
- Fear of sexual intercourse (genophobia)
- Fear of being stared at (scopophobia)
- Fear of staying single (anuptaphobia)
- Fear of technology (technophobia)
- Fear of tests (testophobia)
- Fear of time passing (chronophobia)
- Fear of being without a mobile phone (nomophobia)
- Fear of work (ergophobia)
Looking for something less common? See the rare phobias A to Z.
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