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arctophilia

arctophilia noun: the love of teddy bears.

Noun

arctophilia (uncountable)

  1. the love of teddy bears
    • It would be a bad day for bears, though, if the contentious instruments of sexism were to surface in the world of arctophilia. Teddy bears are on the whole remarkably androgenous figures, as dressing them in different styles of clothes will demonstrate.1996, Peter Ford, Teddy Bears, page 13
  2. zoophilia with bears
  3. the love of collection of teddy bears (arctophily)

Origin of arctophilia

From Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + φιλία (philía, “affection”).

Questions about arctophilia

What does arctophilia mean?
Arctophilia means the love of teddy bears.
What part of speech is arctophilia?
Arctophilia is a noun.

Words near arctophilia in the dictionary

  1. arctometatarsalian
  2. arctometatarsals
  3. arctometatarsus
  4. arctophile
  5. arctophiles
  6. arctophilia
  7. arctophilist
  8. arctophilists
  9. arctophily
  10. arctostylopid
  11. arctostylopids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arctophilia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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