The fear of animals is called zoophobia, and the fear of numbers is called arithmophobia !!
MORE SUCH TYPES OF PHOBIAS :-
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| Fear of (A - L) | Phobia | Fear of (M - Z) | Phobia | |
| accidents | dystychiphobia | machinery | mechanophobia | |
| ageing | gerascophobia | madness | maniaphobia (see also insanity) | |
| air sickness | aeronausiphobia | magic | rhabdophobia (see also beaten, being) | |
| air (fresh), draughts | aerophobia (see also flying) | making changes or moving | trophophobia | |
| alcohol | methyphobia | many things | polyphobia | |
| alcohol (drinking) | dipsophobia | marriage | gamophobia | |
| alone (being) or oneself or loneliness | autophobia | materialism | hylephobia (see also woods) | |
| amphibians, such a frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc | batrachophobia | meat | carnophobia | |
| amnesia | amnesiophobia | medicine (taking) | pharmacophobia | |
| animals | zoophobia | memories | mnemophobia | |
| animals (wild) | agrizoophobia | men | androphobia | |
| angry (becoming) | angrophobia | meningitis | meningitophobia | |
| animal skin, fur | doraphobia | menstruation | menophobia | |
| ants | Pmyrmecophobia | mercuruial medicines | hydrargyophobia | |
| asymmetrical things | asymmetriphobia | metal | metallophobia | |
| ataxia | ataxiophobia | meteors | meteorophobia | |
| atomic energy | nucleomitophobia | mice | musophobia | |
| atomic explosions | atomosophobia | microbes | microbiophobia | |
| attack | scelerophobia | mind | psychophobia | |
| auroral lights | auroraphobia | mirrors | catoptrophobia | |
| automobiles | motorphobia | missiles | ballistrophobia (see also bullets) | |
| bad mens, burglars | scelerophibia | mites, ticks | acarophobia | |
| bacteria | bacillophobia | mole rat (great) | zemmiphobia | |
| bald (becoming) | phalacrophobia | money (touching) | chrematophobia | |
| baldness | peladophobia | monsters (or giving birth to monster) | teratophobia | |
| bathing | bathophobia (see also depth) | moon | selenophobia | |
| beards | pogonophobia | mother-in-law | pentheraphobia | |
| beaten (being) | rhabdophobia (see also magic) | moths | mottephobia | |
| bed (going to) | clinophobia | motion or movement | kinesophobia | |
| bees | apiphobia | motor vehicles | motophobia | |
| beggars | hobophobia | mushroom (aversion to) | mycophobia | |
| bearing a deformed child or deformed people | teratophobia | music | musicophobia | |
| being evaluated negatively in social situations | social phobia | myths, stories and lying | mythophobia | |
| bicycles | ornithophobia | name (a particular name or word) | onomatophobia | |
| birds | melanophobia | narrowness | anginaphobia | |
| black (colour) | scotomaphobia | needles | enetophobia | |
| blindness in visual field | cyclophobia | needles, pins | belonephobia | |
| blood | hemaphobia | |||
| blushing | erythrophobia (see also red) | new things or ideas | cenophobia or centophobia | |
| body odour | bromhidrosiphobia | night | noctiphobia | |
| bogies or the bogeyman | bogyphobia | noise | acoustiphobia | |
| Bolsheviks | Bolshephobia | nosebleeds | epistaxiophobia | |
| books | bibliophobia | novelty, newness | cainophobia | |
| bound (being) or tied up | merinthophobia | nuclear weapons | nucleomituphobia | |
| bowel movements (painful) | defecaloesiophobia | |||
| brain disease | meningitophobia | numbers | arithmophobia | |
| bridges (crossing) | gephyrophobia | number 13 | triskaidekaphobia | |
| buildings (high) | batophobia | objects (large) | megalophobia | |
| bullets | ballistophobia (see also missiles) | objects (pointed) | aichmophobia | |
| bulls | taurophobia | objects (sacred) | hierophobia | |
| buried alive (being) | taphephobia | objects (small) | tapinophobia | |
| cancer | carcinomophobia | objects (at the right side of the body) | dextrophobia | |
| cats | ailurophobia | odour (one that has vile) | autodysomophobia | |
| Celts, Celtic | Celtophobia | old (growing) | gerascophobia | |
| cemeteries | coimetrophobia | old (people) | gerontophobia | |
| certain places | topophobia (see also performing) | open spaces, crowded public places like markets, leaving a safe place | agoraphobia | |
| challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation | heresyphobia or hereiophobia | opinions (others') | allodoxaphobia | |
