单词 | ailurophobia |
释义 | ailurophobian. Intense fear of or aversion to cats. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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