[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":139},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-en-ophidiophobia":3},{"post":4,"related":89,"path":133,"pair":134,"otherIndex":137,"index":138},{"slug":5,"lang":6,"translation":7,"weight":8,"title":9,"description":10,"seoTitle":11,"seoDescription":12,"date":13,"updated":-1,"cover":14,"coverAlt":15,"tags":16,"accent":20,"game":21,"vrApp":22,"readingMinutes":23,"pieces":24,"toc":36,"faq":70},"ophidiophobia","en","ophidiophobie",30,"Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes): meaning, causes, how common it is and how to overcome it","Ophidiophobia is the fear of snakes, one of the most common animal fears. What the word means, how to pronounce it, why snakes scare so many people, symptoms, causes, a quick self-check, and how to overcome it.","Ophidiophobia (Fear of Snakes): Meaning, Causes & Help","Ophidiophobia is the fear of snakes. What it means, how to say it, why snakes scare so many people, causes, how common it is and how to overcome it.","2026-10-05","/blog/ophidiophobia/cover.webp","Illustration of a sunny meadow with wildflowers, a small calm snake resting far away on a warm rock.",[17,18,19],"Ophidiophobia","Fear of snakes","Phobias","#5e9a4c","vr-phobia","snakes",8,[25,28,30,32,34],{"kind":26,"html":27},"html","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Ophidiophobia is the fear of snakes\u003C/strong>: an intense, lasting fear of snakes, out of proportion to any real danger, that leads people to avoid them, sometimes even in pictures or on television. It is a \u003Cstrong>specific phobia\u003C/strong> of the animal type, like the fear of spiders or birds, and one of the most common fears there is: snakes are “among the most common targets of fears and phobias”, as \u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02081.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LoBue and DeLoache\u003C/a> (\u003Cem>Psychological Science\u003C/em>, 2008) put it.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cblockquote>\n\u003Cp>This article is general information, not medical advice. If a fear of snakes affects your daily life, talk to a doctor or a therapist trained in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Wild snakes can be dangerous: nothing here suggests approaching them.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/blockquote>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-does-ophidiophobia-mean\">What does ophidiophobia mean?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Ophidiophobia means “fear of snakes”. It joins the Greek \u003Cem>ophis\u003C/em>, “serpent”, with \u003Cem>-phobia\u003C/em>, “fear”, according to \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ophidiophobia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiktionary\u003C/a>, which also lists the shorter form ophiophobia. The same root gives ophidian, “relating to snakes”.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"how-do-you-pronounce-ophidiophobia\">How do you pronounce ophidiophobia?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Say it \u003Cstrong>oh-FID-ee-oh-FOH-bee-uh\u003C/strong>, with the main stress on “FOH”. The first part sounds like ophidian, which \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ophidian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiktionary\u003C/a> gives as /oʊˈfɪdi.ən/.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-is-the-fear-of-snakes-called\">What is the fear of snakes called?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The fear of snakes is called \u003Cstrong>ophidiophobia\u003C/strong> (or ophiophobia). People also simply say snake phobia, phobia of snakes, or being scared of snakes. Some people mainly fear particular snakes, such as large constrictors or venomous species, others mainly the way snakes move, their sudden strikes, their skin or the idea of touching one.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"why-are-so-many-people-afraid-of-snakes\">Why are so many people afraid of snakes?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Snakes seem to hold a special place in human fear. Research points to a \u003Cstrong>readiness to learn\u003C/strong> this fear rather than a fear we are born with:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>adults and preschool children spot a snake among other pictures faster than they spot flowers, frogs or caterpillars (\u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02081.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LoBue and DeLoache\u003C/a>, \u003Cem>Psychological Science\u003C/em>, 2008);\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>babies of 9 to 10 months did not react differently to films of snakes on their own, but infants aged 7 to 18 months readily linked moving snakes with a frightened voice, which suggests a natural tendency to associate snakes with fear (\u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00753.