What are you afraid of...

billy the squid · 10-10-2004 02:58AM #1

so what phobias do you have?

http://www.phobialist.com/

heres the best ones from the list i could find

Androphobia- Fear of men.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women
Cibophobia- Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia)
Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.

and theres more but this one is my favorite

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

Wertz · 10-10-2004 03:25AM

Fear of addiction: couldn't find it in a database.

embee · 10-10-2004 04:10AM

There is no word for my phobia.

Karl Hungus · 10-10-2004 05:47AM

Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.

Excellent!

Tom Dunne · 10-10-2004 08:17AM

Oooo, I have Spheksophobia.

/me wonders why these words aren't in the dictionary.

Ciaran500 · 10-10-2004 09:48AM

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

I remember when I found that first I couldn't believe it.

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

Naos · 10-10-2004 12:02PM

no way on that Hippo word. Has to be made up??

Rozabeez · 10-10-2004 12:14PM

im ecclesiophobic=> fear of church

PurpleFistMixer · 10-10-2004 12:18PM

Someone told me that the fear of palendromes was a palendrome itself but it doesn't appear to be on the list...

I had bathophobia (fear of depth) last time I checked.

Rozabeez · 10-10-2004 12:22PM

linonophobia=> fear of string

Hello Kitty · 10-10-2004 12:36PM

Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers
yeah flowers are soo evil:

Somniphobia- Fear of sleep: now thats weird!
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives
These arent real are they?? :eek:

OfflerCrocGod · 10-10-2004 01:13PM

Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
What a lode of toss :rolleyes:
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas. How can you live like that :eek: ? Everything is scary.

CareBear · 10-10-2004 01:20PM

Bathing - Ablutophobia

Ok thats gross

Raphael · 10-10-2004 02:47PM

I have pyropaponecrophobia

Yup, when a dead pope catches fire, I just snap

shellspeare · 10-10-2004 03:09PM

i fear anything that bleeds for a week and doesn't die.

ferdi · 10-10-2004 03:52PM

Ergophobia- Fear of work

Corruptedmorals · 10-10-2004 04:09PM

Daemonophobia- Fear of demons (demonic possession)
Arachnophobia- Fear of Spiders
and Coulrophobia- Fear of Clowns

mp3guy · 10-10-2004 05:56PM

Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.

The_Conductor · 10-10-2004 06:07PM

Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night

From a professional forester

petals · 10-10-2004 06:08PM

billy the squid wrote:

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

lol at that ^

I'm arachnaphobic (spelling

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smoke.me.a.kipper · 10-10-2004 06:10PM

Pope- Papaphobia.
excellent.

algorithim · 10-10-2004 06:40PM

i am afraid of faling in love :0

Ciaran500 · 10-10-2004 06:54PM

If you don't believe Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia look here: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=67&q=Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Sarky · 10-10-2004 09:54PM

smoke-me-a-kipper wrote:

Pope- Papaphobia.
excellent.

BOO!

smoke.me.a.kipper · 10-10-2004 09:56PM

*hides behind couch*

woosaysdan · 10-10-2004 10:51PM

make the bad man go away

flogen · 10-10-2004 11:29PM

some odd ones:

Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.
Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks.
Domatophobia- Fear of houses or being in a house.
Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia- Fear of taste.
Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars. (thats a great sounding word)
Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry.
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.
Orthophobia- Fear of property.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.
Proctophobia- Fear of rectums.
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.
Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.

And the ultimate fear:
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.

All I can say is there are some wierd people out there :eek:

flogen

DEmeant0r · 11-10-2004 12:17AM

Arachnophobia - Fear of Spiders
Acrophobia - Fear of Heights
Apiphobia - Fear of Bees

Healio · 11-10-2004 12:39AM

Boardslogoffphobia - fear of logging off boards.ie

mang87 · 11-10-2004 12:44AM

Some people say that im homophobic.

But, tbh, I have absolutely no problem with my house whatsoever.

Blub2k4 · 11-10-2004 11:48AM

smccarrick wrote:

Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night

From a professional forester

Aha I knew it was you, the same S McCarrick that worked out in Sandyford with the Zip drives all those years ago, Howaya. The Forester comment is the clincher, was wondering for a while was it you.

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