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cosmophobic

cosmophobic adjective: exhibiting cosmophobia; being afraid of outer space.

Adjective

cosmophobic (comparative more cosmophobic, superlative most cosmophobic)

  1. Exhibiting cosmophobia; being afraid of outer space.
    • The cosmophobic equivalent of erotic phallophilia (male homosexuality) is erotic phallophobia, that is, the fear of homosexuality, specifically of passive homosexuality, which is closely related to androphobic shame in men.1972, Samy Mokhtar Abdel Malik, The Conquest of Cosmophobia, Roseneath Scientific Publications, →ISBN, page 314
    • This scatism shares with cosmophobic phagism the cosmophobic level of awareness, although there can be no doubt that both culturally and individually cosmophobic phagism is far more important that scatism.1974, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, Canadian Psychiatric Association., page 419

Forms of cosmophobic

comparativemore cosmophobic
superlativemost cosmophobic

Origin of cosmophobic

From cosmophobia + -ic.

Questions about cosmophobic

What does cosmophobic mean?
Cosmophobic means exhibiting cosmophobia; being afraid of outer space.
What part of speech is cosmophobic?
Cosmophobic is an adjective.

Words near cosmophobic in the dictionary

  1. cosmoparticle
  2. cosmoparticles
  3. cosmopathic
  4. cosmophenomenological
  5. cosmophobia
  6. cosmophobic
  7. cosmophysiological
  8. cosmophysiology
  9. cosmoplastic
  10. cosmopod
  11. cosmopods

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