1. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words
2. Xanthophobia – fear of the color yellow
3. Turophobia- fear of cheese
A persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of sleep", and this condition causes thousands of people major distress every year.
There are many reasons why people may suffer from somniphobia, as with any fear: they may have had repeated bad experiences with nightmares/night terrors as a child. Known by many names—somniphobia and fear of sleep being the most common—the problem often significantly impacts quality of life. It can cause panic attacks, and symptoms include shortness of breath, nausea, sweating, irregular heartbeat and a sense of impending doom/dread
5. Coulrophobia – fear of clowns
6. Hylophobia- fear of trees
Refers to one being afraid of having one's bellybutton touched or tugged on by oneself or by other people. It is also the fear of seeing other people touch their own bellybutton. Most of the afflicted are able to look upon an untouched bellybutton but become extremely uncomfortable, nauseated, and anxious when one is being touched, especially their own.
Television personality and actress Khloe Kardashian admitted that she had fear about her belly button. She is quoted as saying,"Whales are disgusting and belly buttons are disgusting. I get chills every time I touch my belly"
8. Nomophobia- fear of being without mobile phone coverage
The name for the phobia of being without mobile phone coverage was coined five years ago after researchers discovered the phenomenon. According to recent surveys, more than half of people in the UK suffer from it. The phobia is brought on by the fear of losing signal, running out of battery or even losing sight of a mobile phone.
9. Ombrophobia- fear of rain
10. Uranophobia- fear of heaven
The admiration or promotion of people, usually males, who wear a facial beard. From pogon, Greek for beard.
Used also as a term of disapproval for those who enjoy trials and tribulations and make a drama out of a crisis, from pogo stick.
A man who gives unqualified credibility to another who wears a beard is an act of pogonophilia.
12. Trypophobia- fear of holes
13. Triskaidekaphobia- fear of the number 13
A persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted worry of flutes”, every year this surprisingly frequent phobia causes countless people useless distress.
Known by quite a few names – Aulophobia and Fear of Flutes being the most common – the issue often considerably impacts the quality of life. It may cause panic attacks and keep individuals apart from family members and business associates.
Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, fast breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall emotions of dread, although everybody experiences aulophobia in their very own way and should have completely different symptoms. The precise phobia manifests itself in numerous ways. Some victims experience it virtually all the time, others simply in response to direct stimuli.
15. Arachibutyrophobia - the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.
16. Geliophobia - If you've got it, you have a deep fear of laughter.
17. Genuphobia - Genuphobics have a fear of knees.
We use strings to tie our stuff in place, secure things so that they don’t fall off and are very useful in our everyday lives. But there are some people who fear strings and they are called linonophobes.
People with this fear might have experienced being tied up in the past, whether they were tied up because of a punishment. Some might have developed this fear because of watching TV or in the movies people being tied up while their houses were being robbed, or being tied up when they were captured or kidnapped.
This fear of strings could be associated with their fear of being restrained or restricted. For some, being tied with a rope is like being forced to do something that they do not like or is something that they could not escape.
19. Ostraconophobia - Ostraconophobics suffer from their fear of shellfish.
