Complete List of Phobias A to Z | BCECE LE Exam Preparation Guide

List of Phobias – 1

Phobias starting with letters A, B

List of Phobias – 2

Phobias starting with letters from C-F

List of Phobias – 3

Phobias starting with letters from G-L

List of Phobias – 4

Phobias starting with letters from M-P

List of Phobias – 5

Phobias starting with letters from R-Z

Alphabetical Complete List (A-Z)

A

• Ablutophobia: Fear of bathing

• Achluophobia: Fear of darkness

• Acrophobia: Fear of heights

• Aerophobia: Fear of flying

• Algophobia: Fear of pain

• Agoraphobia: Fear of open spaces or crowds

• Aichmophobia: Fear of needles or pointed objects

• Amaxophobia: Fear of riding in a car

• Androphobia: Fear of men

• Anemophobia: Fear of air

• Anginophobia: Fear of angina or choking

• Angrophobia: Fear of anger

• Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers

• Anthropophobia: Fear of people or society

• Aphenphosmphobia: Fear of being touched

• Aquaphobia: Fear of water

• Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter

• Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders

• Arithmophobia: Fear of numbers

• Astraphobia: Fear of thunder and lightning

• Astrophobia: Fear of outer space

• Ataxophobia: Fear of disorder or untidiness

• Atelophobia: Fear of imperfection

• Atychiphobia: Fear of failure

• Automatonophobia: Fear of human-like figures

• Autophobia: Fear of being alone

B

• Bacteriophobia: Fear of bacteria

• Barophobia: Fear of gravity

• Bathmophobia: Fear of stairs or steep slopes

• Batrachophobia: Fear of amphibians

• Belonephobia: Fear of pins and needles

• Bibliophobia: Fear of books

• Botanophobia: Fear of plants

• Bromidrophobia: Fear of smelling bad

C

• Cacophobia: Fear of ugliness

• Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed

• Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors

• Chionophobia: Fear of snow

• Chrometophobia: Fear of spending money

• Chromophobia: Fear of colors

• Chronomentrophobia: Fear of clocks

• Chronophobia: Fear of time

• Cibophobia: Fear of food

• Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces

• Cleithrophobia: Fear of being trapped

• Climacophobia: Fear of climbing

• Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns

• Cyberphobia: Fear of computers

• Cynophobia: Fear of dogs

D

• Daemonophobia: Fear of demons

• Decidophobia: Fear of making decisions

• Dementophobia: Fear of madness or insanity

• Dendrophobia: Fear of trees

• Dentophobia: Fear of dentists

• Domatophobia: Fear of houses

• Dysmorphophobia: Fear of deformity

• Dystychiphobia: Fear of accidents

E

• Ecophobia: Fear of the home

• Elurophobia: Fear of cats

• Emetophobia: Fear of vomiting

• Enochlophobia: Fear of crowds

• Entomophobia: Fear of insects

• Ephebiphobia: Fear of teenagers

• Erotophobia: Fear of sex

• Equinophobia: Fear of horses

G

• Gamophobia: Fear of marriage

• Genophobia: Fear of sexual intercourse

• Genuphobia: Fear of knees

• Glossophobia: Fear of speaking in public

• Gynophobia: Fear of women

H

• Haphephobia: Fear of touch

• Heliophobia: Fear of the sun

• Hemophobia: Fear of blood

• Herpetophobia: Fear of reptiles

• Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia: Fear of the number 666

• Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: Fear of long words

• Hydrophobia: Fear of water

• Hypochondria: Fear of illness

I

• Iatrophobia: Fear of doctors

• Insectophobia: Fear of insects

K

• Koinoniphobia: Fear of rooms

• Koumpounophobia: Fear of buttons

L

• Leukophobia: Fear of the color white

• Lilapsophobia: Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes

• Lockiophobia: Fear of childbirth

M

• Mageirocophobia: Fear of cooking

• Megalophobia: Fear of large things

• Melanophobia: Fear of the color black

• Microphobia: Fear of small things

• Mysophobia: Fear of dirt and germs

N

• Necrophobia: Fear of death or dead things

• Noctiphobia: Fear of the night

• Nomophobia: Fear of being without your mobile phone

• Nosocomephobia: Fear of hospitals

• Nosophobia: Fear of disease

• Nyctophobia: Fear of the dark

O

• Obesophobia: Fear of gaining weight

