herpetophobia, herptophobia: 1. An abnormal fear of snakes and other reptiles that comes from an innate tendency to be afraid of snakes based on people's belief that snakes are poisonous, "slimy" (not true), and generally dangerous. 2. For some, there is an intense fear of catching the herpes disease via sexual activities which has nothing to do with snakes.
"Herpes" is a viral infection that causes small painful blisters and inflammation, most commonly at the junction of skin and mucous membrane in the genitals [maybe from an infected sexual partner] or simply as a result of some minor bodily infection in the mouth, lip, or nose [having nothing to do with sex]. The term comes to us via Latin, ultimately from Greek herpein, meaning "to creep".
heterophobia: An abnormal fear of the opposite sex, considered by some psychoanalysts to be a partial explanation for homosexual behavior.
hieromania: 1. Religious insanity; a pathologic religious fervor characterized by delusions with a religious content. 2. An abnormal interest in priests.
hierophobia: A fear of sacred or religious objects or clergymen.
high places or things: See aeroacrophobia, anablepophobia, batophobia, hypselotimophobia, hypsiphobia
hippomania: An obsessive fascination for or an excessive enthusiasm for horses.
hippophobia: An excessive fear or terror of horses.
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: An abnormal or morbid fear of exceptionally long words.
hodomania: An excessive compulsion to travel.
hodophobia: A fear or hatred of traveling; especially, of traveling on roads.
hold in arms: See cingulomania, cingulophobia.
home, house: See domatophobia, nostophobia, oecophobia, oikomania, philoparidomania.
homesick: See nostomania.
homichlophobia: An abnormal fear of fog or of humidity. Fog is associated with confusion and lack of clarity.
homicidomania: An irresistible impulse to commit murder; now used instead of phonomania.
homilophobia: A hatred for sermons or a fear of being preached to.
homophobia: An excessive hatred of sameness or a fear of monotony [doing the same thing over and over] or boredom.
In its extreme condition, boredom may produce depression and hallucination. Monotony, or boredom, have been held responsible for anxieties that lead to vandalism, violence, educational and vocational terminations, marital unhappiness, and even suicide.
This term is incorrectly used as a reference to a fear of or an intense apprehension or hatred of homosexuality or homosexuals in general; which is correctly classified as homosexualphobia.
is superior to a monotony
of something.
-Jean Paul Richter
homosexualphobia: 1. An abnormal fear of, an intense apprehension regarding, or hatred of homosexuals or homosexuality. 2. A dread or fear of becoming a homosexual.
If sex is such a natural phenomenon,
how come there are so many books on how to?
-Bette Midler,
U.S. actress, singer, and comedienne
hormephobia: An irrational dread of shock, both electrical shock and the shock one receives, for example, at hearing extremely bad news.
horses: See equinomania, equinophobia, hippomania, hippophobia.
hospitals: See nosocomephobia.
hot: See thermophobia.
hurricanes: See anemophobia, lilapsophobia.
humans: See anthropophobia.
humidity: See homichlophobia.
hyalinopygophobia: An excessive fear of glass bottoms.
hyalophobia, hyelophobia; a.k.a. crystallophobia: A fear of glass or of crystal.
Such fears may be based on anxieties about being cut by broken glass while others even fear seeing their reflections in glass.
hydrargyromania: A mental disorder due to mercury poisoning.
hydrargyrophobia: A fear of mercurial medicines.
