For a list of words relating to various phobias not found in wikipedia, see the English words suffixed with phobia category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Phobia List An indepth list of phobias from A to Z with comments and solutions. Distinctions are made between medically recognized phobias and. Demonophobia Game English' title='Demonophobia Game English' />List of phobias Wikipedia phobia redirects here. For the class of psychological disorders, see Phobia. The English suffixes phobia, phobic, phobe from Greek phobos, fear occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder e. In common usage, they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject e. The suffix is antonymic to phil. For more information on the psychiatric side, including how psychiatry groups phobias such as agoraphobia, social phobia, or simple phobia, see phobia. ZSb3l5ImqrA/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Demonophobia Game English' title='Demonophobia Game English' />The following lists include words ending in phobia, and include fears that have acquired names. In some cases, the naming of phobias has become a word game, of notable example being a 1. BBC News. 1 In some cases, a word ending in phobia may have an antonym with the suffix phil, e. Germanophobe Germanophile. A large number of phobia lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Demonophobia Game English' title='Demonophobia Game English' />Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name. Sometimes it leads to bizarre results, such as suggestions to cure prostitute phobia. Such practice is known as content spamming and is used to attract search engines. An article published in 1. American Journal of Psychology noted the absurd tendency to give Greek names to objects feared which, as Arndt says, would give us such terms as klopsophobia fear of thieves, triakaidekaphobia fear of the number 1. Psychological conditions. Specialists may prefer to avoid the suffix phobia and use more descriptive terms such as personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and avoidant personality disorder. ABCDEFGHIKKoumpounophobia fear of buttons8LMNNecrophobia fear of death or the dead. Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia, metathesiophobia, prosophobia fear of newness, novelty, change or progress. Nomophobia fear of being out of mobile phone contact. Nosocomephobia fear of hospitals. Nosophobia fear of contracting a disease. Nostophobia, ecophobia fear of returning home. Numerophobia, fear of numbers. Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia fear of darkness. OPRSTWXAnimal phobias. Non psychological conditions. Biology, chemistry. Biologists use a number of phobia phobic terms to describe predispositions by plants and animals against certain conditions. For antonyms, see here. Prejudices and discrimination. Racist and xenophobic sentiments. The suffix phobia is used to coin terms that denote a particular anti ethnic or anti demographic sentiment, such as Americanophobia, Europhobia, Francophobia, Hispanophobia, and Indophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix anti already exists e. Polonophobia vs. anti Polonism. Anti religious sentiments are expressed in terms such as Christianophobia and Islamophobia. Altron Alarm Manual there. Other prejudices include Prejudices against other categories of people. See also. ReferencesThe AZ of Fear, a 3. October 1. 99. 8 BBC News unsigned article in the Entertainment sectionContent Spammers Help You Overcome Prostitute Phobia. Webpronews. com. 2. August 2. 00. 5. Retrieved 2. August 2. 01. 3.  Hall, G. Stanley 1. 89. 7. A Study of Fears. American Journal of Psychology. University of Illinois Press. JSTOR 1. 41. 09. 40. Robert Jean Campbell 2. Campbells Psychiatric Dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9. 78 0 1. Gould, Dr. George Milbry 1. The Practitioners Medical Dictionary 2nd ed. Philadelphia P. Blackistons Son Co. Bullough, Vern L. Bullough, Bonnie 2. Human Sexuality An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p.  4. ISBN 9. 78. 11. 35. Dunglison, Robert Dunglison, Richard James 1. Richard James Dunglison, ed. A dictionary of medical science containing a full explanation of the various subjects and terms of anatomy, physiology,. Lea Brothers Co.  Russell, Julia Lintern, Fiona Gauntlett, Lizzie 2. Cambridge International AS and A Level Psychology Coursebook. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9. 78. 13. 16. Retrieved 2 March 2. Schmid, Markus Wolf, Robert C Freudenmann, Roland W Schnfeldt Lecuona, Carlos 2. Tomophobia, the phobic fear caused by an invasive medical procedure an emerging anxiety disorder a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports. ISSN 1. 75. 2 1. PMC 2. PMID 2. 00. 62. 76. Basavaraj, K. H. Navya, M. A Rashmi, R. 2. Relevance of psychiatry in dermatology Present concepts. Indian Journal of Psychiatry. ISSN 0. 01. 9 5. PMC 2. PMID 2. 11. 80. 41. Thomas, Gregory 1. October 2. 01. 2. Do holes make you queasy or even fearful. The Daily Herald. Arlington, IL. Retrieved 2. August 2. 01. 3.  Jackson, Holbrook 1. The Fear of Books. University of Illinois. ISBN 9. 78 0 2. Fischler, C. From lipophilia to lipophobia. Changing attitudes and behaviors towards fat a socio historical approach, in Dietary fats determinants of preference, selection, and consumption edited by DJ Mela. London  New York  Elsevier Applied Science, c. Askegaard, S. Ostberg, J. Consumers Experience of Lipophobia A Swedish Study, Advances in Consume Research, 2. Askegaard, Sren, Holt, Douglas B. Jensen, Anne F. Lipophobia A Transatlantic Concept Advances in Consume Research, 1. Further reading. Aldrich, C. December 2. 00. 2. The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 1 5. 53. 69 8. X.  External links. BMSTwitter. BLBL. G. FLASH　　　　pixpedia　　WOLFRPG　　Shooting. Game. Builder　DX　SRC. Vector　　RPG　And. App　Search.