You clearly don’t have Interphobia (fear of the internet), but do any of these 43 other weird and wonderful phobias sound familiar?
The world is a scary place. But scarier than the biggest of spiders or the tallest of bungee jumps is the fact that there are some really weird phobias out there.
That we live in a world in which has a word for the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is truly terrifying.
Unfortunately, that is only the tip of a very bizarre weird phobia iceberg. If any of these apply to you, you need to take a good hard look at yourself (unless you suffer from a fear of mirrors – see number 9).
The weird phobia A-Z
1. Aerophobia… Fear of swallowing air
2. Ambulophobia… Fear of walking
3. Anablephobia… Fear of looking up
4. Chromatophobia… Fear of colours
5. Arachibutyrophobia… Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
6. Barophobia… Fear of gravity
7. Bogyphobia… Fear of the bogeyman
8. Cacophobia… Fear of ugliness
9. Catoptrophobia… Fear of mirrors
10. Anatidaephobia… Fear that sometime, somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you
11. Clinophobia… Fear of going to bed
12. Genuphobia… Fear of knees
13. Deciophobia… Fear of making decisions
14. Dextrophobia… Fear of objects at the right side of the body
15. Ephebiphobia… Fear of teenagers
16. Epistemophobia… Fear of knowledge
17. Ereuthrophobia… Fear of blushing
18. Euphobia… Fear of hearing good news
19. Eurotophobia… Fear of female genitalia
20. Geliophobia… Fear of laughter
21. Consecotaleophobia… fear of chopsticks
22. Helmintophobia… Fear of being infested with worms
23. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia… Fear of long words
24. Ithyphallophobia… Fear of seeing or having an erect penis
25. Koinoniphobia… Fear of rooms
26. Levophobia… Fear of objects to the left side of the body
27. Melophobia… Fear of music
28. Nomatophobia… Fear of names
29. Nomophobia… Fear of being out of mobile phone contact
30. Novercaphobia… Fear of your stepmother
31. Ommetaphobia… Fear of eyes
32. Papaphobia… Fear of the Pope
33. Ophthalmophobia… Fear of opening one’s eyes
34. Oneirogmophobia… Fear of wet dreams
35. Panophobia… Fear of everything
36. Peladophobia… Fear of bald people
37. Phobophobia… Fear of fear
38. Pogonophobia… Fear of beards
39. Russophobia… Fear of Russians
40. Selenophobia… Fear of the moon
41. Spermophobia… Fear of germs
42. Vomitophobia… Fear of vomiting
43. Zeusophobia… Fear of God
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