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What are you afraid of...

  • 10-10-2004 2:58am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭


    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

    :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,890 ✭✭✭embee


    There is no word for my phobia.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.

    Excellent! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Oooo, I have Spheksophobia.



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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

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



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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Naos


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    im ecclesiophobic=> fear of church


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    linonophobia=> fear of string


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭Hello Kitty


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


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭OfflerCrocGod


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭CareBear


    Bathing - Ablutophobia

    Ok thats gross


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    I have pyropaponecrophobia

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 154 ✭✭shellspeare


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭ferdi


    Ergophobia- Fear of work


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,974 ✭✭✭mp3guy


    Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,285 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


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

    From a professional forester :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 493 ✭✭petals


    Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

    :D

    lol at that ^

    I'm arachnaphobic (spelling :o )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


    Pope- Papaphobia.
    excellent.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 algorithim


    i am afraid of faling in love :0


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Pope- Papaphobia.
    excellent.


    BOO!
    pope%20small.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


    *hides behind couch*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    make the bad man go away


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭DEmeant0r


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Healio


    Boardslogoffphobia - fear of logging off boards.ie


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭mang87


    Some people say that im homophobic.

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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    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.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,285 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Blub2k4 wrote:
    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.

    Yup- thats me! I escaped a few years back and am currently hiding out in the civil service, counting down the years to retirement :) Giz a yell for coffee if you're in the city centre sometime.

    S.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭fragile


    Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.

    This isn't a phobia its bloody common sense :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭sanncoo


    Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.

    That's why Saturday night is a blur.......... :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,601 ✭✭✭MidnightQueen


    Kynophobia- Fear of rabies. Hi Rabies :D:D
    Arachnaphobia - Fear of Spiders (The big uns) :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭country_gurl


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

    is this possible for a guy? a fear?
    Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
    is this not a taaaaaad racist?

    this is my one..
    Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth.
    Scotophobia- Fear of darkness.
    but i cant find one for fear of butterflies inside a house???


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