A person who fears or dislikes cats; someone with an aversion to cats.
From feline plus the Greek suffix -phobe (from phobos, meaning fear). Created to mirror felinophile and follow the pattern of other -phobe words like arachnophobe (one who fears spiders).
While ailurophobe is the more common term for cat-fear, felinophobe is the logical scientific counterpart to felinophile—they're mirror opposites, showing how ancient Greek word-parts let us build opposite meanings.
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