pteronophobia
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “feather”) + -phobia.
Noun edit
pteronophobia (uncountable)
- The fear of feathers.
- 1986, Brent Filson, There's a Monster in Your Closet!: Understanding Phobias, Julius Messner, →ISBN, page 55:
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pteronophobia.