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- noun fear of
mice
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- noun a morbid fear of mice
Etymologies
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Trivia answer: The fear of mice is musophobia aka muriphobia.
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: This Week's Realm of Bizarre News Top 7 Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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Trivia answer: The fear of mice is musophobia aka muriphobia.
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: This Week's Realm of Bizarre News Top 7 Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2011
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'' Distracted by the spectacle, I made an observation mid-sentence, profane as it was, thanks to the crippling, crippling symptoms of musophobia, but it was an observation nonetheless in which I drew upon long-standing Anglo-Saxon roots to describe the act. ''
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The aliens in the Doom mods scared you the way a rat that crawls across the floor would scare someone with an extreme case of musophobia.
Dailygame 2008
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While AVP2 upped the bar in approximating the Aliens experience, the main emotion felt was the same exaggerated musophobia.
Dailygame 2008
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In each case, I leave it to the reader to supply the words "fear of." acarophobia mites, parasites entonophobia ticks aelurophobia cats galeophobia sharks apiophobia bees hippophobia horses arachnephobia spiders musophobia mice bacilliphobia bacilli myrmecophobia lice bacteriaphobia bacteria soleciphobia worms batrachophobia frogs, toads swinophobia swine cynophobia dogs taeniophobia tapeworms eisoptrophobia termites taurophobia bulls A much smaller cluster of fears is centered on the plant world.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word musophobia
JM wonders if musophobia sufferers are just taking the mickey
November 26, 2009