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cherophobia

cherophobia noun: aversion to being happy.

Noun

cherophobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) aversion to being happy
    • She clasped her hands tightly around my back and said, 'Sorry I spoke to you like that. I'm frightened, that's all. In psychology it's called cherophobia — fear of happiness. I'm afraid of getting hurt. Promise me you'll never leave me.'2013, Ma Jian, Beijing Coma, page 128
    Synonyms:
    hedonophobia

cherophobia meaning in Tamil and Arabic

cherophobia in Tamil

களிப்பச்சம், களிப்பு வெருளி, உவகையச்சம்

cherophobia in Arabic

Translations
شِيرُوفُوبِيَا šīrūfūbiyā, رُهَاب السَّعَادَةُ ruhāb as-saʕādatu

Synonyms of cherophobia

Origin of cherophobia

From Ancient Greek χαρά (khará) + -o- + -phobia.

Questions about cherophobia

What does cherophobia mean?
Cherophobia means aversion to being happy.
What is cherophobia in Tamil?
Cherophobia in Tamil is களிப்பச்சம், களிப்பு வெருளி, உவகையச்சம். See Cherophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cherophobia?
Cherophobia is a noun.

Words near cherophobia in the dictionary

  1. Cherokees
  2. cherological
  3. cherology
  4. cheroot
  5. cheroots
  6. cherophobia
  7. cherpumple
  8. cherpumples
  9. Cherrapunji
  10. Cherrett
  11. Cherri

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cherophobia (page history and authors); cherophobia (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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