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lipophobia

lipophobia noun: a fear of dietary fat.

Noun

lipophobia (uncountable)

  1. A fear of dietary fat.
    • The new generation avoided fixed itineraries, stayed in cheap hotels or hostels, and (unaffected by the lipophobia of later generations) lived on bread, cheese, and paté.1998, Harvey A Levenstein, Seductive journey: American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age
    • The most audacious example of chicken meat being used to position a company comes with Kentucky Fried Chicken's rebirth as KFC in 1993; the primary purpose of which was to lose its image as the 'fried food king'. Once again, both the 1980s lipophobia movement and the broad consumer movement can...2002, Jane Dixon, The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture

lipophobia meaning in Tamil

lipophobia in Tamil

கொழுப்பு வெருளி

Examples of lipophobia in a sentence

  • Once again, both the 1980s lipophobia movement and the broad consumer movement can claim the credit.2002, Jane Dixon, The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture:
  • They can be as prone to lipophobia (the irrational fear of fat) as the population as a whole.2012, Ellyn Satter, How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not Too Much, page 135:

Origin of lipophobia

From lipo- + -phobia.

Questions about lipophobia

What does lipophobia mean?
Lipophobia means a fear of dietary fat.
What is lipophobia in Tamil?
Lipophobia in Tamil is கொழுப்பு வெருளி. See Lipophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use lipophobia in a sentence?
Once again, both the 1980s lipophobia movement and the broad consumer movement can claim the credit.
What part of speech is lipophobia?
Lipophobia is a noun.

Words near lipophobia in the dictionary

  1. lipophiles
  2. lipophilia
  3. lipophilic
  4. lipophilicities
  5. lipophilicity
  6. lipophobia
  7. lipophobic
  8. lipophobicity
  9. lipophore
  10. lipophores
  11. lipophorin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lipophobia (page history and authors); lipophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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