Tom suffers from cynophobia.
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Cynophobia
//ˌsaɪnəˈfoʊbi.ə//
Synonyms for "cynophobia" (1 found)
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20 translations across 16 languages.
Danish
1 entries- kynofobi noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Dutch
2 entries- canofobie noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
- kynofobie noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Esperanto
2 entries- cinofobio noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
- hundofobio noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
French
1 entries- cynophobie noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
German
3 entries- Canophobie noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
- Hundeangst noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
- Kynophobie noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Indonesian
1 entries- sinofobia noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Italian
1 entries- cinofobia noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kinofobija noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Malay
1 entries- kinofobia noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kynofobi noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kynofobi noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Polish
1 entries- kynofobia noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Portuguese
1 entries- cinofobia noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Spanish
1 entries- cinofobia noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Swedish
1 entries- kynofobi noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Turkish
1 entries- kinofobi noun (an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines)
Sample sentences
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Taffy's cynophobia, expressed in spitting, growling, melancholy miauling, served to ease the awkwardness of greeting between unprepared hostess and uninvited guest.
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This finding has significant implications for the study of cynophobia, since one would expect from the classical conditioning model of fear that a dog bite should have a lasting negative impact on a child's attitude toward dogs.
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