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haemophobia

haemophobia is the alternative spelling of hemophobia.

Meaning of hemophobia

Noun

hemophobia (usually uncountable, plural hemophobias)

  1. (usually) Fear of blood; dread or intense discomfort at the sight of blood.
    • […] there may be found practitioners of modern medicine, highly accomplished histologists, pathologists, therapeutists, etc., who, when certain acute cases confront them, evince hemophobia and eschew the lancet:1877 November, John Boyd, “Italian Medical Periodicals”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 23, page 455
    Synonyms:
    haematophobia

Origin of haemophobia

From haemo- + -phobia.

Questions about haemophobia

What is haemophobia the alternative spelling of?
Haemophobia is the alternative spelling of hemophobia.

Words near haemophobia in the dictionary

  1. haemophiliac
  2. haemophiliacs
  3. haemophilias
  4. haemophilic
  5. haemophilus
  6. haemophobia
  7. haemophore
  8. haemophores
  9. haemophthalmia
  10. haemophthalmos
  11. haemoplasma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haemophobia (page history and authors); hemophobia (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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