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An unusual fear of non-human animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- The girl who had zoophobia didn't like animals, domestic or wild.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a morbid fear of animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: simple phobia
Narrower terms: acarophobia, arachnophobia, ailurophobia, cynophobia, entomophobia, lepidophobia, musophobia
From zoo- + -phobia. Piecewise doublet of biophobia.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
رهاب الحيوان
— unusual fear of animals
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Azerbaijani:
zoofobiya
— unusual fear of animals
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Bulgarian:
зоофобия
(zoofobija)
— unusual fear of animals
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Catalan:
zoofòbia
— unusual fear of animals
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Chinese Mandarin:
動物恐懼症 /动物恐惧症
(dòngwù kǒngjùzhèng)
— unusual fear of animals
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Czech:
zoofobie
— unusual fear of animals
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Dutch:
zoöfobie
— unusual fear of animals
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Estonian:
zoofoobia
— unusual fear of animals
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Finnish:
zoofobia
— unusual fear of animals
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Finnish:
eläinkammo
— unusual fear of animals
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French:
zoophobie
— unusual fear of animals
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Galician:
zoofobia
— unusual fear of animals
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Georgian:
ზოოფობია
(zoopobia)
— unusual fear of animals
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German:
Zoophobie
— unusual fear of animals
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Hebrew:
זואופוביה
— unusual fear of animals
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Indonesian:
zoofobia
— unusual fear of animals
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Italian:
zoofobia
— unusual fear of animals
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Japanese:
動物恐怖症
(dōbutsu kyōfushō)
— unusual fear of animals
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Korean:
동물공포증
(dongmulgongpojeung)
— unusual fear of animals
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Latvian:
zoofobija
— unusual fear of animals
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Macedonian:
зоофобија
(zoofobija)
— unusual fear of animals
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Persian:
جانورهراسی
(jānvarharāsī)
— unusual fear of animals
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Persian:
زوفوبیا
— unusual fear of animals
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Polish:
zoofobia
— unusual fear of animals
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Portuguese:
zoofobia
— unusual fear of animals
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Romanian:
zoofobie
— unusual fear of animals
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Russian:
зоофобия
(zoofobija)
— unusual fear of animals
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Spanish:
zoofobia
— unusual fear of animals
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Swedish:
zoofobi
— unusual fear of animals
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Thai:
อาการกลัวสัตว์
— unusual fear of animals
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Turkish:
zoofobi
— unusual fear of animals
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Ukrainian:
зоофобія
(zoofobija)
— unusual fear of animals