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dentophobia

dentophobia noun: fear of dentists or their medical procedures.

Noun

dentophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of dentists or their medical procedures.
    • Also realize that dentophobia can be a self-fulfilling prohepcy...2006, Bill Dorfman, Billion Dollar Smile: A Complete Guide to Your Extreme Smile Makeover, →ISBN, page 170
    • I've had many problems lately and I desperately need your help. First of all, I have been diagnosed with dentophobia. Because of that, I just can't bring myself to make an appointment even though I'm in terrible pain. I'm not sure if I'll need a root canal or just a filling. Please give me some...2009, Wendy Conklin, Differentiation Strategies for Language Arts, →ISBN, page 144
    Synonyms:
    odontophobia

dentophobia meaning in Tamil

dentophobia in Tamil

பல்மருத்துவ வெருளி

Examples of dentophobia in a sentence

  • First of all, I have been diagnosed with dentophobia.2009, Wendy Conklin, Differentiation Strategies for Language Arts, →ISBN, page 144:
  • That's because a visit to the dentist—if someone with dentophobia even makes it to the dentist—is likely to result in the classic fight-or-flight symptoms:...2014, Sara Latta, Scared Stiff: Everything You Need to Know about 50 Famous Phobias, →ISBN, page 67:
  • Indeed, dentophobia—the term is from the Latin word dens, meaning "tooth", and sometimes known as odontophobia...2014, Sara Latta, Scared Stiff: Everything You Need to Know about 50 Famous Phobias, →ISBN, page 67:

Synonyms of dentophobia

Origin of dentophobia

From dento- + -phobia.

Questions about dentophobia

What does dentophobia mean?
Dentophobia means fear of dentists or their medical procedures.
What is dentophobia in Tamil?
Dentophobia in Tamil is பல்மருத்துவ வெருளி. See Dentophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use dentophobia in a sentence?
First of all, I have been diagnosed with dentophobia.
What part of speech is dentophobia?
Dentophobia is a noun.

Words near dentophobia in the dictionary

  1. Denton with Wootton
  2. Dentonholme
  3. Dentons
  4. dentophobe
  5. dentophobes
  6. dentophobia
  7. dentoskeletal
  8. dentproof
  9. Dentremont
  10. dentrification
  11. dentrifier

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