Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pharmacophobia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phar-ma-co-pho-bia
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The irrational fear or avoidance of a medicine, or of medicines in general.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Suggest a dinner-pill or a seidlitz powder, and his face is convulsed with a fanatical pharmacophobia! His soul abhors the doing of such profane violence to the processes of nature!"
"Summary: Five cases are described in which fear of the possibly hazardous effects of giving amphotericin to patients with kidney disease resulted in death from a progressive infection by an amphotericin-sensitive fungus ([…])."
"2005, I. Sibitz et al, “Pharmacophilia and Pharmacophobia: Determinants of Patients’ Attitudes towards Antipsychotic Medication”, in Pharmacopsychiatry, Thieme Medical Publishers, pages 38: 107–112."

Etymology

From pharmaco- + -phobia.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pharmaco
Suffix: phobia

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does pharmacophobia mean?: The irrational fear or avoidance of a medicine, or of medicines in general.
Where does pharmacophobia come from?: From pharmaco- + -phobia.

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