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Afraid of your mother-in-law? It may be a phobia

Ever heard of ranidaphobia or philophobia? Did you know that there is a word for fear of garlic? Here is a list of some lesser known phobias.

being alone or oneself....Autophobia
beards....Pogonophobia
darkness....Scotophobia
dirt....Rupophobia
doctors....Iatrophobia
dust....Koniphobia
everything....Panophobia
falling in love....Philophobia
fire....Pyrophobia
frogs....Ranidaphobia
garlic....Alliumphobia
gold.....Aurophobia
heights or tall buildings....Batophobia
marriage....Gamaphobia
men....Arrhenphobia
mother-in-law....Pentheraphobia
opinions....Allodoxaphobia
paper....Papyrophobia
school....Scolionophobia
sea....Thalassophobia
sleep....Somniphobia
strangers or foreigners....Xenophobia
taking tests....Testophobia
wealth....Plutophobia
words....Verbophobia

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