thalassophobia

“I have been endeavoring all the winter to reason away my antipathy to the sea in order to avail myself of a very favorable occasion I now have of passing it—but I have a kind of thalassophobia that resists all kind of argument”

1815, William Short, Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1815:

1937 George M. Gould. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine. Sydenham Publishers, New York
Thalassophobia is the fear of the view of immense spaces or uninterrupted expanses. The Emperor Heraclius, at the age of fifty-nine, had an insurmountable fear of the view of the sea; and it is said that when he crossed the Bosphorus a bridge of boats was formed, garnished on both sides with plants and trees, obscuring all view of the water over which the Emperor peacefully traversed on horseback.
The moralist Nicole, was equally a thalassophobe, and always had to close his eyes at the sight of a large sheet of water, when he was seized with trembling in all his limbs. Occasionally some accident in youth has led to an aversion to traversing large sheets of water, and there have been instances in which persons who have fallen into the water in childhood have all their lives had a terror of crossing bridges.

The polka dots are scars left by the cookiecutter shark, a thalassophobia-inducing creature with jaws designed to remove round plugs of flesh.

2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic:

A morbid fear of the sea or, more generally, deep water such as lakes.


tokophobia

/ˌtəʊkəˈfəʊbi.ə/

From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos, “birth”) + -φοβία (-phobía, “fear”).

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As soon as Dr Guy Glass cured Rebecca of her tokophobia, the place would be full of children.

2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 200:

A multitude of stories are required, not just to help those telling them to work out their own narratives, or to help those looking for information, but to challenge tokophobia by enriching and complicating our cultural understanding of childbirth.

2018 September 23, Eva Wiseman, “Mumsnet forums are a guilty pleasure, but there are truths, too”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A morbid fear of childbirth or pregnancy.


gayphobia

Homophobia concerns lesbians (lesbophobia), gay men (gayphobia), bisexual people (biphobia), and transgender people (transphobia).

2010, Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology, page 524:

In fact, gayphobia occupied more media space than lesbophobia.

2017, Kristina Schulz, The Women's Liberation Movement: Impacts and Outcomes, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 164:


germophobia

By surface analysis, germ + -o- + -phobia.


enochlophobia

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

2003 January 31, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney:


moralphobia

/mɔːɹəl ˈfəʊbi.ə/

An irrational fear of doing something that could be perceived by others as wrong


pteronophobia

From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “feather”) + -phobia.

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Then there are the phobes whose fear of birds is combined with a fear of feathers, pteronophobia.
One case of bird-and-feathers phobia involved a woman in her thirties who was too frightened to go outside.

1986, Brent Filson, There's a Monster in Your Closet!: Understanding Phobias, Julius Messner, →ISBN, page 55:

It is easy, for example, for a person to live with pteronophobia, aulophobia, or batrachophobia. One simply stays away from feathers, flutes, and frogs!

1989, Josie Hadley, Carol Staudacher, Hypnosis for Change, New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN, page 98:

'Um ... pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled with feathers, I think . . . '

2005, Anna Dale, Dawn Undercover, Bloomsbury, published 2006, →ISBN, page 291:


Canadaphobia

BTW, have you noticed that the xenophobia regularly shown on South Park goes way overboard when the topic is Canada? Then it becomes Canadaphobia. Are Canadians offended by this?

2001 June 11, Aaron Hirshberg, “Re: OT Surrender Canada”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet):

Note to National Public Radio listeners: The preceding comment was meant as a joke and a dig at Roedy. It is not meant to seriously endorse the conquest of Canada. NPR will be standing by with smooth jazz and the favorite show, "All Things Considered" should Lockwood's "Canadaphobia" prove troublesome for some listeners.

2001 September 29, John Lockwood, “Re: Roedy's Screams...”, in comp.lang.java.advocacy (Usenet):

It's little wonder that Canadaphobia crops up among USAians, given the insufferable and boorish pig-ignorance displayed by a small contingent of Canadian commentators, typified by the Axis of Evil, Skelton and Allardice, as prize a pair of loutish lads as you'll ever meet.

2006 February 2, TOliver, “Re: Joint Chiefs Send Rare Protest Letter to 'Wash Post' Over'Reprehensible' Toles Cartoon”, in alt.books.tom-clancy (Usenet):

Fear or hatred of Canada, its citizens, and/or its culture.


koumpounophobia

Mrs Rose said that from time to time psychiatrists had asked her whether their clients suffering from koumpounophobia, or fear of buttons, could visit the shop in Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia.

2011 December 2, Josh Loeb, “Button Maker Maureen Rose plans to celebrate Charles Dickens's bicentenary with unique design”, in West End Extra:

Years ago, I worked with the parents of a three-year-old with koumpounophobia, a fear of buttons. She violently refused to wear anything with buttons and screamed if her mom approached with buttons on her shirt.

2012, Diana R. Boggia, Parenting with a Purpose: Inspiring, Positive Alternatives to Reach and Teach Your Child How to Behave, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 79:

Meet mother-of-one Louisa Francis, whose bizarre phobia means she is terrified of buttons.
The 30-year-old panics if faced with one, and is forced to flee if they are placed too near to her.
To most people they are harmless but for Louisa they are a source of fear - because she has koumpounophobia.

2012, Leon Watson, "Unusual phobia of mother, 30, who is paralysed by fear when she sees… BUTTONS, Daily Mail, 8 March 2012

The fear of buttons (clothing fasteners).


fatphobia

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This is because medical authorities and proponents of public health are drawing from and amplifying the Western cultural fear and loathing of fatness, or fatphobia, with claims about a global 'obesity epidemic' (WHO 1998).

2008, Lee F. Monaghan, Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study, Routledge, published 2008, →ISBN, page 1:

Celebrity culture is intricately tied to fatphobia.

2009, Crystal Renn, Marjorie Ingall, Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

From long-lost high school friends found on Facebook to total strangers whom I'll probably never meet in person, I get asked questions from where to buy a good bra (my minimizer days are dead and buried) to how to deal with a spouse's fatphobia.

2012, Abby Weintraub, “Truce”, in Virgie Tovar, editor, Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion, Seal Press, →ISBN:

There are a lot of ways for people in the obese/eligible category to feel about it: […] Ambivalent about fatphobia in medicine working in their favor, for once.

2021 March 9, Maura Judkis, “People are getting vaccinated due to their BMI. They have mixed feelings about it”, in Washington Post:

Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.

Fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat.


leporiphobia

For quotations using this term, see Citations:leporiphobia.


batophobia

Batophobia, or fear that high things will fall, is not uncommon, and is matched by the perhaps still more common fear that one may fall off high places should one be perched on an altitude, or on the top of a bridge, or walking along cliffs.

1912, Edwin Ash, Nerves and the Nervous, Brentano's, page 23:

Batophobia is the specific fear of high objects, such as tall buildings. Batophobia may be related to acrophobia — the fear of high places, or to anablepophobia — the fear of looking up at high places.

1995, Mir M. Ali, Paul J. Armstrong, Architecture of Tall Buildings, McGraw-Hill, published 1995, →ISBN, page 303:

That doesn’t seem to be a problem for the wealthy investors who are wiring millions of dollars to New York to snatch up a piece of 157 West 57th Street — what will be New York City’s tallest residential building, with 90 floors overlooking Central Park.
A bigger worry for these buyers may be acrophobia (fear of heights) or batophobia (fear of being near an object of great height, like a skyscraper).

2012 February 3, Alexei Barrionuevo, “The World at Its Feet”, in The New York Times:

The fear of high objects or of high objects falling down.


ophiophobia

From ophio- (“snake”) + -phobia (“fear of”).


sonophobia

Patients with this condition often develop so-called sonophobia marked by fears of and/or aversions to sounds that individuals with normal hearing tolerate easily and find innocuous.

2013, David Brian Arciniegas, Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 403, →ISBN:

There is no aura, there is some photophobia, sonophobia, and he goes to bed if possible.

1999, Bernard Swerdlow, Whiplash and Related Headaches, Boca Raton: CRC-Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 595, →ISBN:

Like migraine headache, hemicrania continua is associated with nausea and vomiting, as well as sonophobia and phonophobia.

2019 September 19, Steven D. Waldman, Atlas of Uncommon Pain Syndromes E-Book, Amsterdam: Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11, →ISBN:

An unusual fear of sounds (especially loud noises).


pogonophobia

From pogono- + -phobia. First use appears c. 1852.

(rare) A strong dislike or aversion to beards or beardedness.


climacophobia

From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase”) + New Latin -phobia, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

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Lucy: Are you afraid of staircases? If you are, then you have climacophobia.

1965, Charles M. Schulz, A Charlie Brown Christmas, 05:46-05:51:

I myself have recently developed mild climacophobia (fear of falling downstairs). Don't know why, but I'm convinced that someday I'll fall down a flight of stairs and hurt myself badly.

2001 August 16, Leigh Butler, “TAN: Phobias (was Re: TAN: Summer Reading recommendations)”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):

I once knew a tall kyphophobic man,
Who was sick of stooping so low;
Sadly he developed climacophobia,
When he moved from his bungalow.

2004, Natalie Kristina Goldstraw, “Phobos”, in Superlative: Echoes of the Postmodern Condition, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 103:

The fear of staircases or of falling down stairs.


Russophobic

en-adj

Russophobic (comparative more Russophobic, superlative most Russophobic)

more Russophobic (comparative)
most Russophobic (superlative)


wikiphobia

Wikiphobia arises out of some level of fear or dislike of the wiki.

2008, Stewart Mader, Wikipatterns, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:

Here Comes Everybody is as crisply argued and as enlightening a book about the internet as has been written. It might even cure your wikiphobia.

2008 March 28, Julian Dibbell, “Wikiphobia and Web 2.0”, in The Telegraph:

Understand the cultural shift that needs to occur – wikiphobia is real.

2011, Government of British Columbia, "UX Toolbox: Building Better Web for Citizens", page 76


Santaphobia

You've done it again. It's practically Christmas Eve, and you haven't bought a single present. What's with you? Santaphobia?

1997 December 9, Anne Stockwell, Alan Frutkin, “More stuff for your stockings”, in The Advocate, page 66:

"The reason people dread Christmas — Santaphobia — is that it is a time of tradition, a time that arouses all kinds of memories," said Dr. Ponce.

1999, "Christmas scares the HELL out of millions of Americans", Weekly World News (satire), 21 December 1999, page 30

Even with 3 poses, it's not always easy to get a "natural" look. This one is the best we could manage. When we say "smile" to the kids they really exaggerate it. You can see that Delanie still hadn't gotten over her Santaphobia.

2002 December 23, © Mike, “Trio Visits Santa”, in alt.fan.mark-brian (Usenet):

(humorous) The fear of Santa Claus or Christmas.


gingerphobia

Last night, Tate staged a nice running gag on racism by creating a world in which the majority had an irrational hatred of "gingers", meaning redheads. Women of that persuasion were forced to hide from gingerphobia in Russet Lodge, a "ginger refuge".

