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gonophobia

gonophobia noun: an excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.

Noun

gonophobia (countable and uncountable, plural gonophobias)

  1. An excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.
    • This, in my opinion, was a true case of gonophobia, fostered and encouraged by a druggist for financial reasons.1899, Medical Art and Indianapolis Medical Journal - Volume 2, page 50
    • Sexual fear with regard to the woman may assume various modalities which disguise it from the instinct itself; the most frequent are syphilophobia and gonophobia, and also the suspicion of being deceived, of being made a cuckold,...1932, Gregorio Marañón, The evolution of sex and intersexual conditions, page 190

Examples of gonophobia in a sentence

  • Not uncommonly the constantly recurring vaginal discharge, or the non-gonococcal urethritis in the male has led to the development of a gonophobia.1961, Ralph Campbell Lindsay Batchelor, Marjorie Murrell, A short manual of venereal diseases and treponematosis, page 223:
  • Symptomatology had first been noted during an Ob-Gyn rotation, when flushing, blushing, gonophobia, and sympathetic labor pains and hot flashes occurred.1980, The Caducean, page 151:

Forms of gonophobia

pluralgonophobias

Origin of gonophobia

From gonorrhoea + -phobia.

Questions about gonophobia

What does gonophobia mean?
Gonophobia means an excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.
How do you use gonophobia in a sentence?
Not uncommonly the constantly recurring vaginal discharge, or the non-gonococcal urethritis in the male has led to the development of a gonophobia.
What part of speech is gonophobia?
Gonophobia is a noun.
What is the plural of gonophobia?
The plural of gonophobia is gonophobias.

Words near gonophobia in the dictionary

  1. gonolek
  2. gonoleks
  3. gonomeric
  4. gonomery
  5. gonoph
  6. gonophobia
  7. gonophobias
  8. gonophore
  9. gonophores
  10. gonophs
  11. gonoplasm

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