ailurophobian.
/ʌɪˌl(j)ʊərə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə/, /eɪˌl(j)ʊərə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə/, U.S. /aɪˌlʊrəˈfoʊbiə/, /eɪˌlʊrəˈfoʊbiə/ 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
pneumatophobia1678
hydrophobia1760
aerophobia1771
panophobia1784
phobia1786
pantophobia1807
necrophobia1833
phoby1834
syphilomania1838
hippophobia1840
phonophobia1841
syphilophobia1842
scotophobia1844
astrophobia1855
sitomania1859
sitophobia1859
thanatophobia1860
Satanophobia1861
batrachophobia1863
panphobia1870
agoraphobia1871
bogyphobia1872
pathophobia1873
aquaphobia1875
toxiphobia1876
claustrophobia1879
cynophobia1879
mysophobia1879
siderodromophobia1879
phthisiophobia1883
sitiophobia1884
ochlophobia1885
sitiomania1887
acrophobia1888
zoophobia1888
leprophobia1889
nosophobia1889
pamphobia1890
bacteriophobia1894
tuberculophobia1894
taeniiphobia1897
thalassophobia1897
topophobia1899
dysmorphophobia1900
akathisia1903
cremnophobia1903
musicophobia1903
ailurophobia1905
brontophobia1905
phobism1914
arachnophobia1925
school phobia1930
coprophobia1934
mycophobia1957
arachniphobia1966
computer phobia1972
coulrophobia1997
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > fear of cats
ailurophobia1905
1905 S. W. Mitchell in Amer. Med. 9 851 (title) Of ailurophobia and the power to be conscious of the cat as near, when unseen and unheard.
1917 E. E. Slosson Six Major Prophets iii. 180 He is like the tenor who had aelurophobia and was upset whenever a cat came into the room.
1936 N. A. Crawford We Liberals 173 There probably exists no animal for which some persons do not possess a pathological phobia, but fear of cats—ailurophobia in English, Kazenphobie in the more accurate German—is widespread and has been for centuries.
1991 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 8 Aug. Cats have survived such ailurophobia as displayed by Dr Wamsley and, because they are survivors, they will exist if they are dumped in the bush.
2008 V. Ventura Bk. of Bizarre ii. 48 U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft suffers from aelurophobia (or ailurophobia)—a deathly fear of cats.
Derivatives
ailuroˈphobic adj. having 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 > [adjective] > having irrational fears
hydrophobous1748
necrophobic1857
pantophobic1857
agoraphobic1878
claustrophobic1889
pantophobous1893
phobic1897
ailurophobic1905
claustrophobiac1934
scotophobic1936
phobiac1944
mycophobic1957
school-phobic1960
aquaphobic1968
ochlophobic1976
computer-phobic1983
arachniphobe1984
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [adjective] > afraid of cats
ailurophobic1905
1905 A. Lang in Morning Post 16 June 4/3 Finding a lady, rather ailurophobic, in a low dress at dinner Tippoo suddenly leaped up and alighted on her neck. He was never so friendly with non-ailurophobes.
1920 C. Van Vechten Tiger in House iii. 62 In one of his Spectator papers Addison tells how a lover won his lady from an ailurophobic rival with the assistance of a ‘purring piece of tortoise-shell’.
1960 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 31 Aug. 22/7 Ailurophobic Nikita Khrushchev's summit blasts included some derogatory remarks about cats.
2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Nexis) 15 Jan. 14 I'm not ailurophobic—I neither fear nor detest cats.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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