2005 July 22, Ian Bell, “Those who pay the PR rarely get to call a tune as perfect as this one”, in The Herald, Glasgow:

There is a phenomenon called "gingerism" (prejudices against red-headed people) and "gingerphobia" (fear of red-headedness) in Scotland today.

2007 August 9, “Genetics Gets to the Roots of Why It Is Better to Be Red Than Dead in Cold Climates”, in Cape Times, South Africa:

Although Western civilisation needs new categories of thought-crime like a hole in the head, the idea of gingerphobia as a hate crime is probably no more absurd than many other categories.

2013 January 9, Ed West, “Why is gingerism so common in Britain?”, in The Telegraph:

(UK, informal) Fear, dislike, or hatred of people with red hair.


Dubyaphobia

A new disease of the nervous system is afflicting millions of voting-age Americans: Dubyaphobia.

2000 October 29, Jeff Cramer (quoting Michael Betzold of Common Dreams), “Dubyaphobia And It's Cure”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

If Dubyaphobia does not become widespread and cause Bush to be defeated in the upcoming presidential election, Hillary will be running against a republican nobody in the 2008 election year, and might actually win.

2003 September 17, GRaleigh345, “Re: True lies”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):

The _Jewish Post_ webmonger didn't put a date on that piece that I can find, but it must have been published before Mr. Soros succumbed to acute dubyaphobia: there is no mention of his latest mental illness.

2004 May 20, John H. McCloskey, “Re: Why Soros Hates Bush”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):

(informal) The fear or hatred of George W. Bush.


anatidaephobia

From Anatidae + -phobia. Coined by Gary Larson in 1988 in a Far Side comic.

My regards to the ducks who watched me as I worked and gently encouraged me to stay on track. Even mild anatidaephobia has its uses.

2010, Amber K, True Magick: A Beginner's Guide, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 9:

Worse than that, Thomas himself suffered from anatidaephobia, the fear that you were being watched by a duck. As a youth, every time those Aflac commercials came on, Thomas had to retreat to his room in anguish.

2013, Montgomery Trevour Halle-Bouern, Objects in the Mirror Aka Vulture Culture, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 16:

For example, Aflac, the insurance company, posted an ad featuring their duck mascot on the same page as an article about anatidaephobia—the fear that you are being watched by a duck (Figure 1.2).

2014, Ahava Leibtag, The Digital Crown: Winning at Content on the Web, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN:

(humorous) The fear that one is being constantly watched by a duck.


atelophobia

/əˌtɛləˈfəʊbɪə/

/əˌtɛləˈfoʊbɪə/

The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.


bozophobia

Bozo (a famous American clown character) + -phobia

Do not go to the Ringling Museum of the Circus if you suffer from bozophobia.

1978, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Amazing America: A Guide to Over 600 Sights, Random House, →ISBN, page 156:

I hate clowns, clowns suck, clowns are big, mean scary people, who deserve to get the crap beat out of them like no one else deserves to. (Except maybe mimes) Bozophobia aside, I really like this: it's fast, it's well played, […]

1995, Maximum Rocknroll, Issue 148, unknown page

No explanation has yet been given for Anya's lapinaphobia, anymore than for Willow's ranidophobia, or Xander's bozophobia.

2002 May 14, William George Ferguson, “Re: Question from a newbie”, in aus.tv.buffy (Usenet):

(informal, humorous) The fear of clowns.


clownophobia

A facile, pop-psych explanation would unearth the roots of clownophobia in childhood traumas.

1997, Ashley Crawford, Ray Edgar, editors, Transit Lounge: An Interface Book from 21.C, North Ryde, →ISBN, page 174:

While most of us see Ronald McDonald as a nice corporate symbol, the 8% of the population that suffers from clownophobia (more properly called coulrophobia) view him as evil incarnate.

2003, Richard Crouse, The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 130:

Seriously, my girlfriend said the exact same thing when I told her she was far from alone in her clownophobia.

2003 December 20, Brian Christgau, “Re: OT -- Clowns... creepy?”, in misc.writing.screenplays (Usenet):


Ukrainophobia

The fear, hostility or prejudice towards Ukrainians or Ukraine.


demophobia

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “common people”) + -phobia.

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

2003 January 31, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney:

(rare) A phobia, or fear, of crowds, masses, or people.


cisphobia

One could then speak of 'cisphobia' or 'heterophobia', claiming adequate protection for cisgender and straight persons.

2012, Laura Palazzani, Gender in Philosophy and Law, Springer, published 2012, →ISBN, page 101:

Piers Morgan has claimed to be the “victim of cisphobia” after several members of the transgender community blasted his ignorance on Twitter.

2014 February 6, Jenn Selby, “Piers Morgan claims he’s a ‘victim of cisphobia’ after transgender community blast his ignorance on Twitter”, in The Independent:

Most of the time this leads to white boys screaming about cisphobia and reverse racism, but that's the post when everyone just ignores them and lets them wallow in their ignorance.

2014, Sydney Valenzuela, "The addictive and intricate qualities of the underdog networking site, Tumblr", Eye of the Tiger (Roseville High School, Roseville, California), Volume 12, Issue 9, 24 February 2014, page 10

Fear or hatred of cissexuality or cisgenderism, or of cis individuals.

cisfòbia

fear or hatred of cissexuality or cissgenderism


vegephobia

We may even carry some "vegephobia" with us from childhood, remembering Mom and those lima beans.

1997 March, Mary Carroll, “The High Five”, in Vegetarian Times, page 52:

Whether you have your own “vegephobia” to overcome or want to prepare family meals that everyone will eat, it's time to meet your vegetables all over again — and fall in love this time.

2010, Beth Bader, Ali Benjamin, The Cleaner Plate Club: Raising Healthy Eaters One Meal at a Time, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:

2013, Mark Allerton, "Apart from shortness, vegephobia and addiction to technology, how are children different?", in Children's Court of NSW Resource Handbook, →ISBN, page 23 (used in title only)

(informal) The fear or dislike of vegetables.


gnomophobia

Pop superstar Elton John says "gnomophobia" is partly to blame for the delay in getting his animated film, "Gnomeo and Juliet," brought to life.

2009 May 26, “Elton John, Ont. premier announce animation funding”, in CTV News:

“It’s good to confront the received wisdom that all gnomes are nasty,” Mr. Llewelyn-Bowen said. Referring to his wife, he added: “Also, Jackie has had to overcome her poshness and confront her gnomophobia.”

2013 May 20, Sarah Lyall, “Common Gnomes Pop Up at Rarefied Flower Show, to Horror of Many”, in The New York Times:

As for me, I’m a fence sitter. The little red-shirted men sitting with fishing poles beside ponds are — ouch — insufferably cute. Yet I also think there is way too much snobbery in gardening.
So if our gnomophobia is waning, that’s surely a good thing.

2014 March 29, Sonia Day, “Gnomes back in gardeners’ good graces: The Real Dirt”, in Toronto Star:

(informal, humorous) A fear or dislike of garden gnomes.


Latinophobe

The local intellectual elite, which derived its tradition from the Nicaean reaction to Latin domination, the so-called "Hellenic renaissance," was becoming progressively more Greek in spirit and correspondingly more Latinophobe.

Exhibiting Latinophobia, fear, dislike or prejudice against Latinos or those who are Hispanic or Latin American.


Latinophobe

This also shows the reason for using Latin names, to avoid confusion with the varying popular ones. A few examples such as "syringa-philadelphus-lilac" make even the most confirmed Latinophobe see glimmerings of light!

One who fears or hates the Latin language.

One who exhibits Latinophobia, fear, dislike or prejudice against Latinos or those who are Hispanic or Latin American.


acephobia

It’s important to talk about asexuality because it’s often an overlooked sexual identity, and acephobia – discrimination against asexual people – is experienced by many asexual people.

2013, Lee Thomas, "LGBTQrazy: A is for…", The Brunswickan (University of New Brunswick), Volume 147, Issue 7, 17 October 2013, page 10

I now give asexual workshops, screen the film (A)sexual with a postfilm discussion, and try to have conversations with my friends and colleagues about asexual identity and acephobia.

2014, Joelle Ruby Ryan, “On Being Asexual and Transgender: Notes on Identity, Visibility, and Empowerment”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367:

Closely linked to homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and acephobia.

2014, Nicole Wiesenthal, "Glossary of Asexual Terms", The Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2014, page 19

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


Italophobia

From Italo- + -phobia. Existent since the 19th century.

Fear of or aversion towards the Italian people or culture.


Sunniphobia

I address the ideological underpinnings of this 'Sunniphobia' in Chapter 5, as part of the discussion of the structural problems of the US counter-insurgency campaign.

2005, Ahmed Hashim, Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq, Cornell University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 82:

For all the talk of "Shi'philia" and "Sunniphobia," sectarian manipulation was a secondary, tactical factor for the occupiers, who were most interested in the creation of a new "national" bourgeoisie at massive cost to most Iraqis, including the middle and professional classes.

2008 April 6, Richard Seymour, “The Sadrist Revolt”, in Monthly Review:

[…] as well as modern mechanisms and instruments for conflict resolution and the fear of the unknown similar to the rising fever of Islamophobia (fear of Islam), Shiaphobia and Sunniphobia in the Western industrialized countries because it did neither sufficiently nor adequately addressed^([sic]) their vital national economic and strategic security interests in the country.

2012 November 7, David de Chand, “The Obstacles, Hurdles, Mechanisms and Instruments for the Implementation of the Cooperation Peace Agreement: A Critical Analysis”, in Sudan Vision:

(rare) Fear or hatred of Sunnism and Sunnites.


selaphobia

Perhaps this explains so much of the monotony. Henri LePont sits in his "barber's chair / of worry and denial" and writes of "Selaphobia," a fear of light flashes.

1985, Robert Peters, The Peters Second Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, →ISBN, page 102:

Ever want to approach that hot guy or gal from cross the bar but you were too afraid? You might have Kakorrhaphiophobia, the fear of failure and rejection. If you find a disco ball at the dance club frightening, you might have Selaphobia, the fear of flashing light.

2013 October, Michael Buzzelli, “Oh, don't be such a phobe”, in Equal Magazine:

[…] many patients complain about the syndrome and side-effects associated with the surgery, such as dizzying, selaphobia, lowered contrast sensitivity, blurred vision in dark environment etc.

2013, Yun Feng, Yang Li, and Wei Wang, Reduced wavefront aberration influence the visual function after the senile cataract surgery with an aspherical intraocular lenshttp://www.grin.com/de/e-book/213709/reduced-wavefront-aberration-influence-the-visual-function-after-the-senile, abstract

(rare, medicine) Fear or intolerance of flashes of light.


agyrophobia

The man suffers from two paralyzing fears: anablephobia, the fear of looking up, and agyrophobia, the fear of crossing the street. Imagine suffering from the inability to see what is in front of you coupled with the inability to step off the curb.

