Phobia


Do you have a phobia? I guess everyone has one. Phobia is a  morbid, compulsive, and persistent fear of any specified type of object, stimulus, or situation. Any strong aversion or dislike.

In the following list each entry denotes a morbid fear or dislike of the thing or situation indicated by the translation of the first part of the word:

acrophobia - fear of heights
agoraphobia - fear of open spaces
ailurophobia - fear of cats 
algophobia - fear of pain
androphobia - fear of men
astraphobia - fear of thunder and lightning
autophobia - fear of being alone
bathophobia - fear of depth
claustrophobia - fear of closed space
cynophobia - fear of  dogs(rabies)
demophobia - fear of crowds
dromophobia - fear of crossing streets
genophobia - fear of sex
gynophobia - fear of man
haptephobia - fear of being touched
hemophobia - fear of blood
hydrophobia - fear of water
hypnophobia - fear of falling asleep
musophobia - fear of mice
mysophobia - fear of contamination
neophobia - fear of the new
nyctophobia - fear of night or darkness
ophidiophobia - fear of snakes
photophobia - fear of light
sitophobia - fear of eating or food
taphephobia - fear of being buried alive
thanatophobia - fear of death
toxicophobia - fear of poison
xenophobia - fear of strangers or foreigners
zoophobia - fear of animals

There are still more, this is just some examples.

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