15 WEIRDEST phobias you probably didn't know of

What are you afraid of? We list out some of the wierdest phobias and ask you to identify them.

Everyone has phobias -- some of us are afraid of darkness, some of speaking in public, some of heights and some of us are afraid of water. Fear of homosexuals is called homophobia; fear of heights is acrophobia; fear of the English culture is Anglophobia.

But do you know what arachnophobia means or just what on earth could hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia be?

In the pages to follow we test you on these very phobias and much more.

Afraid of taking this test? That'd be testophobia!

1.    Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders.

2.    Barophobia: Fear of gravity.

3.    Chronophobia: Fear of time.

4.    Doxophobia: Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.

5.    Euphobia: Fear of hearing good news.

6.    Gerascophobia: Fear of growing old.

7.    Hadephobia: Fear of hell.

8.    Kleptophobia: Fear of stealing

9.    Logizomechanophobia: Fear of computers.

10.  Motorphobia: Fear of automobiles.

11.  Octophobia: Fear of the figure 8.

12.  Papaphobia: Fear of the Pope.

13.  Rupophobia: Fear of dirt.

14.  Sexophobia: Fear of the opposite sex.

15.  Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: Fear of long words.

Source: 15 WEIRDEST phobias you probably didn't know of