2006, Andrew Razeghi, Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create the Future, →ISBN, page 175:

As an example of this phobia class, James at 42 years old felt simultaneously confused and embarrassed by his agyrophobia, a fear of crossing streets.

2008, James Garner, Arthur H. Bell, Phobias and How to Overcome Them: Understanding and Beating Your Fears, Castle Books, →ISBN, page 98:

In contrast to some other human phobias that people acquire with experience—like triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) and agyrophobia (fear of crossing the street)—claustrophobia appears to be innate.

2013, Adam Alter, Drunk Tank Pink, →ISBN:

Bryan, Webz and Chip sneak over an optical crosswalk spelling 'AGYROPHOBIA' wearing PIXILATED MASKS OF THEIR OWN FACES.

2015, Drew Wordloner, Welcome The Newbies, →ISBN, page 102:


chiroptophobia

From Chiroptera (taxonomic order of bats) + -phobia.

Bruce Wayne suffers from chiroptophobia. He rarely admits it.

2011, Stephen McDonald, William Salomone, The Writer's Response, page 111:

Chiroptophobia, or the fear of bats, is a fairly common psychological trait. Even though most bats are small, timid creatures, something about those leathery wings and tiny fangs seems to trip our self-preservation alarms.

2011, Linda S. Godfrey, Monsters of Wisconsin, page 37:


chaetophobia

From Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē, “flowing hair”). By surface analysis, chaeto- + -phobia.

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Andrew pulled it out of her reach. "You idiot, I suffer from Chaetophobia. You have no idea of what you've done."

(rare) fear of hair and/or hairy people or animals


antlophobia

Presumably from Ancient Greek ἄντλος (ántlos, “hold of a ship; bilgewater”), also defined in LSJ as "a flood of water" + -phobia.

As climate change brews, Woody is likely to suffer from a severe case of the newly diagnosed floodophobia (or antlophobia). He will not be alone.

2010, Matthew E. Kahn, Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future, Basic Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 114:

Two roads greet thee before thy devastation and failures...
one road stemming from Mama's womb
the other dislodged from Daddy's deformed testicles
Learning to read was thy great antlophobia
of which they twirled towards a dusty tomb.

2012, "Dapharoah69", "Response to Robert Frost's 'The Road Less Taken'", in THE KINGD[O]M: A Testimony, Lulu.com (2012), page 371

Like other phobias, it’s believed that Antlophobia is caused by outside traumatic events that happened when the affected individual was younger.

c. 2012, Ryan Vazquez, "True Fear", Positive/Negative Magazine (College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Sciences), Volume 6, page 52

(rare) The fear of floods or inundation.


cherophobia

From Ancient Greek χαρά (khará) + -o- + -phobia.

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She clasped her hands tightly around my back and said, 'Sorry I spoke to you like that. I'm frightened, that's all. In psychology it's called cherophobia — fear of happiness. I'm afraid of getting hurt. Promise me you'll never leave me.'


cleithrophobia

From Ancient Greek κλεῖθρον (kleîthron, “bar for clausing a door”) + -phobia.


decidophobia

Rothery (1993b) has called this 'decidophobia'. One of the main elements of 'decidophobia' is wanting to do too much at once. You cannot possibly solve all the problems, or even answer all the questions you have, in one research project!

2003, Margaret Alston, Wendy Bowles, Research for Social Workers: An Introduction to Methods, →ISBN:

(informal, humorous) Reluctance to make decisions.


frigophobia

Frigophobia, or "morbid fear of catching cold", is a clinical condition described by Chinesse psychiatrists as a culture-related syndrome of the Chinese (Rin, 1966).

2003, Wen-Shing Tseng, Clinician's Guide to Cultural Psychiatry, →ISBN, page 98:

An abnormal and persistent fear of becoming cold or freezing.


cyanophobia

Von Hasner cites a case of aversion to blue, or cyanophobia, in a woman, fifty years old, in whom it had existed since childhood. Looking at blue objects always brought on he ache, vertigo, nausea, and even vomiting.

1881, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics:

While one person may have arachnophobia (fear of spiders), someone else may have arachibutyrophobia (fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of their mouth), or cyanophobia (fear of the color blue).

2012, Heather Quintana, Momentum: Moving in the Right Direction, →ISBN, page 128:


bathmophobia

From Ancient Greek βαθμός (bathmós, “step”) + -phobia.

It is closely related to bathmophobia, which is a fear of stairs or steep slopes, and climacophobia, which is a fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling down stairs.

2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity, Lulu.com, published 2011, →ISBN, page 16:

Bathmophobia, as with other clinical fears, is generally not diagnosed in children unless it persists for more than six months.

2011 November 10, Claire Bates, “Mother once forced to go down shopping centre steps on her BOTTOM finally overcomes fear of stairs after 38 years”, in Daily Mail:

For visitors falling ill or who are prone to acrophobia (fear of heights) or bathmophobia (fear of stairs), restoration workers installed a tiny emergency elevator to enable Park Service rangers to ascend quickly all the way to Liberty's neck and then spirit people out.

2012, Edward Berenson, The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story, Yale University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 180:


gerascophobia

Thus, from gerascophobia to ageism, Euro-American society today has an overall negative view of aging.

2012, Brittany Goltry, "Prevent, Reverse, & Defy: Ageism in Magazine Advertisements", thesis submitted to Carroll College, page 1

[…] and Aprella, a freckled girl with straight strawberry blonde hair who had been diagnosed with gerascophobia.

2013, Claire Fitzpatrick, The Ostracism of Ophelia, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 327:

Few cases of gerascophobia have been reported.

2014, Laurencia Perales-Blum, Myrthala Juárez-Treviño, Daniela Escobedo-Belloc, “Severe Growing-Up Phobia, a Condition Explained in a 14-Year-Old Boy”, in Case Reports in Psychiatry:

The abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old.


dentophobia

Also realize that dentophobia can be a self-fulfilling prohepcy...

2006, Bill Dorfman, Billion Dollar Smile: A Complete Guide to Your Extreme Smile Makeover, →ISBN, page 170:

I've had many problems lately and I desperately need your help. First of all, I have been diagnosed with dentophobia. Because of that, I just can't bring myself to make an appointment even though I'm in terrible pain. I'm not sure if I'll need a root canal or just a filling. Please give me some ideas for how to overcome this phobia.

2009, Wendy Conklin, Differentiation Strategies for Language Arts, →ISBN, page 144:

That's because a visit to the dentist—if someone with dentophobia even makes it to the dentist—is likely to result in the classic fight-or-flight symptoms:...

2014, Sara Latta, Scared Stiff: Everything You Need to Know about 50 Famous Phobias, →ISBN, page 67:

There are nearly as many reasons people fear going to the dentist as there are teeth in the mouth. Indeed, dentophobia—the term is from the Latin word dens, meaning "tooth", and sometimes known as odontophobia...

Fear of dentists or their medical procedures.


cibophobia

The pain pattern is so intimately related to the ingestion of food that the patient will reduce the size of meals, become reluctant to eat, and even develop frank cibophobia.

1981, M. J. Renaer, Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women, Spring-Verlag, →ISBN, page 134:

Cibophobia differs from anorexia since appetite may persist but the pearson fears eating because of some associated or subsequent discomfort.

1993, Marion Eugene Ensminger, Audrey H. Ensminger, Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume Set, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 423:

This condition arises from cheese-related trauma (I'll leave it up to you to imagine what this might entail) and it's often considered a subcategory of cibophobia.

2013 October 28, Max Hill, “Fear Factor”, in The Peak, volume 145, number 9, Simon Fraser University, page 15:

The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.


disposophobia

At the extreme end of the clutter spectrum are folks who suffer from what some call disposophobia—fear of disposing. In other words, they hoard. According to one report, nearly a million junkaholics suffer from this psychological, and the proof is in the piles. To help those who suffer from disposophobia, a national support group called Clutterers Anonymous models itself after the twelve-step format of Alcoholics Anonymous.

2011, Iyna Bort Caruso, Simply Organized: "The all-in-one guide to organizing your home, office, children, and more!", →ISBN:

Compulsive hoarding (or pathological hoarding or disposophobia) is the selfish acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or discard them)...

2012, Miriam Neff, Where Do I Go From Here?: Bold Living After Unwanted Change, →ISBN:

The fear of throwing things away. Disposophobia, I remembered. A disease immortalized by the legendary Collyer brothers, who'd been found dead in their mess in a Harlem brownstone.

2013, Julia Heaberlin, Lie Still: A Novel, →ISBN, page 305:

Compulsive hoarding has also been labeled "disposophoia" because the person with this disorder feels a real and palpable fear of throwing or giving away, even if the items are essentially worthless.

2013, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction - Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex, and Porn, →ISBN:

(informal, humorous) Fear or dislike of disposing of items; a tendency to hoard things.


demonophobia

LAMAISM may be defined as a mixture of late Indian Buddhism (which is itself a mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism) with various Tibetan practices and beliefs. The principal of these are demonophobia and the worship of human beings as incarnate deities. Demonophobia is a compendious expression for an obsession which victimizes Chinese and Huindus to some extent as well as Tibetans...

1998, Sir Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1, page 382:

it is among the inhabitants of the South that devil-worship is most systematically practiced. No one who has travelled in that region can doubt that demonophobia is a disease with which the whole Southern population is almost hopelessly and incurably afflicted (1887:244)

2008, Isabelle Clark-Deces, The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals, page 74:

The first of these patients especially dreads the flames of hell. This is the demonomania of Sauvages. I call it demonophobia, monodemonophobin.

2012, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 6, →ISBN, page 434:

Demonophobia may take the epidemic form.
A distinction bust be drawn between what I call demonophobia and demonolatry. In demonophobia the patient is under the dominion of continual fear; his future feat incessantly haunts him, he exaggerates beyonds all bounds his real or imaginary faults.


erythrophobia

Erythophobia is no laughing matter if you are a sufferer of this phobia. It could tend to make the sufferer anti-social as it is a very real and serious concern that excessive blushing could occur at any moment.

2013, Mabel Dawn Van Niekerk - Erythrophobia, The Blushing Phobia - Erythrophobia:

abnormal and persistent fear of blushing


substratophobia

(linguistics) Vehement opposition to substratism.


allodoxaphobia

From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”) + -φοβία (-phobía).


leprophobia

I therefore entreat you to beware of the lepro-phobia that appears to be coming upon us.

1889, Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, number 12, page 123:

(psychology) An irrationally excessive fear of Hansen's disease (leprosy) and lepers.


Communistphobia

Another morbid factor is also prevailing in the non-Communist countries. That is Communistphobia. Since they are afraid of Communist aggression, they are inclined to forfeit their anti-Communist stand, in the hope that they may get temporary peace by currying the favor of the aggressors.

