Word.ws English Dictionary

chemophobia

chemophobia noun: an irrational fear of chemicals.

Noun

chemophobia (uncountable)

  1. An irrational fear of chemicals
    • By chemophobia I mean an exaggerated fear of toxicity brought about by the widespread use of chemicals in food production and processing.1962, John Clifton Ayres, Chemical and Biological Hazards in Food
    • Chemophobia also means that every six months there is a "new scientific finding" about a synthetic chemical found in regular food in very low quantites that, if you ate a cargo ship or two of it every day for three years, could kill you.2018, Hans Rosling, Factfulness, page 118

chemophobia meaning in Tamil

chemophobia in Tamil

வேதி வெருளி

Origin of chemophobia

From chemo- + -phobia.

Questions about chemophobia

What does chemophobia mean?
Chemophobia means an irrational fear of chemicals.
What is chemophobia in Tamil?
Chemophobia in Tamil is வேதி வெருளி. See Chemophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chemophobia?
Chemophobia is a noun.

Words near chemophobia in the dictionary

  1. chemoperfusates
  2. chemoperfusion
  3. chemoperfusions
  4. chemophobe
  5. chemophobes
  6. chemophobia
  7. chemophobic
  8. chemophobics
  9. chemophore
  10. chemophores
  11. chemophoresis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chemophobia (page history and authors); chemophobia (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chemophobia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chemophobia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.