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elurophobia

elurophobia is the alternative form of ailurophobia.

Meaning of ailurophobia

Noun

ailurophobia (usually uncountable, plural ailurophobias)

  1. (usually) An irrational fear or hatred of cats or other felines.
    • Ailourophobia†, (Katiphobia, or Gatophobia,) is a typical monomania. The fear of cats in certain monopsychoneurotic and psychopathic persons dates back to the beginning of the life of the feline.1906, Charles H. Hughes, “Psychoencephalonasthenia or Cerebrasthenia Simplex, and Psychoencephalonasthenia or Cerebrasthenia Insaniens”, in The Alienist and Neurologist, volume 27, St. Louis, Mo....
    Antonyms:
    ailurophilia

Questions about elurophobia

What is elurophobia the alternative form of?
Elurophobia is the alternative form of ailurophobia.

Words near elurophobia in the dictionary

  1. eluotropic
  2. Elura
  3. eluro-
  4. elurophobe
  5. elurophobes
  6. elurophobia
  7. elurophobic
  8. Eluru
  9. elusion
  10. elusions
  11. elusive

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