Meaning of chelonaphobia | Babel Free

Definitions

The fear of turtles (including tortoises).

rare, uncountable

Examples

“An aquarium, however, is a dangerous place to fall out with your husband if you have chelonaphobia. My wife, I must tell you, is scared – not just scared, terrified more like – of all tortoises and all creatures that look like tortoises including turtles. […] Freelancing on travel technology stories in the study, her chelonaphobia isn’t an inconvenience, but seeing as though virtually every day on this trip we’re at some wildlife park, it’s become one.”

“I knew everything about Moxie, from her shoe size — six — to the fact that she suffered from chelonaphobia, or a fear of turtles. We’d discovered that together during a disastrous fifth-grade class trip to a small zoo called Reptiland.”

““Turtles are easy to love. They don’t attack you, so there’s not a fear of turtles.” Not for Yee, maybe, but chelonaphobia does exist—there are people who are afraid of turtles. Huffington Post news editor Ani Vrabel publically^([sic]) confessed her fears back in 2013. “I’ve had terrible dreams about turtles flying at my face, chasing me with the intent of gumming me to death, and hiding in my bed,” she wrote in a turtle-terror memoir.”

“(Danger Gnomes found random capitalization more fun and wondered why the other races avoided correspondence with them). Unfortunately, it was nailed above and partially over the volunteer sheet “tURtle bAiT nEedeD, sEriOUs vOLunTeeRs onLy; abSencE oF chELonaPHobiA is A pLuS!”

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