Word.ws English Dictionary

sissyphobia

sissyphobia noun: a prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.

Noun

sissyphobia (uncountable)

  1. A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.
    • Although a cultural reaction has begun to set in, sissyphobia still dominates present societal thinking which regards with diffidence most sensitivity, creativity, tender demeanor and confidingly close same-sex friendships in males.1974, John F. Oliven, Clinical sexuality: a manual for the physician and the professions
    • I have built my model from feminist tenets because, although as Doyle (1983), Herek (1987) and others have noted, sissyphobia is derived via projection from both misogyny and from homophobia[…]1993, Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger, Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader, page 164

Origin of sissyphobia

From sissy + -phobia.

Questions about sissyphobia

What does sissyphobia mean?
Sissyphobia means a prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.
What part of speech is sissyphobia?
Sissyphobia is a noun.

Words near sissyphobia in the dictionary

  1. sissyhon
  2. sissying
  3. sissyish
  4. sissyism
  5. sissyness
  6. sissyphobia
  7. sissyphobic
  8. sist
  9. sista
  10. sistagirl
  11. sistagirls

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sissyphobia (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sissyphobia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sissyphobia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.