Catagelophobia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Catagelophobia is a noun meaning Fear of being ridiculed.
Meaning
Fear of being ridiculed.
Example Sentences
In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include katagelophobia, galeophobia, gelotophobe, gatophobia, lalophobia, doxophobia.
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