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syphiliphobia

syphiliphobia is the alternative form of syphilophobia.

Meaning of syphilophobia

Noun

syphilophobia (countable and uncountable, plural syphilophobias)

  1. A morbid fear of syphilis.
    • Sexual fear with regard to the woman may assume various modalities which disguise it from the instinct itself; the most frequent are syphilophobia and gonophobia, and also the suspicion of being deceived, of being made a cuckold,...1932, Gregorio Marañón, The evolution of sex and intersexual conditions, page 190

Forms of syphiliphobia

pluralsyphiliphobias

Questions about syphiliphobia

What is syphiliphobia the alternative form of?
Syphiliphobia is the alternative form of syphilophobia.

Words near syphiliphobia in the dictionary

  1. syphilides
  2. syphilidologist
  3. syphilidologists
  4. syphilidology
  5. syphilids
  6. syphiliphobia
  7. syphiliphobias
  8. syphilis
  9. syphilisation
  10. syphilisations
  11. syphilise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syphiliphobia (page history and authors); syphilophobia (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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