anti-Semitism

en-noun

anti-Semitism (countable and uncountable, plural anti-Semitisms)

/ˌæntɪˈsɛmɪˌtɪzəm/

Leibniz Institute for the German Language

From German Antisemitismus. It is typically said that German political agitator Wilhelm Marr invented the term to replace Judenhaß (literally “Jew-hatred”) to make hatred of the Jews seem rational and sanctioned by scientific knowledge; Marr founded the Antisemitenliga ("Anti-Semites' League") in 1879, used the terms Semitismus and Antisemiten in his 1879 and 1880 pamphlets Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum and Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum, and used Antisemitismus at least as early as his 1885 pamphlet Lessing contra Sem. The related term antisemitisch (“anti-semitic”) was first used in 1860, by Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider. See Wikipedia's article on the etymology and usage of the term.
The term is superficially/synchronically equivalent to anti- + Semitism (see Semite), for which reason it is rarely extended to cover prejudice against any Semitic people, or against adherents of any of the religions that originated among the Semitic peoples (the Abrahamic religions). See the usage notes.

Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews. When the accursed tsarist monarchy was living its last days it tried to incite ignorant workers and peasants against the Jews. The tsarist police, in alliance with the landowners and the capitalists, organised pogroms against the Jews. The landowners and capitalists tried to divert the hatred of the workers and peasants who were tortured by want against the Jews. In other countries, too, we often see the capitalists fomenting hatred against the Jews in order to blind the workers, to divert their attention from the real enemy of the working people, capital.

1919, Lenin, V. I., “Anti-Jewish Pogroms”, in George Hanna, transl., Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th edition, Progress Publisher, published 1972, pages 252 - 253:

It isn’t surprising that American Jews fear far-right anti-Semitism more than anti-Semitism from any other source: the Anti-Defamation League has found that it is the source of the vast majority of ideologically motivated extremist violence in the U.S.

2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward:

(narrower sense) Prejudice, discrimination, hostility or political or religious opposition directed against ethnic or religious Jews or against Judaism; antijudaism; judeophobia.

But Israel's policy of anti-semitism against Palestinians was not to the liking of India.

1986, Akhileshwar Singh, Political leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, page 228:

Debate on Middle East issues is limited by what can only be seen as anti-Arab racism (itself a form of racist anti-semitism, since Arabs are semitic peoples), based on a severe lack of information.

1991 April 6, Steve Rose, “A Human Drama”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

At this university, a faculty member has even gone so far as to declare Zionism a form of anti-Semitism against Palestinians.

2002, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism, numbers 1-39, page 36:

Bluntly put: if you want to end today's "anti-Semitism" against Jews, end Zionism's "anti-Semitism" against Palestinians.

2003, Jeffrey St Clair, The Politics of Anti-Semitism, page 41:

(broader sense, rare, nonstandard, chiefly in anti-Israel discourse) Prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed against any Semitic people (ancient or modern), such as Samaritans, Palestinians, Arabs or Assyrians.


paraskavedekatriaphobia

From Greek Παρασκευή (Paraskeví, “Friday”) + δεκατρείς (dekatreís, “thirteen”) + -phobia.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:paraskavedekatriaphobia.

Friday the thirteenth
Friday the thirteenth

(rare) The fear of Friday the thirteenth.


rupophobia

Possibly from Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) + -phobia (See rhypophobia). Alternatively, related to Latin rupes (“cliff, rock”).

Patients with rupophobia, the fear of dirt, are at times encountered by the dermatologist. Some of these patients present a traumatic dermatitis, or a self inflicted lesion of the skin.

1925, Transactions of the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology of the American Medical Association at the Annual Session, page 189:

In fact it is known that in rupophobia there is always an obsessional component.

Today we see the triumph of hyper-hygiene, a sort of rupophobia. In a consumerist and fetishist way, this prescribes appearance, aesthetics, and narcissism.

2022, Cosimo Schinaia, Psychoanalysis and Ecology, page 65:


arachnophobia

arachnophobia (usually uncountable, plural arachnophobias)

/æˌɹæk.nəˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə/

From arachno- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

der

An abnormal or irrational fear of arachnids, especially spiders.

رُهَاب اَلْعَنَاكِب

an abnormal or irrational fear of spiders


triskaidekaphobia

From triskaideka- (“thirteen”) + -phobia.

Fear or dislike of the number thirteen (13).


phantasmophobia

Based on the Ancient Greek roots φάντασμα (phántasma, “ghost”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

An abnormal or irrational fear of ghosts and phantoms.


acarophobia

/ˌækəɹəˈfəʊbi.ə/

His acarophobia was obvious from his reaction when I told him he had lice.

(medicine) The fear of itching or of small crawling insects that cause itching, such as mites or lice.


cacophobia

From caco- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek κακός (kakós) + φόβος (phóbos).


achluophobia

From Ancient Greek ἀχλύς (akhlús, “darkness”) and -phobia.

If you have a severe case of achluophobia (fear of the dark), for instance, you may want to wait at the mouth of the cave.

2007, Dave Smith, Backcountry Bear Basics: The Definitive Guide to Avoiding Unpleasant Encounters, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN:

When I was little, I had achluophobia and had to sleep with some kind light, any kind of light.

2013, Chris Island, Gunny's Short Stories and Life Lessons, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

I'm not exactly sure when I was diagnosed with achluophobia—the fear of darkness—but I've always been afraid to be left alone in the dark.

2013, Si Robertson, Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle, Howard Books, →ISBN, page 37:


catagelophobia

In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).

2001 December, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in The Atlantic Monthly:


cainophobia

From the Ancient Greek roots καινός (kainós, “new”) or καινότης (kainótēs, “newness”) + -phobia.

It is not by means of a social xenophobia and cainophobia that we shall succeed in junking our sawdust goals but only by a sincere and passionate openness to new experience.

1962, Liberal Education, volume 48, page 518:

Sounds like a raging case of cainophobia with a large side helping of gnosiophobia.

2002 September 4, maf1029 [username], “Re: Homosexuals have phobias”, in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet):

The question to ask is whether this free text fixation is the result of report optimization, inertia, or cainophobia.

2009, Bruce I. Reiner, “The Challenges, Opportunities, and Imperative of Structured Reporting in Medical Imaging”, in Journal of Digital Imaging:

The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.


ablutophobia

From Latin ablutio (“a washing”) + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

Pathological fear of washing or bathing.


xenophobia

en-noun

xenophobia (countable and uncountable, plural xenophobias)

xenofobie

a pathological fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

外国人恐怖症

がいこくじんきょうふしょう

The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”

2020 January 28, Mairov Zonszein, “Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy”, in The Washington Post:

A strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners.


agoraphobia

/ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/

/əˌɡɔː.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/

/əˌɡɔɹ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/

From Latin agoraphobia, from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “agora (gathering of people or place of gathering)”) + φοβία (phobía, “fear”). Analyzable as agora + -phobia.
Coined by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal in 1871.

uder

The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.


cynophobia

en-noun

cynophobia (usually uncountable, plural cynophobias)

This finding has significant implications for the study of cynophobia, since one would expect from the classical conditioning model of fear that a dog bite should have a lasting negative impact on a child's attitude toward dogs.

2001, Steven R. Lindsay, Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training: Etiology and Assessment of Behavior Problems, →ISBN, page 164:

An irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines.

kynofobi

an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines


hydrophobia

hydrophobia (countable and uncountable, plural hydrophobias)

/ˌhʌɪ.dɹə(ʊ)ˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə/

From Middle English idroforbia (“hydrophobia”), from Latin hydrophobia, from Ancient Greek ὑδροφοβία (hudrophobía), from ὑδρο- (hudro-), combining form of ῠ̔́δωρ (húdōr, “water”), + φοβία (phobía, “phobia”). The word is analysable as hydro- + -phobia.

inh

[page 39] HydroPhobias begin on land long before casting off. But once at sea, fear is quickly lost in the joys and pleasures of the passage. […] [page 40] There are three HydroPhobias. The Big Three. Two of the Big Three are fears that prevent landlubbers from becoming sailors. The third is primal and common to all mankind. The Big Three are 1) Fear of Flatland, 2) Fear of Being with Self, and 3) The Fear of Bogeymen.

[1998, Reese Palley, “HydroPhobias”, in Unlikely Passages, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Sheridan House, published 2002, →ISBN, pages 39 and 40:

(psychology, colloquial) A morbid fear of water; aquaphobia.


phobia

en-noun

phobia (plural phobias or phobiae or phobiæ)

phobias (plural)
phobiae (plural)
phobiæ (plural)

c 1790, from words ending in -phobia, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”). Compare ism, from -ism, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.

I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.

An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).


erotophobia

Fear of sex; negative attitudes towards sex


photophobia

Photophobia was the latest affliction of Afghan officialdom—by contagion, probably, from Persia which tries to nip in the bud pictures that show her not yet entirely modern.

1947, Ella K. Maillart, The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939, University of Chicago Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 152:

Craig Armstrong doesn't want to be photographed. His record company wouldn't like it, he says, and besides he has flu so he looks a little puffy. So "orders" and vanity combine to stop the shoot, due to take place in a trendy bar in Glasgow's West End.
The cynic may see alternative reasons for the 39-year-old composer's photophobia, […]

1998 April 2, Barry Didcock, “How to score with Madonna (or U2 or Leonard DiCaprio)”, in The Scotsman:

He concludes that Mapplethorpe blocks racist photophobia by making the nudes whose penises are not visible highly erotic, while using blatantly penis-focused images to force white viewers to recognize that when they see a black man, they see him not just in possession of a large penis, but actually as a penis (Mercer 1991; Fanon 1952/2008).

2013, Douglas Crimp, “'Tell a Story, Save a Life' (Montage 1987-89)”, in Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie, Thomas Waugh, editors, The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN:

An aversion to or fear of being photographed, the dissemination of personal photographs, or viewing photographs.


anthophobia

He must be gaga to have forgotten what she said the last time about her strange anthophobia (somehow stemming from that debauche à trois thirty years ago). Roses she never liked anyway.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 435:


acrophobia

acrophobia (countable and uncountable, plural acrophobias)

You know, being elevated to the position of Chairman has given me rather a bad attack of acrophobia.

1888, Association of American Railroads Accounting Division, Association of American Railroads, Accounting Division, Report of the Railway Accounting Officers:

But it's no place for anyone with acrophobia, what with its myriad drop-offs and switchbacks.

1956, Information Access Company, ProQuest Direct, Road and Track:

You know, acrophobia? I get nervous just standing this close to the edge.

Acrophobia describes an intense fear of heights that can cause significant anxiety and panic.

2019 March 27, Understanding Acrophobia, or Fear of Heights:

The definition of acrophobia is, simply put, a phobia of heights.

