ailurophoben.
/ʌɪˈl(j)ʊərə(ʊ)fəʊb/, /eɪˈl(j)ʊərə(ʊ)fəʊb/, /ˈeɪljᵿrə(ʊ)fəʊb/, U.S. /aɪˈlʊrəˌfoʊb/, /eɪˈlʊrəˌfoʊb/ A person who has an intense fear of or aversion to cats.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational fears > person
hydrophobist1840
phobist1883
acrophobe1894
agoraphobe1894
agoraphobic1898
ailurophobe1905
claustrophobe1911
phobiac1911
phobic1911
arachnophobe1925
claustrophobiac1934
claustrophobic1953
mycophobe1957
aerophobe1966
necrophobe1973
computerphobe1974
aerophobic1978
computer-phobic1983
toxiphobiac-
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > fear of cats > person
ailurophobe1905
1905 A. Lang in Morning Post 16 June 4/3 Female ailurophobes are just as capable of not knowing that a cat is in the room..as of saying that it is there when it is not.
1920 C. Van Vechten Tiger in House ii. 30 Cats only give affection where it is deserved, except..when they annoy an ailurophobe with their attentions.
1934 Psychoanalytic Rev. 21 174 Dr. Mitchell disproved the racial memory theory by the simple test of having ailurophobes go to a zoo and watch the lions.
1963 W. Cole & T. Ungerer (title) A cat-hater's handbook, or, the ailurophobe's delight.
2000 Independent on Sunday 8 Oct. i. 27/3 Why cats should be nasty only when female is a mystery that I leave to chauvinist male ailurophobes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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