Flooding is the focus, rather than water in every setting.

Possible triggers

Receiving a flood warning, seeing water levels rise or watching flood footage.

Name origin

Combines antlo- (flood) with -phobia (fear).

A fear of flour can affect everyday situations involving baking flour, handling flour, white powder and flour dust. It may lead to restricting foods, checking ingredients or preparation, avoiding meals, shops or restaurants, or relying heavily on familiar choices.

Possible triggers

Opening a bag of flour, seeing flour on a worktop or taking part in baking.

Name origin

From Greek aleuron (flour) and -phobia.

A fear of flowers can affect everyday situations involving garden flowers, floral smell, bouquet and pollen. It may lead to avoidance, checking, reassurance-seeking or changing everyday routines so that contact with the trigger feels less likely.

Possible triggers

Receiving a bouquet, entering a florist's shop or sitting beside a flowering plant.

Name origin

From Greek anthos (flower) and -phobia.

A fear of flutes can affect everyday situations involving high pitched instrument, flute sound, wind instrument and flute. It may lead to scanning for the sensation or visual cue, avoiding particular environments or objects, leaving situations early, or arranging surroundings to prevent encountering it.

Possible triggers

Hearing flute music, seeing someone prepare to play a flute or encountering a flute performance.

Name origin

From Greek aulos (flute) and -phobia.

A fear of fog can affect everyday situations involving driving in fog, foggy road, thick fog and low visibility.

Possible triggers

Waking to fog outside, entering a misty stretch of road or seeing visibility disappear into fog.

Name origin

From Greek homichlē (mist) and -phobia.

A fear of food can affect everyday situations involving restaurant food, spoiled food, mouldy food and undercooked food. It may lead to restricting foods, eating very cautiously, checking sensations while swallowing, avoiding meals or relying on a narrow set of familiar choices.

Possible triggers

Being offered an unfamiliar meal, facing a plate of food or anticipating eating away from home.

Name origin

From Latin cibus (food) and -phobia.

A fear of food shopping can affect everyday situations involving choosing food, supermarket, grocery store and food aisle. It may lead to restricting foods, checking ingredients or preparation, avoiding meals, shops or restaurants, or relying heavily on familiar choices.

Possible triggers

Entering a food shop, choosing groceries or preparing to make a food-shopping trip.

Name origin

From Greek opson (food) and -phobia.

A fear of foreign languages can affect everyday situations involving speaking foreign language, language class and mispronouncing. It may lead to avoiding interaction, rehearsing what to say, monitoring other people’s reactions, or replaying encounters afterwards.

Possible triggers

Being addressed in an unfamiliar language, attempting a conversation in another language or attending a language lesson.

Name origin

From Greek xenos (foreign) and glossa (tongue) with -phobia.

A fear of forests or wooded areas can affect everyday situations involving dense trees, dark woodland, remote forest and tree shadows.

Possible triggers

Entering a wooded path, walking between closely spaced trees or planning a visit to a forest.

Name origin

From Greek hylē (wood or forest) and -phobia.

Freedom itself is the focus of this term.

Possible triggers

Being given unrestricted choice, leaving a highly structured setting or having to decide your own direction.

Name origin

From Greek eleutheros (free) and -phobia (fear).