2019 September 12, Rosemary Black, Acrophobia (The Fear of Heights): Are You Acrophobic?:

Acrophobia is a persistent and intense fear of heights. People with acrophobia will experience panic and sudden anxiety in a variety of situations involving heights.

2021 March 3, Sarah Bence, Steven Gans, MD (medical reviewer), What Is Acrophobia?:

Acrophobia is an intense fear of heights. If a person has acrophobia, being high up or thinking about heights may cause them to have a panic attack.

2020 July 27, What to know about acrophobia:

phobia or strong fear of being high above ground level

höjdskräck

possibly less severe/pathological, like "fear of heights"


claustrophobia

claustrophobia (usually uncountable, plural claustrophobias)

From Latin claustrum (“a shut-in place”), from claudō (“I shut, close; I imprison, confine”) + -phobia. First attested in the British Medical Journal.


alektorophobia

From Ancient Greek ἀλέκτωρ (aléktōr, “rooster”) + -phobia.


agrizoophobia

From the Greek words αγρός (agrós) meaning field, ζώο (zoo) meaning animal, and φοβία (fovía or phobia) meaning fear.


rhypophobia

From Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) + -phobia.


ranidaphobia

Now, you have no reason to suffer from ranidophobia – the fear of frogs.

2001 May 22, Kathy Antoniotti, “Make a frog from papier machie and Styrofoam”, in Rome News-Tribune, page T1:

One published case documented a woman who developed ranidaphobia, as it is known, after running over a knot of frogs with a lawn-mower.

2013, Nick Haslam, “What are phobias?”, in The Explainer: From Déjà Vu to Why the Sky Is Blue, and Other Conundrums, CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 231:

However Marinaccio's ranidaphobia may soon be quieted, as Clarence, N.Y., recently awarded him a $1.6 million settlement after he sued both the town and development firm Kieffer Enterprises for diverting the water runoff from a nearby development onto his land.

2013 April 10, Derek Prall, “Man sues town over plague of frogs”, in American City & County:


rhytiphobia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῠτῐ́ς (rhutís, “wrinkle”) + -phobia.

bor+

Now, rhytiphobia, the fear of getting wrinkles, is a phobia that I can understand. Although I have been using moisturizer on my face for years, I still have those fine and not-so-fine lines appearing.

2013 October 30, Suzanne Johnson, “Beyond the office door: Phobias”, in Washburn County Register, volume 125, number 11, page 8:

“If you don't stop hassling Richelle about being late, she’ll develop chronomeatrophobia^([sic]) – fear of clocks,” said Tom proudly. “To go with her rhytiphobia.” ¶ “What’s that?” I snapped. I had to know. ¶ “Fear of getting wrinkles,” he sighed happily. He’d been dying for me to ask.

1996, Emily Rodda, “Piece by piece” (chapter 12), in Dirty Tricks (Raven Hill Mysteries; 5), New York, N. Y.: Scholastic Inc., published 2006 July, →ISBN, page 67:

Under the roof of the arcade, supported by baffling formations, and relieving arches, even wizened people, the old, the dowager, the snowy-haired, the senile and doddering, would be healthy, active, and vigorous. Sprightly and spry. Rhytiphobia, fear of wrinkles, could be forgotten. This gave rise to dancing and dinner parties, and fun and gaiety.

2022, Steven T. Pankey, chapter 15, in The Red Palace Train, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 155:


albuminurophobia

In spermatorrhea when albumin is present this is especially true. In nephritic subjects albuminurophobia is often seen and it works adversely on the morale of the patient.

1919, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, editors, Medical Record, volume 96, W. Wood., page 600:

for some reason, there are apparently quite a number of people who suffer from Albuminurophobia—the fear of kidney disease

2011 August 1, Jan Resnick, “Far-out Philias and Phobias”, in Psychotherapy in Australia:

This identification may professionally introduce this mental representation into the clinical practice, because phobia of renal failure may represent a marked psychiatric impact among peoples who have a relative, friend, or a neighbor with CKD or ESRD and on hemodialysis. Clinically, it presents with anxiety disorders such as irrational fear of getting renal failure where it is also known as albuminurophobia.

2020 August 6, Rabea Ahmed Gadelkareem with Nashwa Mostafa Azoz, Ahmed Reda, Ahmed Abdelhamid Shahat, Mohamed Farouk Abdelhafez, Amr Abou Faddan, Mahmoud Farouk, Mohamed Fawzy, Mahmoud Mohammed Osman, and Mohammed Abdallah Elgammal, “Experience of a tertiary-level urology center in the clinical urological events of rare and very rare incidence. III. Psychourological events: 2. Phobia of renal failure due to loin pain”, in African Journal of Urology, volume 26, →DOI, archived from the original on 2021-11-24:

A person doesn’t necessarily need to be in a situation exposed to kidney disease to experience Albuminurophobia.

2020 November 4, Scott M. Brookins, Fear of kidney disease. Albuminurophobia:

Although panic attacks may not always be the case for everyone experiencing symptoms of albuminurophobia, it is still possible to occur, especially if their symptoms are very severe.

2021, “Albuminurophobia (Fear of Kidney Disease)”, in Psych Times:


aerophobia

Standing on the edge of the cliff made me realise just how much aerophobia affected me.

(rare, by extension or possibly from acrophobia) Fear of heights


Russophobia

Contempt or hatred towards Russia or Russians, especially the political system, or the customs of the former Soviet Union.

հակառուսականություն

the fear or hatred of Russia or Russians


onomatophobia

For quotations using this term, see Citations:onomatophobia.

(rare) The fear of hearing particular names or words.


homoerotophobia

homophobia; antipathy towards homosexuals


ailurophobia

en-noun

ailurophobia (usually uncountable, plural ailurophobias)

/ˌaɪljʊəɹəˈfəʊbɪ.ə/

First recorded in 1905. From ailuro- (“cat”) + -phobia (“fear, hatred”), both from Ancient Greek.

confix

Ailourophobia†, (Katiphobia, or Gatophobia,) is a typical monomania. The fear of cats in certain monopsychoneurotic and psychopathic persons dates back to the beginning of the life of the feline.

1906, Charles H. Hughes, “Psychoencephalonasthenia or Cerebrasthenia Simplex, and Psychoencephalonasthenia or Cerebrasthenia Insaniens”, in The Alienist and Neurologist, volume 27, St. Louis, Mo.: Henry L. Hughes, page 166:

Whatever the cause there are many recorded instances of persons suffering from ailurophobia exhibiting symptoms of distress in rooms which apparently contained no cats; later cats would be discovered, hidden behind curtains or in closets.

1920, Carl Can Vechten, The Tiger In The House, pages 62–63:

An irrational fear or hatred of cats or other felines.


aichmophobia

From aichmo- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek αιχμή (aikhmḗ, “spearhead”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

der

In aichmophobia the person develops a pathological fear of sharp and pointed objects. He or she fears pieces of broken glass, scraps of metal, nails, and scissors. Fear of this kind leads to all sorts of eccentric habits.

1977, George W. Kisker, The disorganized personality:

“Hmm,” said Catherine. “It looks like something out of a field hospital.” And she shot a tiny forbidding glance at Nick, who saw that it was probably the aichmophobia, the horror of sharp objects, that made the serving and carving of a haunch of venison impossible for her.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

The fear of needles and other pointed or sharp objects.


homophobia

en-noun

homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

From homo- (“from homosexual”) + -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

af

from <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">homosexual</i>

Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals.

Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against LGBTQ+ people in general.


ichthyophobia

Ichthyophobia, defined as the fear of fish, is especially strong in the Navajo Indians, who will not eat fish nor have anything to do with articles made in the shape of fish.

1898, Current Literature, volume 23, page 521:

Such ichthyophobia occurred at the time of first European contact among the Tasmanian Aborigines.

1994, Frederick J. Simoons, Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the Present, University of Wisconsin Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 253:

'How dreadful. I could never go under the water. The fish frighten me.'
'My wife has ichthyophobia, you see,' Al-Nassar chimed in. 'The unfortunate condition confines her to swimming pools.'

2011, Miranda Darling, The Siren's Sting, Allen & Unwin, published 2011, →ISBN:


catoptrophobia

From Ancient Greek κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, “mirror”) + -phobia.

uder

I wondered what was at the root of Shingo's catoptrophobia - his irrational dread of mirrors.

1999 June 28, Vctr113062 [username], “[TK3 fanfic] "Phoenix" Ch. 17, 2/3”, in rec.games.video.sony (Usenet):

Pundit Bill O'Reilly grapples with "panophobia" (the fear of everything) while, strangely, Rush Limbaugh battles both "catoptrophobia," the fear of mirrors and "Walloonphobia," the fear of the Walloons.

2008 February 6, Gordon (quoting Ed Naha), “We have nothing to fear...but these bozos”, in misc.news.internet.discuss (Usenet):

If someone suffers from catoptrophobia (fear of mirrors), he sees mirrors, and their reflections, as dangerous.

2013, Macalester Bell, Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 72:


panophobia

From Pan (“god who inspired fears”) + -phobia or from pano- (“all”) + -phobia.

suffix

(by confusion) Panphobia, pantophobia: fear of everything.


pantophobia

(by confusion) Panophobia, a condition of groundless fears.


panphobia

I would say that I’ve probably encountered more disbelief/disrespect/panphobia from the queer community than from my straight friends, which I think is really interesting.

2013, anonymous, quoted in Ayisigi Hale Gonel, "Pansexual Identification in Online Communities: Employing a Collaborative Queer Method to Study Pansexuality", Graduate Journal of Social Science, Volume 10, Issue 1 (2013), pages 51-52

Panphobia has arisen via accusations they're trying to 'one up' bisexuals, […]

2016 February 15, Zoe Godden, “What Is Pansexuality?”, in The Courier, Newcastle University, page 13:

Biphobia / panphobia is still very real and alive today. As a pansexual woman, my identity and experiences have been denied many times […]

2020, Hope, quoted in Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens (ed. Leigh Finke), page 197

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people and/or pansexuality.

panphobie

fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people


colorphobia

Fear, hate, or dislike of people of a particular skin color.


zoophobia

en-noun

zoophobia (countable and uncountable, plural zoophobias)

From zoo- + -phobia. Piecewise doublet of biophobia.

The girl who had zoophobia didn't like animals, domestic or wild.


nyctophobia

"You're afraid of the dark. That's nyctophobia. And you're afraid of deep places, or depth. That's bathophobia."

2004, Michael A. Gibbs, A Fairy of Anneliese Glade, →ISBN:

A fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.


xenofobia

Compare Dutch xenofobie, Portuguese xenofobia, Spanish xenofobia, and Turkish zenofobi.

Greetings from Brigite from Portugal to Austria!
What do I know about your country?
Hardly nothing! I only know that you speak German, your capital is Vienna and that you have very beatifull^([sic]) palaces. oh yes, and that the film of "Sissi" was made there! (Actually I liked it a lot!)
What prejudices?
I heard of a lot of xenofobia and racism... is it true?