| changes | metathesiophobia | opposite sex | sexophobia | |
| changes (making) | tropophobia | otters | lutraphobia | |
| chemicals or working with chemicals | chemophobia | outer space | spacephobia | |
| chickens | alektorophobia | overworking | ponophobia | |
| childbirth or pregnancy | tocophobia | pain | algophobia | |
| China, Chinese | Sinophobia | paper | papyrophobia | |
| chins | geniophobia | parasites | parasitophobia | |
| choking or of being smothered | pnigophobia | parents-in-law | soceraphobia | |
| cholera | cholerophobia | peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth | arachibutyrophobia | |
| clocks | chronomentrophobia | pellagra | pellagrophobia | |
| clothes | vestiophobia | |||
| clouds | nephophobia | |||
| clowns | coulrophobia | people | anthropophobia (see also society) | |
| church | ecclesiophobia | performing (stagefright) | topophobia (see also places (certain)) | |
| coitus | coitophobia | persons with amputations | apotemnophobia | |
| cold | cheimaphobia | philosophy, philosophers | philosophobia | |
| colours | chromophobia | phobias | phobophobia | |
| comets | cometophobia | physical injury | traumatophobia (see also war) | |
| complex scientific or (Greek) terms | Hellenologophobia | pins, needles | belonephobia | |
| computers | computerphobia | places (certain) | topophobia (see also performing) | |
| constipation | coprostasophobia | places (steep) | cremnophobia | |
| contagious (being) | tapinophobia | plants | botanophobia | |
| cooking | mageirocophobia | pleasure | hedonophobia | |
| cosmic | kosmikophobia | poetry | metrophobia | |
| crossing streets | agiophobia | pointed objects | aichmophobia | |
| crowded rooms | koinoniphobia | poison or of being accidently poisoned | toxiphobia | |
| crowds | demophobia | poisons | iophobia (see also rust) | |
| crucifixes or crosses | staurophobia | poliomyelitis (contracting) | poliosophobia | |
| crystals or glass | crystallophobia | politicians or abnormal dislike | politicophobia | |
| dampness, liquids or moisture | hygrophobia | pope | papaphobia | |
| dancing | chorophobia | poverty | peniaphobia | |
| darkness | nyctophobia | precipices | cremnophobia | |
| dawn | eosophobia | progress | prosophobia | |
| daylight | phengophobia | property | orthophobia | |
| death, corpses | necrophobia | |||
| decaying matter | septophobia | pseudo-rabies | kynophobia (see also rabies) | |
| decisions (making) | decidophobia | punishment | poinephobia | |
| defecation (painful) | defecalgesiophobia | purple | porphyrophobia | |
| deformity | dysmorphophobia | rabies | hydrophobia (see also pseudo-rabies) | |
| demons, goblins | bogyphobia | radiation, X-rays | radiophobia | |
| dentists | dentophobia | railways | siderodromophobia | |
| dependence on others | soteriophobia | rain | ombrophobia | |
| depth | bathophobia (see also bathing) | |||
| devils, evil spirits | demonophobia | red | erythrophobia (see also blushing) | |
| diabetes | diabetophobia | relatives | syngenesophobia | |
| dining, dinner conversation | deipnophobia | religious ceremonies | teletophobia | |
| dirt, germs | mysophobia | reptiles or creepy, crawly things | herpetophobia | |
| dirt (on oneself) | automysophobia | responsibility | hypengyophobia | |
| disease | bisiogibua | ridicule | katagelophobia | |
| disease (hereditary) | patriophobia | riding in vehicles | amaxophobia | |
| disease, illness | pathophobia | right-hand side of the body (objects on) | dextrophobia | |
| disease (particular) | monopathophobia | rivers or running water | potamophobia | |
| disease (rectal or rectum) | proctophobia or rectophobia | robbers | harpaxophobia | |
| disease (skin) | dermatosiophobia | rooms (empty) | kenophobia | |
| dizziness or whirlpools | dinophobia | rooms (crowded) | koinoniphobia | |
| doctors | iatrophobia | ruin or ruins | atephobia | |
| dogs | cynophobia | Russia, Russian | Russophobia | |
| dolls and children | pedophobia | rust | iophobia (see also poisons) | |
| double vision | diplopiaphobia | sacred objects or priests | hierophobia | |
| draughts, fresh air, air swallowing | aerophobia (see also flying) | saints | hagiophobia | |
| draughts, winds | anemophobia | Satan | Satanophobia | |
| dreams | oneirophobia | scabies | scabiophobia | |
| dreams (wet) | oneirogmophobia | school (of going to) | didaskaleinophobia | |
