carnophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Unlike the ascetic idealists Emerson and Thoreau, Melville abandoned Pauline-Christian carnophobia and accepted man's body as part of his essential being."
- "Carnophobia Anyone? About Eating Meat. Meat is a dead food. Not because the animal is no longer alive, but because meat is a "fiberless" food."
- "Such carnophobia aside, the aliens were surely right to be puzzled. Thinking meat, dreaming meat, conscious meat, meat that understands. It seems unlikely, to say the least."
- "‘He seems to have an aversion to telling the truth.’ ‘And an aversion to meat so he told me when I finally caught up with him.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘He suffers from Carnophobia. The fear of meat.’ ‘You're kidding?’ ‘No. I looked it up. It exists all right but whether Nugent really suffers from it is another matter. I went to his flat. Had the devil of a job getting him to come to the door, but when I bellowed through the letterbox and asked him to look through the window he recognized me and let me in.’"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin