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somatophobia

somatophobia noun: fear of the body, as opposed to mind or spirit.

Noun

somatophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of the body, as opposed to mind or spirit.
    • The nature/culture binary that informs Western culture’s deeply embedded erotophobia and somatophobia2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment

Origin of somatophobia

From somato- + -phobia. Coined by feminist philosopher Elizabeth Spelman.

Questions about somatophobia

What does somatophobia mean?
Somatophobia means fear of the body, as opposed to mind or spirit.
What part of speech is somatophobia?
Somatophobia is a noun.

Words near somatophobia in the dictionary

  1. somatopathies
  2. somatopathy
  3. somatopause
  4. somatoperception
  5. somatoperceptual
  6. somatophobia
  7. somatophrenia
  8. somatophylakes
  9. somatophylax
  10. somatoplasm
  11. somatoplasms

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