1957, Communist Menace to Asia, page 32:

Tunku's attempt to create Communistphobia has in fact boomeranged. The local Communist Party is said to have gained in strength rather than being isolated from the indigenous population.

1965, Link: Indian Newsmagazine, Volume 8, Part 1, page 32:

Got to dine with the Home Secretary tonight—fussy old hen, he's suddenly developed Communistphobia; thinks they're going to put a bomb under his bed.

2012, Nicholas Blake, Thou Shell of Death, Random House, →ISBN, page 18:

(rare) The fear, dislike, or hatred of communism and/or communists.


traumatophobia

An abnormal fear of battle or war, or being physically injured during activities like sports.


misophobia

[…] that from her eleventh to her thirteenth year she was troubled with misophobia.

1904, Hermann Oppenheim, Diseases of the nervous system, page 775:


eurotophobia

In the judgement of Guido Almansi, sexuality in the sonnets in Roman dialect is haunted by blennorrhea and eurotophobia, and is thus a wholly negative thing.

2015, Valeria P. Babini, Chiara Beccalossi, Lucy Riall, Italian Sexualities Uncovered, 1789-1914:


genderphobia

Genderphobia is a more surreptitious form of discrimination than transphobia because it quietly adheres to hegemonic notions of gender behaviour.

2005 January, Vincent Stephens, “Pop goes the rapper: a close reading of Eminem's genderphobia”, in Popular Music, volume 24, number 1, page 23:

She characterized women's reactions to a masculine person in a public rest room as “an example of genderphobia” (1996, 117), viewing such women as policing gender boundaries rather than believing that there really is a man in the women's rest room.

2008, Joan Z. Spade, Catherine G. Valentine, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Pine Forge Press, →ISBN, page 29:

Genderphobia was no hindrance to her [Margaret Thatcher's] ambitions; her husband took a back seat.

2015, Virginia Nicholson, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

Genderphobia works to reinforce gendered hierarchies and the heteropatriarchal state, disenfranchising not only women, but also sexual and gender minorities. Genderphobia is also very much used to enforce xenophobic and nationalist policies […]

2023 March 29, Jose Antonio Langarita, Ana Cristina Santos, Marisela Montenegro, Mojca Urek, Child-Friendly Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity: Beyond Adultcentrism, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

Fear, dislike, or hatred of gender-nonconforming individuals or behaviour.


femmephobia

Indeed, the existence of what has been labelled homophobia, I argue, may be more correctly analysed as a kind of "femmephobia", where same-sex relationships, particularly those between two men, are viewed as having the power to feminize men.

2007, Annie Paul, Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, page 368:

Probably the most visible and overt site of global(izing) patterns of femmephobia are male-male dating and sexual networking websites, ranging from Grindr, an Iphone application for sexual networking used primarily in the U.S., and Planetromeo, a dating site with a large following in India. […] A range of sample user profiles documented on the site include injunctions like the following: "Only into 101% masculine: Fems dnt fkin mssg me [sic]. College athlete (not some pansy sport"; "Looking for studs: no fats, fems [sic] or anyone above 30"; "If your only personality is gay, move on"; "Be masculine please! I'm gay don't want a girl!"; […]

2013, Aniruddha Dutta, “Masculinities of Desire, Derision and Defiance: Global Gay Femmephobia and Kothi-Hijra-Trans Heterosexualities”, in Rohit K. Dasgupta, K. Moti Gokulsing, editors, Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing Perceptions, page 146:

In the sexual minority men's community femmephobia typically appears as an abhorrence to stereotypical "gay" things such as liking musicals, lim wrists, sounding effeminate (i.e. a higher pitched voice or a feminine cadence), dressing in clothing considered to be for women and much more.

2020, Emerson L. R. Barrett, “Sexing the Margins: Homonationalism in Gay Dating Apps”, in D. Nicole Farris, D'Lane R. Compton, Andrea P. Herrera, editors, Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age, page 126:

Dislike of, or hostility towards, stereotypically effeminate gay men, especially within the gay community.


paraphobia

From para- + phobia, by analogy with paraphilia.

The state of apprehension already mentioned as the only conscious feeling of intensity may exceptionally lead to impulsive acts or to a paraphobia.

1918, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, volume 94, page 284:

A mild form of phobia, causing only unwillingness or hesitancy.


snake-fright

The only means he could think of to counteract his snake fright was to expose himself to the possibilities of any such danger: […]

The psychology of snake-fright might well be likened to the "Jaws effect," though thank goodness no one has made a film about a killer snake terrorizing Long Island parking lots.

1987, Arthur Rosenfeld, Exotic Pets, page 26:

A slithering back porch visitor and a kindly sign painter helped a young mother overcome snake fright.

1992, Wisconsin Natural Resources, volumes 16-17:

Trapped on the bridge, men hollered like women with snake-fright, brave men screaming

2015, Ralph Peters, Valley of the Shadow: A Novel:


entomophobe

We're not like the entomophiles who harbor spiders as housemates or derive sexual satisfaction from the tickling of ants. And we're certainly not crazy entomophobes who run panic-stricken into the streets upon encountering a cockroach […]

2013, Jeffrey Lockwood, The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects:

Violet, 14, was concerned about causing pain to notorious entomophobe villager Blathers: “I never have him talk about the bugs because I know he hates bugs.”

2022 July 5, Katy E. Pearce, Jason C. Yip, Jin Ha Lee, Jesse J. Martinez, Travis W. Windleharth, Arpita Bhattacharya, Qisheng Li, “Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, in Games and culture., →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, pages 773–794:

Salvador Dali is one of the best examples of an entomophobe. He used ants, grasshoppers and flies in his paintings based on his personal experiences.

2022 August 27, John G. Stoffolano, Jr., “Synanthropic Flies—A Review Including How They Obtain Nutrients, along with Pathogens, Store Them in the Crop and Mechanisms of Transmission”, in Insects., →DOI, →PMID, →PMCID, page 776:


uxorophobia

(very rare) An inordinate fear of one's own wife, or of wives.


intersexphobia

Although there is overlap in ways that binary gender norms are imposed on trans* and intersex students, athletes, and staff, we feel it is important to understand how transphobia and intersexphobia work as different forms of discrimination.

2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, page 275:

However, Turner said the bear community still has a way to go when it comes to greater diversity and acceptance, as he's faced both intersexphobia and biphobia from within its ranks.

2016 September, Matthew Wade, “Something To Growl About”, in Star Observer Magazine, page 13:

In fact, I believe that it is this fear of bodily difference, akin to homophobia, intersexphobia if you will, that drives some doctors to recommend, and parents to agree to, medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children and infants.

2020, Kimberly M. Zieselman, XOXY: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist), page 205:

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.


Hibernophobia

Dislike of Ireland or the Irish people, or people of Irish descent.


infantophobia

The irrational fear of infants, pregnancy, or maternalism.


Hellenophobia

Since in Asia Minor, as well as at Constantinople, Turkophilism carries with it as corollaries Hellenophobia and Armenophobia, I will leave you to imagine in what paradoxes the souls of victors become entangled […]

1920, Georges Bourdon, Hellas and Unredeemed Hellenism: The Policy of Victory in the East and Its Results:

Their inveterate Hellenophobia was the only relic of the past that survived this great cultural revolution; and it now found for itself a new expression in Christian terms.

1961, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, A Study of History, volume 12, page 441:

Believers in a traditional Hellenophobia-Turkophobia would have stared at the sight of the Mytilene Greeks spreading farewell meals for their departing neighbours, and later accompanying them to the quay, where Christians and Mohammedans, who for a lifetime had been plowing adjacently and even sharing occasional backgammon games at village cafes, embraced and parted with tears.

2006, Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey:


pseudophobia

A purported phobia whose existence is uncorroborated.


aporophobia

From Spanish aporofobia, from Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos, “indigent, poor”) + -phobia, by analogy with xenophobia. Term coined by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina in the 1990s.

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It's easy calling somebody a racist (and I'm not talking about skinheads or assholes shouting racist things at matches), but the problem I think it's more aporophobia (sp?) than xenophobia.

2002 October 14, molecule, “I'm dissapointed ^([sic])”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):

In Latin America, the most dramatic results of discrimination have an element of aporophobia, that is, revulsion and hatred for the poor.

2008, “Prejudice, discrimination and intergroup conflict”, in Actualidades en psicología, volume 22, number 109:

We would like to introduce a term coined by Adela Cortina which arose recently and that is affiliated to that of exclusion: It is aporophobia (Cortina, 1997). Feeling of refusal is towards poor people, towards those who do not have a way out of their situation. It breeds on the prejudice that poor people are to blame for their own misery. This feeling subdues many behaviours that are essentially racist, xenophobic and it makes difficult not only integration, but also some politics involving realistic aid to immigrants (Martínez, 2002, pp. 17-23). As pointed out by Cortina (1997), “we don’t marginalize the immigrant because he is rich, nor the black if he is a basketball player, nor the retired with patrimony, we marginalize poor people” (p. 70).

2011, Xavier Mínguez López, “Local literature in a global world? Globalisation, exclusion and multiculturalism in Catalan literature for children and young people”, in Sino-US English Teaching, volume 8, number 5:

Introducing aporophobia in the catalog of hate crimes is a debate that is still open.

2017, V Ávila Vázquez, E Garrido Gaitán, La aporofobia como delito de odio y discriminación:

It is necessary to confront together the populist discourses of intolerance, xenophobia, and aporophobia, which is hatred of the poor.

2021, Pope Francis, Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements:

(rare) A strong antipathy, aversion or hatred toward poverty or poor people.


hylophobia

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:


aviatophobia

While Hanif uses the known historical fact of Zia's mid-air death to chart out a dark comedy about Pakistani politics and paranoia and the madness of its leaders, anyone remotely suffering from aviatophobia should feel far more comfortable knowing that Zia, or anyone of his reputation, is highly unlikely to be on board their plane.

2014, Ella Berthoud, Susan Elderkin, The Novel Cure:


pteromerhanophobia

Soon, Bowie's pteromerhanophobia was as much a part of the star's persona as any other aspect of his career.

2009, Dave Thompson, Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell:

Say goodbye to pteromerhanophobia, your overwhelming fear of flying.

2012, Katie Das, 250 Useful Spanish Phrases while Backpacking:

As it turns out, those are fairly easy fears to apply to a monster or demon, but what about pteromerhanophobia, the fear of flying?

Official conclusion: panic attack due to pteromerhanophobia. Layla would have held her trembling sister on the cab ride back to the Luxor as she devised an alternate plan for getting the petulant one back to Memphis.

2016, John Dufresne, I Don't Like Where This Is Going:


carcinomatophobia

(medicine, loosely) A morbid fear of cancer: Synonym of carcinophobia.


somniphobia

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Due to somniphobia, Jason has a compulsive habit of getting out of bed and changing his clothes at night.

