Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

somatophobia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: so-mato-pho-bia
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Fear of the body, as opposed to mind or spirit.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The nature/culture binary that informs Western culture’s deeply embedded erotophobia and somatophobia"

Etymology

From somato- + -phobia. Coined by feminist philosopher Elizabeth Spelman.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does somatophobia mean?: Fear of the body, as opposed to mind or spirit.
Where does somatophobia come from?: From somato- + -phobia. Coined by feminist philosopher Elizabeth Spelman.

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