1997 April 16, ri20556, “From AUSTRIA - from Portugal”, in soc.college.org.aiesec (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

As an ex-inhabitant of Bruges, I'm sorry to read posts with complaints about bad behaviour in restaurants towards tourists. The problem is that in Bruges there are so many tourists that in some restaurants the Brugeois are in a 'minority'. Sometimes restaurant owners try to profile themselves as 'non-tourist' to attract more people from Bruges.
Though I completely lack any feeling of xenofobia, I must say it is weird to be in a restaurant in your home-town and to be amongst only tourists. It makes you feel like being in a tourist trap - I'm sure the average tourist feels the same about that.

1998 August 25, Dela, “Restaurants in Brugges?^([sic])”, in rec.travel.europe (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

Genocide is not a mistake. It is delibarete^([sic]) attempt to exterminate a people out of racial prejudice. Nobody exterminates anybody because they are an inconveniency,^([sic]) as you suggest. Armenians and Turks have coexisted peacefully in the Empire before 1915. Armenians and Turks coexist peacefully in Turkey today. So what was it, a brief attack of xenofobia by the young Turks? come on. You may consider this qubbling^([sic]) over a fine point, it is exactly that point you are trying to smear us with.

1998 November 7, pipe...@my-dejanews.com, “SEVEN MORE REPRESENTATIVES JOIN ARMENIAN CAUCUS (fwd)”, in soc.culture.turkish (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

Also i see a shade of xenofobia in this treatment and i dont like this. In spain there are also people who see the tourists as inferior beings, not me.

2002 August 29, Rafa, “Education in CzR”, in soc.culture.czecho-slovak (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of xenophobia.


papaphobia

/pæpæˈfəʊbɪə/

the pathological fear of the pope or the papacy


Americophobia

1990: [Henry] James's internalised Americophobia led him to sound rather like Shaw's Professor Higgins as he lamented the indifference of the American people to the beauties of their language. — Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature, Mulvey, Christopher, Cambridge University Press, p133

United States of America
United States of America

A fear or dislike of the United States of America or its culture.

反美

a fear of the United States of America and/or its culture


kakorrhaphiophobia

From Ancient Greek κακορραφία (kakorrhaphía) + -phobia.

suf

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kakorrhaphiophobia.

(rare) The abnormal fear of failure or defeat.


gephyrophobia

/dʒəˌfaɪɹəˈfoʊbiə/

From Ancient Greek γέφυρα (géphura, “bridge”) + -phobia.

der

Venice is a place to avoid if you suffer from gephyrophobia.

An inordinate fear of bridges, especially crossing bridges.


necrophobia

From necro- + -phobia, by analogy with necrophilia.

Funerals are ten times worse with necrophobia in addition to grief.


agateophobia

(psychology, psychiatry) A fear of insanity.


algophobia

From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + -phobia.


abibliophobia

Professor David Latchman, the Master of Birkbeck College, suffers from abibliophobia, a common affliction amongst book collectors that manifests itself as a morbid fear of running out of reading material.

Speaking of frightful words, a curious fear I've suffered from on occasion, especially on long airplane flights, is abibliophobia, the fear of not having enough to read.

2010, Phil Cousineau, Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words, Viva Editions, →ISBN, page 17:

The outdoor racks, maintained on an honor system, are open 24 hours a day, for those who suffer from abibliophobia—fear of lacking for reading material.

2012, Laura M. Reckford, Frommer's Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 110:

(humorous) Fear of running out of things to read.


phobophobia

From Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) + -phobia, equivalent to phobo- + -phobia.

In particular, the rulemakers – here judges who craft free speech doctrine – may themselves display a pathological fear of succumbing to pathological fear, a kind of phobophobia.

2014, Adrian Vermeule, The Constitution of Risk:

The fear of fear; the fear of developing a phobia.


gerontophobia

An abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old.


insectophobia

Remembering her insectophobia I did not point out the amazing line of ants ferrying leaves up the wall.

(pathology) An abnormal fear of insects.


eleutherophobia

From Ancient Greek ἐλευθερία (eleuthería, “freedom”) + -phobia.


hippophobia

An irrational fear of horses or other hoofed animals like ponies, donkeys, or mules.


bathophobia

/ˌbæθəˈfəʊbiə/

The fear of volumes with large depths such as stairways and deep caves.


emetophobia

Faryl Zaklin, 38, of San Diego, California, is still overcoming a lifelong phobia that has given her numerous panic attacks; part of her recovery involved watching episodes of "Jackass" and "Family Guy." She has emetophobia: fear of vomit.

2010 June 15, Elizabeth Landau, “Who's afraid of snakes, spiders, vomit?”, in CNN:

Ignorant about vomiting before the incident, I was now terrified of it. I self-diagnosed myself with emetophobia – fear of vomiting.

2011 July 15, Dakshana Bascaramurty, “I had never vomited. Ever.”, in The Globe and Mail:

Not many people have heard of the condition emetophobia but I’ve lived with it for over 30 years and it was a worry when I was pregnant with my son, Hunter, last year.

2012 November 6, Sarah Cawood, Nilufer Atik, “Sarah Cawood: Having a baby helped me get over sick phobia”, in Daily Mirror:

An inordinate fear of vomit or vomiting, especially in public.


Francophobia

Today, francophobia has donned new clothes: those of populism. Under the simplistic discourse of budgetary rigour, deficit reduction, and common sense, the new populist apostles see bilingualism not as an advantage but as a frill … In times like these, one may only remember the cri du coeur launched in 1913 by Franco-Ontarians against those who sought to strip their children’s access to French-language education — https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-francophobia-is-donning-new-populist-clothes-in-canada

The hatred or fear of the presence of the French language and its native speakers.


chrometophobia

He suffered from chrometophobia, the fear of money, a clinically documented disorder.

2006, Klaus W. Bender, Moneymakers: The Secret World of Banknote Printing, →ISBN, page 17:

The proof seems to be in a strange phobia he developed later in life, a condition called chrometophobia. Carnegie went George Soros's noted disdain for money one better: He would reportedly suffer anxiety attacks at the sight or even the smell of money — and so he refused to carry cash.

2008, Bruce Grierson, U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?, →ISBN, page 49:

A 2003 study by Cambridge University in England found that 20 percent of people suffer from chrometophobia—a fear of money. In most cases, chrometophobes fear opening envelopes that appear to be bills.

2008, Hal Marcovitz, Phobias, →ISBN, page 32:


paraskevidekatriaphobia

Alternative form of paraskavedekatriaphobia


coulrophobia

Coined in the late 1980s or 1990s, of unknown origin, appearing first, without further explanation, in lists of phobias circulating on the Internet. First use appears c. 1997 according to the OED. According to a widespread theory the term is supposedly based on Ancient Greek κωλοβαθριστής (kōlobathristḗs, “one who goes on stilts”) (from κωλόβαθρον (kōlóbathron, “stilt”), from κῶλον (kôlon, “limb”) + βάθρον (báthron, “something to stand on”), allegedly chosen for lack of an obvious Ancient Greek equivalent of "clown", or with some supposed sense of "stilt-walker" (because earlier clowns used to walk on stilts in their performances), + -phobia (“fear of”) suffix. If true, the literal meaning of coulrophobia would be either "fear of limbs" or "fear of stilt-walkers". This theory fails to explain the substitution of ou for o and of lro for lo.

der

κωλοβαθριστής

[…] to develop coulrophobia. On the seventh, clowns from around the world […] congregate at London's Holy Trinity Church for the annual Grimaldi Memorial Service.

1999 February, “February: This month's marvels, musts, and misses”, in Condé Nast Traveler, volume 34, page 103:

Clowns are no laughing matter to Sean "Puffy" Combs. The swaggering rap royal is widely reported to suffer from coulrophobia, an irrational fear of the red-nosed, versized-shoe-wearing, greasepainted circus buffoons.

2002 Jared Paul Stern, with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson, "Send out the Clowns", Page Six (NYT)

⁵Unfortunately, the first time they attempted the study, the clown accidentally burst one of the balloons. The noise frightened the children and they associated that fear response with the clown. All 15 children are currently in therapy for coulrophobia!

2003, Andy Field, Graham Hole, How to Design and Report Experiments, page 257:

After you plug in your wish list and dating criteria, search results spit out matches; it’s like scanning a room of a thousand and pinpointing the ten who share your favorite author and chronic coulrophobia (fear of clowns).

2004, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers, page 39:

The ironic twist is that he recently admitted to a possible onset of coulrophobia.

2006, Crimson de la Voire, Crimson’s Erotica: Volume One — A Collection of Stories About Submission and Pleasure, page 35:


amaxophobia

Formed in English from the Ancient Greek ἅμαξα (hámaxa, “waggon”) + the -phobia, the latter element itself deriving from the Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía). The etymologically consistent spelling is *hamaxophobia, but that spelling is not attested outside word-lists and dictionaries.

I have known of at least two well marked instances of amaxophobia originating in the fright of being run away with and the effect of the shock abiding with them throughout the after life[…]

1908, Charles Hamilton Hughes, The Alienist and Neurologist, volume 29, page 65:

Fear of being in or riding in a vehicle.


astraphobia

From Ancient Greek ἀστραπή (astrapḗ, “lightning”) + -phobia.

thunder and lightning
thunder and lightning

An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.


sitophobia

From sito- + -phobia < Ancient Greek, σῖτος (sîtos, “wheat, bread”) + -φοβία (-phobía, “fear”).

(pathology) A morbid or insane dread of eating. An aversion to food.


heterophobia

Taguieff writes synonimically^([sic]) of racism and heterophobia (resentment of the different). […] Heterophobia seems to be a focused manifestation of a still wider phenomenon of anxiety aroused by the feeling that one has no control over the situation, […]

2013, Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, →ISBN, page 116:

Fear or resentment of what is different.

[…] a panel of teenagers of LGBT parents […] voiced concern about what they called "heterophobia"—they wished their parents weren't so negative and distrusting of straight people. Even suggesting that heterophobia exists for these children understandably evokes angry and skeptical responses because homo-hostile people have used the same word to support a bogus claim that gay rights discrimination against heterosexuals.

2004/2005, Abigail Garner, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is, pages 213–214

Accusing a gay person of heterophobia is like accusing a Jew of Naziphobia.

2008 January 20, "Chief Thracian" (username), "Re: Under Attack", in alt.religion.shamanism and other newsgroups, Usenet

Some gay and lesbian counselors may need to reflect on another bias referred to as heterophobia, which is fear or dislike of heterosexuals […]

2011, Mark S. Kiselica, Matt Englar-Carlson, Arthur M. Horne, Counseling Troubled Boys: A Guidebook for Professionals, page 253:

Fear or resentment of heterosexuals or heterosexuality.

heterofòbia

fear or resentment of heterosexuals or heterosexuality


hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

/ˌhɪ.pəˌpɒ.tə(ʊ)ˈmɒn.stɹə(ʊ)ˌsɛs.kwɪ.pɪˌdɑːl.ɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə/

From hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, an extension of sesquipedalian with ad hoc combining forms of Latin monstrum (“monster”) and hippopotamus (intended to exaggerate the length of the word itself and the idea of the size of the words being feared), + -phobia.