People may worry throughout the day about not being able to sleep. This worry can cause difficulties with focus or concentration. Often, somniphobia arises from a fear of having nightmares or experiencing sleep paralysis.

2022, Cleveland Clinic, Somniphobia (Fear of Sleep):

(uncommon, psychology) Fear of falling asleep; fear of a disaster while sleeping.


Trumphobia

On 9/6/2015 9:14 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > On 2015-09-06, Mike B wrote: > I wonder if the strip will be affected by his move. (He now lives in Canada.)< Has he said why he moved - new job, new relationship? Trumphobia?

2015 September 6, Mark Jackson, “Deja Vu: Questionable Content”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet):

2016 March 9, Suffering From Trumphobia? Get Over It. The Wall Street Journal.
Edwark N. Luttwak writes that if you're suffering from Trumphobia, an irrational fear of Donald Trump becoming president, get over it.

Calls to crisis and suicide prevention hotlines surge post-election By Jessica Ravitz, CNN Updated 6:03 PM ET, Fri November 11, 2016

2016 November 12, “TRUMPHOBIA driving many Americans to suicidal despair”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

Apparently, some federal employees plan to quit employment due to a sudden onset of Trumphobia, including at least one VA psychologist.

2016 November 29, “Sudden Onset Of Trumphobia Causes VA Psychologist To Quit”, in Disabled Veterans:

He was also into hyperbole topped up with a dose of Trumphobia.

2017 May 11, “Gerard Henderson: Virginia Trioli says ABC needs more comedians”, in The Australian:

Trumphobia and how it can be cured by taking a closer look at South Africa. News24. "The next time you feel you are exhibiting Trumphobia combat it by educating yourself about the politics of countries like South Africa."


proditomania

The greedy public policy of colonizing whole continents abroad, the egotistic private practice of limiting families at home to two or three children, the prevalent politico-ritual theology, the apotheosis of the army and the infallibility of its chiefs, the defilement of literature, the prostitution of the drama and of pictorial art to the passions of the human beast, the total negation of science, the universal conviction that the nation is invincible by land and by sea, and the concomitant proditomania, combined with the cheerful certitude that France is still the light and life of the world, are inevitable consequences of the four conditions enumerated above and unerring symptoms of the dire disease which has eaten into the vitals of the citizens of the third republic.

1897, The American Monthly Review of Reviews, The Zola Trial, page 470:

(rare) A phobia that others are conspiring against one.


phobanthropy

Surely I need not point out to you the egregious egoism, the utter selfishness of the anarchists. Why, their pretended philanthropy is really phobanthropy, that would be monstrous were it not so insane.

1899, Josephine Bontecou Steffens, Letitia Berkeley, A.M., page 200:

After that I was afraid of Aino and Karl, I was more and more afraid as the days passed and as I fought up out of the mistiness and fever into strength and clarity of mind, convalescing. There was a return of my old phobanthropy. I had fled people, I had come to the wilderness in preference to any further effort to establish an amicable destiny in a society that abhorred me.

Very soon the cause of his phobanthropy becomes clear. He not only feels inferior to and ashamed before his fellow-country-men because of the failure in his studies and evades them as much as possible on account of this but he also lives in a world of perverted phantasies, which he himself feels to be filthy and painful.

1948, Folia psychiatrica, neurologica et neurochirurgica neerlandica:


lepidopterophobia

From the taxonomic name Lepidoptera + -phobia.

An abnormal or irrational fear of butterflies.


serophobia

en-noun

serophobia (usually uncountable, plural serophobias)

Consistent with the fall in overall serophobia online, violent threats and the use of slurs or tropes against people living with HIV or AIDS fell over the 2.5 year period studied. Online violent threats relating to serophobia fell 35%, while slurs and tropes fell by 22%.

2021 November 30, Gemma Joyce, “Understanding Online Serophobia: How Hate Speech Against People Living with HIV and AIDS is Evolving”, in Brandwatch:

Fear of, dislike of, or prejudice against seropositives.


nephophobia

Another "ia" was evolving here, she felt, to send Mrs. Goodchild scuttling delightedly: nephophobia, a terror of clouds.

2004, Peter Rushforth, Pinkerton's Sister, →ISBN, page 410:

Lions, Tigers and Clouds….Oh My...Is it possible, you wonder, that I have Nephophobia?

2011 July, Mark McCourt, “Curing Nephophobia”, in SECURITY, page 10:

Natural environment phobias include weather-related conditions such as fear of thunderstorms (astrophobia), clouds (nephophobia), hurricanes (lilapsophobia), snow (chionophobia), cold (cryophobia), wind (ancraophobia), and rain (ombrophobia), among others.

2014 Augsut, Jill S. M. Coleman, Kaylee D. Newby, Karen D. Multon, Cynthia L. Taylor, “Weathering the Storm: Revisiting Severe-Weather Phobia”, in BAMS, page 1179:


Trumpophobia

At home, I see intolerance, various forms of prejudice, demonisation and the exploitation of fear – the last like shooting at the side of a barn, in the American context – at work in our Trumpophobia. This is the soft despotism of the American neoliberal.

2016, Stan Grant, Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming:

Heer, who writes a bi-weekly column with headings such as “Steve Bannon is Turning Trump into an Ethno-Nationalist Ideologue” and “Donald Trump is the Bizarro Noam Chomsky”, appears to have contracted a particularly virulent strain of Trumpophobia

2017 April 5, D McCann, “The new totalitarians: Fresh thoughts on James Burnham”, in Quadrant:

Comedian Bill Maher — currently in the midst of his 15th season on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" — has certainly been the beneficiary of increased viewership due to Trumpophobia.

2017 May 7, Zach Freeman, “Maher needed to put away his notebook and be present at Chicago Theater”, in Chicago Tribune:

Alan Dershowitz, a Clinton voter in the last election, warned that the effort to escalate perfervid Trumpophobia from criminalization of policy differences (as well as sour grapes over the lost election) to “psychiatrization” was even more sinister and anti-democratic.

2018 January 10, Conrad Black, “Michael Wolff and the Death Rattle of Trumpophobia”, in National Review:

We may disapprove of Donald Trump's crude behaviors and documented low respect for truth[3]. However, these may have created a kind of Trumpophobia that leads otherwise thoughtful people to exaggerate earlier positive influences of US foreign policy

2018, FT Manheim, “Is Donald Trump's Influence on World Affairs Really Worse than Earlier American Policies?”, in papers.ssrn.com:

(US, politics, informal) Fear of Donald Trump


hijabophobia

From hijab + -o- + -phobia. Attested in books at least as early as 1999, but popularized in academic usage much later by scholars like Manal Hamzeh in 2012.

Fear of hijabs; Islamophobia directed at hijabi women.


Hinduphobe

A person who hates, dislikes or is prejudiced against Hinduism and Hindus.


Germanophobia

If we deal with state Germanophobia, the first observation concerns the uniqueness of war in the sense that it means that the government became overtly rather than covertly xenophobic in order to create a level of support on the home front necessary for victory on the battlefield, especially before conscription was introduced at the beginning of 1916. In Britain during the First World War, the government established various agencies for the propagation of Germanophobia.

1996, Panikos Panayi, Germans in Britain Since 1500, page 115:

"Van," as he was known to friend and foe alike, has been accused of Germanophobia, criticized for being indifferent to events outside of his Eurocentric perspective, and castigated for possessing an inflexible mind.

1997, Michael Lawrence Roi, Alternative to Appeasement, page 1:

In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.

2017, Juliet Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia:

The hatred or fear of Germany and anything German.

germanofobie

hatred or fear of Germany or anything German


liberal homophobia

The intellectual Daniel Borrillo refers to liberal homophobia as that which accepts homosexuality so long as it is not discussed. This type of homophobia is represented in phrases like, 'I don't care what anyone does in private so long as they don't tell me about it'. In the professional world, this is crystallized in the recently abolished slogan of the US army: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.

2012, Margarita Alonso, Best Inclusion Practices: LGBT Diversity, Routledge:

After the deadly shooting attack at Barnoar, liberal homophobia surfaced along with support for the community. It took the form of a debate over coming out of the closet and "outing". Many people said that a person's sexual orientation was his own private business, and spoke out against the expectation that well-known people would come out of the closet. The debate ignored the fact that society considers only one sexual orientation a private matter. Heterosexuality is always public, and may always be talked about.

2013 June, Aeyal Gross, “Israel's liberal homophobia”, in ILGA:

To fully understand “liberal homophobia”, we must consider the centrality of the private/public distinction in liberalism along with the correlation of homosexuality/heterosexuality to this divide.

2015, Aeyal Gross, “The Politics of LGBT Rights in Israel and Beyond: Nationality, Normativity, and Queer Politics”, in Columbia Human Rights Law Review:

Another type of men’s group, or trend in critical thought on men, is often forgotten in our typologies: the “gay groups” along with their commercial and association networks. Their omission highlights the heterocentrism on the part of men studies, which can only deconstruct masculinity in its heterosexual expression. A common current form of liberal homophobia is demonstrated in accepting this sphere, even mentioning the GLBT movement, but eventually not granting gays the status of men that would enable us to include them in our deconstruction of hegemonic masculinity.

2017 January, Daniel Welzer-Lang, “Epistemology of Critical Studies on Men and Masculinity”, in Men’s Studies Press:

Acceptance of homosexuality as long as it remains a private issue.


sidonglobophobia

But perhaps the strangest phobia we've heard of is sidonglobophobia. It's the extreme fear of cotton balls - usually these individuals can't touch them, and are particularly terrified of the sound cotton balls make when torn apart.

2015 October 9, Signe Dean, “Here's The Science Behind The World's Rarest And Weirdest Phobias”, in Science Alert:

I, on the other hand, have sidonglobophobia, or an intense fear of cotton balls.

2017 July 19, Crystal Ponti, “Investigating My Lifelong Phobia of Cotton Balls”, in The Cut:

David Burns, 40, who suffers from sidonglobophobia — a condition that makes him “fearful and anxious” when around cotton wool balls — was sacked after reacting to repeated provocation which included being pelted with the balls and finding them tied to pieces of machinery he was working with at Plastic Mouldings Ltd in Irvine, North Ayrshire

2018 October 25, David McCann, “Worker teased over phobia of cotton wool wins payout”, in The Times:

David Burns, 40, has sidonglobophobia – a fear of cotton wool.

2018 October 28, “Sidonglobophobia sufferer dismissed over collegial ‘banter’ wins £9,000 payout”, in Scottish Legal News, retrieved 2018-08-02:

Sensory phobia of cotton or cotton balls.


domatophobia

For most of us the basic idea of security is having four walls, three meals a day and a bed to sleep on. For sufferers of domatophobia, these basic life necessities form the basis of their crippling phobia […]

2010, Christian Jessen, Can I Just Ask?, page 126:


mageiricophobia

/mæˌd͡ʒaɪɹɪkəˈfoʊbiə/

From Ancient Greek μαγειρική (mageirikḗ, “culinary arts”) + -phobia (“morbid fear of”), equivalent to magirics + -phobia.

