Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as ælaurophobia.
Wiktionary
- n. An irrational fear or hatred of cats or other felines.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a morbid fear of cats
Examples
“The correct word for describing hatred of cats is "ailurophobia".”
“Most of said adjectives are formed off the latin roots -- equine, feline, bovine, etc. (although - phobias are, naturally, formed off the Greek; hence ailurophobia for fear of cats, instead of something like felinophobia, which would mix a Greek suffix on a Latin root -- eek, cringe).”
“Your friend Chip's ailurophobia acts up every Halloween.”
“Bolsheviks Bolshephobia books bibliophobia bound (being) or tied up merinthophobia bowel movements (painful) defecaloesiophobia brain disease meningitophobia bridges (crossing) gephyrophobia buildings (high) batophobia bullets ballistophobia (see also missiles) bulls taurophobia buried alive (being) taphephobia cancer carcinomophobia cats ailurophobia”
“And that’s saying a lot considering my ailurophobia and ursaphobia.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ailurophobia’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 1051 more...
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phobias
acrophobia, aerophobia, agoraphobia, astrophobia, androphobia, claustrophobia, aquaphobia, genophobia, homophobia, haemophobia, monophobia, pyrophobia and 20 more...
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Isabel's list
intrepid, faux, benevolent, quantifiability, disposition, quantum, tremulous, cupcake, fantasia, ailurophobia, somnambulist
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-phobia
extreme or irrational fear or dislike
arachnophobia, photophobia, claustrophobia, phobophobia, ailurophobia, agrophobia, acrophobia, agoraphobia, anthropophobia, aerophobia, acarophobia, anthrophobia and 26 more...
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fear makes the wolf bigger than he is
agateophobia, agliophobia, ailurophobia, allodoxaphobia, caligynephobia, chromophobia, dendrophobia, Teutophobia
thesuperiorbeing I feel sorry for her. In my opinion, cats are the best domestic animals ever.
Feb 19, 2008
treeseed My mom suffers from this. It is a bizarre fear. She freaks out at the mere sight of even the tiniest of cats. I mean shrieking, freaking nutso-cuckoo. Feb 19, 2008