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n. - A morbid fear of mice.

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  • While AVP2 upped the bar in approximating the Aliens experience, the main emotion felt was the same exaggerated musophobia.
  • The aliens in the Doom mods scared you the way a rat that crawls across the floor would scare someone with an extreme case of musophobia.
  • In each case, I leave it to the reader to supply the words "fear of." acarophobia mites, parasites entonophobia ticks aelurophobia cats galeophobia sharks apiophobia bees...
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