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeLoache and LoBue\u003C/a>, \u003Cem>Developmental Science\u003C/em>, 2009);\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>psychologists \u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.108.3.483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Öhman and Mineka\u003C/a> (\u003Cem>Psychological Review\u003C/em>, 2001) describe an evolved “fear module” that is activated quickly and automatically by threats that mattered to our ancestors, such as snakes, and that is hard to switch off by reasoning;\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>some researchers go further and propose that snakes shaped the evolution of the primate visual system (\u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.12.012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isbell\u003C/a>, \u003Cem>Journal of Human Evolution\u003C/em>, 2006); this is a hypothesis, not a settled fact.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>None of this means a phobia is inevitable. A readiness to learn a fear is not the same as a fear that is impossible to unlearn.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-are-the-symptoms-of-ophidiophobia\">What are the symptoms of ophidiophobia?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Symptoms appear near snakes, at the sight of a picture, or just from thinking about them. The \u003Ca href=\"https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/phobias/overview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS\u003C/a> lists the typical symptoms of a phobia:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>feeling dizzy or light-headed, a pounding or unusual heartbeat, tightness in the chest;\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>feeling sick, trembling or shaking;\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>severe anxiety, and an intense fear of fainting, losing control or dying.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>Then comes \u003Cstrong>avoidance\u003C/strong>: skipping walks in the countryside, checking the grass, leaving the room when a documentary shows a snake, avoiding zoos and pet shops. The fear can feel overwhelming even when you know there is no snake nearby.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"what-causes-ophidiophobia\">What causes ophidiophobia?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>There is no single known cause. The \u003Ca href=\"https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorders/anxiety-and-stressor-related-disorders/specific-phobic-disorders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSD Manual\u003C/a> states that the causes of phobias are unknown. The \u003Ca href=\"https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/phobias/overview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS\u003C/a> notes that many phobias can be linked to a frightening event, such as a frightening childhood experience with an animal, and that a phobia can also be learned from family or friends who have one. With snakes, the readiness to learn this fear described above probably makes it easier to acquire.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Whatever started it, avoidance keeps it alive: each escape brings relief, and the relief teaches you that escaping was necessary.\u003C/p>\n",{"kind":29},"cycle",{"kind":26,"html":31},"\u003Ch2 id=\"how-common-is-ophidiophobia\">How common is ophidiophobia?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>There is no reliable worldwide figure for the fear of snakes alone.\u003C/strong> Large surveys usually count specific phobias as a group. What we do know:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>across 25 surveys in 22 countries, about \u003Cstrong>7.4% of adults\u003C/strong> have had a specific phobia at some point in their life, usually starting in childhood (\u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291717000174\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wardenaar et al.\u003C/a>, \u003Cem>Psychological Medicine\u003C/em>, 2017);\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>fears and phobias of heights and of \u003Cstrong>animals\u003C/strong> are the most common kinds (\u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30169-X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eaton et al.\u003C/a>, \u003Cem>The Lancet Psychiatry\u003C/em>, 2018);\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>in a Swedish population study, animal phobias, defined there as spiders and snakes, were found in 12.1% of women and 3.3% of men at the time of the survey (\u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(95)00048-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fredrikson et al.\u003C/a>, \u003Cem>Behaviour Research and Therapy\u003C/em>, 1996).\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"do-i-have-ophidiophobia-a-quick-self-check\">Do I have ophidiophobia? A quick self-check\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>This is not a test and it cannot diagnose anything. It follows the summary of the DSM-5-TR criteria for specific phobia in the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorders/anxiety-and-stressor-related-disorders/specific-phobic-disorders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSD Manual\u003C/a>, and only helps you decide whether to talk to a professional.