syphilophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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,..."
- "Similarly, testing groups that are already socially marginal can further exacerbate syphilophobia as well as the existing prejudices against these groups."
- "Part of the answer lies in the wave of “syphilophobia” that engulfed the country during the 1930s and 1940s."
Etymology
From syphilo- + -phobia.