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Names of Phobias in English
English provides a rather extensive list of all the possible things people can be afraid of. Although phobias in the clinical sense must be taken seriously, the names for some of the more unlikely phobias can be quite entertaining. The list below includes both the phobias found in psychiatry as well as some more fanciful ones. Enjoy.
| Scriptophobia | Fear of writing |
| Selaphobia | Fear of flashing light |
| Siderodromophobia | Fear of train travel |
| Skiaphobia | Fear of shadows |
| Sociophobia | Fear of friendship, society |
| Soleiphobia | Fear of worms |
| Sophophobia | Fear of knowledge |
| Spectrophobia | Fear of looking in the mirror |
| Stasiphobia | Fear of standing |
| Staurophobia | Fear of crosses or crucifixes |
| Stenophobia | Fear of narrow places |
| Stygiophobia | Fear of hell |
| Swinophobia | Fear of swine |
| Syngenescophobia | Fear of family members, relatives |
| Tacophobia | Fear of speed |
| Taeniophobia | Fear of tapeworms |
| Taphephobia | Fear of cemeteries, being buried alive |
| Tapinophobia | Fear of small things |
| Taurophobia | Fear of bulls |
| Teleophobia | Fear of religious ceremonies |
| Telephonophobia | Fear of using the telephone |
| Teutophobia | Fear of German people |
| Thalassophobia | Fear of the sea |
| Thanatophobia | Fear of death, dying |
| Thassophobia | Fear of sitting idle |
| Theatrophobia | Fear of theaters |
| Theophobia | Fear of God |
| Thermophobia | Fear of heat |
| Tomophobia | Fear of surgical operations |
| Topophobia | Fear of certain places |
| Trichophobia | Fear of hair |
| Triskaidekaphobia | Fear of the number 13 |
| Tropophobia | Fear of changes |
| Uranophobia | Fear of homosexuality |
| Vaccinophobia | Fear of vaccines |
| Verbaphobia | Fear of words |
| Xenophobia | Fear of foreigners |
| Xerophobia | Fear of dry places, like deserts |
| Zoophobia | Fear of animals |
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