Odd Phobias

Here are a bunch of phobias I just learned:

Anthropomorphobia — Fear or dislike of anthropomorphic traits. (basically personification)
Aphenphosmphobia, Chiraptophobia, Haphephobia, Haptephobia — Fear of being touched.
Clinophobia — Fear of going to bed or falling asleep.
Coulrophobia — Fear of evil clowns. (yes, the definition actually is evil clowns)
Emetophobia — Fear of vomiting
Ephebiphobia — Fear/dislike of teenagers.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia — Fear of the number 666.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia — Fear of Friday the 13th.

really i like to know how these names are made up Heck I can make one up right now

dokutrophobia- fear of being yelled at. <---not real

binaryphobia-fear of binary numbers. noooo not 100110100101

but yeha back to my first question I might be wrong about this but i think theirs like 2-300 different phobia's that have been classfied or something like that.

I highly recommend Coulrophobics do not see the movie it or you will go crazy hahahaha .

I think a lot of them are made using latin or greek terms... Hex is something for six.

Some of them are vey curious... having clinophobia must be awful. I suppose a person which suffers from it refuses to go to bed, so he must be tired and weak all day. Sounds funny but I guess it isn´t at all.

And that fear of evil clowns, hahaha, very funny. They must have red or seen "It". Could be Pennywisephobia

With these strange names for phobias I wonder if there is actually a naming convention like there is for chemical compounds.

I have met someone with clinophobia (fear of going to sleep). He told me he was afraid of going to sleep because he feels that he won't wake up the next morning.

This post has been edited by Arigato: Mar 12 2006, 01:52 AM

I definitely have Coulrophobia — Fear of evil clowns i hate all clowns...

i have a fear of places with crowded people, those where you can barely get enough air to breathe because of so many people taking in the same air you're breathing in and out. i get tense when that happens. it gets sweaty because of less space to move around. it's not a pretty thing to experience something like that.

i aksed a friend if she was Aphenphosmphobia and she said yes..then i asked her what it was and she says she didn't know...lol she likes hugs and i and so i said i guess no more hugs for you and told her what it was..she took it back..so two people learned a new thing in just as many minutes...lol thanx for posting it..i even printed it off for later :-D

I have loads of books of random facts and things like that, and I found a few lists of weird phobias. Two of interest are phobiophobic which is someone who is scared of fear itself and scriptergophobic, which is someone who is afraid of writing and work

Latin for six is (don't laugh, if you do, you're immature) sex.

one = unus
two = duos
three = tres
four = quattor
five = quinque
six = sex
seven = septem
eight = octo
nine = novem
ten = decem

So, yeah, a Latin scholar you are.