Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

genophobe

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: geno-phobe
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse

Example Sentences

"Genophobes have been informed about the birds and the bees, but they don’t like (or aren’t cocksure about) what they’ve heard and tend to go catatonic when beyond the platonic."
"Like what happens when the genophobes try to censor video rental stores. THEN people get outraged. And say fuck off."
"I do think that genophobes like "Anna", and misanthropes like "Zee" are in the minority, zealots who decry any form of sexual expression that is not behind a locked door with the lights out and the covers pulled all the way up."

Etymology

From geno- + -phobe.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: geno
Suffix: phobe

Inflected Forms

genophobes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

genophobia celibacist prude puritan erotophobe antisexualist

Questions

What does genophobe mean?: A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse
Where does genophobe come from?: From geno- + -phobe.

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