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  • noun The fear of touching the fur or skin of an animal.

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Examples

  • Friday the 13th paraskavedekatriaphobia frost, ice, extreme cold cryophobia fur, animal skin doraphobia gaiety cherohobia garlic alliumphobia genitals (female) eurotophobia germs spermatophobia or spermophobia

    pangsuan Diary Entry pangsuan 2003

  • (_American Journal of Psychology_, vol. viii, p. 213) has obtained as many as 111 well-developed cases of fear of fur, or, as he terms it, doraphobia, in some cases appearing as early as the age of 6 months, and he gives many examples.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

  • The closest I’d been able to get was doraphobia — the fear of the fur or skin of animals.

    Warning Signs White, Stephen, 1951- 2002

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  • Fear of furry doors. Hmmm. Whatever could that mean?

    November 12, 2007

  • JM ha leído en alguna parte que Dora el explorador tiene doraphobia y es totalmente vegan.

    January 9, 2010