Examples of Suffixes in English

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The word “-phobia” is an English suffix of Greek origin. 

A ‘phobia’ is an irrational or excessive fear of something. 

Here is a list of phobias –

- Fear of Accidents – Dystychiphobia
- Fear of Aeroplanes/ Flying – Aerophobia
- Fear of Animals – Zoophobia
- Fear of Baldness - Phalacrophobia
- Fear of Blood - Haemophobia, Haematophobia
- Fear of Confined spaces - Claustrophobia
- Fear of Crossing streets - Dromophobia
- Fear of Crowds - Demophobia
- Fear of Dark - Nyctophobia, Lygophobia
- Fear of Death/ dead bodies - Necrophobia, Thanatophobia
- Fear of Dentists - Dentophobia
-Fear of Depths/ deep places - Bathophobia
-Fear of Dogs - Cynophobia
-Fear of Electricity - Electrophobia
-Fear of Fire - Pyrophobia
-Fear of Germs - Verminophobia
-Fear of Ghosts - Phasmophobia
-Fear of Heights - Acrophobia
-Fear of Hospitals - Nosocomephobia
-Fear of Illness - Pathophobia
-Fear of Injections – Trypanophobia
-Fear of Lightning – Astrapophobia
-Fear of Loneliness – Monophobia
-Fear of Machines - Mechanophobia
-Fear of Madness/ Insanity - Maniaphobia
-Fear of New things – Neophobia
-Fear of Old age - Gerascophobia
-Fear of Open spaces/ going out in public - Agoraphobia
-Fear of Outer space - Spacephobia
-Fear of Pain - Algophobia
-Fear of Sharks – Galeophobia
-Fear of Snakes - Ophidiophobia
-Fear of Society or people in general - Sociophobia
-Fear of Speaking/ public speaking - Lalophobia, Glossophobia
-Fear of Surgery - Tomophobia
-Fear of Vehicles - Ochophobia
-Fear of Voids or empty spaces - Kenophobia
-Fear of Water - Hydrophobia