Welcome to our new article! In this post, I will introduce you to some rare phobias. Get ready to learn surprising things about these fears and amaze your friends with these interesting facts.
What is a phobia?
It is an exaggerated fear of things that aren’t dangerous but interfere with a person's daily life.
Trypophobia
People with this phobia can’t stand the sight of circles, holes, or even tightly packed small rectangles. And what do these people feel when they see these patterns? Anxiety attacks, nausea, and cold sweats. An interesting fact about this phobia is that these patterns resemble those of certain venomous animals, which leads scientists to believe that it may be an "evolutionary phobia" rooted in the survival instinct. Some people, however, don't consider trypophobia a true phobia because these patterns are rare enough that they don’t typically limit daily life.
Pentheraphobia
This is the fear that both men and women can develop toward their mothers-in-law.
Chronophobia
This is an irrational fear of the passing of time. These individuals cannot bear the fact that time moves on inevitably.
Xanthophobia
A phobia of the color yellow.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
The fear of the number 666. This is typically found in Christians who, due to their beliefs, avoid anything associated with this number.
Triskaidekaphobia
This is also a phobia of a number, the number 13. Did you know that in many pagan cultures, this number was considered sacred? It wasn't until the Middle Ages that it became associated with bad luck.
Gephyrophobia
The fear of crossing bridges.
Eisoptrophobia
People who suffer from this phobia are afraid of all reflective objects, and they’re also afraid of them breaking. Have you ever wondered where the superstition about a broken mirror bringing seven years of bad luck came from? This superstition arose during the era of Venetian aristocrats because the new glass mirrors contained a silver layer for reflection and were therefore very expensive. The superstition was created to make people handle mirrors carefully to avoid breaking them.
Somniphobia
The irrational fear of sleeping. These people are afraid that they might never wake up after falling asleep.
Haphephobia
People with this phobia fear being touched.
Chrometophobia
These people are afraid of money.
Food neophobia
This phobia involves the fear of trying new foods.
Sophophobia
The fear of learning. These people may experience nausea when trying to learn something new.
Coulrophobia
This is the name given to the fear of clowns.
Omphalophobia
The fear of belly buttons.
Phagophobia
People with this phobia are afraid of eating and swallowing. It’s believed that this phobia develops from bad eating experiences.
Genuphobia
The fear of knees. They can’t touch them, look at them, and in more severe cases, they can't even talk about them.
Ombrophobia
The fear of rain. These individuals develop an obsession with not getting wet and are particularly attached to objects that protect them from the rain.
Uranophobia
These people are afraid of the sky. This phobia is often related to the fear of death.
Ataxophobia
The fear of disorder. People with this phobia develop compulsive organizational habits.
Cacophobia
The fear of being ugly or seeing something they consider ugly.
Caligynephobia
Unlike cacophobia, people with this phobia fear beauty. Most individuals with this phobia are men.
Gynephobia
The fear of women.
Bromidrosiphobia
People with this phobia are afraid of body odors.
Turophobia
The irrational fear of being near cheese.
Ommatophobia
The fear of looking at eyes. It can be more specific and only triggered by certain eye colors or conditions (very wide-open, irritated, etc.).
Macrophobia
These individuals are afraid of long lines.
Hylophobia
The fear of trees.
Phobophobia
The fear of developing a phobia.
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