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gamophobia

gamophobia noun: the fear of marriage.

Noun

gamophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of marriage.
    • He has on him a perpetual gamophobia, and an instinctive antipathy to births and marriages, which makes him carefully avoid that part of the newspapers in which they so constantly appear.1808, Edward Dubois, Fashionable Biography; or, Specimens of Public Characters by a Connoisseur, W. Lewis, page xlv
    • "I've got gamophobia," Anne said. "That's fear of marriage. I should've gotten it a lot sooner. My marriages had the shelf life of buttermilk."1997, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, Random House, published 1997, →ISBN, page 243
    Synonyms:
    gametophobia

Synonyms of gamophobia

Origin of gamophobia

From gamo- + -phobia.

Questions about gamophobia

What does gamophobia mean?
Gamophobia means the fear of marriage.
What part of speech is gamophobia?
Gamophobia is a noun.

Words near gamophobia in the dictionary

  1. gamonts
  2. gamopetalous
  3. gamopetaly
  4. gamophobe
  5. gamophobes
  6. gamophobia
  7. gamophobic
  8. gamophyllous
  9. gamophylly
  10. gamophyte
  11. gamophytes

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