Meaning of pteronophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

The fear of feathers.

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Examples

“Then there are the phobes whose fear of birds is combined with a fear of feathers, pteronophobia. One case of bird-and-feathers phobia involved a woman in her thirties who was too frightened to go outside.”

“It is easy, for example, for a person to live with pteronophobia, aulophobia, or batrachophobia. One simply stays away from feathers, flutes, and frogs!”

“'Um ... pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled with feathers, I think . . . '”

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