Epistemophobia/Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge
Genuphobia- Fear of knees
Linonophobia- Fear of string
Numerophobia- Fear of numbers
And the ultimate…
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything
Life would be truly awful with these phobias…
Does anyone know the word for “fear of ducks”?
Terrible indeed. I think the worst though is phobiaphobia, fear of fear itself. I suffer from that occasionally, actually.
I think FDR had phobiaphobia.
Boy, does that bring back bad memories…You see, my sister had this when she was about three years old. She’d scream at the top of her lungs whenever she saw a string, and if something she was wearing had a loose thread, she’d fly into a panic until someone cut it off. I remember one night she threw a screaming fit that lasted 45 minutes. I thought for sure the neighbors were going to call the police, figuring that somebody was beating her.
In answer to your question, yes, it would suck to have that.
I know quite a few people who seem to have that. They’re not unhappy. 
The late British Financier Sir James Goldsmith is reported to have abandoned his plans to fly somewhere when he noticed an elastic band on the floor of the aeroplane.
Interestingly, a couple of nuns followed him off the plane.
Don’t forget aibohphobia - fear of palindromes.
gymnophobia - fear of nudity.
Poor bastards.
Hmm, fear of ducks - don’t know. How about:
Wascalyphobia fear of gray wabbits
Fuddophobia fear of hunters
Anatidaephobia. (sp?)
I humbly submit The Phobia Finder.
I think I have this. I mean, i don’t try to run away from my own knees, but I cant stand anyone touching them, or touching anyone elses knees, or even THINKING about touching other people’s knees! The idea about anything happening to them…:shudder:. There is no way in HELL any doctor is gonna perform that reflex test on me!! My boyfriend cant even rest his hand on my knee! I freak out! And if he’s giving me a leg massage (a necessary thing since Im a waitress) if he even comes CLOSE to my knees, I freak, and he has to start all over again!
He says it’s all nonsense…now I know…there is an actual phobia! Is there one for navels, too?I’m the same way with navels!
Just to elaborate on my fear - friends of mine used to joke that the best way to torture someone was to use a corkscrew on the kneecap - it wasn’t unil I begged them to stop, almost crying, and they saw that I was gripping my chair with white knuckles that they stopped! They thought it merely creeped me out, while I was actually scared of someone doing that to me!
:shudder: