Unusually Unusual Phobias
Last Thursday, during the Abnormal Psychology lecture, Ms. G was supplying different phobias that were unknown to us (mainly because she gave us the medical terms and asked us to guess). So tonight, I’ll be listing a few of the rather unusual phobias to give you a clearer picture as to what these “gibberish” words actually means in lame men’s terms.
The phobias listed below are unusual and at the same time, one can’t imagine having to live in fear of it.
Unusual Phobia A
Ablutophobia - The fear of washing or bathing
Aerophobia - The fear of swallowing air
Ambulophobia - The fear of walking or standing
Anemophobia - The fear of wind
Unusual Phobia B
Barophobia - The fear of gravity
Bibliophobia - The fear of books
Unusual Phobia C
Cathisophobia - The fear of sitting
Chaetophobia - The fear of hair
Chromatophobia - The fear of colors
Cibophobia - The fear of food
Clinophobia - The fear of going to bed
Unusual Phobia D
Dendrophobia - The fear of trees
Dextrophobia - The fear of objects at the right side of the body
Unusual Phobia E
Eleutherophobia - The fear of freedom
Epistemophobia - The fear of daylight
Unusual Phobia G
Geliophobia - The fear of laughter
Geniophobia - The fear of chins
Genuphobia - The fear of knees
Geumaphobia - The fear of taste
Unusual Phobia H
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - The fear of long words
Hydrophobia - The fear of water
Hypnophobia - The fear of sleep
Unusual Phobia I
Ideophobia - The fear of ideas
Unusual Phobia L
Levophobia - The fear of objects to the left side of the body
Logophobia - The fear of words
Unusual Phobia M
Mnemophobia - The fear of memories
Unusual Phobia N
Nomatophobia - The fear of names
Unusual Phobia O
Ommetaphobia - The fear of eyes
Ophthalmophobia - Fear of opening one’s eyes
Unusual Phobia P
Panophobia - The fear of everything
Phobophobia - The fear of fear
Porphyrophobia - The fear of the color purple
Unusual Phobia S
Scotomaphobia - The fear of the color black
Sinophobia - The fear of China or Chinese
Syngenesophobia - The fear of relatives
Unusual isn’t it? I thought so too. Especially the fear of PURPLE! I can’t believe that some people are afraid of the color purple 
it makes me really sad that if I were to have a friend who have a phobia for purple, I wouldn’t be able to talk about purple or have any purple items while she/he is there *sighs*
Now that you know some of these unusual phobias, do you think you have some sort of phobia as well? If you do, what is it?
January 27th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
You forgot… mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking
March 17th, 2008 at 5:53 am
I have a fear of the color purple. I won’t eat anything purple, and anything pertaining to “purple” ie; grapes. I won’t wear anything purple and when I see the color I feel mentally sick.