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Character Fears
Not all your character’s need to fear loneliness, losing their friends, or death. There are plenty of fish in the sea that can scare the absolute shit out of them.
The ones I find most interesting are italicised. Tag the ones you find most interesting!
Here’s a list to make your life easier [[Source: The Phobia List]]
- Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
- Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
- Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
- Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
- Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
- Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
- Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
- Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
- Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
- Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
- Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
- Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
- Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
- Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.
- Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
- Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
- Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
- Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
- Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
- Algophobia- Fear of pain.
- Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
- Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
- Altophobia- Fear of heights.
- Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
- Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
- Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
- Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
- Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
- Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
- Ancraophobia- Fear of wind. (Anemophobia)
- Androphobia- Fear of men
- Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.(Ancraophobia)
- Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
- Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.
- Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
- Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
- Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
- Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
- Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
- Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
- Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
- Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched. (Haphephobia)
- Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
- Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.
- Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
- Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
- Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
- Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.
- Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness.
- Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia)
- Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space.
- Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
- Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia. (muscular incoordination)
- Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.
- Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
- Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
- Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
- Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.
- Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
- Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
- Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
- Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights.
- Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
- Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
- Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.
- Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
- Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.
Check out The Phobia List yourself, or stay tuned for the rest of the alphabet!
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