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Phobia

Today, I’m gonna write about phobia. Phobia is - based on Wikipedia - a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational.

Some of them are really WEIRD. Just for fun, I’m listing the weird phobias. Check it out, you might suffered from one of this!

Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.

(Ah, so this is the reason why I’m lazy to take a bath. Sometimes. :P)

Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.

(In your face, narrow-minded people and authoritarian governments!)

Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.

Aurophobia- Fear of gold.

Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.

(My phobia. World would be better without them. Yuck.)

Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.

Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.

Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.

Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.

(I think a lot of people having this phobia, including me. Ronald McDonald is EVIL in disguise!)

Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.

(You mean the disease of every students?)

Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.

(Wow. Can you imagine if mirror never existed? We can imagine ourself like whoever we want, and nobody can protest because they can’t see their own face too!)

Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.

Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.

Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.

Ergophobia- Fear of work.

(This is the great excuse for every lazy people in the world. Including me! “Sorry for not coming yesterday, Sir. I have fear of work.”)

Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.

Geniophobia- Fear of chins.

Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.

Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.

Hadephobia- Fear of hell.

Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.

Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.

Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.

Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.

(GECKO! LIZARD! EUH!!)

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.

(This is just too mean)

Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.

Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

Katsaridaphobia- Fear of cockroaches.

Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.

Logophobia- Fear of words.

Macrophobia- Fear of long waits.

Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music.

(There’s someone in the world who hate music? I’m afraid they might be insane)

Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.

Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.

Neophobia- Fear of anything new.

Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.

Nomatophobia- Fear of names.

Numerophobia- Fear of numbers.

(Ah. Another phobia of me. Two words: Social Statistic!)

Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.

Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.

Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at.

Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.

Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.

Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young girls.

Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love.

Philosophobia- Fear of philosophy.

Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.

Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.

Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.

Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.

Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.

Russophobia- Fear of Russians.

Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left or left-handed.

Somniphobia- Fear of sleep.

Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.

Teratophobia- Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.

Testophobia- Fear of taking tests.

(Like, every students are possessed with this one)

Theophobia- Fear of gods or religion.

Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.

Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.