Citations:leporiphobia

fear of rabbits

• 2008 July 2, Diane Peters Mayer, Overcoming School Anxiety: How to Help Your Child Deal With Separation, Tests, Homework, Bullies, Math Phobia, and Other Worries, New York: Amacom Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 56:

  Many phobias are directed at benign objects, such as the fear of rabbits (leporiphobia); some fears are of dangerous things, such as wild animals (agrizoophobia) and tornados (lilapsophobia), or of things that cause pain, such as injections (trypanophobia); others are rare or seem strange, such as the fear of looking up (anablephobia).

• 2010 July 21, Brian Palmer, “How Do You Treat Rabbit Phobia?”, in Slate‎^[1]:

  A German student who claimed her teacher was terrified of rabbits was exonerated in a defamation suit on Tuesday when the judge determined that the teacher did, indeed, have a raging case of leporiphobia.

• 2012 February 28, Paul Grossman, Children of Wrath, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 264:

  “Don't tell me you've developed fear of rabbits?” Vicki laughed, feeling him tense. “What do they call that, leporiphobia?”

• 2012 September 27, Laurel Rausch Greshel, Amanda, Perfectly Made: A Caregiver's Journey, iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 121:

  Leporiphobia is the fear of rabbits.

• 2012 December 18, Kim Askew with Amy Helmes, Tempestuous, Blue Ash: Merit Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 217:

  My therapist has been telling me for months that exposure treatment was the only thing that would cure my leporiphobia.”
  “Come again?”
  “That's the scientific name: the paralyzing fear of bunny rabbits.”