odontophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Odontophobia, or the fear of dental work, seems equally plausible, as does pentheraphobia - fear of the mother-in-law."
- "In fact, in dentistry, there is often a widespread condition of odontophobia among patients."
- "People with dentophobia, also called odontophobia, have a fear of dentists. Someone with dentophobia may have extreme anxiety at the thought of going to the dentist or while in the dentist’s office."
Etymology
From odonto- + -phobia.