Ben suffers from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, so he seldom uses words of more than three syllables.

However, we assume that despite the best endeavours of science, some phobias will always remain. These include paraskavedekatriaphobia, or fear of Friday the 13th. And hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, which is fear of long words.

2002 April 19, anonymous author, The Scotsman, page 13:

Those who find this column troubling are suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia—the fear of long words. Or, more likely, rupophobia—a fear of rubbish.

2002 December 14, Chris Lloyd, The Northern Echo, page 10:

Coincidentally there is a masochistic PCP with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of long words) curled up in an alleyway across the street. He has been whispering “Antidisestablishmentarianism” to himself over and over for two days now, experiencing up to one orgasm every three hours as a result of The Pain […]

2005 September 30, D. Harlan Wilson, Pseudo-City, Raw Dog Screaming Press, →ISBN, page 183:

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

perhaps on purpose, to make the word even longer


atheophobia

At many institutions, I have found atheophobia to be rampant among students; and religiophobia to be common among faculty.

2003 Spring, Robert J. Nash, “Inviting Atheists to the Table: A Modest Proposal for Higher Education”, in Religion & Education, volume 30, number 1, New York, →DOI, →ISSN:

Atheophobia leads to invisibility for many atheists, who find it is best to keep their nonbelief hidden for their own good.

2009 Spring, Kathleen M. Goodman with John A. Mueller, “Invisible, marginalized, and stigmatized: Understanding and addressing the needs of atheist students”, in New Directions for Student Services, number 125, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 55–63:

Atheophobia should be just as unacceptable as homophobia, anti-Semitism, or racism.

2011 January 25, Dan Barker, The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God, Berkeley: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

無神論恐怖症

むしんろんきょうふしょう


hemophobia

en-noun

hemophobia (usually uncountable, plural hemophobias)


tropophobia

The fear of moving or of making changes.


tomophobia

Tomophobia is the fear of surgical procedures or medical intervention.

2020 May 15, “What is tomophobia?”, in Tomophobia: When the Fear of Surgery and Other Medical Procedures Becomes a Phobia:

If you have tomophobia, it might be hard to get to the doctor at all; it’s the fear of surgical procedures and medical interventions.

2020 December 29, “Tomophobia: fear of medical procedures”, in Five common medical phobias:

Tomophobia refers to fear or anxiety caused by forthcoming surgical procedures and/or medical interventions.

2009 November 18, “Introduction”, in Tomophobia, the phobic fear caused by an invasive medical procedure - an emerging anxiety disorder: a case report:

Tomophobia is the fear or anxiety caused by forthcoming surgical procedures and/or medical interventions.

2021 February 16, Tomophobia - the fear that isn’t:

“Uncle, tomophobia is in your mind. Doctor is your friend. Trust them and let them give you anesthesia and after that you won't even feel a thing. And then Karan bhaiya will be present there too. How many people can boast of having a relative with them in the operation theater? You will be perfectly fine,” Rishabh said, like 50th time in the last hour that he was sitting in Raizada Mansion, but boy’s energy level refused to go down.

2015 March 22, Anamika G. K., Making Khushi Mine, volume 2, Indic Publication, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 236, →ISBN:

He wasn't keen on spiders and snakes, but his major one, the one that had always haunted and taunted him is referred to medically as tomophobia; the fear of surgical operations.

2015 February 11, Michael Foxx, Spiteful Jack 2: Vengeance, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 111, →ISBN:

Don't you mean tomophobia? I mean, why use magic when there's a perfectly good scalpel at hand? :)

2003, Spuddie, “You read it first here”, in alt.penpals.forty-plus-yrs (Usenet):

(neologism, rare) An unusual fear of surgeries or medical procedures involving cutting.


aviophobia

Possibly from French avion (“airplane”) + -phobia

I'd love to come and visit you but aviophobia means that it'd have to be by boat, and that just takes too long!


ornithophobia

/ˌɔɹnɪθəˈfoʊbiə/

/ˌɔːnɪθəˈfəʊbɪə/


menophobia

Until her courageous effort, Sheehy suggests, menopause was a word seldom uttered aloud, certainly not in mixed company. She attributes this silence to "menophobia," fear of menopause.

1992 May 14, Bettyann Kevles, book review, Los Angeles Times:

Therefore, in this book, we have chosen to talk not just about menopause, but about independent, intelligent, menophobia-free aging — aging with dignity.

1995, Patricia J. Richter, Roger Duvivier, Midlife, Madness, or Menopause: Does Anyone Know What's Normal?, Chronimed Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:

Though some women fall prey to "menophobia" and shun any female over thirty, most women enjoy increased sisterhood in midlife and are nourished by being comrades in the passage through perimenopause.

2000, Kathleen J. Greider, “Perimenopause and Other Midlife Opportunities”, in In Her Own Time: Women and Developmental Issues in Pastoral Care, Augsburg Fortress, →ISBN, page 204:


hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

/hɛks.ə.ˌkəʊ.si.ɔɪ.hɛks.ˌɛk.ən.tə.ˌhɛks.ə.ˈfəʊ.bi.ə/

Ancient Greek ἑξακόσιοι (hexakósioi, “six hundred”) + ἑξήκοντα (hexḗkonta, “sixty”) + ἕξ (héx, “six”) + -phobia

uder

You'll see “lucky” 666 in many shop windows across China, which may come as a shock to believers in the Beast and those with hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

2008 May 6, Deborah Aaronson with Kevin Kwan, Luck: The Essential Guide, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 132:

Fear of certain numbers will not help you. Just ask someone who suffers from triskaidekaphobia, tetraphobia, or hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.

2009 November 3, Patricia Kirkman with Katherine A. Gleason, The Complete Idiot's Guide: Numerology Workbook, →ISBN, →OL:

(chiefly Christianity) Fear of the number 666.


taphophobia

/tæfəˈfəʊbɪə/

From Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “grave”), + -phobia.


ethnophobia

en-noun

ethnophobia (countable and uncountable, plural ethnophobias)

The irrational fear and hatred of one's own nation


ophidiophobia

From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “serpent”) + -phobia.

His father had a severe case of ophidiophobia, but to his credit he allowed his non-ophidiophobic 12-year-old son to keep a small colony of the Common Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) in a large box pen in a far corner of their Wisconsin backyard.

2012 August 5, Robert C. Stebbins, Samuel M. McGinnis, Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of California, Revised edition, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 349:

The second-most-common phobia is ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes. Ophidiophobia is one of the most debilitating fears in humans; even the picture of a snake in a magazine or image of one on TV can invoke intense fear in some people.

2010 October 18, Matthew Murrie, Steve Murrie, The First Book of Seconds: 220 of the Most Random, Remarkable, Respectable (and Regrettable) Runners-Up and Their Almost Claim to Fame, Avon, MA: Adams Media, →ISBN, page 11:


doxophobia

Ancient Greek δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”) + -phobia


selachophobia

From Ancient Greek σέλαχος (sélakhos, “shark”) + -phobia.


Anglophobia

The hatred or fear of England and anything English (or British).

anglophobie

hatred or fear of England or anything English


oenophobia

You open it randomly, hit several pages devoted to "Cote de Nuits" alone, and go into advanced hypertensive oenophobia (wine-sticker shock).

1997 February 17, Tony Hendra, “Best Cellars”, in New York, page 48:

A new wine club called 600 Grapes asks us if we suffer from "oenophobia" -- a fear of wine.

2006 October 3, Larry Lipson, “Wineline For The Republic Of Sauvignon Blanc Fanciers”, in Daily News, Los Angeles:

Even avid wine lovers can be struck with a temporary case of oenophobia -- fear of wine -- around Thanksgiving.

2007 November 14, Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg, “With These Strategies, Pick Your Pour”, in The Washington Post:

The fear or hatred of wine; anxiety related to wine.


ouranophobia

Now I’m not saying I was ever clinically diagnosed with ouranophobia. I wasn’t.

2011, Randal Rauser, The Confessions of an Ouranophobe, or How I got over my fear of heaven:

Besides, maybe I don't want heaven regardless of the price. Maybe I have Ouranophobia and am consequently scared shitless by the very mention of heaven.

2013, Sergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity, →ISBN, page 341:

She thinks I'm bringing this up to make fun of her, but I explain that (a) her fears are adorable, and (b) that's not the point. I tell her I think we both suffer from ouranophobia and she asks what that means and I tell her we're afraid of heaven.

2016 Fall, Davis Webster, “Wyo.”, in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, volume 18, number 2:


leukophobia

Normal rats show leukophobia, ie, going away from strong light, while blind rats do not react to light in this manner.

1924, Theodore Koppånyi, Clyde Baker, “Further Studies on Eye Transplantation in the Spotted Rat”, in American Journal of Physiology, volume 71, number 2:

What had been the healthy fear of white people shared by most of the country's colored inhabitants had recently morphed into full-blown leukophobia, or fear of all things white.

(rare) Pathological fear of or aversion to the color white.


galeophobia

From Ancient Greek γαλεός (galeós), a type of shark with weasel-like markings, derived from γαλῆ (galê), γαλέη (galéē, “weasel, cat”) + -phobia.

The irrational fear of sharks or dogfish.


Iraqnophobia

[…] but they may be making a mistake by not taking a flier on Atlantic Coast and some of the other successful smaller airlines, the stocks of which have been grounded by Wall Street's Iraqnophobia.

2003 February 10, Jerry Knight, “Small Airline Has a Chance To Soar Again”, in The Washington Post:

An arrogant dictatorial super-villain possesses a weapon of mass destruction while the morally righteous Federation makes a successful preemptive strike — Nemesis almost seemed designed to encourage the nation's Iraqnophobia and justify its war.

2005, Daniel Dinello, Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 217:

(Former American President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair now suffer from Iraqnophobia for which there is no cure.)

2009, Gary Cox, How to Be an Existentialist: Or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 112:

weapons of mass destruction
weapons of mass destruction

(informal, humorous) An irrational fear of Iraq's ability to manufacture weapons of mass destruction, or, more broadly, of military conflict with Iraq.


lachanophobia

/ˌlækənəˈfəʊbɪə/

From Ancient Greek λάχανον (lákhanon, “greens, vegetables”) + -phobia.

All in all, I'd like to state that it was lachanophobia that sparked this.

2007, Clarence Cheong, “Food Fiesta on Sun (11 Nov)”, in west cell (Usenet):

“I thought recovered memories were traumatic. What's traumatic about citrus fruit?”
“Lachanophobia,” he says. “That's the fear of vegetables. It stands to reason that there's one for the rest of the food pyramid, too.”

