Sunday 22 June 2014

Some Common and Funny Phobias!

Xanthophobia- Fear of the colour yellow.
     Maybe because our mom has taught us in our childhood that, yellow yellow dirty fellow.

Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.
     Walloons are french speaking people whom live in Belgium.

Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
     Every woman and every girl in India now-a-days has developed this phobia.

Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.
     That unlucky guy!

Sophophobia- Fear of learning.
     Strange!

Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry.
     Not a good sign for Poets. 

Meteorophobia- Fear of meteors.
     Have you ever seen a Meteor falling on the earth? Neither have I.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
     This does not require any explanation.

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.
     A strange one.

Gelotophobia- Fear of being laughed at.
     Everyone, Including Me, has that fear, not the phobia though. People hesitate in talking in a group of people, expressing their views to people due to the fear of being laughed at. Stage Fear is majorly due to this fear.

Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
     How can a person have a fear of hearing good news? 

Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
     We all had that fear of going to school in our childhood. But, when we complete our schooling, we miss those days and wish to go back to school. But, that is totally different from this fear.

Chrometophobia - Fear of money.

     A very common yet less known phobia. Money is generally considered as "The root of all evils" unless used in a proper way. This made me remember that greedy King Midas who had a wish that everything he touches should turn into gold. And then, even his food turned in to gold and he couldn't eat anything because of his greediness.

Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
     Fear of failure is a good thing to possess. FEar of failure often makes us to put in the utmost effort and achieve success. Indeed, a very usefull fear.

Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being ignored.
     A common fear with the teenagers. A common reason among teenagers committing suicide. When ignored, the person often feel lonely and depressed.

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
     Often happens. :D

Phobophobia- Fear of Phobias.

For the full list of Phobias, visit The Phobia List.

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