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catagelophobia

catagelophobia noun: fear of being ridiculed.

Noun

catagelophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of being ridiculed
    • In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of...2001 December, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in The Atlantic Monthly

catagelophobia meaning in Tamil

catagelophobia in Tamil

ஏளன வெருளி, பகடியச்சம், எள்ளலச்சம்

Forms of catagelophobia

alternative formkatagelophobia

Origin of catagelophobia

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰγελᾰ́ω (kătăgelắō, “to ridicule, mock, jeer”) + -phobia

Questions about catagelophobia

What does catagelophobia mean?
Catagelophobia means fear of being ridiculed.
What is catagelophobia in Tamil?
Catagelophobia in Tamil is ஏளன வெருளி, பகடியச்சம், எள்ளலச்சம். See Catagelophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is catagelophobia?
Catagelophobia is a noun.

Words near catagelophobia in the dictionary

  1. catafalque
  2. catafalques
  3. catafront
  4. catafronts
  5. Catagbacan
  6. catagelophobia
  7. catagen
  8. catagenesis
  9. catagenetic
  10. catagenetically
  11. catagenic

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