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katagelophobia

katagelophobia is the alternative spelling of catagelophobia.

Meaning of catagelophobia

Noun

catagelophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of being ridiculed
    • In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of...2001 December, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in The Atlantic Monthly

Questions about katagelophobia

What is katagelophobia the alternative spelling of?
Katagelophobia is the alternative spelling of catagelophobia.

Words near katagelophobia in the dictionary

  1. katagelastic
  2. katagelasticism
  3. katagelasticist
  4. katagelasticists
  5. katagelasts
  6. katagelophobia
  7. katagenesis
  8. katagenetic
  9. Katagiri
  10. katah
  11. katahar

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