PICK Your FEAR
Kids love nothing more than rolling big, weird words off their tongues, especially when those words are a little bit scary!
WELCOME to the world of phobias:
fears with names so long and silly they’ll make you laugh out loud.
THESE WORDS ARE REAL,
but they sound like they’ve jumped straight out of a comedy show.
On this page you’ll find a collection of the funniest, freakiest phobia names,
perfect for giggles, goosebumps and showing off your new favourite big words.
Acartohygieiophobia - Fear of running out of toilet paper
Acrophobia - Fear of heights
Aerophobia - Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airborn noxious substances.
Ailurophobia - Fear of cats.
Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens
Alliumphobia - Fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.
Anglophobia - Fear of England, English culture, etc.
Ankylophobia - Fear of immobility of a joint.
Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Aulophobia - Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia - Fear of gold.
Auroraphobia - Fear of Northern lights.
Bogyphobia - Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia - Fear of colours.
Chronophobia - Fear of time.
Cometophobia - Fear of comets.
Dextrophobia - Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Diplophobia - Fear of double vision.
Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.
Geniophobia - Fear of chins.
Hellenologophobia - Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Helminthphobia - Fear of being infested with worms.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.
Ichthyophobia - Fear of fish.
Isopterophobia - Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
Kenophobia - Fear of voids or empty spaces.
Koumpounophobia - Fear of buttons
Leukophobia - Fear of the colour white.
Levophobia - Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Lleporiphobia - Fear of Rabbits
Numerophobia - Fear of numbers.
Panophobia or Pantophobia - Fear of everything.
Phasmophobia - Fear of Ghosts
Piranphobia - Fear of Piranhas
Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.
Politicophobia - Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
Pteronophobia - Fear of being tickled by feathers.
Pyrophobia - Fear of fire
Rhabdophobia - Fear of magic
Selaphobia - Fear of light flashes.
Technophobia - Fear or AI, robots & computers.
Teleophobia - Fear of definate plans.
Telephonophobia - Fear of telephones.
Teraphobia - Fear of monsters
Triskadekaphobia - Fear of the number 13.
Xanthophobia - Fear of the colour yellow or the word yellow.
Zemmiphobia - Fear of the great mole rat.
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