What does pteronophobia mean?
Pteronophobia means The fear of feathers..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The fear of feathers..
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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Pteronophobia means The fear of feathers..
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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.
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