Phobia Challenge: P

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Pagophobia – Fear of ice or frost

Panophobia/Pantophobia – Fear of everything

Panthophobia – Fear of suffering and disease

Papaphobia – Fear of the Pope/papacy

Papyrophobia – Fear of paper

Paralipophobia – Fear of neglecting duty/responsibility

Paraskavedekatriaphobia – Fear of Friday the 13th

Pathophobia – Fear of disease

Patroiophobia – Fear of heredity

Peccatophobia – Fear of sinning/wrongdoing

Pediculophobia – Fear of lice

Pediophobia – Fear of dolls

Peladophobia – Fear of bald people 

Peniaphobia – Fear of poverty

Phagophobia – Fear of swallowing or eating or being eaten

Phalacrophobia – Fear of becoming bald

Pharmacophobia – Fear of taking medicine/drugs

Phasmophobia – Fear of ghost

Phengophobia – Fear of daylight/sunshine

Philemaphobia – Fear of kissing

Philophobia – Fear of falling in love/being in love

Phobophobia – Fear of phobias (The mother of all phobias!)

Phonophobia – Fear of loud noises/voices or one’s own voice 

Photoaugliaphobia – Fear of glaring lights

Photophobia – This term is not an actual fear, but a sensitivity to light.

Phronemophobia – Fear of thinking

Placophobia – Fear of tombstones

Plutophobia – Fear of wealth

Pluviophobia – Fear of rain/being rained on

Pneumatiphobia – Fear of spirits

Pocrescophobia – Fear of gaining weight

Pogonophobia – Fear of beards

Politicophobia – Fear of politics/politicians

Ponophobia – Fear of pain/fatigue from overworking

Porphyrophobia – Fear of the color purple

Potamophobia – Fear of rivers/running water

Potophobia – Fear of alcohol/becoming an alcoholic

Prosophobia – Fear of progress

Psellismophobia – Fear of stuttering

Psychrophobia – Fear of cold (esp. of cold water)

Pteromerhanophobia – Fear of flying

Pteronophobia – Fear of being tickled by feathers

Pupaphobia – Fear of puppets

Pyrexiophobia – Fear of fever

Pyrophobia – Fear of fire