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[OT] What are you afraid of?

How many phobias(chronic fears) do you think there are? Take a look at the ultimate phobia list and count them.
I didn't see a fear of large lists of fears though.
 
Some may sound eerily familiar from work:
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Bibliophobia- Fear of books
Cenophobia or Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas.
Coitophobia- Fear of coitus.
Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.
Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
Ergophobia- Fear of work.
Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Linonophobia- Fear of string. (pun intended :-) )
Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
Mechanophobia- Fear of machines.
Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
Ponophobia- Fear of overworking or of pain.
Prosophobia- Fear of progress.
 
And some are utterly weird:
Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.
Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.
Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.
Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th. (??!!)
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.(aha!)
Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.
Sophophobia- Fear of learning.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.

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