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cinephobia

cinephobia noun: the fear or hatred of films and the cinema.

Noun

cinephobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear or hatred of films and the cinema.
    • Straud/Hulliet's insistence upon the use of direct sound ... is a very radical example of ... "cinephobia, a revulsion against the commercial film industry and its standard product, the fictional narrative film" (Elsaesser 1996, 25)[.]2001, C. M. White, Gender and the German Autumn
    Antonyms:
    cinephilia

Antonyms of cinephobia

Origin of cinephobia

From cine- + -phobia.

Questions about cinephobia

What does cinephobia mean?
Cinephobia means the fear or hatred of films and the cinema.
What part of speech is cinephobia?
Cinephobia is a noun.

Words near cinephobia in the dictionary

  1. cinephiles
  2. cinephilia
  3. cinephilias
  4. cinephilic
  5. cinephobe
  6. cinephobia
  7. cinephotographer
  8. cinephotographers
  9. cinephotographic
  10. cinephotographically
  11. cinephotography

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