She suffers from a fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea.

2009 November 9, “Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables”, in The Telegraph:

“[…] ‘lachanophobia,’ which appears to be an irrational fear of vegetables.” He leaned forward conspiratorially. “I must confess that, on occasion, I have used it as a way to avoid broccoli.”

2013, John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels: A Charlie Parker Thriller, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 145:


anuptaphobia

(rare) The fear of remaining unmarried or being married to the wrong person.


tetraphobia

Custom of avoiding the number four (4) commonly seen in East Asian countries in which the words for "4" and "death" are paronymous or homophonous.


aquaphobia

A fear of water, especially a morbid fear of drowning.


cyberphobia

Overcoming cyberphobia is not easy, but any effort to automate professionals must address their resistance and concerns or be doomed to failure.

1982 Oct 3, Bruce E. Bergen, Increasing Proudctivity and Comfort, in New York Times, pAS26

In the march to the future, these ex-assembly line laborers are being joined by white-collar workers suffering from cyberphobia (fear of computers), a growing number of functionally illiterate high school graduates and a new flood of illegal and poorly educated immigrants from Latin America.

1983 June 12, Bruce Nussbaum, “‘Reskilling’ Workers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Past studies have been performed to investigate the phenomena^([sic]) of cyberphobia, to measure cyberphobia, and to examine the demographic and psychological variables related to cyberphobia […]

1991, T. B. Barrier, “Assessing the Role of Cyberphobia”, in Managing Information Technology in a Global Society, page 169:

Moreover most young people who have grown up with computers find this cyberphobia difficult to understand.

2001, Donald Hugh Parkerson, Jo Ann Parkerson, Transitions in American Education, page 213:


gametophobia

One phobia they don't have is gametophobia (marriage). No living-in-sin for them, only licit thrills.

1998, Rose Dorrance Beser, Why Some People Act So Stupid and What You Can Do About It, Dewey Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:

No, but supposedly i have gametophobia

2005 May 14, ChicKita [username], “Re: Are you paraskevidekatriaphobic?”, in alt.support.stop-smoking (Usenet):

The Houston vet returns to the game to confess that he suffers from gametophobia, the fear of marriage.


pedophobia

Children embarrass us because they point ever too cleverly and clearly to our denial of personal, material, and maternal history. This accounts, in part, for academia's pedophobia and the hush-hush we maintain about parenting.

1998, Michael Rectenwald, “Reading around the Kids”, in Constance Coiner, Diana Hume George, The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties While You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve, page 112:

In 1997, Mariemont asked her to teach at the elementary school, but she said she could not do so because of her pedophobia.

2015 February 11, Raymond Kethledge writing for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Waltherr-Willard v. Mariemont City Schools, case 14-3168

(psychology, rare) An irrational, obsessive fear or dislike of children.


ochlophobia

From Ancient Greek ὄχλος (ókhlos, “crowd”) + -phobia.

Those who suffer enochlophobia, demophobia or ochlophobia–the fear of crowds–are not being entirely irrational.

2003 January 31, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney:

A phobia, or fear, of mob-like crowds, as opposed to simply open spaces like agoraphobia or large crowds as with enochlophobia.


atychiphobia

From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓τῠχής (atukhḗs, “unfortunate”) + -phobia.


Japanophobia

Perhaps this is one of the reasons of their Japanophobia. But if Japan became the ally of France, all this fear and suspicion of Japan would disappear, ...

1906, Edward Albert Bell, These meddlesome attorneys:

This would require discarding the extreme Japanophobia that characterises the so-called “revisionists” who are really “regressionists” twice over.

1999, Jagdish Bhagwati et.al., Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements:

A fear or hate of Japan and Japanese people or culture.


automatonophobia

Fear of humanlike figures, such as mannequins, wax figures, statues, dummies, animatronics, or robots.


neophobia

en-noun

neophobia (countable and uncountable, plural neophobias)

/niːəˈfəʊbɪə/

[T]he murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia, […] than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators.

1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 338:

In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).

2001 December, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in Michael Kelly, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:

The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.


aphenphosmphobia

Unknown element(s) + -phobia. The initial aphe- element is likely based on Ancient Greek ἁφή (haphḗ, “touch”), the same root as haphephobia. There is no Greek root φοσμ- (phosm-) or φωσμ- (phōsm-), and φῶς (phôs, “light”) can be eliminated on semantic grounds, so the middle element is probably a fanciful invention or error.

"What have you been treating Maureen for?"
"Aphenphosmphobia. She is...she was scared of having her throat touched."

2005, Christine Spindler, Faces of Fear, an Inspector Terry Mystery, Hard Shell Word Factory, page 65:

Since the stabbing she had struggled most with aphenphosmphobia, a morbid fear of physical contact with other human beings.

2011, Craig Russell, The Carnival Master, page 107:


arachibutyrophobia

From Latin arachis (“peanut”) + butyro- (“butter”) + -phobia.

Odds and ends I've come across in the course of an education: That arachibutyrophobia is an unnatural fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. I have no idea how many people suffer from this.

1977 March 31, Ball State Daily News, page 4:

Her ARACHIBUTYROPHOBIA had been getting worse lately. She finally chose a jar of creamy style peanut butter, knowing it would never be opened once she got it home.

1981, John E. Readence, Thomas W. Bean, R. Scott Baldwin, Content Area Reading: An Integrated Approach, →ISBN, page 67:

Do you suffer from Arachibutyrophobia? Or does peanut butter just freak you out?

2003, Richard Waters, Phobias: Fear and Loathing Revealed and Explained, →ISBN:

He took a bite of sandwich, chewed, and grinned at her. "Arachibutyrophobia. Look it up."

2005, Lawana Blackwell, A Table By the Window, →ISBN:

Look, if people can suffer from arachibutyrophobia, which is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth, then I have no doubt there's a clinical name for being afraid to leave your baby with a sitter for a half hour while you run to 7-Eleven.

2006, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom, →ISBN, page 88:

Imagine the situation had this bear suffered from arachibutyrophobia!

2012, Manish Gupta, English Bites!, →ISBN:

Similarly, arachibutyrophobia, the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth, can probably be dealt with by not eating peanut butter, or just eating it carefully.

2013, John Connolly, The Creeps: A Samuel Johnson Adventure, →ISBN, page 51:

Arachibutyrophobia—fear of peanut butter being stuck to the top of your mouth. [...] Trust me when I say there is a fear of everything.

2015, James Egan, 100 Ways to Stop Sabotaging Your Life, →ISBN, page 70:

(humorous, rare) Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.


biphobia

/ˈbaɪˌfəʊbiːə/


Islamophobia

Islamophobia (usually uncountable, plural Islamophobias)


Teutophobia

The antipathy toward, or fear of, Germans or German things.


ithyphallophobia

From Ancient Greek ἰθύφαλλος (ithúphallos) (from ἰθύς (ithús, “straight”), a variant of εὐθύς (euthús), + φαλλός (phallós, “penis”)) + English phobia.

So, do you use your violence fantasies to mask your medorthophobia, your ithyphallophobia, or your medomalacuphobia?

2002 September 13, maf1029 [username], “Re: Homosexuals have phobias”, in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet):

(Nocturnal erections are probably good if you suffer from 'Ithyphallophobia', the morbid fear of seeing, having or thinking about an erect penis.)

2013, Tom Cutler, Slap and Tickle: The Unusual History of Sex and the People Who Have it, Constable, published 2012, →ISBN:

“Mommy, I know that you don't suffer from ithyphallophobia, so you can stop pretending that you do.”

2013, Eric Jerome Dickey, Decadence, Dutton, →ISBN:

The fear of having or seeing an erect penis.


apeirophobia

My view is free from apeirophobia, the horror of the infinite, which colored so much of what was written at the beginning of this century about the foundations of mathematics.

1990, Reinhardt Grossman, The Fourth Way: A Theory of Knowledge, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 227:

The clearest evidence of Aristotle's apeirophobia is to be found in the Posterior Analytics, book 1, chapters 19-22.

1998, P. Christopher Smith, The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 192:

Apeirophobia (fear of infinity) seems here to prod thanatophobia (fear of death) and necrophobia (fear of corpses) into being and later nonbeing, […]

1999, Spencer Golub, Infinity (Stage), University of Michigan, published 2001, →ISBN, page 14:

2016, Bobby Azarian, "Apeirophobia: The Fear of Eternity", The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/apeirophobia-the-fear-of-eternity/498368/


sinophobia

Alternative letter-case form of Sinophobia


gynaecophobia

/ɡaɪnɪkəˈfəʊbɪə/

(psychology) An irrational fear of women.


iatrophobia

Though such iatrophobia has always been with us, it assumed an especially virulent form in the sixties.

1996, Leslie A. Fiedler, Tyranny of the Normal: Essays on Bioethics, Theology & Myth, page 114:

An abnormal or irrational fear of doctors or going to the doctor.


anthropophobia

From anthropo- + -phobia. Both elements are borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”) respectively.

uder

The affection is unlike anthropophobia, because this is characterized by dislike of men, and decided aversion to sexual intercourse.

1880, Edward Bliss Foote, Plain Home Talk about the Human System, 4th edition, page 438:

It was when anthropophobia set in, when he was made uneasy by people who walked too close to him, that, sagely viewing his list and seeing how many phobias were now checked, he permitted himself to rest.

He was suffering from anthropophobia, a typical Japanese symptom which shows alienation, and liberation, from the embracing community.

2004, Toshio Kawai, “Postmodern consciousness in the novels of Haruki Murakami,”, in The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society, →ISBN, page 97:

A profound fear of human beings, or of human society.


Americanophobia

The fear of or aversion to American people.


Sinophobia

Fear, hostility or aversion to China, Chinese people or Chinese culture.


sophophobia

/sɒfəˈfəʊbɪə/

Ancient Greek σοφῐ́ᾱ (sophíā, “learning, wisdom”) + English -phobia (“fear”); compare phobosophy

1995, July 24th: mary.elizabeth, sci.med.aids (Google group): From the Editor, 8:00am
Washington insiders should note that the new Presidential Advisory Council is the Administration’s second effort to form an advisory group. When one of the Administration’s staffers reviewed the original list of committee nominees, the President was informed that two of the nominees had already died and one was close to death. When I discussed the original nominations with the staffer who ultimately decided to protect the White House from this gaffe, I recommended that he let the deceased nominees go through to illustrate the Executive Office’s lack of sensibility of and sensitivity to the reality of the AIDS pandemic. If my advice would have been taken, President Clinton could have excused himself on the basis of his sophophobia.

