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felinophobia

felinophobia noun: synonym of ailurophobia.

Noun

felinophobia (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of ailurophobia.
    • And there is felinophobia, or fear of cats. About a year ago, Rockwell Sayre, wealthy Chicago realtor, left most of his fortune for the extermination of these animals, for which he had maintained a lifelong aversion.1936 November 9, “Strange Cure for Agoraphobia, Worst of Fears: Science Studies the Amazing Liberation From a Psychic Prison of Mr. Kern”, in The Shreveport Times, volume LXIV, number 162...
    • Shakespeare was afraid of cats. This fear, felinophobia, is shared by hundreds of persons and by the Dowager Queen Mary of England.1937 November 20, Zeke Cook, “Scared Sick: Many Persons Really Have Bee[n] Stricken As Result of Fright”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 11, number 96, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 28
    Synonyms:
    ailurophobia

felinophobia meaning in Tamil

felinophobia in Tamil

பூனை வெருளி

Examples of felinophobia in a sentence

  • At Oakland California, three cats have inherited stock valued at $25,000—thus providing the public with yet another silly example of felinophobia!1959 August 24, The Ottawa Journal, 74th year, Ottawa, Ont., page 6:
  • It’s so much easier to condescend to him, to make up stories about his Puritanism, his felinophobia, his general scariness.2002 April 5, Paul Greenberg, “John Ashcroft: The scariest man in government”, in The Item, volume 107, number 169, Sumter, S.C., page 8A:

Synonyms of felinophobia

Origin of felinophobia

From feline + -o- + -phobia.

Questions about felinophobia

What does felinophobia mean?
Felinophobia means synonym of ailurophobia.
What is felinophobia in Tamil?
Felinophobia in Tamil is பூனை வெருளி. See Felinophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use felinophobia in a sentence?
At Oakland California, three cats have inherited stock valued at $25,000—thus providing the public with yet another silly example of felinophobia!
What part of speech is felinophobia?
Felinophobia is a noun.

Words near felinophobia in the dictionary

  1. felinology
  2. felinophile
  3. felinophiles
  4. felinophobe
  5. felinophobes
  6. felinophobia
  7. felinosis
  8. Felipe
  9. Felisha
  10. Felivaru
  11. Felix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: felinophobia (page history and authors); felinophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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