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erotophobia

erotophobia noun: fear of sex; negative attitudes towards sex.

Noun

erotophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of sex; negative attitudes towards sex
    • At heart The Devil's Playground is about repression vs. personal integrity and freedom. Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good.1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 12

erotophobia meaning in Tamil and Bengali

erotophobia in Tamil

பாலுறவு வெறுப்பு

erotophobia in Bengali

যৌন মিলনের প্রতি ভীতি, যৌনতা সম্পর্কে নেতিবাচক মনোভাব

Antonyms of erotophobia

Origin of erotophobia

From eroto- + -phobia.

Words that rhyme with erotophobia

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Questions about erotophobia

What does erotophobia mean?
Erotophobia means fear of sex; negative attitudes towards sex.
What is erotophobia in Tamil?
Erotophobia in Tamil is பாலுறவு வெறுப்பு. See Erotophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is erotophobia?
Erotophobia is a noun.

Words near erotophobia in the dictionary

  1. erotopathy
  2. erotophilia
  3. erotophilic
  4. erotophobe
  5. erotophobes
  6. erotophobia
  7. erotophobic
  8. erotophonophile
  9. erotophonophiles
  10. erotophonophilia
  11. erotosexual

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Adapted from Wiktionary: erotophobia (page history and authors); erotophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); erotophobia (Bengali 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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