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Yes, there are actually technical, medical terms for these fears.....
Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers.
Diplophobia: Fear of double vision.
Ideophobia: Fear of ideas.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: Fear of long words.
Optophobia: Fear of opening one's eyes.
Bogyphobia: Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
Pediophobia: Fear of dolls.
Papaphobia: Fear of the Pope.
Linonophobia: Fear of string.
Textophobia: Fear of certain fabrics.
Cyclophobia: Fear of bicycles.
Coprastasophobia: Fear of constipation.
Scriptophobia: Fear of writing in public.
Thaasophobia, Cathisophobia: Fear of sitting.
Nephophobia: Fear of clouds.
Deipnophobia: Fear of dining and dinner conversations.
Onomatophobia: Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia: Fear of eyes.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia: Fear of money.
Macrophobia: Fear of long waits.
Leukophobia: Fear of the color white.
Phronemophobia: Fear of thinking.
Musophobia or Murophobia: Fear of mice.
Melanophobia: Fear of the color black.
Acousticophobia: Fear of noise.
Mageirocophobia: Fear of cooking.
Nebulaphobia: Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)
Bibliophobia: Fear of books.
Papyrophobia: Fear of paper.
Xerophobia: Fear of dryness.
Gallophobia or Galiophobia: Fear France, French culture. (Francophobia)
Euphobia: Fear of hearing good news.
Anuptaphobia: Fear of staying single.
Bolshephobia: Fear of Bolsheviks. (What are Bolsheviks?)
Novercaphobia: Fear of your step-mother.
Japanophobia: Fear of Japanese.
Oenophobia: Fear of wines.
Placophobia: Fear of tombstones.
Epistaxiophobia: Fear of nosebleeds.
Automatonophobia: Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues : anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
And Finally................
Polyphobia: Fear of many things.
 Aira-Sinco · Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 05:28am · 3 Comments |
