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50 strangest phobias



Phobias are too great, irrational fears, and are considered as anxiety disorder. There are three categories of fobies: agorophoria, social phobia and specific phobia. Agoraphobia is fear of public places, while social phobia is afraid of people and social situations.

Specific phobias ... are those for example. when we say: specific. Appear when a person irrationally fears places, objects, or situations such as fear of plane travel (aviophobia) or fear of public talk (glossophobia). These phobias often develop while we are children and are considered to have been caused by traumatic events, chemistry in the brain, and behavior that we have learned from parents.


We all know "specific phobias", such as fear of height, fear of animals ... but there are some that you have probably never heard of, but some people are also irrational at the most common objects and events.

These are the strangest phobias:

1. Peladophobia - Fear of people qerosë

2. Pogonophobia - Fear of beard

3. Defecaloeseophobia - Fear of "great need"

4. Alliumphobia -Fry garlic

5. Anablephobia - Fear of looking up

6. Eisoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors or eyesight in the mirror

7. Chrometophobia - Fear of money

8. Pentheraphobia - Fear of mother-in-law (probably more often than you think)


9. Arithmophobia - Fear of the numbers

10. Phronemophobia - Fear of Thinking

11. Cacophobia - Fear of Evil

12. Pteronophobia - Fear of puffing

13. Ergophobia - Fear of work

14. Anuptaphobia - Fear to be without partner / partner


15. Cyberphobia - Fear of the computer

16. Dutchphobia - Fear of the people of Holland

17. Ephebiophobia - Fear of teenagers

18. Gymnophobia - Fear of nakedness

19. Hobophobia - Fear of the homeless

20. Kathisophobia - Fear of sitting down

21. Leukophobia - Fear of white color


22. Mnemophobia - Fear of Remembrance

23. Novercaphobia - Fear of stepmother

24. Octophobia - Fear of Number 8 (whatever is related to these numbers)

25. Rectophobia - Fear of rectal diseases

26. Somniphobia - Fear of sleep

27. Sesquipedalophobia - Fear of long words

Symmetrophobia - Fear of symmetry

29. Asymmetryphobia - Fear of asymmetry

30. Xerophobia - Fear of drought

31. Euphobia - The good news

32. Dendrophobia - Fear of trees (trees)


33. Heliophobia - Fear of the Sun

34. Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers

35. Hydrophobia - Fear of water

36. Papyrophobia - Fear of paper

37. Consecotaleophobia - Fear of Chinese rods to eat foods

38. Hexacosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number "666"

39. Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting

40. Osmophobia - Fear of fragrances

41. Tetraphobia - Fear of Number 4


42. Acerophobia - Fear of Tastes

43. Agyrophobia - Fear of the roadside


44. Amneshipobia - Fear of amnesia

45. Ataxophobia - Fear of irregularities

46. Aulophobia - Fear of the flute

47. Athazagoraphobia - Fear that you will be forgotten

48. Arachibutyrophobia -Fresh with peanut butter when you stick to the lips

49. Anthropophobia - Fear of humans

50. Phobophobia - Fear of the development of fobies

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