When you first hear the word ‘phobia’, most people would think of common phobias - phobias such as claustrophobia, as well as arachnophobia, from which one Harry Potter character, Ron Weasley, suffers.

But whoever knew that humans were such fearful creatures?
Ever heard of a fear of gravity? A fear of dust? A fear of fears? A fear of walking? A fear of your mother? A fear of everything?

These phobias actually exist!

Take a look at the list below and you’ll learn of phobias you never knew existed!

Phobias We Never Knew Existed:
Barophobia	Fear of gravity.
Euphobia	Fear of hearing good news.
Caligynephobia	Fear of beautiful women.
Deipnophobia	Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
Alektorophobia	Fear of chickens.
Amathophobia	Fear of dust.
Panophobia or Pantophobia	Fear of everything.
Ambulophobia	Fear of walking.
Anablephobia	Fear of looking up.
Ancraophobia or Anemophobia	Fear of wind.
Anuptaphobia	Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia	Fear of infinity.
Arithmophobia	Fear of numbers.
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia	Fear of body smells.
Bibliophobia	Fear of books.
Chaetophobia	Fear of hair.
Cathisophobia	Fear of sitting.
Dementophobia	Fear of insanity.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia	Fear of long words.
Syngenesophobia	Fear of relatives.
Chronophobia	Fear of time.
Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia	Fear of food.
Eisoptrophobia	Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
Electrophobia	Fear of electricity.
Ephebiphobia	Fear of teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia	Fear of nosebleeds.
Epistemophobia	Fear of knowledge.
Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia	Fear of glass.
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia	Fear of responsibility.
Logophobia	Fear of words.
Lachanophobia	Fear of vegetables.
Mnemophobia	Fear of memories.
Mycophobia	Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
Neophobia	Fear of anything new.
Nomatophobia	Fear of names.
Pediophobia	Fear of dolls.
Pentheraphobia	Fear of mother.
Philophobia	Fear of falling in love or being in love.
Philosophobia	Fear of philosophy.
Phobophobia	Fear of phobias.
Dikephobia	Fear of justice.
Dipsophobia	Fear of drinking.
Domatophobia or Oikophobia	Fear of houses or being in a house.
Doraphobia	Fear of fur or skins of animals.
Dextrophobia	Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

Paranoid People Suffer From This:
Phobophobia	Fear of phobias.

The Fear We, Students, Wished We Had:
Didaskaleinophobia	Fear of going to school.
Testophobia	Fear of taking tests.

The Fear Singaporeans Obviously Don’t Have:
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia	Fear of money.
Plutophobia	Fear of wealth.

It can sometimes seem incredibly odd how fearful people can get.

Written by Stephanie