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grammatophobia

grammatophobia noun: an aversion to grammar.

Noun

grammatophobia (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, rare) An aversion to grammar.
    • Grammatophobia. Now what is the problem that the American child is confronted with in his study of grammar? It is this: he is called upon to explain things he knows in terms of things he does not know […]1915, School and Home Education, volume 34, page 255
    • It was a clear case of what might be termed grammatophobia. I concluded he needed the grammatical rest-cure, and therefore omitted English from his first year at the High School.1917, Collected and bound, volume 2, page 371

Origin of grammatophobia

From grammato- + -phobia.

Questions about grammatophobia

What does grammatophobia mean?
Grammatophobia means an aversion to grammar.
What part of speech is grammatophobia?
Grammatophobia is a noun.

Words near grammatophobia in the dictionary

  1. grammatologist
  2. grammatologists
  3. grammatology
  4. grammatonomic
  5. grammatonomy
  6. grammatophobia
  7. grammatoxin
  8. grammaw
  9. grammaws
  10. gramme
  11. gramme atom

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