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automatonophobias

automatonophobias is the plural of automatonophobia.

Meaning of automatonophobia

Noun

automatonophobia (usually uncountable, plural automatonophobias)

  1. (usually) Fear of humanlike figures, such as mannequins, wax figures, statues, dummies, animatronics, or robots.
    • The plot involved angel statues that came alive with demonic faces the instant their victims stopped looking at them. Can I say for certain it gave some kid automatonophobia? No, but I’m glad I didn’t see it when I was six.2016 March 23, Keith Wagstaff, “Why Do Statues of Humans Terrify Me? An Investigation”, in VICE, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2025

Questions about automatonophobias

What is automatonophobias the plural of?
Automatonophobias is the plural of automatonophobia.

Words near automatonophobias in the dictionary

  1. automatonism
  2. automatonlike
  3. automatonophobia
  4. automatonophobiac
  5. automatonophobiacs
  6. automatonophobias
  7. automatons
  8. automatophone
  9. automatophones
  10. automatous
  11. automats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: automatonophobias (page history and authors); automatonophobia (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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