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zoophobia

zoophobia noun: an unusual fear of non-human animals.

Noun

zoophobia (countable and uncountable, plural zoophobias)

  1. An unusual fear of non-human animals.
    • The girl who had zoophobia didn't like animals, domestic or wild.

zoophobia meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Arabic and Indonesian

zoophobia in Tamil

விலங்கு அச்சம்

zoophobia in Urdu

خوف حیوانات

zoophobia in Arabic

unusual fear of animals
رهاب الحيوان

zoophobia in Indonesian

unusual fear of animals
zoofobia
More languagesFewer languages
zoophobia in Persian
جانورهراسی jānvarharāsī, زوفوبیا
zoophobia in Thai
อาการกลัวสัตว์

Forms of zoophobia

pluralzoophobias

Origin of zoophobia

From zoo- + -phobia. Piecewise doublet of biophobia.

Questions about zoophobia

What does zoophobia mean?
Zoophobia means an unusual fear of non-human animals.
What is zoophobia in Tamil?
Zoophobia in Tamil is விலங்கு அச்சம். See Zoophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is zoophobia?
Zoophobia is a noun.
What is the plural of zoophobia?
The plural of zoophobia is zoophobias.

Words near zoophobia in the dictionary

  1. zoophily
  2. zoophite
  3. zoophites
  4. zoophobe
  5. zoophobes
  6. zoophobia
  7. zoophobias
  8. zoophobic
  9. zoophori
  10. zoophoric
  11. zoophorous

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