paleophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The aversion to certain foods forming part of a diet associated with an earlier nutritional deficiency or other illness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The neophilia of thiamine-deficient rats could be a direct consequence of a specific aversion for familiar deficient diet (paleophobia). On the other hand, it is also possible that a true neophilia exists along with the paleophobia."