habromania: A kind of insanity in which there are delusions of a cheerful character or gaiety.
hadephobia: An abnormal fear of hell with the idea that one may go there after death and eternal punishment at "judgement day".
Boredom is the one torment of hell
that Dante forgot.
-Albert Speer, Spandau, 1976
hagiomania: A mania for sainthood.
hagiophobia: An excessive fear or intense dislike of saints or of holy objects or concepts.
hair: See these elements, chaetophobia, hypertrichophobia, trichomania, trichopathophobia, trichophobia, trichorrhexomania, trichotillomania.
hallucinations: See amenomania, amoenomania, monomania.
halophobia: In botany, the inability of some plants to grow in salt-rich soil.
hamartomania: A compulsion to sin.
It is a statistical fact
that the wicked work harder to reach hell
than the righteous do to enter heaven.
-Josh Billings
hamartophobia: A fear of committing errors or sins or of doing the wrong thing and being condemned for it.
This word is often misspelled as harmatophobia. Those who have his phobia may fear one of several types of errors, including memory error, which differs from forgetting; false recollections; accidents, such as, while driving a car; or minor accidents, such as, spilling things or dropping things.
But who can tell the end of what we fear?
-Hannah More
hamaxophobia: A fear of riding in or of just being in vehicles. Also applies to amaxophobia.
hands: See chirophobia.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall,
in misery, the time when we were happy.
-Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
haphephobia, haphophobia, hapnophobia, haptephobia, haptophobia, aphephobia: An exaggerated fear or hatred of touching or of being touched because some people fear contamination or the invasion of their "personal air-space".
To touch a child's face, a dog's smooth coat,
a petaled flower, the rough surface of a rock
is to set up new orders of brain motion.
To touch is to communicate.
-James W. Angell
happiness: See chaerophobia, cherophobia.
Happiness is liking what you do
as well as doing what you like.
-Laurence J. Peter
harpaxophobia: A general fear of robbers or thieves or of being attacked by a robber or a thief.
Such a fear motivates many to have elaborate burglar-alarm systems in their homes and businesses and several locks on their doors. From Greek: harpazo, harpax, "seize, snatch, plunder; rapacious; robbery".
hate: See misomania, misophobia.
hearing, listening: See acousticomania, acousticophobia.
heart: See anginaphobia, barophobia, bradycardiaphobia, cardiophobia.
heat: See thermophobia.
heaven: See ouranophobia, uranomania, uranophobia.
heaviness: See barophobia.
hebephobia: A fear or dread of youth or of being around young people.
The error of youth is to believe that
intelligence is a substitute for experience,
while the error of age is to believe that
experience is a substitute for intelligence.
-Lyman Bryson
hedonomania: An irresistible craving for pleasure.
A hedonist is a person of low taste,
more interested in pleasure than with me.
-Anonymous
hedonophobia, hedenophobia: An illogical or exaggerated fear of participating in pleasurable activities.
Some people can't enjoy an activity because others less fortunate can't do what the phobic is enjoying.
heights: See acrophobia, altophobia.
