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tokophobe

tokophobe noun: one who has tokophobia.

Noun

tokophobe (plural tokophobes)

  1. One who has tokophobia.
    • tocophobe (tō´kō fōb´) A woman who dreads childbirth—or her husband who does also, for that matter. Most tocophobes have not yet had a child and are apprehensive about the graduation ceremony from being a unigravida. Some are already mothers but still (with good reason) dread labor pains. A...[1986, David Grambs, Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe Life’s Indescribable People, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 124
    • [Kristina] Hofberg separates sufferers into two categories: primary tokophobes, who fear childbirth before pregnancy, and secondary ones, whose fear is ignited by a traumatic birth. […] Some tokophobes think they will die; others imagine something unbearable happening.2010 March 4, Jessie Hewitson, “'I have a phobia of pregnancy'”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2014

Forms of tokophobe

pluraltokophobes

Origin of tokophobe

From toko- + -phobe.

Questions about tokophobe

What does tokophobe mean?
Tokophobe means one who has tokophobia.
What part of speech is tokophobe?
Tokophobe is a noun.
What is the plural of tokophobe?
The plural of tokophobe is tokophobes.

Words near tokophobe in the dictionary

  1. tokomaks
  2. Tokomaru
  3. tokonoma
  4. tokonomas
  5. tokopat
  6. tokophobe
  7. tokophobes
  8. tokophobia
  9. tokophobic
  10. Tokoroa
  11. tokorogenin

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