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Our own feeling about thirteen, especially when joined with Friday, has added another to the long list of phobias; treiskaidekaphobia, or "fear of the number thirteen" (some of the other phobias are the well-known claustro-, acro-, and agora-, fear of being closed in, of heights, of open spaces, respectively; less known are ailurophobia, "fear of cats," iatrophobia, "fear of doctors," nucleomitotophobia,^([sic]) "fear of atomic bombs," mageiricophobia, "fear of having to cook," and, recalling FDR, phobophobia, "fear of fear itself.")

1965, Mario Pei, The Story of Language, page 254:

I was quite excited when I came across "mageiricophobia"—an intense fear of having to cook. Perhaps I wasn't just lazy after all—perhaps I had a phobia! It took no more than a half-minute of reasoning to shoot down that theory. My phobia, if there is one, is not fear but a series of lacks: lack of interest, of enthusiasm, of talent.

2001, Hazel Josephine Barton, "Could I Have a Few Words with You?", A Wise Choice of Words, p. 355

Ah, Thanksgiving Day is next week... So Mageiricophobia is ablaze again and I've determined its cause: The mental and physical strain of menu planning and the constant contact with place setting arrangements, pots and pans, slicing, dicing and stuffing turkeys, only to witness food evaporation in mere minutes with a bigger mess to clean up afterwards.

2007 November 17, “The Cure for 'Mageiricophobia'”, in Northwest Indiana Times:

Fear of cooking, a powerful fear of preparing food.


nucleomitophobia

Coined by psychiatrist Milton Arnold Dushkin in the early 1960s, from nucleo- (“atomic nucleus”) + mito- (“mitosis”) + -phobia (“fear of”), in reference to a supposed resemblance of atomic fission to cellular division.

Nikita Krushchev's war of nerves was plainly having an effect on the U.S. citizenry... There were the usual neurotics. In Chicago, public officials received a spate of calls from women complaining that their hair curlers were radioactive, from men suspicious of the olives in their martinis. (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"—fear of the atom).

1961 September 29, “The People: Ready to Act”, in Time:

A physician says the Nuclear Age has spawned a new phobia—nucleomitophobia, or fear of the atom. An article in Today's Health, a magazine published by the American Medical Assn., said public officials have received a rash of calls from persons who believe they are radioactive.

1961 November 19, Cedar Rapids Gazette, page 122:

When they are frantically expanding armament and making preparations for war, and they need to create war hysteria, they encourage man-made nucleomitophobia to spread rampantly, letting people know how radioactivity is already "threatening normal life in the United States." But when they want to sell their milk, they have to try "to find ways and means to set people's minds at ease regarding the question of radioactivity." Under the capitalist system, which is characterized by irresoluble contradictions, such jokes cannot be avoided.

1963 January, Michael Freeberne, translating an article in the 1 March 1962 Hongqi (《红旗》) in "Chinese Vignettes", Problems of Communism, Vol. XII, No. 1, p. 15

Bertie Rupp, who wanted to become a farmer in his youth, is entrapped by city life and achieves brief celebrity as the man who aestheticized continuous computer stationery. Disenchantment and nucleomitophobia (an exaggerated fear of atomic Armageddon) cause him to drop out.

1988, Brian Stableford, "American Book of the Dead", Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual

I SUFFER, I HASTEN TO SAY, FROM NUCLEOMITOPHOBIA, THE FEAR of atomic attack, and my quest for a cure has led me to grapple with the great debate on war and peace as it is being carried on in the United States.

1999, Arthur Herzog III, The War–Peace Establishment, page vii:

Fear of nuclear weapons is known as nucleomitophobia. The same term applies to fear of atomic energy... The fear is based on a feeling by individuals that they have no control over the fate of the world and that nuclear weapons can kill off all of human life and civilization. This fear is also related to a fear of death and a fear of apocalypse, or the end of the world.

2008, Ronald M. Doctor & al., The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, 3rd ed., s.v. "nuclear war and nuclear weapons"

Fear of nuclear radiation, now especially atomic bombs.


Hungarophobia

The hatred or fear of Hungary, Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.


Albanophobia

From Albano- (“albanian”) + -phobia (“phobia”).
The French and German terms (albanophobie (“Albanophobia”) and Albanophobie (“Albanophobia”)) were even earlier used in Studia Albania in 1966 resp. in 1973.

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Fear, dislike of Albanians; prejudice, aversion towards the Albanian people or culture.


Kurdophobia

From Kurdo- (“kurdish”) + -phobia (“fear of”).

hostility, fear, intolerance or racism against the Kurdish people, culture, or language


Serbophobia

From Serbo- (“Serbian”) + -phobia (“fear of”).

hostility, fear, intolerance or racism against the Serbian people, culture, or language


coronaphobia

And, as Weaver noted, there wasn't any toilet paper on the shelves—all due to what some are calling "coronaphobia".

2020 March 8, Charlie Smith, “B.C. MLA Andrew Weaver expresses his exasperation over a coronaphobia-induced run on toilet paper”, in Georgia Straight:

The global freezing (of economic activity) wrought by coronaphobia is shaking what has become an orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe.

2020 March 16, Ben Ong, “The crash we have to have”, in Financial Standard, volume 18, number 5, page 28:

It came as a poll last week revealed two thirds of Brits were suffering from “coronaphobia” and were too scared to leave the house or return to work.

2020 May 3, Henry Holloway, “Lidl becomes ‘first supermarket to close a UK store due to coronavirus’ after staff struck down with bug”, in The Sun, UK:

If you think you might have coronaphobia, and one of your worries is that this problem is destined to be with you for life, keep this in mind: “Health anxiety can be transient,” Taylor says. “Just because you’re experiencing health anxiety during the pandemic doesn’t mean it’s going to become a long-term problem.” The key is to take steps now to manage it and prevent it from becoming entrenched.

2021 February 9, Stacey Colino, “‘Coronaphobia’: Covid anxiety has a name. Here’s how to cope.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-10:

(neologism) Fear or hysteria caused by COVID-19 and the COVID-19 pandemic.


mottephobia

Probably from German Motte (“moth”) + -phobia.

[> I quite liked the big butterflies but another member of staff freaked out and covered himself as much as he could head to toe, wearing his coat all of the time, it was very warm in there and were advised not to wear coats]
Perhaps he suffers with *mottephobia* ...was his name Ron? :-))

2004 October 29, Gareth, “Re: Butterfly farm...”, in free.uk.btinternet.chatter.refugees (Usenet):

Mottephobia is the term used to describe the intense fear of moths and more in general of butterflies. […] In severe cases, panic attacks are triggered in mottephobia sufferers if they simply view a picture or even think of a moth. […] This study presents a novel augmented reality based environment for exposure therapy to mottephobia.

2011, Andrea F. Abate, Michele Nappi, Stefano Ricciardi, “AR Based Environment for Exposure Therapy to Mottephobia”, in Randall Shumaker, editor, Virtual and Mixed Reality – New Trends: International Conference, Virtual and Mixed Reality 2011. Held as Part of HCI International 2011 […] Proceedings, Part I, Berlin: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 3–4:

Fear of flying moths (and less commonly butterflies) is a common phobia (mottephobia), though it is less widespread than fear of spiders (arachnophobia).

2013, Whitney Cranshaw, Richard Redak, Bugs Rule!: An Introduction to the World of Insects, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 341:

An irrational fear of moths or butterflies.


pediculophobia

From Latin pēdīculus (“louse”) + -phobia.


spiderphobia

There are many kinds of spiders, ladies and gentlemen, besides the two that crawled up King Richard’s arm. There is the little grey spider, the larger brown spider, the still bigger yellow spider, and the monstrous black spider—the last named of which sometimes grows to the size of a young frying-pan; and, should it happen to bite you, you die of spiderphobia in less than two shakes of a lobster’s liver.

1859, Elbridge Gerry Paige, New Patent Sermons, Machine Poetry, N. Y.: Frederic A. Brady, page 274:

Barney cautioned him not to speak of spiders in my presence because I was afflicted with a strange fear, sort of a spiderphobia, that made it a dangerous subject for me to hear discussed.

He was a victim of arachnephobia^([sic]) or spiderphobia.

1959, Science Digest, page 81, column 2:

There must be a word for people who had spiderphobia although Norman couldn’t in his wildest imaginings even bring himself to even look^([sic]) at the word spider.

1993, David Evans, A Cat in the Tulips, Millivres Books, →ISBN, page 51:

Esther tried for years to rid Nell of her spiderphobia.

1999, Caeia March, Spinsters’ Rock, The Women’s Press, →ISBN, page 170:

“The experiment is to see if you can use VR as a treatment. So, to some extent, we’re just basically trying to treat her for spiderphobia, and at the same time we’re trying to learn from her experience whether this is an effective medium.”

1999, Fred Moody, The Visionary Position: The Inside Story of the Digital Dreamers Who Are Making Virtual Reality a Reality, Times Books, →ISBN, page 5:


katsaridaphobia

/kætˌsæɹɪdəˈfəʊbiə/

From Modern Greek κατσαρίδα (katsarída, “cockroach”) + -phobia.

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Yes, cockroaches wallow in filth, but a case of food poisoning is probably about as bad as it gets if one of those pests skitters across your slice of pizza – a stroll through the park compared to malaria, yellow fever or dengue fever. Still, anecdotally, many people suffer from katsaridaphobia, or cockroach phobia.

2014 September 18, Rachel Nuwer, “Cockroaches: The insect we're programmed to fear”, in bbc.com:

This paper reviews the literature about virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) of five forms of phobias (agoraphobia, arachnophobia, claustrophobia, katsaridaphobia, fear of driving), describes the therapeutic procedures, and compared them with procedures used in behavioral-analytic psychotherapy.

2016, Verônica Bender Haydu, Joseani Kochhann, Elizeu Borloti, “Virtual reality exposure therapy strategies: a review discussed under the behavior-analytic perspective”, in Psicologia Clínica, volume 28, number 3, page 15:

Once, a roach entomologist in Gainesville, Florida, helped a woman overcome her lifelong katsaridaphobia.

2017 Summer, Clinton Crockett Peters, “Water Bugs: A Story Of Absolution”, in Southern Review, volume 53, number 3:

The opposite end of the emotion ‘fear’ is ‘courage’ or ‘confidence’. So in case of phobia, the therapist should create a ‘courage’ or ‘confidence’ evoking situation, like a ‘caged spider’ or ‘caged cockroach’ in a case of arachnophobia or katsaridaphobia; ‘appreciating and approving company’ rather than criticisive and disparaging people in a case of social phobia.

