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homonymphobia

homonymphobia is the alternative form of homonymophobia.

Meaning of homonymophobia

Noun

homonymophobia (uncountable)

  1. The tendency of speakers of a language to choose a different word in order to avoid a homonym that threatens to cause confusion.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:homonymophobia.

Origin of homonymphobia

From homonym + -phobia.

Questions about homonymphobia

What is homonymphobia the alternative form of?
Homonymphobia is the alternative form of homonymophobia.

Words near homonymphobia in the dictionary

  1. homonymies
  2. homonymity
  3. homonymophobia
  4. homonymous
  5. homonymously
  6. homonymphobia
  7. homonyms
  8. homonymy
  9. homooctamer
  10. homooctameric
  11. homooctamers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homonymphobia (page history and authors); homonymophobia (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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