ZOOPHOBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zoophobia mean? 

• ZOOPHOBIA (noun)
  The noun ZOOPHOBIA has 1 sense:

1. a morbid fear of animals

  Familiarity information: ZOOPHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZOOPHOBIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A morbid fear of animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("zoophobia" is a kind of...):

simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zoophobia"):

acarophobia (a morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms)

arachnophobia (a morbid fear of spiders)

ailurophobia (a morbid fear of cats)

cynophobia (a morbid fear of dogs)

entomophobia (a morbid fear of insects)

lepidophobia (a morbid fear of snakes)

musophobia (a morbid fear of mice)