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tokophobic

tokophobic adjective: having or relating to tokophobia.

Adjective

tokophobic (comparative more tokophobic, superlative most tokophobic)

  1. Having or relating to tokophobia.
    • […]Kristina Hofberg, Britain’s “leading expert on the syndrome,” who claims that just thinking about birth can make tokophobic women anxious.2002, Jessica Autumn Brown, In Praise of Good Breeding: Pronatalism and Immigration in the British Print Media, page 56
    • Interestingly, a 2008 British study found that almost half of pregnant women who request a Caesarean section do so because they have a genuine fear of childbirth. In fact, it’s estimated that one in seven women may be tokophobic. It’s thanks to all those damned horror stories from our dear, beloved...2009, Neil Humphreys, “The Third Trimester”, in Be My Baby: On the Road to Fatherhood, Marshall Cavendish, page 171

Examples of tokophobic in a sentence

  • In fact, it’s estimated that one in seven women may be tokophobic.2009, Neil Humphreys, “The Third Trimester”, in Be My Baby: On the Road to Fatherhood, Marshall Cavendish, page 171:
  • In framing her birth story in this way, Beyoncé veered away from the tokophobic assumptions that have normalized pain avoidance as a customary part of birth culture.2016, Natalie Jolly, “Birthing Baby Blue: Beyoncé and the Changing Face of Celebrity Birth Culture”, in Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, editor, The...

Forms of tokophobic

comparativemore tokophobic
superlativemost tokophobic
alternative formtocophobic

Questions about tokophobic

What does tokophobic mean?
Tokophobic means having or relating to tokophobia.
How do you use tokophobic in a sentence?
In fact, it’s estimated that one in seven women may be tokophobic.
What part of speech is tokophobic?
Tokophobic is an adjective.

Words near tokophobic in the dictionary

  1. tokonomas
  2. tokopat
  3. tokophobe
  4. tokophobes
  5. tokophobia
  6. tokophobic
  7. Tokoroa
  8. tokorogenin
  9. tokoronin
  10. tokoroten
  11. Tokorozawa

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