List of Important Phobias for SSC Exams

List of Important Phobias for SSC Exams

A

• Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
• Acousticophobia – fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia
• Acrophobia – fear of heights
• Agoraphobia – fear of helplessness and of leaving safe places
• Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse
• Ablutophobia - Fear of washing or bathing.
• Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.
• Acousticophobia - Fear of noise.
• Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats.
• Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
• Androphobia - Fear of men.
• Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.
• Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.
• Atychiphobia -  fear of failure
• Aurophobia - Fear of gold.

B

• Barophobia – fear of gravity
• Bathmophobia – fear of stairs or slopes
• Botanophobia – fear of plants

C

• Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
• Chrematophobia - Fear of money.
• Chromatophobia - Fear of colors.
• Cynophobia - Fear of dogs or rabies.

D

• Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.
• Dikephobia - Fear of justice.

E

• Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom.
• Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects.

G

• Gamophobia – fear of marriage, commitment
• Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at
• Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or aging
• Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
• Globophobia - fear of balloons
• Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
• Gymnophobia – fear of nudity
• Gynophobia – fear of women
• Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
• Gynophobia – fear of women.

H

• Heliophobia – fear of sunlight/sun
• Hemophobia - Fear of blood.
• Herpetophobia - fear/dislike of reptiles.
• Hippophobia - Fear of horses..

I

• Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish.

K

• Kinetophobia, kinesophobia – fear of movement
• Kleptophobia, cleptophobia – fear of stealing or being stolen

M

• Mechanophobia – fear of machines
• Melanophobia – fear of the color black
• Melissophobia – fear of bees
• Meteorophobia – fear of meteors
• Methyphobia – fear of alcohol
• Mnemophobia – fear of memories
• Myrmecophobia – fear of ants

N

• Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead
• Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals
• Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease
• Nosocomephobia - fear of hospitals.

O

• Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of smells.

P

• Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
• Potophobia/Methyphobia - Fear of alcohol
• Pyrophobia - Fear of fire

S

• Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
• Sophophobia - Fear of learning.

T

• Tachophobia - Fear of speed.
• Thaasophobia/ Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting.
• Thalassophobia - Fear of the sea.
• Thermophobia - Fear of heat.

X

• Xanthophobia – fear of the color yellow
• Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens

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