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cform class=\"selfcheck\" aria-label=\"Fear of snakes self-check\">\n\u003Cfieldset>\n\u003Clegend>Tick what applies to you\u003C/legend>\n\u003Clabel>\u003Cinput type=\"checkbox\" name=\"q1\"> I have felt a marked fear or anxiety about snakes for six months or more.\u003C/label>\n\u003Clabel>\u003Cinput type=\"checkbox\" name=\"q2\"> Seeing a snake, even in a picture or on screen, almost always triggers that fear straight away.\u003C/label>\n\u003Clabel>\u003Cinput type=\"checkbox\" name=\"q3\"> I avoid places, activities or images where I might meet a snake, or I get through them with intense fear.\u003C/label>\n\u003Clabel>\u003Cinput type=\"checkbox\" name=\"q4\"> I feel the fear is out of proportion to the actual danger where I live.\u003C/label>\n\u003Clabel>\u003Cinput type=\"checkbox\" name=\"q5\"> The fear or the avoidance causes me real distress or gets in the way of my daily life, holidays, work or social life.\u003C/label>\n\u003C/fieldset>\n\u003Cp class=\"selfcheck__note\">\u003Cstrong>This is not a diagnosis.\u003C/strong> If you ticked most of these boxes, or if the fear bothers you, talk to your doctor or a therapist trained in CBT. Only a professional can assess a phobia.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/form>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"how-to-overcome-ophidiophobia\">How to overcome ophidiophobia\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The best-supported way to overcome a fear of snakes is \u003Cstrong>gradual exposure\u003C/strong>, the core of cognitive behavioural therapy: you approach snakes in small, safe steps, from drawings and photos to videos and harmless snakes behind glass, stay long enough to learn that the feared outcome doesn’t happen, and repeat. According to the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorders/anxiety-and-stressor-related-disorders/specific-phobic-disorders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSD Manual\u003C/a>, exposure therapy helps around 85% of people with a specific phobia.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>For snake phobia specifically, a randomised trial with 30 patients compared a three-hour one-session treatment with a therapist and a guided internet self-help programme: at follow-up, 100% of those who completed the one-session treatment and 90% of those who completed the internet programme were clinically improved on a real approach test (\u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2013.844202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andersson et al.\u003C/a>, \u003Cem>Cognitive Behaviour Therapy\u003C/em>, 2013).\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Our step-by-step guide explains how to build a fear ladder safely, how long to stay, how often to practise and when to get help: \u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"/blog/how-to-overcome-fear-of-snakes\">How to overcome the fear of snakes\u003C/a>\u003C/strong>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"can-virtual-reality-help-with-a-fear-of-snakes\">Can virtual reality help with a fear of snakes?\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Virtual reality lets you meet a snake at the distance and pace you choose, with an exit at any moment and no real animal involved. For specific phobias in general, a meta-analysis of 30 randomised trials found VR exposure as effective as real-life exposure (\u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.08.003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carl et al.\u003C/a>, \u003Cem>Journal of Anxiety Disorders\u003C/em>, 2019). The honest caveat: those trials are mostly about heights, spiders and flying, not snakes. More in \u003Ca href=\"/blog/why-virtual-reality-works-for-phobias\">Why virtual reality works for phobias\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n",{"kind":33},"cta",{"kind":26,"html":35},"\u003Csection class=\"post__faq\" aria-labelledby=\"faq\">\u003Ch2 id=\"faq\">FAQ\u003C/h2>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"what-is-ophidiophobia\">What is ophidiophobia?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Ophidiophobia is the fear of snakes: an intense, lasting fear of snakes, out of proportion to the actual danger, that leads to avoidance. It is a specific phobia of the animal type.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"what-does-ophidiophobia-mean-1\">What does ophidiophobia mean?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>It means “fear of snakes”, from the Greek \u003Cem>ophis\u003C/em>, “serpent”, and \u003Cem>-phobia\u003C/em>, “fear”. It is also called ophiophobia.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"how-do-you-pronounce-ophidiophobia-1\">How do you pronounce ophidiophobia?