Gamophobia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gamophobia is a noun meaning The fear of marriage.
Meaning
The fear of marriage.
Example Sentences
"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 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.
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.
Synonyms for gamophobia
Depending on context, synonyms include gametophobia.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gametophobia, anuptaphobia, tokophobia, misogamist, gamomaniac, commitmentphobia.
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