Getting annoyed at someone when we listen to them eating or breathing is called Misophonia, and it’s an actual neurological disorder.
Here are some more strangely specific fears:
- Air swallowing – Aerophobia
- Alcohol– Methyphobia or Potophobia
- Chopsticks – Consecotaleophobia
- Cooking – Mageirocophobia
- Crystals or glass– Crystallophobia
- Dampness, moisture or liquids – Hygrophobia
- Dining or dinner conversations – Deipnophobia
- Eating or swallowing – Phagophobia
- Eating or food – Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
- Eating or swallowing or of being eaten – Phagophobia
- Food – Cibophobia
- Garlic – Alliumphobia
- Meat – Carnophobia
- Mushrooms – Mycophobia
- Sourness – Acerophobia
- Taste – Geumaphobia or Geumophobia
- Teeth – Odontophobia
- Vegetables – Lachanophobia
Header painting: Adolphe Millot illustration of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables from Nouveau Larousse Illustre, (1898) fruits and vegetables
