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Basophobia refers to the fear of not being able to stand up or walk. The term is derived from the root word bas, which means 'stepping' in Greek. People who suffer from this condition experience a lot of anxiety about falling and its consequences, even if they haven't fallen.
People who have barophobia have an intense fear of gravity. The word combines two Greek words: “baros” means pressure or weight, and “phobos” means fear.
Ballistophobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by an. abnormal, irrational, and/or intense fear of missiles or objects.
Germophobia, also known as mysophobia, verminophobia, and bacillophobia, is most commonly associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but can present in a wide variety of people.
Aviatophobia is defined, simply, as a fear of flying. It is also referred to as aviophobia, aerophobia or pteromechanophobia. People who suffer from aviatophobia become anxious and stressed at the thought of traveling by air.
Autophobia, also called monophobia, isolophobia, or eremophobia, is the specific phobia or a morbid fear or dread of oneself or of being alone, isolated, abandoned, and ignored.
Autophagophobia is the extremely rare fear of being devoured by cannibals or carnivores. There isn't much information online about this fear, indicating it's one of the rarest I've come across so far.
But how do I know it's a real fear? It's in the Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families. You can get it here.
https://a.co/d/2WjJJx4
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