Damien's More Useless Knowledge Page

First Up... Phobias

Aulophobia - fear of flutes
Neophobia - fear of anything new
Bogyphobia - fear of demons and goblins
Triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13
Gamophobia - fear of marriage
Scopophobia - fear of being stared at
Aurophobia - fear of gold
Chrematophobia - fear of money
Astraphobia - fear of thunder and lightning
Blennophobia - fear of slime
Phasmophobia - fear of ghosts
Arachnephobia - fear of spiders
Hednophobia - fear of pleasure
Chaetophobia - fear of hair
Catoptrophobia - fear of mirrors
Ombrophobia - fear of rain
Isopterpophobia - fear of termites
Laliophobia - fear of talking
Pogonophobia - fear of beards
Theophobia - fear of God
Ecclesiophobia - fear of churches
Taurophobia - fear of bulls
Teratophobia - fear of monsters
Tapinophobia - fear of small things
Homichlophobia - fear of fog
Geumophobia - fear of flavors
Hadephobia - fear of hell
Gymnophobia - fear of nudity
Levophobia - fear of things on the left side of your body
Ichthyophobia - fear of fish
Mechanophobia - fear of machines
Pteronophobia - fear of feathers
Politicophobia - fear of politicians
Siderodromophobia - fear of trains (or travelling on trains)
Symmetrophobia - fear of things that are symmetrical
Xenophobia - fear of foreign and unfamiliar things
Zoophobia - fear of animals
Anthrophobia - fear of people
Ophidiophobia - fear of snakes
Graphophobia - fear of writing in public
Linonophobia - fear of string
Pantophobia - fear of everything
Arachibutyrophobia - fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth

Now for some Manias...

Coprolalomaniac - someone who compulsively uses foul language
Doromaniac - someone who compulsively gives presents
Cresomaniac - someone suffering from the delusion of wealth
Timromaniac - someone obsessed with postage stamps
Emetomaniac - a person who always feels like throwing up
Abultomaniac - someone obsessed with taking baths
Hellenomaniac - someone who compulsively uses Greek or Latin words
Ailuromaniac - someone obsessed with cats
Philopatridomaniac - someone who is always homesick
Dromomaniac - a compulsive traveler
Phagomaniac - someone who constantly craves food
Xenomaniac - someone obsessed with foreign or unfamiliar things
Klazomaniac - someone who always feels like shouting
Micromaniac - someone who suffers from the delusion of a shrinking body
Titillomaniac - a compulsive scratcher
Erythromaniac - someone who compulsively blushes
Catapedamaniac - someone who always feels like jumping from high places
Theomaniac - someone who suffers from the delusion of being [a] God
Nudomaniac - someone obsessed with nudity
Arithomaniac - someone who compulsively counts things
Cynomaniac - someone obsessed with dogs
Onychotillomaniac - a person who constantly picks at their nails
Bruxomaniac - someone who grinds their teeth all the time
Lycomaniac - someone suffering from the delusion of being a werewolf

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