2001, December 11th: Robert Knowles, ok.general (Google group): BumbleFrank Goes on Bended Knee, 10:36pm
Yeah, I’ve learned to downplay the “edgykashun” angle here. Especially since the vast majority of mine was obtained outside Oklahoma, where I might have been exposed to dangerous outside ideas.
Fortunately, my experience in ‛Bama taught me to recognize the symptoms of sophophobia, so I have learned to adapt and only reveal my “credentials” to those similarly endowed.
So, show me yours and I’ll show you mine.

“Justin, you don’t wanna mess with her,” the girl warned, “not only is she smart, she got 3 brothers who’ll kick the shit outa you once they get out the penitentiary. You’d better concentrate on your own case of sophophobia, Justin, and stop worryin whether Halle Jackson’s got a fear of sexual intercourse.”

2004, H.W. Benjamin, Mamasense, page 274:

A little-known fact is that one of the fastest growing phobias in modern America is ballistophobia — fear of bullets. Especially when they are fired directly at you! That fear is right up there with sophophobia — fear of learning. Today, a considerable number of school-age kids suffer terribly from this phobia.

2006, Albert R Koch, Help Mom with the Dishes: Lessons from Life’s Classroom, page 26:


Pakistanphobia

Their only lament is that the Indian leaders have been continuously busy inducing Pakistanphobia just for the fun of having a neighbour around to raise their accusing finger for the purpose of indoctrination.

1985, Pakistan & Gulf Economist (volume 4, part 2, page 5)

But as numbers of legal and illegal immigrants increased, the anti-Albanian propaganda receded gradually into the background and a Pakistanphobia took its place.

2019, C. Nadia Seremetakis, Sensing the Everyday: Dialogues from Austerity Greece:

(very rare) Hostility or aversion to Pakistan and/or Pakistani people.


batrachophobia

From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) + -phobia.


dendrophobia

/ˌdɛndɹəˈfəʊbɪə/


myrmecophobia

Ants are a special kind of bug. I think they are easily squashed by the foot; I'm sure I've unintentionally squashed a number of them with my feet in my adult life, and when I was a young child I believe I used to squash an occasional ant either for sport or more likely as a reaction to some feeling of myrmecophobia.

2001 January 30, R Fontana, “Re: nat”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

Possibly it was fear of ants, which by the way, is myrmecophobia.

2007, Claire Cook, Life's a Beach, Hyperion, →ISBN, page 134:

My wife suffers from myrmecophobia. I've spread enough toxic substances to turn our property into a superfund site.

2011 July 9, Max, “Re: Reviews On Roadtrek Motorhomes?”, in rec.outdoors.rv-travel (Usenet):


chronophobia

From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + φοβος (phobos, “fear”).

Fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.


gamophobia

He has on him a perpetual gamophobia, and an instinctive antipathy to births and marriages, which makes him carefully avoid that part of the newspapers in which they so constantly appear.

1808, Edward Dubois, Fashionable Biography; or, Specimens of Public Characters by a Connoisseur, W. Lewis (1808), page xlv

"I've got gamophobia," Anne said. "That's fear of marriage. I should've gotten it a lot sooner. My marriages had the shelf life of buttermilk."

1997, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, Random House, published 1997, →ISBN, page 243:

He explained that a recent University of Indiana study indicated that almost twice as many men as women had gamophobia, fear of marriage, but that almost twice as many women as men had genophobia, fear of sex.

2005, C. L. McGranaghan, The Analyst, a Corporate Novel, →ISBN, page 57:


peladophobia

Mention may also be made here to peladophobia, fear of baldness, particularly manifested in men. In the more severe cases of peladophobia, the social intercourse of the patient is much restricted, developing into what is virtually a phobia of society.

1925, Transactions of the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology of the American Medical Association at the Annual Session, page 190:

Andrew fears bald people (peladophobia). As a child, he inadvertently insulted a bald man in a grocery store and was promptly clapped on the ears by the old man and screamed at.

2008, James Garner, Arthur H. Bell, Phobias and How to Overcome Them: Understanding and Beating Your Fears, Castle Books, →ISBN, page 105:

You can have pluviophobia, the fear of being rained on, or peladophobia, the fear of bald people, but there is no medical term for the fear of doors.

2010, Vanessa Woods, Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo, Gotham Books, →ISBN:


aurophobia

If this be true, it certainly shows the power of suggestion, idiosyncrasy or aurophobia to an extent scarcely equaled by Mr. Bryan himself, who was said to be sorely distressed a short time ago on account of finding gold in his well.

1898, Western Druggist, volume 20, page 258:

Slaves are we then to a superstition — aurophobia — for there is never enough; fear of insecurity will not be remedied by any amount, whether counted in hundreds of thousands or millions.

1961, Morris Goldstein, Lift Up Your Life: A Personal Philosophy for Our Times, Philosophical Library, published 1961, page 87:

The other main reason for the aurophobia that prevails in many quarters is that the monetary use of gold implies fixed parities, […]

1972, Paul Einzig, A Textbook on Monetary Policy, Macmillan, page 223:

The fear of gold; by extension, the fear of wealth.


hagiophobia

As regards Michael Zilk, Father Aurelian was perfectly justified in assuming that he was possessed with a devil, since all the signs favored this presumption, such as sudden paroxysms, abnormal bodily strength, hagiophobia, or strange dread of holy things, and demoniac ecstasy.

1895 November, E. P. Evans, “Recent Recrudescence of Superstition”, in The Popular Science Monthly, page 73:

Perhaps they are afraid that veneration of the saints may lead to putting them in the place of God as objects of worship. If they ever outgrow this hagiophobia they may some day venerate the Gloomy Dean as a saint.

1930, Selden Peabody Delany, Why Rome, The Dial Press, page 54:

When in the midst of the growing antagonism pusillanimous purveyors recite segments from hagiology and incite the masses with hagiophobia the violence may become uncontrollable since its cause becomes a virtual crusade.

1970, Julian A. Joffe, Studies in the History of Civilization, Philosophical Library, published 1970, page 70:

The fear, dislike, or hatred of holiness and/or of holy things.


peniaphobia

From Ancient Greek πενία (penía, “poverty”) + -phobia. Related to Latin penuria (“poverty”).

Piggy banks are helpful for persons with "peniaphobia," an abnormal fear of poverty.

1994, Charlotte Foltz Jones, Mistakes That Worked, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 38:

Maybe you have peniaphobia, but God wants you live among and minister to the poor […]

1998, Brian Shipman, WWJD: Daily Time with Jesus, B & H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 358:

Our strategy is not driven by brobdingnagian principles: it is quite simply to excel in whatever we do and my personal optimism for the future stems from the knowledge that our entrepreneurial Agencies are driven to achieve. Perhaps this is due to peniaphobia but more likely it stems from a passion to establish the mission™ as the most respected and regarded Agency group in the UK.

2013, The Mission Marketing Group PLC, Interim Report 2013: For the Six Months Ended 30 June 2013, page 6:


arithmophobia

The irrational fear of numbers or arithmetic.


auroraphobia

He cured one white school teacher of acarophobia, or the fear of insects, and another of auroraphobia, or fear of the northern lights.

1981, Gerald Robert Vizenor, Earthdivers: tribal narratives on mixed descent, page 150:


pupaphobia

From Latin pūpa (“doll, puppet”) + -phobia.

Adie watched in horror: shadowy lives playing against living shadows. A sudden pupaphobia overtook her as she watched the boy volley, step out, recompile a few new lines of code, step back in and volley again.

2000, Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark: A Novel, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page unknown:

I explain to Brian—and Megan and her roommate Darren, who are also listening—that I ran into A. at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, where we’d just seen a puppet show. I’d confessed to A. that I had a mild, though not very committed, case of pupaphobia when he asked me how I liked the show.

2010 Summer, Jill Margo, “Getting Textual”, in Geist, volume 19, number 77, →ISSN, page 25:

When I first heard of pupaphobia, I thought it was a joke. Billy is the first and only pupaphobic that I have ever encountered in my life. That's why Billy makes frequent references to "sock puppets", because he's scared of them all.

2013 April 16, Benny4urThoughts, “Re: Typical Leftists: Party to celebrate Thatcher's death.”, in tx.guns (Usenet):

For anyone with coulrophobia (fear of clowns), pupaphobia (fear of puppets) or who merely wants a nights-are-getting-longer novel, here's one that'll chill you good. For you, “The Motion of Puppets” is a book to move on.

2016 October 15, Terri Schlichenmeyer, “New novel tells creepy tale of horror”, in Daily Corinthian, volume 120, number 249, page 5:

Hey kids, the word of the week is "pupaphobia"! Others may enjoy being frightened by chainsaw-wielding maniacs and cannibal clowns, but my Halloween is never complete without a murderous Muppet or two. Thankfully, a pair of events last Friday the 13th provided a perfect double feature of puppet perversity.

[2017 October 18, Seth Kubersky, “A weekend full of puppetry-themed entertainment is just the ticket, unless you’re pupaphobic”, in Orlando Weekly:


motorphobia

As a child with motorphobia, she used to grab her father's hand at the slightest sound of an approaching vehicle.

Fear or dislike of automobiles or riding in one.


maniaphobia

An abnormal fear of being distraught or mentally ill.


chrematophobia

From Ancient Greek χρῆμα (khrêma, “money”) + -phobia.

In other words, they are "cheap," and if fear of spending small amounts of money is a form of chrematophobia, then phobias abound in the world.

1999, David L. Weiner, Gilbert M. Hefter, Battling the Inner Dummy: The Craziness of Apparently Normal People, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 194:

While most would take wealth if it were offered, and chrematophobia (a morbid fear of money) is practically unheard of, most people limit their rise to riches by both their emotional immaturities and their sensibilities and humanness.

2001, Ron Jarrett, Discovering the Millionaire in Every Child: Mastering the Decisions That Define Your Life, Word Association Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:

The fear of money, clinically named chrematophobia, is perhaps the most widely known financial fear. At its extreme, chrematophobia produces symptoms such as dizziness, perspiration, loss of breath, nausea, dry mouth, heart palpitations, and the inability to think clearly.

2006, Kelvin E. Boston, Who's Afraid to Be a Millionaire?: Mastering Financial and Emotional Success, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 15:

The fear of money, spending money, or having too much or not enough money.


spheksophobia

From Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”) + -phobia.

A few episodes of harvesting ripe peaches and plums and getting viciously stung by the winged insects hiding inside the splitting fruit is more than sufficient to trigger a bout of spheksophobia, the fear of wasps.

2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, page 211:

I want to hear from others who are scared of being stung so they stay away from fun occasions to avoid the possibility.

2006 December 7, A MUZEing.., “It's nearly summer.. spheksophobia season!”, in Plenty Of Fish (Usenet), retrieved 2010-06-28:


bibliophobia

[…] yet even he could not stand against that sin when temporarily infected with the poison of Bibliophobia.

1818, Religio Christiani, a Churchman's Answer to Religio Clerici, quoted in The Gentleman's Magazine, October 1818, page 345:

What a tragic illness bibliophobia is!

