Hear are some common–and some not so common–phobias.  Check 'em out. . . .


Ablutophobia – fear of bathing.

Agoraphobia – fear of places and situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.

Ancraophobia – fear of wind.

Arachnophobia – fear of spiders.

Aracibutyrophobia – fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. (Seriously.)

Astraphobia – fear of lighning.

Aurophobia: – fear of finding gold.

Chorophobia – fear of dancing.

Chrometophobia – fear of money.

Didaskaleinophobia – fear of going to school.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary—and, in an ironic twist, is the name for a fear of long words.  Sesquipedalophobia is another term for the phobia.  The fear or anxiety is disproportionate to the social situation.

Lethophobia – fear of oblivion.

Melophobia – fear of music.

Musophobia – fear of rodents.

Nomophobia – fear of being out of a phone's range of service. (Also, seriously.)

Nyctophobia – fear of the dark.

Omphalophobia – fear of navels.

Ophidiophobia – fear of snakes.

Phasmaphobia – fear of ghosts.

Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors and one's own reflection.

Triskaidekaphobia – fear of the number thirteen. (And the ?closely? related Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the thirteenth.)

Venustraphobia – fear of beautiful women.


I can't make this stuff up.  (!)