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List of Common Phobias A-Z A. 1. Ablutophobia: fear of bathing 2. Acarophobia: fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching 3. Acerophobia: fear of sourness 4. Aeronausiphobia: fear of ...
Charlophobia – the fictional fear of any person named Charlotte or Charlie, mentioned in the comedic book A Duck is Watching Me: Strange and Unusual Phobias (2014), by Bernie Hobbs. The phobia was created to mock name bias, a form of discrimination studied by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago ...
Aerophobia -- the fear of flying. 8. Claustrophobia -- the fear of confined spaces. 9. Agoraphobia -- the fear of being unable to escape an open place. 10. Brontophobia -- the fear of thunder and ...
Aboulomania – indecisiveness (aboulo- (Greek) meaning irresolution or indecision); Andromania – human sexual behaviour and desire towards males in females (andro- (Greek) meaning man, men, male or masculine) Can be replaced by hypersexuality, nymphomania, cytheromania, hysteromania or aphrodisiomania.
Pages in category "Phobias" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This trivia quiz is all about exploring those little quirks—phobias that send shivers down our spines and philias that make us light up.Think you’re 20 Bizarre Fears And Loves That’ll Either ...
Specific phobias affect about 6–8% of people in the Western world and 2–4% in Asia, Africa, and Latin America in a given year. [1] Social phobia affects about 7% of people in the United States and 0.5–2.5% of people in the rest of the world. [6] Agoraphobia affects about 1.7% of people. [6] Women are affected by phobias about twice as ...
The London-based phobia specialist Christopher Paul Jones, author of Face Your Fears: 7 Steps to Conquering Phobias and Anxiety, says that a food phobia, also known as “cibophobia”, is an ...