1963, John B. Nicholson, “A Disease Known as Bibliophobia”, in Reading and the Art of Librarianship, published 1986, →ISBN, page 10:

E-literacy derives not from bibliophobia, then, but from the miraculous and evolving advent of digital technology, the Information Age and the Electronic Word.

2008, Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation, →ISBN, page 67:


mysophobia

An abnormal fear of uncleanliness, dirt, or contamination.


deipnophobia

People who heartily sympathise with the ‘deipnophobia’ of Gordon.

For those of us with deipnophobia—a fear of dining and dinner conversations—literally anything is more pleasant than a meal with friends.

2018 February 8, “'I Have A Severe Phobia—Here's What It's Like'”, in Women's Health:

For Krissy, the deipnophobia did not start after experiencing a traumatizing moment, but it was rather made by an accumulation of different experiences.

2018 April, “What It’s Like to Live with Deipnophobia”, in Best Womens Mag:

(rare) A fear of banquets or dinner parties.


caligynephobia

From Ancient Greek καλλι- (kalli-, “beautiful”) + Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “female”) + New Latin -phobia, from Latin, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

uder

[...] He looks over at me. “Whoa! Nice hair.” ¶ I pull down the visor and try not to laugh. My hair looks like I’ve stuck my finger in an electrical outlet. “Jake Jackson, you must get over your caligynephobia.” ¶ Jake raises his eyebrows. ¶ “Fear of beautiful women.” ¶ “I’m planning on working hard on that one in California. [...]”

2005, Dandi Daley Mackall, Love Rules, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,, →ISBN, page 27:

In contrast, if we consider the example of somebody who has a fear of beautiful women (caligynephobia!), then it does not seem outrageous to argue that this fear of beautiful women is somehow an inappropriate emotional reaction or even an emotional disorder.

2008, Mick Power, Tim Dalglesih, Cognition and Emotion: From Order to Disorder, Psychology Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 54:

Loveshyness is certainly not gynophobia, a fear of women in general, nor is it caligynephobia, a fear of beautiful women.

2009, Talmer Shockley, The Love-Shy Survival Guide, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, published 2009, →ISBN, page 19:


transphobia

en-noun

transphobia (usually uncountable, plural transphobias)

From trans- + -phobia or trans + -phobia.

This unusual reactivity and the selectivity observed can be explained as a consequence of the high transphobia of aryl and P-donor ligands […]

2002 December 2, José Vicente, Aurelia Arcas, Delia Bautista, M. Carmen Ramı́rez de Arellano, Mono- and di-nuclear complexes of ortho-palladated and -platinated 4,4′-dimethylazobenzene with bis(diphenylphosphino)methane. More data on transphobia. in the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, volume 663, issues 1-2, pages 164–172

The reactions of trans-[Pt(Mef)Br(PPh₃)₂] with AgBF₄ and Ph₃ECHC(O)R (E = P, R = Me, OMe, Ph; E = As, R = Me) afford only trans-[Pt(Mef){OC(=CHEPh₃)R}(PPh₃)₂] because the C-alkyl/C-ylide transphobia is greater than the C-alkyl/O-ylide transphobia and also because of the lower steric requirement of the O-ylide ligand.

2009, José Vicente, “Coordination chemistry of metal enolato complexes”, in Jacob Zabicky, editor, The chemistry of metal enolates, page 316:

In the symbiotic effect, a hard ligand tends to form ionic M-L bonds in which L retains more negative charge than in a soft ligand case, letting the metal ion keep more of its positive charge and hence attract additional hard ligands, […]. The antisymbiotic effect, also called transphobia, applies to pairs of high trans effect, soft ligands on a soft metal. Where a choice exists, there is a strong tendency for such ligands to avoid being mutually trans by becoming cis and preferring to have low trans effect, hard ligands trans to themselves.

2014, Robert H. Crabtree, The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, →ISBN, page 78:

(chemistry) The preference of pairs of high-trans effect soft ligands to avoid being mutually trans by becoming cis and having other low-trans effect hard ligands trans to themselves.


religiophobia

From Latin religiō (“moral obligation, worship”) and Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

uder

Hence it is not necessary for the scientists to develop a sort of religiophobia nor is it necessary for the religious man to develop an attitude of suspicion against science.

1937, A Chakravarti, Humanism and Indian Thought, G.S. Press, page 2

Racial groupthink and "religiophobia"...

In fact he reverses the issue of religiophobia by stating flatly that those who are not against him are for him!

A fear or hatred of religion, religious faith, religious people or religious organisations.


computerphobia

en-noun

computerphobia (usually uncountable, plural computerphobias)

As to the Internetphobia from your shop owner, I wonder if it is a fear of losing business to Internet merchants? OTOH, it could be just an extension of the computerphobia many people have.

1996 April 24, OneMTHead, “Re: Local Store Upset”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet), message-ID <4llq1q$hse@newsbf02.news.aol.com>:

Fear or irrational dislike of computers; cyberphobia.


musophobia

From Latin mūs (“mouse”) or Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “mouse”) + -phobia.


kenophobia

From Ancient Greek κενός (kenós, “empty”) + -phobia.

"You're not taking this seriously," Cuneo complained. "Just imagine if the love of your life turned out to be an illusion. With a horse's backside, a horse's teeth and a brain that was presumably reeling from kenophobia."

2015, Nina George, translated by Simon Pare, The Little Paris Bookshop, page 209:


scotophobia

He also suffered from hypsophobia, a certain fear of elevated places, and the typical scotophobia and phasmophobia associated with churches, graveyards and solitary places in the dark of night.

2008, E a Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World, volume 2, page 55:


sesquipedalophobia

But sesquipedalophobia ('hatred or fear of big words,' aptly enough) has prevailed, even among men of learning.

That hasn't helped my sesquipedalophobia one bit...

2002 March 6, derm, “Re: Are You Somebody? by O'Faolaint”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):

Ayesha was like a walking dictionary of phobias. She believed that I had sesquipedalophobia – the fear of long words.

2008, Abhijit Bhaduri, Married But Available, HarperCollins (2012), →ISBN:


herpetophobia

From Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “creeping animal”) + -phobia.

der

Fear of reptiles, amphibians, and similar animals.


vermiphobia

From Latin vermis (“worm”) + -phobia: Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

An abnormal or irrational fear of worms or being infected by worms.


nosophobia

en-noun

nosophobia (usually uncountable, plural nosophobias)

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pulmonary tuberculosis

An excessive or irrational fear of contracting a disease, such as: HIV/AIDS, pulmonary tuberculosis, venereal diseases, cancer, and heart diseases.


nomophobia

The persons of whom I speak have a terror of the very name and mention of the law. They are the morbid subjects of a kind of nomophobia, being in danger of going into fits at every allusion to it[...].

1857, Ralph Wardlaw, James R. Campbell, Systematic theology, volume 3, page 180:

Seen in this light, his antisemitism appears in its ultimate essence as a nomophobia, a revolt against the divinely sanctioned moral law or, religiously speaking, a revolt against God.

1985, Edward H. Flannery, The anguish of the Jews: twenty-three centuries of antisemitism, →ISBN, page 292:

Despite the danger of the narrowing of discipleship to activism of some kind, the end result here is not acquiescence into Enlightenment autonomy. It is not what may be termed 'nomophobia' (neurotic fear of law or command) though much of that is about.

2002, Stanley E. Porter, Anthony R. Cross, Dimensions of baptism: biblical and theological studies, →ISBN, page 247:


nomophobia

From a contraction of no mobile + -phobia, possibly a pun on homophobia.

There was a second article saying that people apparently suffered from Nomophobia – the fear of not having your mobile turned on – which in the Professor's opinion simply proved that they needed to get a life.

2008, Peter Armstrong, Cell-out, page 14:

Alektorophobia, like metrophobia (the fear of poetry) or the disorder nomophobia (the fear of being out of cell-phone contact), is completely irrational.

2014, Blythe Woolston, edited by Leah Wilson, Divergent Thinking: YA Authors on Veronica Roth's Divergent Trilogy, page 115:

AT&T, for example, has sought to turn “nomophobia”—a fear of being unable to communicate for lack of a cell phone—into a vehicle for sales; see Geoff Colvin, “Building a Super‐Brand— Superfast: What's the Secret of Survival These Days? Change Quickly, Says AT&T's Marketing Chief, Along with Your Customer," Fortune September 3, 2012, 60-64.

2014, Luis Suarez-Villa, Corporate Power, Oligopolies, and the Crisis of the State, footnote, page 260:

(colloquial) The fear of not having a functioning mobile phone.


monophobia

monophobia (countable and uncountable, plural monophobias)

Any phobia relating to a single specific thing, such as spiders or heights.


nosocomephobia

From Ancient Greek νοσοκομεῖον (nosokomeîon, “hospital”) + -phobia.

der

(medicine) An abnormal fear of hospitals.


trypanophobia

From Ancient Greek τρῡ́πανον (trū́panon, “borer, trepan”) + -phobia. By surface analysis, trypano- + -phobia.

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An irrational fear of medical procedures (such as injection) using needles.


xanthophobia

One function of xanthophobia in loggerhead hatchlings may be to reduce the attraction of light sources with a substantial participation of long-wavelength light.

1991 December 13, Blair E. Witherington, Karen A. Bjorndal, “Influences of Wavelength and Intensity on Hatchling Sea Turtle Phototaxis: Implications for Sea-Finding Behavior”, in Copeia, volume 1991, number 4, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, pages 1067–8:

The aversion to yellow light, or xanthophobia, that loggerhead hatchlings show sets them apart from other sea turtle species.

1996, in FMRI Technical Reports number 2, Florida Marine Research Institute, page 10

In contrast, loggerhead hatchlings showed an aversion to light in the green-yellow to yellow region of the spectrum (560 to 600 nm) (Figure 5.2). Although this xanthophobia (yellow light aversion) is unique to loggerheads, green turtles are less strongly attracted to yellow light than to light of other wavelengths.

1997, Kenneth J. Lohmann et al., “Orientation, Navigation, and Natal Beach Homing in Sea Turtles”, chapter 5 of John A. Musick et al. (editors), The Biology of Sea Turtles, CRC Press, page 111


trypophobia

/ˌtɹɪpəˈfəʊbi.ə/

From Ancient Greek τρῦπα (trûpa, “hole”), compare Ancient Greek τρυπάω (trupáō, “bore”), + -phobia (from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear, phobia”)), said to have been coined by a blogger from Ireland in 2005.

der

Images of lotus seed heads are often reported as inducing trypophobia. Sufferers of trypophobia report that it is the visual percept that is particularly aversive.

