Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

incestophobia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-ces-to-pho-bia
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Fear, dislike or hatred of incest.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Meaningful discriminations on the basis of age ("pedophobia"), genetics ("incestophobia"), species ("zoophobia") and yes, sex ("homophobia")"
"In light of this, why shouldn't we repent of our incestophobia and dogophobia?"
"[…] attribute the opposition to incest to a phobia--but not the same phobia. great. we'll call it incestophobia and move on. i thought that presented a problem for a poster who was describing opponents of gay marriage as "phobes" but himself"

Etymology

From incest + -o- + -phobia.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does incestophobia mean?: Fear, dislike or hatred of incest.
Where does incestophobia come from?: From incest + -o- + -phobia.

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