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vaccinophobia

vaccinophobia noun: a fear of or aversion to the practice of vaccination.

Noun

vaccinophobia (uncountable)

  1. A fear of or aversion to the practice of vaccination.
    • It was only subsequently that the class of persons affected with vaccinophobia made their appearance, claiming that vaccine is the direst of misfortunes, since it presents a natural and fatal evil, one which neither the Divine nor the human law gives us the right to oppose.1883 December, Thos. Layton, “Translations: Lacto-Variolic Inoculation”, in The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal (New Series), volume 11, New Orleans: L. Graham & Son, page 465

vaccinophobia meaning in Tamil

vaccinophobia in Tamil

அம்மைத்தடுப்பூசி வெருளி

Origin of vaccinophobia

From vaccine + -o- + -phobia.

Questions about vaccinophobia

What does vaccinophobia mean?
Vaccinophobia means a fear of or aversion to the practice of vaccination.
What is vaccinophobia in Tamil?
Vaccinophobia in Tamil is அம்மைத்தடுப்பூசி வெருளி. See Vaccinophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vaccinophobia?
Vaccinophobia is a noun.

Words near vaccinophobia in the dictionary

  1. vaccinologists
  2. vaccinology
  3. vaccinomics
  4. vaccinophobe
  5. vaccinophobes
  6. vaccinophobia
  7. vaccinophobic
  8. vaccinosis
  9. vaccinostyle
  10. vaccinostyles
  11. vaccinotherapy

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