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Bizarre Phobias (well, weirder than you average phobia anyway)

Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.

Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.

Amathophobia- Fear of dust.

Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.

Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.

Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.

Botanophobia- Fear of plants.

Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.

Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.

Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.

Geniophobia- Fear of chins.

Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. (The doctor that coined this term must have been having a laugh. Cruel really. Imagine the afflicted trying to tell their psychiatrist what condition they had. They'd end up in the emergency unit)

Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.

Optophobia- Fear of opening one's eyes.

Peladophobia- Fear of bald people

Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.

Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.


[compilation thanks to http://phobialist.com/ ]

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