failure: See these words alychiphobia, atychiphobia, cacorrhaphiaphobia, kakorraphiaphobia
fainting: See asthenophobia
family members: See these words ecomania, ecophobia, soceraphobia, syngenescophobia, patroiophobia, pentheraphobia
fat, weight: See these words adipomania, adipophobia, barophobia, lipophobia, obesophobia
fatigue, exhaustion: See kopophobia, ponophobia
fear (some specific kinds): See counterphobia, panophobia, pantophobia, paraphobia, phobia, phobiology, phobogenic, phobologophobia, phobophobia, polyphobia
fearless: See hypophobia, pantaphobia
feathers: See alektorophobia, pteronomania, pteronophobia
febriphobia: An excessive fear of having a fever.
feces: See copromania, coprophobia
felinomania: An overly enthusiastic desire to have many cats around.
Ignorant people think it's the noise
which fighting cats make that is so aggravating,
but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.
-Mark Twain
Cats don't caress us—they caress
themselves on us.
-Rivarol
felinophobia: An abnormal fear or dread of cats; often with some justification.
The scenes shown here represent an actual attack by a cat upon a postwoman in Germany whenever she tried to deliver the mail. This situation was discussed on German TV, in early 2002, while in the home of the man with his cat on his lap; and when the postal woman tried to pet the cat, it struck out at her with its claws.
The owner of the cat had to pick up his mail at a neighborhood bar because he refused to restrict the freedom of his cat to come and go whenever it wanted to do so. The postal department also refused to deliver mail to his house under such dangerous circumstances.
