GLOSSARY OF PHOBIAS The glossary of phobias gathers all the most common phobias. Phobias are listed in alphabetical order.Psychologist, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist: what difference? Click here to find it out _____________________________ Phobias _____________________________ Acrophobia: fear of heights. Agoraphobia: fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place. Ailurophobia: fear of cats. Anginophobia: fear of angina, choking or narrowness. Anthropophobia: fear of people or society. Aviophobia: fear of flying. Brontophobia: fear of thunder and lightning. Cynophobia: fear of dogs or rabies. Cryophobia: fear of extreme cold, ice or frost. Demophobia: fear of crowds. See also Agoraphobia. Dysmorphophobia: fear of deformity. Ecophobia: fear of home. Emetophobia: fear of vomiting. Entomophobia: fear of insects. Equinophobia: fear of horses. Erythrophobia: Fear of blushing. Gerontophobia: fear of old people or of growing old. Glossophobia: fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak. Heterophobia: fear of the opposite sex. See also Sexophobia Homophobia: fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual. Hydrophobia: fear of water or of rabies. Misophobia: fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs. Monophobia: fear of solitude or being alone. Musophobia: fear of mice. Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes. Pathophobia: fear of disease. Rupophobia: fear of dirt. Sexophobia: fear of the opposite sex. See also Heterophobia Sociophobia: fear of society or people in general. Taphophobia: fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries. Thanatophobia: fear of death or dying. Tomophobia: fear of surgical operations. Toxophobia: fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned. Xenophobia: fear of strangers or foreigners. Zoophobia: fear of animals. 
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