Manny linked me to a list of phobias and some of them are just darn funny, so I thought I’d share my favorites:
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks
Cyprinophobia – Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge
Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold things
Geumophobia- Fear of taste
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis
Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese
Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule
Linonophobia- Fear of string
Menophobia- Fear of menstruation
Neophobia- Fear of anything new
Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams
Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers
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Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod
Selenophobia- Fear of the moon
Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting
Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating
Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons
Xylophobia- Fear of wooden objects
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Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat
My personal favorite is papaphobia…defined as an unwarranted fear of the pope. It cracks me up. I guess it isn\’t a phobia if your fear of the pope is warranted.