| drink (usually alcohol) | potophobia | scientific terms (complex) or Greek terms | Hellenologophobia | |
| drugs | pharmacophobia | scratched (being) | amychophobia | |
| drugs (new) | neopharmaphobia | sea | thalassophobia | |
| dryness | xerophobia | spermatophobia | ||
| dust | amathophobia | sermons | homilophobia | |
| Dutch | dutchphobia | |||
| duty or responsibility (neglect of) | paralipophobia | |||
| electricity | electrophobia | |||
| emetics, vomiting | emetophobia | |||
| empty rooms/spaces or voids | kenophobia | |||
| enclosed spaces | clithrophobia | shadows | sciophobia | |
| England, English | Anglophobia | shellfish | ostraconophobia | |
| everything | panophobia | shock | hormephobia | |
| evil spirits, devils | demonophobia | sin | hamartophobia | |
| excrement | coprophobia | single (staying) | anuptaphobia | |
| eyes | ommatophobia | sitting down | thaasophobia | |
| eyes (opening one's) | optophobia | sitting still | cathisophobia | |
| skin lesions | dermatophobia | |||
| fabrics (particular) | textophobia | skin disease | dermatosiophobia | |
| failure or defeat | kakorrhaphiophobia | Slavs, Slavic | Slavophobia | |
| fat (becoming) | obesophobia | sleep | somniphobia | |
| fatigue | kopophobia | slime | blennophobia | |
| fear | phobophobia | small objects | tapinophobia | |
| feathers (tickled by) | pteronophobia | smells | olfactophobia | |
| fecal matter | scatophobia | snakes | ophidiophobia | |
| feces | coprophobia | snow | chionophobia | |
| fever | pyrexiphobia | society or people in general | anthropophobia | |
| figure 8 | octophobia | solitude | autophobia | |
| filth | rhypophobia | sourness | acerophobia | |
| fire | pyrophobia | space (outer) | spacephobia | |
| firearms | hoplophobia | spaces (enclosed) | clithrophobia | |
| fish | chthyphobia | spaces (open) | agoraphobia | |
| flashes of light | selaphobia | speaking | laliohobia or lalophobia | |
| flavours | geumophobia | speaking aloud | phonophobia | |
| floods | antlophobia | spectres | spectrophobia | |
| flowers | anthophobia | speed | tachophobia | |
| flutes | aulophobia | spiders | arachnophobia | |
| flying | aerophobia (see also air (fresh), draughts) | stage fright | topophobia (see also places (certain)) | |
| fog | homichlophobia | stairs, climbing or of falling down stairs | climacophobia | |
| food or eating | cibophobia | standing | stasiphobia | |
| foreigners or strangers | xenophobia | standing and walking | stasibasiphobia | |
| forests | hylophobia | stars | siderophobia | |
| forgotten (being), forgetting | athazagoraphobia (see also ignored) | staying single | anuptaphobia | |
| France, French | Francophobia | stealing | cleptophobia | |
| freedom | eleutherophobia | stepfather | vitricophobia | |
| fresh air, draughts | aerophobia (see also flying) | stepmother | novercaphobia | |
| Friday the 13th | paraskavedekatriaphobia | stooping | kyphophobia | |
| frost, ice, extreme cold | cryophobia | stories, myths and lying | mythophobia | |
| fur, animal skin | doraphobia | streets (crossing) | agiophobia | |
| gaiety | cherohobia | strings | cnidophobia | |
| garlic | alliumphobia | stuttering | psellismophobia | |
| sunlight | heliophobia | |||
| germs | spermatophobia or spermophobia | surgery | tomophobia | |
| Germany, Germans | Germanophobia | swallowing or of eating or of being eaten | phagophobia | |
| ghosts | phasmophobia | symbols | symbolophobia | |
| symmetry | symmetrophobia | |||
| glass | hyelophobia or hyalophobia | syphilis | syphiliphobia | |
| goblins, demons | bogyphobia | taking tests | testophobia | |
| God or religion | theophobia | talking | laliophobia | |
| gold | aurophobia | tapeworms | taeniophobia | |
| good news (hearing) | euphobia | taste | geumaphobia or geumophobia | |
| gravity | barophobia | technology | technophobia | |
| Greek (or complex scientific) terms | Hellenologophobia | teeth and dental surgery | odontophobia | |
| hair | chaetophobia | teleology | teleophobia | |
| hair disease | trichinophobia | telephones | telephonophobia | |
| halloween | samhainophobia | termites, insects that eat wood | isopterophobia | |
| heart attack | angionophobia | tests (taking) | testophobia | |
| heart disease | cardiophobia | tetanus (lockjaw) | tetanophobia | |
| heat | thermophobia | theatres | theatrophobia | |
