Usually means: Fear of being tickled by feathers.
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  1. pteronophobia: Wiktionary
  2. pteronophobia: Dictionary.com
  3. pteronophobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  4. pteronophobia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  5. pteronophobia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pteronophobia: The Phobia List

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  1. pteronophobia: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The fear of feathers.

Similar:
ornithophobia, lepidopterophobia, pterylosis, pteronarcyid, entomophobia, pterotillomania, pteryla, ornithophilia, flight feather, pteroptochid, more...

Opposite:
pteronophilia

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Similar:
ornithophobia, lepidopterophobia, pterylosis, pteronarcyid, entomophobia, pterotillomania, pteryla, ornithophilia, flight feather, pteroptochid, more...

Opposite:
pteronophilia



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