• Octophobia: Fear of the figure 8

• Ombrophobia: Fear of rain

• Ommetaphobia: Fear of eyes

• Ophidiophobia: Fear of snakes

• Ornithophobia: Fear of birds

• Osmophobia: Fear of smells

• Ostraconophobia: Fear of shellfish

P

• Papyrophobia: Fear of paper

• Paraphobia: Fear of sexual perversion

• Pathophobia: Fear of disease

• Pedophobia: Fear of children

• Philematophobia: Fear of kissing

• Philophobia: Fear of love

• Phobophobia: Fear of phobias

• Podophobia: Fear of feet

• Porphyrophobia: Fear of the color purple

• Pteridophobia: Fear of ferns

• Pteromerhanophobia: Fear of flying

• Pyrophobia: Fear of fire

S

• Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween

• Scolionophobia: Fear of school

• Scoptophobia: Fear of being stared at

• Selenophobia: Fear of the moon

• Siderodromophobia: Fear of trains

• Sociophobia: Fear of social evaluation

• Somniphobia: Fear of sleep

T

• Tachophobia: Fear of speed

• Technophobia: Fear of technology

• Teraphobia: Fear of monsters

• Thalassophobia: Fear of the ocean

• Trichophobia: Fear of hair

• Tonitrophobia: Fear of thunder

• Trypanophobia: Fear of needles/injections

• Trypophobia: Fear of holes

V-Z

• Venustraphobia: Fear of beautiful women

• Verminophobia: Fear of germs

• Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft

• Xanthophobia: Fear of the color yellow

• Xenophobia: Fear of strangers or foreigners

• Zoophobia: Fear of animals

• Zuigerphobia: Fear of vacuum cleaners

Practice Questions

Q.1. Podophobia is associated with.

1. Fear of feet

2. Fear of Sun

3. Fear of being dirty

4. Fear of bees

Answer: (1) Fear of Feet

Q.2. The fear of snow is called?

1. Apiphobia

2. Phobophobia

3. Chionophobia

4. Agliophobia

Answer: (3) Chionophobia

Q.3. What is the meaning of Arithmophobia?

1. Fear of books

2. Fear of plants

3. Fear of Numbers

4. Fear of Being alone

Answer: (3) Fear of numbers

Q.3. Iatrophobia is associated with?

1. Fear of cockroaches

2. Fear of working on computers

3. Fear of going to school

4. Fear of going to doctors

Answer: (4) Fear of Going to Doctors

Q.4. Fear of thunder and lightning is called?

1. Ailurophobia

2. Brontophobia

3. Phasmophobia

4. Chromatophobia

Answer: (2) Brontophobia

Q.5. Tachophobia is fear of?

1. Speed

2. Bulls

3. Darkness

4. Snakes

Answer: (1) Speed

Q.6. Choose the appropriate one-word substitute for the given words/sentence: Fear of clowns? A. Cynophobia B. Gamophobia C. Geraphobia D. Coulrophobia

Answer: Coulrophobia

Important Notes on Duplicates

1. Anthrophobia has TWO different meanings:

   • In List 1: fear of humans

   • In Alphabetical List: fear of flowers

   • Note: Anthropophobia (with 'opo') = fear of people or society

2. Multiple phobias for same fear:

   • Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia = all related to thunder/lightning

   • Muriphobia, Myophobia = both mean fear of mice

   • Scopophobia, Scoptophobia = both mean fear of being looked at

   • Sitiophobia, Sitophobia = both mean fear of food

Conclusion

So that's the full list. Pretty long, right? But here's what you actually need to do:

Week 1: Learn A, B, C section phobias. That's like 40-50 words max. Write them down 2-3 times. Trust me, writing helps way more than just reading.

Week 2: Do the practice questions 5 times. Yes, 5 times. By the third time, you'll start remembering answers automatically.

Week 3: Pick 10 random phobias daily and test yourself. Can you remember what Cynophobia is? (Fear of dogs). What about Pyrophobia? (Fear of fire).

The exam will probably ask 2-3 phobia questions max. They're not trying to fail you with super rare ones like "fear of vacuum cleaners" (yes, that exists). They'll stick to common stuff - water, spiders, heights, closed spaces, darkness, doctors.

And honestly? Once you learn the patterns, it gets easy. Anything with "Aqua" = water. "Arachno" = spiders. "Acro" = heights. "Hydro" = also water. See? Half the work is done.

Don't stress too much. These are easy marks. Just revise this list few times and you're sorted.

Good luck with your exam. You've got this!

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