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Something that is interesting about phobias is that there are maybe hundreds of official names for them. I will point out here that phobias are not only fear, but can be a sense of strong disgust and aversion. Most know about claustrophobia, arachnophobia, agoraphobia, and other more common ones. What about the lesser known ones? (Some of these seem to be created as cruel joke too.)
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia– Fear of long words
- Pupaphobia– Fear of dummies, marionettes, and puppets
- Trypophobia– Fear of clustered holes and circles
- Pteronophobia– Fear of feathers
- Arachibutyrophobia– Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
- Plutophobia– Fear of money
- Nomophobia– Fear of being without your cellphone
- Xanthophobia– Fear of yellow
- Scopophobia– Fear of staring
- Coulrophobia– Fear of clowns (Common, but the name doesn’t get used much)
- Ornithophobia– Fear of birds
- Batrachophobia– Fear of frogs
- Thalassophobia– Fear of ocean or deep, dark water
- Botanophobia– Fear of plants
- Kosmemophobia– Fear of jewelry
- Cryophobia– Fear of the cold
- Thermophobia– Fear of heat
- Nephophobia– Fear of clouds
- Basophobia– Fear of falling
- Somniphobia– Fear of sleeping
- Pachydermophobia– Fear of elephants
- Megalophobia– Fear of large objects
- Microphobia– Fear of small objects
- Benziphobia– Fear of gasoline
- Emetophobia– Fear of vomiting
- Glossophobia– Fear of public speaking
The list can keep going, but I have things to do. Anybody have any phobias that others might not know about?
Legends of Windemere 
Fear of buttons: koumpounophobia. Fear of darkness: nyctophobia. Fear of death: thanatophobia.
I had emetophobia when I was a child. Luckily I very rarely threw up, but I hated it when other people did.
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Honestly, fear of death makes sense to me.
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Platyphobia. Fear of flat places. Fun stuff.
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Would not have guessed that one.
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😊
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Some of these are most strange. I think I may suffer from a mild form of arachibutyrophobia. Not a fear, but I just don’t like it. I like the taste of peanut butter, just that it sticks to the roof of my mouth.
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To me, that sounds a reasonable worry.
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Some of these phobias are hilariously specific.
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True. There were so many more to choose from too.
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I met a guy who suffered from ichthyophobia, the fear of fish. I mean he was repulsed by fish or even the thought of them. I found it so fascinating I put it in one of my books. A great list, thanks.
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I kept wondering about fear of fish when writing this. Surprised it wasn’t on any of the sites I found.
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