2018, Krishanu Kumar Das, “Therapeutic Reprocessing of Association of Memories (TRAM)”, in International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience, volume 20, number 2:


interphobia

Behrensen condemns the practice of targeting certain athletes and subjecting them to the indignity and humiliation of a procedure that has no bearing on athletic ability and that further violates privacy in the service of accommodating interphobia.

2017, Thomas Keith, Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture: An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity, page 283:

I knew those attitudes were out there, but I'd already learned that I had to reject the racism I'd experienced as a child, and the homophobia later on, so it seemed natural to also reject the interphobia I saw directed at intersex people.

2018, August McLaughlin, Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, unnumbered page:

Many intersex people and intersex studies scholars note how various oppressive systems—interphobia, heterosexism, phallogocentrism, queerphobia, as well as compulsory dyadism, heterosexuality, and able-bodiedness—work together to justify curative violence.

2021, Rohini Bannerjee, Karim Mukhida, From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine, Demeter Press, →ISBN:

Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.


phobiaphobia

A lot of fears have already been named for us; such as acrophobia (fear of high places), agoraphobia (fear of open places), zoophobia (fear of animals), phobiaphobia (fear of fear), etc. You need not, however, be limited to those already named and catalogued.

Bill L. Little, Self-Destruction Made Easy (page 72)

When unchecked, fear spawns a whole brood of phobias—fear of water, high places, closed rooms, darkness, loneliness, among others—and such an accumulation culminates in phobiaphobia or the fear of fear itself.

2012, Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings, page 116:

The arguments are familiar: the academy is for […] eliminating racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia, phobiaphobia, and prejudice in whatever form today's fevered imaginariums of offence can conjure.

2017, Dennis Hayes, Beyond McDonaldization: Visions of Higher Education, page 53:


astraphobe

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

If you are an aviator and you aren't an astraphobe, this article is meant for you.

1985, United States Army Aviation Digest, page 16:

The bright lights and dark dissonance starts to wane. But as the child looked, the more he could see. An astraphobe's moments of pure glee.

2021, Khushi Sharma, Aashi Toor, Evoking Nostalgia, BooksClub, page 103:

Astraphobes take note: you're more likely to be hit, and killed, by lightning in Salt Lake County than anywhere else along the Wasatch Front.

2014 March 1, Lightning is more likely to kill you in Salt Lake than in other counties:

With the exception of astraphobes or mystics, the fear of being struck by lightning is not very common.

2020 August 13, “What is the real risk of being struck by lightning?”, in What do you know about lightning strikes?:

For astraphobes, a thunderstorm can be a terrifying experience.

2021 March 11, Sullivan Valdez, The most common phobias:

(neologism, rare) Someone suffering from astraphobia.


melanophobia

From Ancient Greek μέλᾱς (mélās) + -o- + -phobia.

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The sympathy of Maga with white oppressors of black men, has been shown in several recent articles, in which it classes negroes with monkeys and gorillas; as inferior to the whites as white men are to angels.—Vol. xci, p 4; and xcvii, 34, 152. This, and its unjust and bitter invectives against the anti-slavery party, as hypocrites and ultra-radicals,—xcix, 589, 590—are among the most melancholy instances of Melanophobia with which we are acquainted.

1867, John Wesley Thomas, “Blackwood and the Blacks”, in Poems on Sacred, Classical, Mediæval, and Modern Subjects, London: Elliot Stock, […], page 190:

Modern commentators and preachers explain the first four verses of the first chapter as referring to the “Church’s love unto Christ” and the fifth verse as “the Church’s confession of her deformity.” Surely this illegitimate idea was hatched in a brain diseased with what Dr. Edward W[ilmot] Blyden calls “melanophobia.”[…]Edward W. Blyden, LL.D., writing from Liberia, says: “[…]The cure for American colorphobia, or more accurately, melanophobia is in the heart of Africa.”

1893, Rufus L. Perry, “Color of the Egyptians”, in The Cushite or the Descendants of Ham as Found in the Sacred Scriptures and in the Writings of Ancient Historians and Poets from Noah to the Christian Era, Springfield, Mass.: Willey & Co., pages 52 and 54:

[…]papers of the last two months, arising from every section of the country, that a glance into the medical aspects of melanophobia cannot be devoid of interest and should not pass unobserved. In the leading journals from the North and South there have appeared editorials of great acumen and power, but none seem as yet to have dealt, except in a superficial manner, with the race problem as seen from a biological, ethnological or medical standpoint.

1903, The Medical News, page 414, column 1:

Melanophobia, or fear of the black, may be pragmatically as valuable a racial defence for the white as the counter-instinct of philoleucosis, or love of the white, is a force of racial uplifting for the black.

1921, Israel Zangwill, “Afterword”, in Works of Israel Zangwill: The Melting Pot; Chosen Peoples, American Jewish Book Company, section III, page 206:

Robert has hair a shade lighter than your lady’s, Nannee’s a shade or two darker. Both have black eyes. I am blacker than either. But I ought not to tell you so, for having become Yankee now, of course you are being steeped in their melanophobia.

Our press tells us daily of outrages and stupidities committed under pressure of melanophobia.

1968, Fernando Henriques, Family and Colour in Jamaica, 2nd edition, Macgibbon & Kee:

Restaurants and bars could put up signs saying “Only Leucoderms Will Be Served,” which would look appropriately ridiculous. And it might be possible to work out a quarantine for real-estate agents infected with melanophobia.[…]It is odd that a beautiful skin should be a handicap; and I, at least, find the darker human skins more attractive than the pale ones. This must be generally true if one can judge by the amount of time paleface people spend in trying to darken their skins. This leucoderm preoccupation with getting dark must look ridiculous to a melanoderm; it certainly makes melanophobia seem odd.

1970, Marston Bates, A Jungle in the House: Essays in Natural and Unnatural History, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, pages 191 and 193:

Acculturation and assimilation (“Creolization”), and their solvent action on traditional cultures and values, are under-emphasized; a broody melanophobia prevails.

Although Anglophilia is still powerful and melanophobia still exists, nowadays people also recognize achieved status independent of color and within color groupings.

1976, Proceedings of the Central States Anthropological Society, page 33:

Other studies (Ellis 1957; Henriques 1968; Miller 1969; Rogler 1943) emphasize the continuing existence of the black and white West Indian's feelings of melanophobia [hatred of blackness].

1980, The Journal of Anthropology, page 125:

Union bashing and Union beatification, Hyper-taxation, Melanophobia (a new word coined for this occasion), and the creaking, groaning and crumbling[…]

1984, Lord Rothschild, Random Variables, William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 78:

[Evan] Mecham’s melanophobia is such that anyone with a dark skin is automatically disqualified from even being near him.

1988 January 24, Jean-Pierre A. Maldonado, “No Surprise”, in The Arizona Republic, 98th year, number 251, Phoenix, Ariz., page C6, column 5:

The “black but beautiful” passage from the Song of Solomon provides the base for examining traditions in the synagogue and the church dealing with melanophobia.

1992, Dissertation Abstracts International: The Humanities and Social Sciences, University Microfilms International, page 1960, column 1:

Acts of racism are White supremacist acts in the general race war; acts of Negrophobia/Melanophobia are White supremacist acts against Blacks in that race war.

Raphael Confiant has just responded angrily to the comments of Alain Finkelkraut whom he accuses of melanophobia – a form of Negrophobia.

2004, ALA Bulletin: A Publication of the African Literature Association, page 29:

Given the overvaluation of whiteness and the accompanying melanophobia of colonial Latin American society, it is not surprising to find in the nineteenth century a perhaps paradoxical valorization of of mulattoness even in the creative writing that purported to promote the abolition of slavery.

2006, Jerome C. Branche, Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 114:


tabophobia

A morbid fear of tabes (wasting disease).


lilapsophobia

From Ancient Greek λαῖλαψ (laîlaps, “hurricane”) + -o- + -phobia.

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Sophie lost everything she owned in a tornado and now suffers from lilapsophobia—fear of tornadoes—so she re-located from Oklahoma to Florida.

2014, Christopher Cortman, Harold Shinitzky, Laurie-Ann O'Connor, Take Control of Your Anxiety: A Drug-Free Approach to Living a Happy, Healthy Life:

This sometimes results in lilapsophobia (the fear of tornadoes and hurricanes) which is expressed as an ongoing fear that any storms will become severe.

2016, John Tyrrell, “Site Investigations of Tornado Events”, in Robert K. Doe, editor, Extreme Weather: Forty Years of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO), page 98:

Jake listened as the newscaster reported a tornado approaching their general area from the southwestern corner of the county. She jumped and paled. “The storm!”
He'd seen people with severe fears of storms before. But at the terror in her eyes, he knew it went deeper than that.[…]Lilapsophobia was a very real condition.

2019, Calle J. Brookes, chapter 102, in Holding the Truth:


mycophobia

From myco- (“fungus, mushroom”) + -phobia.


epistolophobia

en-noun

epistolophobia (usually uncountable, plural epistolophobias)

From Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolḗ, “message, letter”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”) + -ia.

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One of the signs of Saussure's progressing reticence was what he himself called his epistolophobia or graphophobia. His letters to colleagues almost invariably began with apologies for a delay (sometimes of years) in responding.

2012, Boris Gasparov, Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 31:

Elsewhere, from Ancient Greek, we have "epistolophobia" (the fear of receiving correspondence)

2018, Paul Anthony Jones, “The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities”, in TLS. Times Literary Supplement, number 6002, NI Syndication Limited:

I am in fact carrying on no correspondence at all except with booksellers, and even that has now transitioned into the malady all too familiar under the name epistolophobia. [Footnote 4: “Fear of, aversion to letters.”]

1800, Wilhelm Schlegel, Letter to Johann Diederich Gries in Göttingen:

2019, Laura Hale Brockway, Phobias that stymie writers, Impertinent Remarks - from Ragan Communications PR Daily, url=https://impertinentremarks.com/phobias-that-stymie-writers/
Epistolophobia — fear of correspondence

Ans. Epistolophobia, fear of letter writing. Lynd describes it as a common disease found in a large number of people who are afraid of letter writing. There are people who suffer from Epistolophobia and do not answer letters timely as they want to answer it when they really have something to say. However, such people, victims of Epsitolophobia are accused of rudeness whereas they are not. They just don’t want to write something unnecessary. They wait till something worth writing comes up.
E. Explain the lines: ‘As for Australia, one sits down to a letter to Australia in the mood of a man preparing to write a history of the civilised[sic] world. We do not know if everybody has this materialistic sense of space. We confess we have it strongly. We sincerely sympathise[sic] with the man whose second cousin in Australia congratulated him on his engagement. A letter from Australia throws a responsibility on a man from which the boldest may well shrink.’
Ans. There are some people who suffer from Epistolophobia and bad things happens with them is that sometimes they get letter from far continental distance which is not really worth replying. In such moment that person starts making excuse[sic] for not answering the letter. What if the letter arrives to that person in Australia when he has sat for writing something very important? shall the letter distract the person anyway? Does that person is in a leisure to read such unnecessary congratulating letter or even reply of a letter that was sent some 11 years ago. Author sympathises[sic] with such person who is in such circumstances.

