Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Are you afraid of the dark?


  • Phonophobe- fears of noise
  • Carcinomaphobia- fears of cancer
  • Paedophibia- fear of children
  • Nyctohylophobia- fear of dark wooded areas, or forest at night
  • Pyrophobia- fear of fire
  • Taphephobia- fear of being buried alive
  • Telephonephobia- Fear of telephones (which I know I don't have)
  • Papaphobia- fear of popes
  • Lachanophobia- fear of vegetables
  • Entomophobia- fear of insects
  • Eosophobia- fear of dawn
  • Clinophobia- fear of beds
  • Gynaephobic- men that fear women
  • Triskaidecphobia- fear of the number 13. Arnold Schonberg suffered from this phobia he dies 13 minutes from midnight on Friday the 13
  • Arachibutyrophibia - the fear of peanut butter getting stuck to the rook of your mouth
  • Zoophobia- fear of animals
  • Tonsurphobia- fear of haircuts
  • Xenophobia- fear strangers or foreigners
  • Phobatriviaphobis- fear of trivia about phobias

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