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tocophobia

tocophobia is the alternative spelling of tokophobia.

Meaning of tokophobia

Noun

tokophobia (uncountable)

  1. A morbid fear of childbirth or pregnancy.
    • As soon as Dr Guy Glass cured Rebecca of her tokophobia, the place would be full of children.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 200

Questions about tocophobia

What is tocophobia the alternative spelling of?
Tocophobia is the alternative spelling of tokophobia.

Words near tocophobia in the dictionary

  1. tocopherolquinones
  2. tocopherols
  3. tocophersolan
  4. tocopheryl
  5. tocopheryls
  6. tocophobia
  7. tocophobic
  8. Tocopilla
  9. tocoquinone
  10. tocoquinones
  11. tocororo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tocophobia (page history and authors); tokophobia (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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