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doxophobia

doxophobia noun: a fear of expressing one's opinion.

Noun

doxophobia (uncountable)

  1. A fear of expressing one's opinion.
    • In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of...2001 December, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in Michael Kelly, editor, The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC
  2. A fear of being praised.

doxophobia meaning in Tamil

doxophobia in Tamil

புகழ்ச்சி வெருளி

Origin of doxophobia

From Ancient Greek δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”) + English -phobia.

Questions about doxophobia

What does doxophobia mean?
Doxophobia means a fear of expressing one's opinion.
What is doxophobia in Tamil?
Doxophobia in Tamil is புகழ்ச்சி வெருளி. See Doxophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is doxophobia?
Doxophobia is a noun.

Words near doxophobia in the dictionary

  1. doxologized
  2. doxologizes
  3. doxologizing
  4. doxology
  5. Doxon
  6. doxophobia
  7. doxophylline
  8. doxorubicin
  9. doxorubicinol
  10. doxorubicinone
  11. doxorubicins

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