| heaven | uranophobia | theology | theologicophobia | |
| heights | acrophobia | thieves | kleptophobia | |
| hell | hadephobia | thinking | phronemophobia | |
| high buildings | batophobia | thunder and lightning | keraunophobia | |
| high places (looking up at) | anablephobia | ticks, mites | acarophobia | |
| high places (open) | aeroacrophobia | time | chronophobia | |
| home, house or being in a house | domatophobia | toads, frogs | batrachophobia | |
| home (returning to) | nostophobia | tombstones | placophobia | |
| homophobia | touching, being touched | aphephobia | ||
| horses | hippophobia | touching money | chrematophobia | |
| hospitals | nosocomephobia | trains, railroads or train travel | siderodromophobia | |
| hurricanes & tornadoes | lilapsophobia | travel | hodophobia | |
| hypnotized | hypnophobia | trembling | tremophobia | |
| ice, frost | cryophobia | trees | dendrophobia | |
| ideas | ideophobia | trichinosis | trichinohobia | |
| ignored (being) | athazagoraphobia | tuberculosis | phthisiophobia | |
| illness, disease | pathophobia | tyrants | tyrannophobia | |
| immobility (of a joint) | ankylophobia | ugliness | cacophobia | |
| imperfection | atelophobia | undressing (in front of someone) | dishabillophobia | |
| infection | molysomophobia | untidiness | ataxiophobia | |
| infinity | apeirophobia | urine or urinating | urophobia | |
| injections | trypanophobia | vaccination, vaccines | vaccinophobia | |
| injury (physical) | traumatophobia (see also war) | vegetables | lachanophobia | |
| insanity | lyssophobia (see also madness) | vehicles, riding in | amaxophobia | |
| insects | entomophobia | venereal disease | cypridophobia | |
| insect stings | cnidophobia | ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues : anything that falsely represents a sentient being | automatonophobia | |
| itching or of the insects that cause itching | acarophobia | vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down | illyngophobia | |
| Japan, Japanese | Japanophobia | |||
| jealousy | zelophobia | vision (double) | diplophobia | |
| Jews, Judaism | Judaeophobia | vomiting, emetics | emetophobia | |
| jumping (from both high and low places) | jcatapedaphobia | walking | basiphobia | |
| justice | dikephobia | walking and standing | stasibasiphobia | |
| walloons | walloonphobia | |||
| knees | genuphobia | war | traumatophobia (see also injury (physical)) ablutophobia | |
| kidney desease | albuminurophobia | washing oneself | ablutophobia | |
| knowledge | epistemophobia | wasps | spheksophobia | |
| lakes | limnophobia | wasting sickness | tabophobia | |
| large objects | megalophobia | water | hydrophobia | |
| laughter | gelophobia | waves (sea), of wavelike motion | cymophobia | |
| lawsuits | liticaphobia | weakness or fainting | asthenophobia | |
| learning | sophophobia | weight (gaining) | obesophobia or pocrescophobia | |
| lefthanded, things to the left | sinistrophobia | wealth | plutophobia | |
| left hand side of the body (objects on) | levophobia | white (colour) | leukophobia | |
| leprosy | leprophobia | wine | oenophobia | |
| lice | pediculophobia | witches and witchcraft | wiccaphobia | |
| light | photophobia | women | gynaephobia | |
| light (flashes of) | selaphobia | women (beautiful) | venustaphobia | |
| lightning | astraphobia | woods | hylephobia (see also materialism) | |
| lights (glaring) | photaugiophobia | wooden objects | xylophobia | |
| lights (northern) | auroraphobia | work or functioning/surgeon's fear of operating | ergasiophobia | |
| locked in (being), confined spaces | claustrophobia | worms | scoleciphobia | |
| long waits | macrophobia | worms (being infested with) | helminthophobia | |
| looked at (being) | scopophobia | wrinkles (getting) | rhytiphobia | |
| love (falling or being in) | philophobia | writing | graphophobia | |
| love play | malaxophobia (sarmassophobia) | writing (in public) | scriptophobia | |
| lying, myths and stories | mythophobia | wrongdoing | peccatiphobia |
| X-rays, radiation | radiophobia | ||
| yellow (colour or the word) | xanthophobia | ||
After seeing this list you may have developed a fear of words! Which is called logophobia. Or perhaps you developed a fear of a particular word or name, which is onomatophobia.
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