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Phobia-mania: the weirdest phobias you've ever seen (and some that you may have [vanity] )
The Phobia List ^ | 7-17-03 | Millions of scared people everywhere

Posted on 07/17/2003 6:52:01 PM PDT by 4mycountry

Acrophobia, fear of heights? Normal. Claustrophobia, fear of confined spaces? Also mormal. Aviophobia, fear of flying? You bet. Crustyophobia, fear of Hillary? Oh yeah.

But what about.....

Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.

Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.

Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.

Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.

Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.

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

Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers

Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.

Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture.

Geniophobia- Fear of chins.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.

Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.

Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.

Linonophobia- Fear of string.

Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.

Nomatophobia- Fear of names.

Pantophobia- Fear of everything.

Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.

Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law.

Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.

Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.

Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.

Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.

Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.

Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious.

Verbophobia- Fear of words.

Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.


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KEYWORDS: fear; phobia
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If you have any "favorite fears", or you would like to make up your own (as I did with Crustyophobia), please feel free to do so! And check out that web site, you may have some phobias you never realized you had.

(in fact, I admit that I have automatonophobia, fear of ventriloquist's dummies. *shudder* those things creep me out majorly.)

1 posted on 07/17/2003 6:52:02 PM PDT by 4mycountry
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2 posted on 07/17/2003 6:53:25 PM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: 4mycountry
Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture.

A person would have to be pretty pathetic to fear the French.

3 posted on 07/17/2003 6:54:39 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: 4mycountry
I had a friend who suffered from phteronophobia, fear of being tickled by feathers. her cousins had taunted her with dead chicken heads & feet when she was little. I don't think she knew it had name. As for my phobias, I have rhytiphobia, fear of wrinkles. It lead to mirrolookaphobia, fear of looking into mirrors.
4 posted on 07/17/2003 7:01:58 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: 4mycountry
Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.


A friend once said he had this and I said you're full of c%&p.
5 posted on 07/17/2003 7:02:08 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: 4mycountry
Fear not.
6 posted on 07/17/2003 7:02:35 PM PDT by Prince Caspian (Don't ask if it's risky... Ask if the reward is worth the risk)
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To: 4mycountry
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.

I can vouch that I am 100% free of this phobia.

8 posted on 07/17/2003 7:04:12 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Paul Atreides
,,, Monica never used to have aulophobia, but things change.
9 posted on 07/17/2003 7:05:06 PM PDT by shaggy eel
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To: 4mycountry
I suppose "Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat" would also include democRATS.

Some are fearful of their arms hanging over the side of their beds; others are fearful of clowns. There are probably phobia words to describe these two fears as well.

Apparently there are quite a lot of people who are truly frightened of clowns. Wonder why.
10 posted on 07/17/2003 11:19:15 PM PDT by Dixielander
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Coulrophobia is the fear of clowns.

I guess people are scared of them the same way I'm scared of ventriloquist's dummies. It's just sort of something that happens.

Seeing "the Thing" wouldn't exactly help, either...
11 posted on 07/18/2003 4:22:35 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Over-achiever extraordinare!)
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I don't know what the name is for the fear of arms hanging over the side of beds.

The clostest thing is Clinophobia, fear of beds or going to bed. But arms, no can do. Sorry. : (
12 posted on 07/18/2003 4:29:30 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Over-achiever extraordinare!)
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>>>mirrolookaphobia, fear of looking into mirrors

Good one. :)

(actually, there is a real name for that: eisoptrophobia.)
13 posted on 07/18/2003 4:31:38 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Over-achiever extraordinare!)
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To: 4mycountry
I suffer from two phobia's...

democratophobia and taxophobia, which are related.

14 posted on 07/18/2003 4:32:27 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (game on in 10 seconds....)
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"Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic. "

A fate worse than death.
15 posted on 07/18/2003 4:49:05 AM PDT by Rebelbase (........The bartender yells, "hey get out of here, we don't serve breakfast!")
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To: 4mycountry
What about Iraqnophobia, fear of large statues and palaces.
16 posted on 07/18/2003 4:57:10 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (If I can support FR with two kids in college, you can too. Freedom aint free but you can charge it.)
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To: 4mycountry
Huh? Clowns are cute!


17 posted on 07/18/2003 5:02:27 AM PDT by New Horizon
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To: Dixielander

"Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat"

18 posted on 07/18/2003 5:05:41 AM PDT by far sider
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To: New Horizon
Eh heh heh heh.....ok, buddy, whatever you say. ^^;;;

Actually, there was a FReeper who was afraid of clowns...but I can't think of his screenname to save the life of me.
19 posted on 07/18/2003 5:08:08 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Over-achiever extraordinare!)
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To: 4mycountry
Seeing "the Thing" wouldn't exactly help, either...

I think you mean "It."

20 posted on 07/18/2003 5:14:24 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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