Verbophobes beware!

In the middle of Spooky Season, there are so many ways to be afraid, but how can we fear new things if we don’t know the words for them?

Find a new phobia, or maybe just a great new word to describe something bizarre…

…like phobophobia - the fear of fear. FDR would not approve. (If you don’t know who that is or get the reference, you really need to look it up, because, History. And it might help before reading this post, too!)

skiaphobia - fear of shadows

pediculophobia - fear of lice

spectrophobia - fear of looking in the mirror

pediophobia - fear of dolls

ophthalmophobia - fear of being stared at

amathophobia - fear of dust

stygiophobia - fear of hell

lygophobia - fear of the dark

hylophobia - fear of wooded areas

merinthophobia - fear of being bound

coprophobia - fear of excrement

staurophobia - fear of the cross

homilophobia - fear of sermons

taphephobia - fear of cemeteries, being buried alive

thanatophobia - fear of death or dying

deipnophobia - fear of dining and dining conversation

aichurophobia - fear of being touched by pointed objects

bogyphobia - fear of demons and goblins

taeniophobia - fear of tapeworms

thassophobia - fear of sitting idle

hamartophobia - fear of sin

hematophobia - fear of the sight of blood

and…

the scariest one I found…

arachibutyrophobia - fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth

(or, in the case of anyone not from the U.S., getting any peanut butter in your mouth! Or root beer! Which is fine, because we’ll keep our gross foods if you keep your Marmite / Vegemite on their respective continents. Love ya, cousins!)

Do you have any favorite phobias to infest others’ nightmares?

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