A news story began: "During the grave diggers' strike,
local cemeteries will be manned by skeleton crews."
-Morris Goran
cenophobia, cenotophobia, kenophobia: A terror of empty rooms, barren spaces, or of large spaces.
centophobia: Fear of newness or novelty.
For some people, novelty implies greater danger, and the strange and unfamiliar provoke fear in many individuals.
ceratomania: In biology, an abnormal production of hooded flowers.
ceraunophobia, keraunophobia: A fear of thunder and lightning which exists during rain storms.
Also known as astraphobia, such phobics avoid going outside when there is any indication that thunderstorms may be coming and they may even do whatever they can to hide from such storms.
chaerophobia, chairophobia, cherophobia: A fear or avoidance of rejoicing and gaiety; a fear of showing that one is happy or content.
We will learn to think of ourselves,
and our personalities, as an orchestra
of chemical voices in our heads.
-Arnold J. Mandell
chaetomania, chaeotomania: An unusual desire to be bald even going to the trouble of shaving one's head quite often so no hair will appear on his head. For some, baldness is a badge of manliness and physical appeal.
chaetophobia, chaeotophobia: An excessive fear of hair including hairy objects, animals, or people; or a fear of losing one's hair.
This phobia may be related to a fear of the loss of physical strength by being bald, a fear of aging, or an excessive fear of being unattractive.
charminphobia: A fear of being squeezed.
cheerfulness: amenomania, habromania
cheimaphobia, cheimatophobia: An abnormal fear of cold or frost, especially of winter; and of being cold, or a fear of cold things or cold air.
Cheimaphobics may also fear the absence of adequate heat indoors and they may over dress for the circumstances. Some cheimaphobics strive to avoid cold drinks and, especially, ice in their liquid consumptions. Other terms for "cold phobias" include: cryophobia, frigophobia, and psychrophobia.
See a poetic illustration of these "cold" phobias by going to and reading the illustrated version of "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service.
chemozoophobia: In biology, a reference to plants that protect themselves from herbivorous animals by the production of noxious chemical substances.
cheromania, chaeromania: Compulsion toward gaiety or some expression of happiness; characterized by exaltation.
cherophobia, chairophobia, chaerophobia: A pathological fear of gaiety, happiness, or cheerfulness sometimes resulting in anxieties that happiness or gaiety are going to produce disaster or some other adverse event.
chickens: alektoromania, alektorophobia
children: paedophobia, pediophobia, pediosexualmania
Chinamania: An extravagant fancy for the collection of old-chinaware; or it may refer to an excessive fondness for things Chinese.
Chinaphobia: A fear of China and its growing power or of anything related to Chinese customs or other things Chinese.
chins: geniophobia
chionomania: An obsessive desire for snow.
chionophobia: 1. An excessive fear of snow or of snow storms; sometimes because it symbolizes death, poverty, and suffering. 2. In the myths of some cultures, the end of the world is predicted to occur in the winter, preceded by a heavy snow storm. 3. In biology, intolerant of snow-covered habitats.
See a poetic illustration of "The Cremation of Sam McGee" poem by Robert W. Service, for a presentation of this phobia.
chirophobia: A fear of hands.
Success is a ladder that cannot be
climbed with your hands in your pockets.
-American Proverb
The ultimate test of a relationship
is to disagree but to hold hands.
-Alexandra Penny
chloralomania: Addiction to chloral (alcohol and chlorine).
choking: anginaphobia, pnigeraphobia
