What does gamophobia mean?
Gamophobia means The fear of marriage..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The fear of marriage..
He has on him a perpetual gamophobia, and an instinctive antipathy to births and marriages, which makes him carefully avoid that part of the newspapers in which they so constantly appear.
"I've got gamophobia," Anne said. "That's fear of marriage. I should've gotten it a lot sooner. My marriages had the shelf life of buttermilk."
He explained that a recent University of Indiana study indicated that almost twice as many men as women had gamophobia, fear of marriage, but that almost twice as many women as men had genophobia, fear of sex.
Use gamophobia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gamophobia means The fear of marriage..
Common synonyms include gametophobia.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He has on him a perpetual gamophobia, and an instinctive antipathy to births and marriages, which makes him carefully avoid that part of the newspapers in which they so constantly appear.
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