pteronophobia

pteronophobia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “feather”) + -phobia.

Noun

pteronophobia (uncountable)

1. The fear of feathers.
   • 1986, Brent Filson, There's a Monster in Your Closet!: Understanding Phobias, Julius Messner (1986), →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.

   • 1989, Josie Hadley & Carol Staudacher, Hypnosis for Change, New Harbinger Publications (1989), →ISBN, page 98:

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

   • 2005, Anna Dale, Dawn Undercover, Bloomsbury (2006), →ISBN, page 291:

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

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:pteronophobia.