2021, Robert Lynd, Writing Letters, Aligarh Muslim University Press D. How does the author describe the disease of epistobhobia?[sic]

An abnormal or irrational fear of correspondence, especially the receiving or writing of letters or messages.


Hitlerphobia

Something, however, that looked good in print evolved, the Intergovernmental Coference on Refugees. With the announcement of its creation, the doomed victims of Hitlerphobia caught a glimmer of hope. The glimmer turned to despair as the horrors deepened.

1944, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, U.S. Government Printing Office, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:

The title of Mr. Taylor's book is not, then, its only fraud: under the guise of “revision" it substitutes for blatant Germanophobia and Hitlerphobia an infinitely more subtle condemnation of the Fuehrer and his country.

1964, David A. Dunn, Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:

But the Hitlerphobia horrified him to such a degree that he lost contact with reality. He was paralyzed. He waited eleven days , till 7/3/1941, till he was in a condition to talk a to the people.

1978, Izaak Goldberg, The Miracles Versus Tyranny, Philosophical Library, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

However, in an article written by Fromm entitled ‘The Jewish Defence League - Kosher Conservatives?’ (Straight Talk, vol. 3, no. 5, January-February 1971), it is stated that the JDL suffers from Hitlerphobia and that its only concern is with anti-Semitism.

1987, Stanley R. Barrett, Is God a Racist?: The Right Wing in Canada, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 65:

It is as facile for Mr. Kupchan to dismiss such fears as Russophobia as it was for Mr. Chamberlain to dismiss the prewar fears of Germany's neighbors as Hitlerphobia.

2006, Jan Nowak, Polska droga do NATO: listy, dokumenty, publikacje (Archiwum Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego w Zakładzie Narodowym im. Ossolińskich), Tow. Przyjaciół Ossolineum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 269:

You're missing the point. This is about the fact that this content is not
appropriate for the page its listed on, not about any kind of hitlerphobia.

2007 November 26, eBoundHost: Artur, “Re: who wrote this”, in muc.lists.freebsd.chat (Usenet):

Hitlerphobia is so pronounced in the West that Austria may
demolish Hitler’s birthplace for no good reason.

2016 June 15, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Hitlerphobia!”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):


Irishphobia

Continuing Irishphobia, in fact, caused some concern when the Civil War erupted upon the nation.

1971, John B. Duff, The Irish in the United States, page 20:

It is in this context of Irishphobia that the racist caricature of the drunken, violent, ignorant Paddy was established.

1996, Pierre L. Van Den Berghe, Ernest Cashmore, Ellis Cashmore, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, page 182:


Malayophobia

Fear, hatred of, or prejudice against Malays, a large ethnic group native to Southeast Asia.


blennophobe

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

If the thought of crab-walking with an oozing, mucous-like mud sucking at your boots and gloves makes you think that caving might not be the sport for you, you might be a blennophobe, someone who is afraid of slime.

2005, Terry Owens, Extreme Marriage Mastering the Ever-Changing, Life-Long Adventure, page 220:

'Welcome,' he oozes, and it's perhaps as well I'm no blennophobe because he's one slimy fuckbucket.

2010, Bill Thunder, The Bastardizer, page 31:

This strange organism is created when millions of single-celled animals come together to form a slimy puddle—not good for a blennophobe.

2011, Joel Levy, Phobiapedia: All the Things We Fear the Most!, page 61:


pronounphobia

en-noun

pronounphobia (countable and uncountable, plural pronounphobias)

Pronounphobia omg. Do they realise that they’ve used pronouns in that tweet 🤦

2020 April 10, Charlie (@ThenonbinaryC), Twitter:

Fr [for real]. All this internalised pronounphobia, like duh, everyone has pronouns

2020 November 11, 'Ala ad-Din (@IbnAbiQ), Twitter:

I agree, there needs to be more research into pronounphobia. Why do so many people get so upset about a part of speech?

2021 May 19, Max Harvey (@max_harvey), Twitter:

(chiefly sarcastic) Fear, hatred, or aversion to pronouns, especially as relates to gender.


stasiphobia

Basiphobia is the psychic element characteristic of pseudotabetics; also agarophobia^([sic]) and stasiphobia.

1922, International Medical Digest, page 374:

Stasiphobia is the fear of standing. Presumably, someone who suffers from both stasiphobia and kathisophobia has no option but to lay in bed all day while the rest of us work.

2019, Andrew Thompson, Spiders, Clowns, and Great Mole Rats: Over 150 Phobias That Will Freak You Out, from Arachnophobia to Zemmiphobia:

(rare) A morbid fear of standing upright.


Australophobia

To counter any charge of Australophobia, we report that in contrast to your fine airports, our main international airport does not yet boast a permanent terminal building and the opening date slides away into unpredictability – 1969, 1972, 1973, Xmas 1974, October 1975 and now October 1976!

1975 June, “Transport in New Zealand”, in Australian Transport, volume 17, number 6, page 50:


Mormonophobia

If we started allowing religious people to break basic anti-discrimination laws, where would we stop? Until 1975, the Mormon Church said black people didn't have souls. […] Would we let a Mormon registrar refuse to marry black people? Would it be "Mormonophobia" to object?

2010 August 10, Johann Hari, “The Slow, Whining Death of British Christianity”, in HuffPost:

The Mormon church's past anti-gay positions and its role in financing Proposition 8 – California's 2008 ban on same-sex marriage – may have been the first dominoes to fall around the faithful, but vetting Mitt Romney as a presidential candidate links the straightforward similarities between Mormonophobia and homophobia.

2012 July 11, Tony Plakas, “Mitt's Mormon marriage march”, in Sun-Sentinel:

Hold on there! That's hate speech, isn't it? That Mormonophobia! / Now if only you could be so frank about Islam there might be some hope for you.

2016 April 15, Bob Tiernan, “Re: A news item Billy will like”, in or.politics (Usenet):


arophobia

2016, https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/149367-overcoming-internalized-arophobia/, Overcoming internalized arophobia
"I was dealing with internalized arophobia (like homophobia, but towards aromantics)."

2021, https://www.aromanticism.org/en/basic-terms, AUREA - Basic Terms
"Aromisia / Arophobia - The dislike of or prejudice against aromantic people."

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


selenophobia

selenophobia (countable and uncountable, plural selenophobias)

From seleno- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “Moon”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

[…]the chronic use of dietary selenium supplementation or chronic ingestion of drinking water containing selenium slightly above normal or safe levels can facilitate the development of diabetes type 2 and neurodegenerative diseases. These observations do not indicate that we have returned to the era of selenophobia (the fear of selenium observed in the 20th century), but we have to be much more critical about the intentional or unintentional chronic use of selenium.

2017, Joao B. T. Rocha, Claudia S. Oliveira, Pablo A. Nogara, “Toxicology and Anticancer Activity of Synthetic Organoselenium Compounds”, in Organoselenium Compounds in Biology and Medicine, Royal Society of Chemistry, page 349:

A fear of selenium due to its perceived status as a carcinogen and toxin.


pluralphobia

pluralphobia makes us mad

2020 September 4, @QueerAnarch, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-30:

singlets talking about plurality like *inadvertent constant pluralphobia*

2021 February 10, @caterpilled, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-30:

I wouldn't recommend the second game though because for some reason they go hard on the pluralphobia, a lot of plot points are changed from the original, and Zach barely plays a role in it, which is really disappointing.

2021 November 13, u/Aichtachi, “DID/OSDD/Plural-ish Positive Media Recommendations?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2023-01-09:

you think internalized transphobia is bad? oh brother, just wait till the internalized pluralphobia hits

2023 February 8, @estroBiologist, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-30:

Long before any sort of multiplicity was considered a mental disorder, the Christian majority was primed to hate and fear plurals. This pluralphobia later transferred over to DID systems

2023 March 7, sophieinwonderland, Tumblr, archived from the original on 2023-07-23:

(multiplicity slang) The dislike, denial, or stigmatization of, or prejudice against, people with multiplicity (the psychological condition).


dodecaphobia

Suppose that you wanted to make a random-number [generator] that returns [all] random numbers between 1 and 20 [but] 12 (because you have […] dodecaphobia which […] is the fear of the number 12).

2017, Doug Lowe, Java All-in-One, 5th edition:

There’s also dodecaphobia, which is the (again, unofficial) fear of the number 12[.]

2019 June 5, “Five phobias you didn’t know existed”, in BBC Bitesize:

Dagmara read the next title. “‘Dodecaphobia’?”
 “There is something very troubling about the number 12,” Ema said gravely.


koinophobia

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common, general”) and the modern English suffix -phobia, itself from the Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía, “fear”).

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(neologism, rare) The fear of having lived an ordinary life.


amoebophobia

We must warn patients that if their symptoms persist after adequate treatment a cause other than the amoeba must be sought. Consideration of these factors in the handling of the patient will prevent much demoralization, much belief in the incurability of amoebiasis and much amoebophobia.

1953 January 10, T. G. Armstrong, “Recent experiences in the treatment of amoebiasis”, in South African Medical Journal, volume 27, number 2, →PMID, page 44:

[W P. Stamm] concluded by pointing out that […] a zealous search for amoebae not followed by good clinical judgment could easily result in amoebophilia amongst doctors and a consequent amoebophobia in their patients.

1960 November, “Association of Clinical Pathologists: 65th General Meeting”, in Journal of Clinical Pathology, volume 13, number 6, London: British Medical Association, page 538:

Iatrogenic amoebiasis became common in some areas, creating an amoebophobia, not only in the individual patient, but also in communities, in some of which the label became a social status symbol!

1968, Ronald Elsdon-Dew, “The Epidemiology of Amoebiasis”, in Advances in Parasitology, volume 6, London: Academic Press, →LCCN, page 2:


anti-Scandinavianism

The fear or dislike of people, policies, culture, or government of Scandinavia.


Naziphobia

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

What if someone told you that you had a Naziphobia? Does it make you question your dislike of Nazis? Does it make you think that you should not fear an entire group of people who believe something evil because you should not have a phobia? The truth is, it is not a phobia. It is rational to be afraid of the Nazis. Yet, people will apply phobia to the end of any group to make you feel guilty for being afraid of them.

2019, Mitchell White, A Man of High Character:

[…] Naziphobia balanced by Anglophilia.

2022, Bernard F. Dick, The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film, page 68:


praeputiophobia

en-noun

praeputiophobia (usually uncountable, plural praeputiophobias)

Fear or hatred of the human prepuce (foreskin or clitoral hood).


posthephobia

posthephobia (usually uncountable, plural posthephobias)

Fear or hatred of the human male prepuce (foreskin).


Fasciphobia

(rare) The fear, dislike, or hatred of fascism and/or fascists.