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Oh-FID-ee-oh-FOH-bee-uh, with the main stress on “FOH”.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"what-is-the-fear-of-snakes-called-1\">What is the fear of snakes called?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>The fear of snakes is called ophidiophobia, or ophiophobia. People also say snake phobia.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"why-are-people-so-afraid-of-snakes\">Why are people so afraid of snakes?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Research suggests humans have a natural readiness to learn to fear snakes: even young children spot them faster than other things. A frightening experience, or seeing others afraid, can then turn that readiness into a phobia.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"how-common-is-the-fear-of-snakes\">How common is the fear of snakes?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>Snakes are among the most common targets of fear. There is no reliable worldwide figure for snake phobia alone, but animal phobias are among the most common kinds of specific phobia.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"how-do-you-get-over-a-fear-of-snakes\">How do you get over a fear of snakes?\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>With gradual, repeated and safe exposure: drawings, photos, videos, then harmless snakes behind glass or held by a keeper, ideally guided by a therapist trained in CBT. See our step-by-step guide.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/section>\u003Csection class=\"post__sources\" aria-labelledby=\"sources\">\u003Ch2 id=\"sources\">Sources\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Wiktionary. “ophidiophobia” and “ophidian” (etymology and pronunciation). \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ophidiophobia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ophidiophobia\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ophidian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ophidian\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>NHS. Phobias: overview. \u003Ca href=\"https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/phobias/overview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nhs.uk\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Barnhill JW. Specific phobias. \u003Cem>MSD Manual Professional Version\u003C/em>, reviewed April 2026. \u003Ca href=\"https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorders/anxiety-and-stressor-related-disorders/specific-phobic-disorders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">msdmanuals.com\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>LoBue V, DeLoache JS. Detecting the snake in the grass: attention to fear-relevant stimuli by adults and young children. \u003Cem>Psychological Science\u003C/em>. 2008;19(3):284–289. \u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02081.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02081.x\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>DeLoache JS, LoBue V. 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Virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety and related disorders: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. \u003Cem>Journal of Anxiety Disorders\u003C/em>. 2019;61:27–36. \u003Ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.08.003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.08.003\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003C/section>",[37,40,43,46,49,52,55,58,61,64,67],{"id":38,"text":39},"what-does-ophidiophobia-mean","What does ophidiophobia mean?",{"id":41,"text":42},"how-do-you-pronounce-ophidiophobia","How do you pronounce ophidiophobia?",{"id":44,"text":45},"what-is-the-fear-of-snakes-called","What is the fear of snakes called?",{"id":47,"text":48},"why-are-so-many-people-afraid-of-snakes","Why are so many people afraid of snakes?",{"id":50,"text":51},"what-are-the-symptoms-of-ophidiophobia","What are the symptoms of ophidiophobia?",{"id":53,"text":54},"what-causes-ophidiophobia","What causes ophidiophobia?",{"id":56,"text":57},"how-common-is-ophidiophobia","How common is ophidiophobia?",{"id":59,"text":60},"do-i-have-ophidiophobia-a-quick-self-check","Do I have ophidiophobia? 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See our step-by-step guide.",[90,105,119],{"slug":91,"lang":6,"translation":92,"weight":8,"title":93,"description":94,"seoTitle":95,"seoDescription":96,"date":13,"updated":-1,"cover":97,"coverAlt":98,"tags":99,"accent":103,"game":21,"vrApp":104,"readingMinutes":23},"acrophobia","acrophobie","Acrophobia (fear of heights): meaning, vertigo, causes, how common it is and how to overcome it","Acrophobia is the fear of heights, the most common specific phobia in some surveys. What the word means, how it differs from vertigo, symptoms, causes, how common it is, a quick self-check, and how to overcome it.","Acrophobia (Fear of Heights): Meaning, Vertigo & Help","Acrophobia is the fear of heights. 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