"The ABC's of Phobias" -There's a phobia for just about anything!

Ablutophobia -the Fear of washing or bathing.



Alektorophobia -the Fear of chickens.



Allodoxaphobia -the Fear of opinions.



Automatonophobia -the Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsely represents a sentient being.



Barophobia -the Fear of gravity.



Caligynephobia -the Fear of beautiful women.



Chronomentrophobia -the Fear of clocks.



Cyberphobia -the Fear of computers or working on a computer.



Defecaloesiophobia -the Fear of painful bowels movements.



Epistemophobia -the Fear of knowledge.



Frigophobia -the Fear of cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia)



Geniophobia -the Fear of chins.



GeniophobiaHaphephobia or Haptephobia -the Fear of being touched.



Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia -the Fear of the number 666.



Ideophobia -the Fear of ideas.



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



Japanophobia -the Fear of Japanese (cuisine).



Kathisophobia -the Fear of sitting down.



Levophobia -the Fear of things to the left side of the body.



Lutraphobia -the Fear of otters.



Mageirocophobia -the Fear of cooking.



Malaxophobia -the Fear of love play.



Novercaphobia -the Fear of your step-mother.



Ophthalmophobia -the Fear of being stared at.



Paraskavedekatriaphobia -the Fear of Friday the 13th.



Phalacrophobia -the Fear of becoming bald.



Rupophobia -the Fear of dirt.



Syngenesophobia -the Fear of relatives.



Teratophobia -the Fear of monsters.



Urophobia -the Fear of urine or urinating.



Verminophobia -the Fear of germs.



Vestiphobia -the Fear of clothing.



Xanthophobia -the Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.



Zemmiphobia -the Fear of the great mole rat.



and, don't forget- Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
- the Fear of long words.

(Posted on FB Monday, January 4, 2010 at 6:00am)