Phobias A to Z
I’ve worked with phobias for 17 years in clinical practice. Find yours below to see what it feels like, where it comes from and how I can help.
Every phobia page has its own free test. Pick your fear below to find out how strong it is, from No anxiety to Extreme phobic. Looking for something unusual? Try the rare phobias A to Z.
Animal phobias
- Fear of animals (zoophobia)
- Fear of ants (myrmecophobia)
- Fear of bats (chiroptophobia)
- Fear of bees (apiphobia)
- Fear of birds (ornithophobia)
- Fear of butterflies and moths (lepidopterophobia)
- Fear of cats (ailurophobia)
- Fear of chickens (alektorophobia)
- Fear of cockroaches (katsaridaphobia)
- Fear of dogs (cynophobia)
- Fear of fish (ichthyophobia)
- Fear of frogs and other amphibians (batrachophobia)
- Fear of horses (equinophobia)
- Fear of insects (entomophobia)
- Fear of rats and mice (musophobia)
- Fear of reptiles and amphibians (herpetophobia)
- Fear of sharks (galeophobia)
- Fear of snakes (ophidiophobia)
- Fear of spiders (arachnophobia)
- Fear of wasps (spheksophobia)
- Fear of worms (helminthophobia)
Medical phobias
- Fear of ageing (gerascophobia)
- Fear of bad breath (halitophobia)
- Fear of bathing and washing (ablutophobia)
- Fear of blood (haemophobia)
- Fear of being buried alive (taphophobia)
- Fear of cancer (carcinophobia)
- Fear of choking (pseudodysphagia)
- Fear of contracting a disease (nosophobia)
- Fear of corpses and dead things (necrophobia)
- Fear of COVID-19 (coronaphobia)
- Fear of death (thanatophobia)
- Fear of the dentist (dentophobia)
- Fear of doctors (iatrophobia)
- Fear of fainting (asthenophobia)
- Fear of food (cibophobia)
- Fear of gaining weight (obesophobia)
- Fear of germs (mysophobia)
- Fear of going insane (agateophobia)
- Fear of heart disease or heart attack (cardiophobia)
- Fear of hospitals (nosocomephobia)
- Fear of injury (traumatophobia)
- Fear of medication (pharmacophobia)
- Fear of mould (mycophobia)
- Fear of movement (kinesiophobia)
- Fear of needles (trypanophobia)
- Fear of nudity (gymnophobia)
- Fear of pain (algophobia)
- Fear of being poisoned (toxiphobia)
- Fear of sharp objects (aichmophobia)
- Fear of being sick (emetophobia)
- Fear of sleep (hypnophobia)
- Fear of surgery (tomophobia)
- Fear of swallowing (phagophobia)
- Fear of being touched (haphephobia)
- Fear of vaccines (vaccinophobia)
Situational phobias
- 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)
Abstract phobias
- 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)
Rare phobias
Some fears have a name but very few people report them, like the fear of long words or the fear of chins. You will find them in the rare phobias A to Z, along with a few curious and made-up ones you may have seen online.