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papyrophobia

papyrophobia noun: fear or hatred of paper.

Noun

papyrophobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Fear or hatred of paper.
    • Of this papyrophobia... I was cured long ago.1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science, volume I, page 281

papyrophobia meaning in Tamil

papyrophobia in Tamil

தாள் வெருளி

Origin of papyrophobia

From papyro- + -phobia (“fear, loathing”), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros, “papyrus, paper”).

Words that rhyme with papyrophobia

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Questions about papyrophobia

What does papyrophobia mean?
Papyrophobia means fear or hatred of paper.
What is papyrophobia in Tamil?
Papyrophobia in Tamil is தாள் வெருளி. See Papyrophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is papyrophobia?
Papyrophobia is a noun.

Words near papyrophobia in the dictionary

  1. papyrologies
  2. papyrologist
  3. papyrologists
  4. papyrology
  5. papyrophilia
  6. papyrophobia
  7. papyropolist
  8. papyropolists
  9. papyros
  10. papyrotamia
  11. papyrotint

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Adapted from Wiktionary: papyrophobia (page history and authors); papyrophobia (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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