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cancerphobia

cancerphobia noun: an inordinate dread of developing cancer.

Noun

cancerphobia (uncountable)

  1. An inordinate dread of developing cancer.
    Synonyms:
    carcinophobia

cancerphobia meaning in Tamil

cancerphobia in Tamil

புற்றுநோயச்சம், புற்றச்சம்

Synonyms of cancerphobia

Forms of cancerphobia

alternative formcancerophobia

Origin of cancerphobia

From cancer + -phobia.

Words that rhyme with cancerphobia

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Questions about cancerphobia

What does cancerphobia mean?
Cancerphobia means an inordinate dread of developing cancer.
What is cancerphobia in Tamil?
Cancerphobia in Tamil is புற்றுநோயச்சம், புற்றச்சம். See Cancerphobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cancerphobia?
Cancerphobia is a noun.

Words near cancerphobia in the dictionary

  1. cancerous
  2. cancerously
  3. cancerousness
  4. cancerphobe
  5. cancerphobes
  6. cancerphobia
  7. cancerphobic
  8. cancers
  9. CancerTok
  10. cancervative
  11. cancervatives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cancerphobia (page history and authors); cancerphobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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