From this long list of phobias there are some phobias that are really hilarious. It is funny and strange to believe that many people are afraid of things like air, wind, God, heaven, flowers, and trees that are essential for a healthy living. All these are fears are unimaginable but the fact remains that they exist.

Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing

Aerophobia- Fear of swallowing air

Anablephobia- Fear of looking up

Anemophobia- Fear of wind

Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers

Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern Lights

Barophobia- Fear of gravity

Basophobia- Fear of walking

Blennophobia- Fear of slime

Bogyphobia- Fear of the bogeyman

Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting

Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors

Chaetophobia- Fear of hair

Chionophobia- Fear of snow

Chromatophobia- Fear of colors

Chronophobia- Fear of time

Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks

Cibophobia- Fear of food

Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed

Dendrophobia- Fear of trees

Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body

Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom

Eosophobia- Fear of daylight

Ereuthophobia- Fear of the color red

Geliophobia- Fear of laughter

Geniophobia- Fear of chins

Genuphobia- Fear of knees

Geumaphobia- Fear of taste

Heliophobia- Fear of the sun

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

Homichlophobia- Fear of fog

Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep

Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish

Ideophobia- Fear of ideas

Kainophobia- Fear of anything new

Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down

Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables

Leukophobia- Fear of the color white

Levophobia- Fear of objects to the left side of the body

Linonophobia- Fear of string

Logophobia- Fear of words

Melanophobia- Fear of the color black

Melophobia- Fear of music

Metrophobia- Fear of poetry

Mnemophobia- Fear of memories

Octophobia- Fear of the number 8

Ommetaphobia- Fear of eyes

Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams

Ophthalmophobia- Fear of opening ones eyes

Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish

Panophobia- Fear of everything

Papyrophobia- Fear of paper

Peladophobia- Fear of bald people

Photophobia- Fear of light

Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking

Pogonophobia- Fear of beards

Sciophobia- Fear of shadows

Selenophobia- Fear of the moon

Siderophobia- Fear of stars

Sitophobia- Fear of food

Sophophobia- Fear of learning

Stasibasiphobia- Fear of walking

Trichopathophobia- Fear of hair

-- Edited by Ranade on Monday 16th of March 2009 03:24:29 PM