2013 October, G[eoff] G. Cole, A[rnold] J. Wilkins, “Fear of Holes”, in Psychological science, volume 24, number 10, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1980–1985:

2015, Irena Milosevic, Trypophobia (Fear of Holes), Irena Milosevic, Randi E. McCabe (editors), Phobias: The Psychology of Irrational Fear, ABC-CLIO (Greenwood), page 401,
In particular, individuals with trypophobia are fearful of clusters of holes that are found in a variety of objects and matter such as skin, coral, honeycombs, seed pods, and even aerated chocolate.

(psychology) An irrational or obsessive fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, such as those found in honeycombs.

集合体恐怖症

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haphephobia

/ˌhæfɪˈfəʊbiə/

From Ancient Greek ἁφή (haphḗ, “touch”) from ἅπτω (háptō, “I touch”) + -phobia.

It is necessary to distinguish haphephobia from the syndrome described under the name of délire de toucher, the emotional disturbance produced especially after contact.

1894, Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, volume 2, unnumbered page:

[…] He realizes that his goal is a loving relationship with you. It's that simple, and that's what we're working on now. Of course there are obstacles—his haphephobia, for one."
His what? I gasp.
“I'm sorry. I mean his fear of being touched," Dr. Flynn says, shaking his head as if scolding himself. […]

2011, E. L. James, Fifty Shades Darker, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 412:

My hair stood on end all over my body and my haphephobia, the fear of being touched, kicked into full gear.

2013, Leesia Lindsay, “Paranormal Encounters”, in From Every Corner, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 10:


lipophobia

The new generation avoided fixed itineraries, stayed in cheap hotels or hostels, and (unaffected by the lipophobia of later generations) lived on bread, cheese, and paté.

1998, Harvey A Levenstein, Seductive journey: American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age:

The most audacious example of chicken meat being used to position a company comes with Kentucky Fried Chicken's rebirth as KFC in 1993; the primary purpose of which was to lose its image as the 'fried food king'. Once again, both the 1980s lipophobia movement and the broad consumer movement can claim the credit.

2002, Jane Dixon, The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture:

They can be as prone to lipophobia (the irrational fear of fat) as the population as a whole.

2012, Ellyn Satter, How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not Too Much, page 135:


osmophobia

A heightened dislike or sensitivity to smells


Catalanophobia

Villaverde's refusal to concede a concierto económico to the region, backed by a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, brought on a taxpayers' strike in Barcelona and throughout Catalonia, coupled with the closure of shops.

1979, European studies review, volume 9, Macmillan, page 15:

Against a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, the middle classes of the Principality, represented in their guilds (gremios), retaliated by declaring a taxpayers' strike and the closure of all shops, a movement which became known as the tancament de caixes.

1990, Élites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Carr, Eds. Frances Lannon and Paul Preston, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 52:

Yet in a mood of catalanophobia, stirred up by sections of the Madrid press against separatist tendencies in the Principality, Catalan proposals for the economic regeneration of Spain were rejected as special pleading.

2000, Joseph Harrison, “Tackling national decadence: economic regeneration in Spain after the colonial débâcle,”, in Spain's 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-Colonialism, Eds. Joseph Harrison and Alan Hoyle, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 61:

(rare) Dislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.

catalanofòbia

Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language


entomophobia

en-noun

entomophobia (usually uncountable, plural entomophobias)

Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods


homichlophobia

From Ancient Greek ὁμίχλη (homíkhlē, “mist, fog”) + New Latin -phobia, from Latin, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

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[…] as dense as the fog surrounding the house, outside through the window, sucking the crepuscular light up into the spooky mist, homichlophobia augmenting the turmoil.

2010, Bill Smith, Rant and Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Willmott, Charivari, published 2011, →ISBN, page 390:

Thick fog rolled in and swallowed Abby whole. Unable to see her outstretched hand, she clenched her jaw to stop her teeth from chattering. Homichlophobia — the fear of fog.

2012, Scott Cramer, Night of the Purple Moon, Train Renoir Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN:

“Necrophobia—fear of death and dead bodies. There's, like, hundreds of different phobias you could have. Know what homichlophobia is?”
Sousa shook his head. “No freakin' idea.”
“Fear of fog,” the slender EMT said. […]

2012, Jon Loomis, Fire Season, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:

I responded, ... “I never knew Burl had to fear fog, or anything else for that matter.”
“Homichlophobia,” she spat[.]

2019, Steve Herndon, “Draw the Latch”, in Beyond the Periphery, Xlibris US, →ISBN:


anti-Americanism

The fear or dislike of people, policies, culture or government of the United States.

antiamerikanizëm

the fear or dislike of the United States or American people, policies, culture or government


sissyphobia

Although a cultural reaction has begun to set in, sissyphobia still dominates present societal thinking which regards with diffidence most sensitivity, creativity, tender demeanor and confidingly close same-sex friendships in males.

1974, John F. Oliven, Clinical sexuality: a manual for the physician and the professions:

I have built my model from feminist tenets because, although as Doyle (1983), Herek (1987) and others have noted, sissyphobia is derived via projection from both misogyny and from homophobia[…]

1993, Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger, Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader, page 164:

Rather than merely producing a simulacrum of past decades, however, this synthetic utopia rewrites the Israeli masculinity and effeminates the cultural national agenda in regard to the politics of effeminacy, sissyness, and sissyphobia […]

2009, Temple University. School of Communications and Theater, Communication abstracts (volume 32, issue 1)

A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.

plomafòbia

negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way


friggatriskaidekaphobia

From Frigga (an English variant of Old Norse Frigg, the Norse goddess for whom Friday was named) + triskaideka- + -phobia.

The fear of Friday the thirteenth, or friggatriskaidekaphobia, takes the thirteen superstition to a whole new level.

2012, R. W. A. Mitchell, Ask a Little-Learn a Lot: How Questions Change Everything, iUniverse, published 2012, →ISBN, page 90:

Friggatriskaidekaphobia is probably the most common superstition in the United States; according to researchers, it affects 17 to 21 million people.

2013, Sara Latta, Scared Stiff: Everything You Need to Know About 50 Famous Phobias, Zest Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 186:

So I started Googling, and I found some interesting information about “friggatriskaidekaphobia.” (That's the actual term for the condition of the fear of Friday the thirteenth. […]

2013, Rachel Wise, Breaking News, Simon Spotlight, published 2013, →ISBN, page 2:


Arabophobia

Fear, hate, or dislike of Arabs and their culture


Negrophobia

‘But,’ says Gilroy, ‘negrophilia and negrophobia can be intertwined. [Colin] MacInnes seems to have imprisoned black people in his exotic conceptions of their blackness. […]’

2007 April 14, Ed Vulliamy, quoting Paul Gilroy, “Absolute MacInnes”, in The Guardian:

(somewhat derogatory) The fear, hate, or dislike of black people of any descent, usually Africans.

negerphobie

the fear, hate or dislike of black people


Hispanophobia

fear, hatred of, hostility or discrimination against Spaniards, Hispanic (Spanish) people or culture.


genophobia

The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.


Cymrophobia

Welshmen, as in this very case of Pistol versus Fluellen, do not always stand quiet to have their leeks knocked about their pates — so the angry Saxon adopts other, and perhaps safer modes of giving vent to his Cymrophobia.

1864 March, “St. David's Day”, in London Society, volume 5, number 28, page 221:

Paradoxically, while most immigrants of other ethnic origins are welcomed and proud to be "British", Cymrophobia still persists hundreds of years after the Anglo-Saxons labelled the original Britons as "Welch", or foreigners.

2006 April 11, Glynne Rowlands, “Letters: Touchy about Cymrophobia”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Guardian:

To stretch the analogy further, the English are akin to a rich and powerful family in the Big House, while the Welsh hunker down in the bwthyn, on the estate's western edge. In many ways, the attitude of the English over the years has mirrored this analogy, being characterised, at best, by a pompous paternalism and, at worst, by outright condescension and outrageous Cymrophobia.

2007, Mike Parker, Neighbours from Hell, →ISBN, page 11:

The hatred or fear of Wales, Welsh people or the Welsh language.


Armenophobia

Fear, dislike, or hatred of the Armenians, Republic of Armenia and the Armenian culture

հայատյացություն

the fear, dislike of, hatred or aversion to the Armenians, Republic of Armenia and the Armenian culture


nyctohylophobia

Such was the great man's nyctohylophobia (fear of dark wooded places and forests) he divided his garden into a very formal area where he felt safer and rougher woodland of which he was fearful.

2002, Country Life, volume 196, page 88:

I didn't suffer from nyctohylophobia but if I did this would have been the time and place where I would have been reduced to a screaming pile of shot nerves on the forest floor.

2008, Bill Wonders, Orion Too, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 131:

Related to dendrophobia but less well known are hylophobia (fear of forests), nyctohylophobia (fear of dark wooded areas or forests at night) and xylophobia (fear of wooden objects).

2013, Peter Young, Oak, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 118:

The fear of dark forests or wooded areas.


aphobia

a- + (from asexual or aromantic) + -phobia

Where aphobia goes wrong is that it assumes that some ace people 'pass' as straight, and therefore experience no discrimination.

2017, Ariel Scott, “Stop Saying It's Asexual Because That's Not What It Means”, in ShOUT Zine, page 12:

Pathologizing non-conformity to sexual norms and medicalizing the distress caused by aphobia are harmful and oppressive practices.

2017, Eléa, "Anything but lacking: How asexuality can disrupt sex-normativity", The McGill Daily (McGill University), 20 November 2017, page 14

Amatonormativity—or the assumption and expectation that everyone seeks romantic love (which is generally, incorrectly, assumed to involve sexual desire by default) and prioritizes romance over other forms of intimacy—fuels aphobia.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 30:

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of asexual and/or aromantic people.


Romaphobia

/ˌɹəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/


Christianophobia

The need to take greater account than in the past of two developments in measures to combat racism and discrimination: the increasing intertwining of race, ethnicity, culture and religion, and the rise of anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and Islamophobia[…]

2009, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter, Heaven Forbid, page 56:

The fear or hatred of Christians or Christianity.


blennophobia

From Ancient Greek βλέννος (blénnos, “mucus, slime”) + -phobia, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

"Well, maybe what you've really got is blennophobia — fear of slime," he said.

2002, Kate White, If Looks Could Kill, Warner Books, Inc., →ISBN:

He approaches with snurffly sounds and a twitching nose, and your blennophobia (fear of slime) kicks in, producing a hurried word of encouragement and a carrot.

2003, Joanne M. Friedman, It's a Horse's Life!: Advice and Observations for the Humans Who Choose to Share It, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 40:

Oh, they seem to be the picture of contentment, tripping about with their triple-sanitized trowels and weeding forks, but in reality these neatniks are a seething cauldron of aversions. They're beset by blennophobia, the fear of slime, and spend long hours plotting the annihilation of slugs and snails.

2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 208:

(very rare) The irrational fear of slime.


lesbophobia

Fear, dislike, or hatred of lesbians (female homosexuals).