• Amathophobia: The fear of dust.
  • Anananany: The inability to stop spelling ‘banana’ once you’ve started.
  • Anatidaephobia: The fear that wherever you are, a duck is watching!
  • Androphobia: The fear of men.
  • Angoraphobia: The fear of soft sweaters and rabbits.
  • Anthropophobia: The fear of human beings.
  • Archibutyrophobia: The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
  • Caligaenephobia: The fear of beautiful women
  • Eonaphobia: The fear of transvestites.
  • Epistemophobia: The fear of learning institutions
  • Friendorphobia: The fear of being asked “Who goes there?”
  • Friggaphobics: People who fear Fridays.
  • Genuphobia: The fear of knees.
  • Graphophobia: The fear of writing.
  • Heortophobia: The fear of holidays.
  • Iophobia: The fear of rust.
  • Katagelophobia: The fear of ridicule.
  • Lyssophobia: The fear of insanity.
  • Peniaphobia: The fear of poverty.
  • Phobaphobia: The fear of fear itself.
  • Phobia: What you have left over after you drink two out of a 6-pack.
  • Phronemophobia: The fear of thinking.
  • Pognophobia: The fear of beards.
  • Quadriphobia: The fear of 4-way stops and not knowing who goes next.

(mainly sourced from here)

Rare Phobias

  • Psellismophobia- Fear of stuttering.
  • Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine.
  • Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
  • Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space.
  • Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
  • Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
  • Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
  • Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia).

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