gonophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This, in my opinion, was a true case of gonophobia, fostered and encouraged by a druggist for financial reasons."
- "Sexual fear with regard to the woman may assume various modalities which disguise it from the instinct itself; the most frequent are syphilophobia and gonophobia, and also the suspicion of being deceived, of being made a cuckold,..."
- "Not uncommonly the constantly recurring vaginal discharge, or the non-gonococcal urethritis in the male has led to the development of a gonophobia."
- "Symptomatology had first been noted during an Ob-Gyn rotation, when flushing, blushing, gonophobia, and sympathetic labor pains and hot flashes occurred."
Etymology
From gonorrhoea + -phobia.