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sophophobia

UK/sɒfəˈfəʊbɪə/

sophophobia noun: the fear of learning.

Noun

sophophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of learning.
    • Washington insiders should note that the new Presidential Advisory Council is the Administration’s second effort to form an advisory group. When one of the Administration’s staffers reviewed the original list of committee nominees, the President was informed that two of the nominees had already...1995, July 24th: mary.elizabeth, sci.med.aids (Google group): From the Editor, 8:00am
    • Yeah, I’ve learned to downplay the “edgykashun” angle here. Especially since the vast majority of mine was obtained outside Oklahoma, where I might have been exposed to dangerous outside ideas.
      Fortunately, my experience in ‛Bama taught me to recognize the symptoms of sophophobia, so I have learned...2001, December 11th: Robert Knowles, ok.general (Google group): BumbleFrank Goes on Bended Knee, 10:36pm

sophophobia meaning in Tamil

sophophobia in Tamil

கற்றல் வெருளி

Examples of sophophobia in a sentence

  • You’d better concentrate on your own case of sophophobia, Justin, and stop worryin whether Halle Jackson’s got a fear of sexual intercourse.”2004, H.W. Benjamin, Mamasense, page 274:
  • That fear is right up there with sophophobia — fear of learning.2006, Albert R Koch, Help Mom with the Dishes: Lessons from Life’s Classroom, page 26:

Origin of sophophobia

From sopho- + -phobia; compare phobosophy

Questions about sophophobia

What does sophophobia mean?
Sophophobia means the fear of learning.
What is sophophobia in Tamil?
Sophophobia in Tamil is கற்றல் வெருளி. See Sophophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use sophophobia in a sentence?
You’d better concentrate on your own case of sophophobia, Justin, and stop worryin whether Halle Jackson’s got a fear of sexual intercourse.”
What part of speech is sophophobia?
Sophophobia is a noun.
How do you pronounce sophophobia?
Sophophobia is pronounced /sɒfəˈfəʊbɪə/ (UK).

Words near sophophobia in the dictionary

  1. Sophonisba
  2. sophonsified
  3. sophonsify
  4. sophont
  5. sophonts
  6. sophophobia
  7. sophophoran
  8. sophophorans
  9. sophora
  10. sophorabioside
  11. sophoraceous

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