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metathesiophobia

metathesiophobia noun: the persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change.

Noun

metathesiophobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change.
    • Then, metathesiophobia, fear of change.2007, Susan Vaught, Big Fat Manifesto, →ISBN, page 145
    • There is a related fear, metathesiophobia, the fear of change.2008, Gérald Zaltman, Lindsay H. Zaltman, Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers, →ISBN, page 4

metathesiophobia meaning in Tamil

metathesiophobia in Tamil

மாற்றவெருளி

Origin of metathesiophobia

See metathesis and -phobia.

Questions about metathesiophobia

What does metathesiophobia mean?
Metathesiophobia means the persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change.
What is metathesiophobia in Tamil?
Metathesiophobia in Tamil is மாற்றவெருளி. See Metathesiophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is metathesiophobia?
Metathesiophobia is a noun.

Words near metathesiophobia in the dictionary

  1. metatherians
  2. metathesauri
  3. metathesaurus
  4. metathesauruses
  5. metatheses
  6. metathesiophobia
  7. metathesis
  8. metathesise
  9. metathesised
  10. metathesises
  11. metathesising

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