Funniest Phobias

                A phobia comes from the Greek term phobos which means “fear”.  A phobia is an irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive and unreasonable desire to avoid the feared stimulus.

                It is said to be generally caused by an event recorded by the brain which is labelled as deadly or dangerous;  thus whenever a specific situation is approached again the body reacts as if the event were happening repeatedly afterward. 

                There are different kinds of phobias. And here is a long list of hilarious phobias that could be rarely seen.  Since most of the phobias listed are about being afraid of essential things such as air, water, and light.  

                All these are fears are unimaginable but the fact remains that they exist.

• Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing

fear of light

• Aerophobia- Fear of swallowing air

• Anablephobia- Fear of looking up

• Basophobia- Fear of walking

• Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting

• Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed

• Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers

• Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern Lights

• Barophobia- Fear of gravity

fear of memories

• Anemophobia- Fear of wind

• Blennophobia- Fear of slime

• Bogyphobia- Fear of the bogeyman

• Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors

• Chaetophobia- Fear of hair

• Chionophobia- Fear of snow

fear of bathing

• Chromatophobia- Fear of colors

• Chronophobia- Fear of time

• Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks

• Cibophobia- Fear of food

• Dendrophobia- Fear of trees

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

• Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom

• Eosophobia- Fear of daylight

fear of mirrors

• 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

fear of numbers

• Homichlophobia- Fear of fog

• Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep

• Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish;.l,

• Ideophobia- Fear of ideas

• Kainophobia- Fear of anything new

• 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

fear of shadows

• 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 one’s eyes

• Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish

• Panophobia- Fear of everything

• Papyrophobia- Fear of paper

• Peladophobia- Fear of bald people

• Photophobia- Fear of light

fear of clocks

• Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking

• Pogonophobia- Fear of beards

• Sciophobia- Fear of shadows

• Selenophobia- Fear of the moon

• Siderophobia- Fear of stars

• Sophophobia- Fear of learning

• Trichopathophobia- Fear of hair

Do you think you’ve got any of them?  You’d better be treated. 



* I hope that this blog would not encourage us to laugh on those who have such phobias but to help them instead to overcome their fear :)