Phobias

Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Coulrophobia
Oneirogmophobia
Medomalacuphobia
Pentheraphobia
Allodoxaphobia
Syngenesophobia
Macrophobia

Anymore ?? :)

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia .... brilliant !! :p

hydrophobia
agrophobia

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Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Coulrophobia
Oneirogmophobia
Medomalacuphobia
Pentheraphobia
Allodoxaphobia
Syngenesophobia
Macrophobia

Anymore ?? :)

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A Face you couldn't tell us what half of them mean could you....i know some but i have never seen some of those words before!:o

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phobia

aracknaphobia.
acrophobia.

anacondaphobia - a fear of anacondas.

Xenophobia

when i was younger i used to think that was a fear of jews, no messing. dont know why though, thought it sounded like zion maybe?!?!?!

Well, all looks funny until you got one. I had to cope with several phoebias in my life, Aphenphosmphobia amongst others. This list is also far from complete.

Who thought of those names anyway had a phoebia of simple short words :eek:

So who's going to be first fior telling us what they have a fear of? unless that's A face's list?

Well, I named Aphenphosmphobia already, it doesn't dominate my life however and has decreased a lot luckily, but still.

And I have a mild vertigo, which is a nicer term than whatever Wikipedia uses for fear of heighths.

I've a fear of clowns. (and people with face paint etc) Doesn't really affect my life or anything. For more infor click here

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So who's going to be first fior telling us what they have a fear of? unless that's A face's list?

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That is only the half of it !! :p

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I've a fear of clowns.

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I can't believe the amount of people who have told me they've got a fear of clowns. Does it stem from a bad experience at the circus when you were young or something?

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia .... brilliant !! :p

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That is by far and away the best.:cool: I still remember it as one of the few things I listened to from my English Leaving Cert teacher and as if it was only four years ago.....

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I can't believe the amount of people who have told me they've got a fear of clowns. Does it stem from a bad experience at the circus when you were young or something?

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Im not too fond of clowns myself,i just cant see why people like um!
i think mine stems back to the film ''IT'',i remember they did it as a two part series on sky when i was a kid,i remember sneaking down to watch it and scared ****less going to bed..had to watch it tho and brag about it in school the next day!
Thats deffinately why i have a dislike for clowns!

i also cant drink milk out of an open container...dunno why that is tho,its kinda wierd!:o

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I can't believe the amount of people who have told me they've got a fear of clowns. Does it stem from a bad experience at the circus when you were young or something?

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Beep beep !! :D

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I can't believe the amount of people who have told me they've got a fear of clowns. Does it stem from a bad experience at the circus when you were young or something?

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Not for me. Apparently its because we can't get a read on people. If you don't know someone's emotions, you don't know how to react to them, that sort of thing

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Not for me. Apparently its because we can't get a read on people. If you don't know someone's emotions, you don't know how to react to them, that sort of thing

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I can actually relate to that, was at a City game a while back and there was a promotion for Pot-Noddles at the game. I strolled into the game and noticed this big Pot Noddle passing out flyers etc. ... thought nothing of it, anyway ... second half and back watching the game, ten minutes in i went for a leak and on the way back, this fúcking Pot-Noodle was following me, trying to speed up, so i sped up, and then he did, and then ... well you get the picture. Turns out it was a mate of mine, he stopped me and was trying to talk to me. I just couldn't do it ... i didn't know where to look, a life size Pot Noodle chasing me around the ground was enough, i had to go away. Very unsettling i must say !! :p

oh ands its also a case of the cnuts hiding something. Why wear all that make up if you're not hiding something?

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oh ands its also a case of the cnuts hiding something. Why wear all that make up if you're not hiding something?

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Seriously though, i think everyone has that ... thats normal behaviour, its nothing out of the ordinary like !!

I have arachnophobia. They scare the ****e outta me!! But only the big scary ones like jumping spiders, tarantulas, black widows and the ones in the Amazon jungle that are the size of a dinner plate.

Don't go to Croatia then, they're as big as your hand there ;)

I was googling to see for more phoebias, and somehow google mentions pedofilie.nl (= sex with children) :eek: Probably a non-encouraging/non-adult site, but how come such sites are allowed in the first place? And why does Google come up with that while I was not searching anywhere near that? :confused:

However, more phoebias that I found: sex phoebia. I don't know if there is a scientific name for it, but an article guiding the term mentioned a couple that were married in 1968 but never 'did it' because the woman has a sex phobia. Apparently her mother had told her numerous times that sex with men is a dirty, filthy, bad thing...

And contamination phobia will definitely have a scientific name as well, it's quite common.
Homophobia is unfortunately quite common, as is phobias of people of other colour/race.