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Phobia GlossaryA Selected List- Acrophobia
- fear of heights
- Agoraphobia
- fear of crowds, public places, or open areas
- Ailurophobia
- fear of cats
- Algophobia
- fear of pain
- Anglophobia
- fear of (or hatred for) England or anything English
- Aquaphobia
- fear of water
- Arachnophobia
- fear of spiders
- Aviophobia
- fear of flying in an airplane
- Ballistophobia
- fear of missiles, bullets, or being shot
- Bibliophobia
- fear (or mistrust) of books
- Cynophobia
- fear of dogs
- Francophobia
- fear of (or hatred for) France or anything French
- Germanophobia
- fear of (or hatred for) Germany or anything German
- Gerontophobia
- fear of old people or old age
- Hemophobia
- fear of blood
- Logophobia
- fear of words
- Monophobia
- fear of being alone
- Necrophobia
- fear of death or dead bodies
- Nosophobia
- fear of disease
- Nyctophobia
- fear of night or darkness
- Ophidiophobia
- fear of snakes
- Paraskavedekatriaphobia
- fear of Friday the 13th
- Philophobia
- fear of love or falling in love
- Phobophobia
- fear of developing a phobia
- Photophobia
- fear of (or sensitivity to) light
- Pyrophobia
- fear of fire
- Russophobia
- fear of (or hatred for) Russia or anything Russian
- Sitophobia
- aversion to food
- Taphephobia
- fear of being buried alive
- Technophobia
- fear of advanced technology
- Thalassophobia
- fear of the sea
- Thanatophobia
- fear of death
- Toxiphobia
- fear of being poisoned
- Triskaidekaphobia
- fear of the number 13
- Xenophobia
- fear (or hatred) of foreigners, strangers, or things that are foreign or strange
- Xylophobia
- fear of forests or wooden objects
- Zoophobia
- fear of animals
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