Gonophobia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gonophobia is a noun meaning An excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.
Meaning
An excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.
Example Sentences
This, in my opinion, was a true case of gonophobia, fostered and encouraged by a druggist for financial reasons.
Not uncommonly the constantly recurring vaginal discharge, or the non-gonococcal urethritis in the male has led to the development of a gonophobia.
Symptomatology had first been noted during an Ob-Gyn rotation, when flushing, blushing, gonophobia, and sympathetic labor pains and hot flashes occurred.
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,.
Word Forms
- gonophobias
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include germophobia, spermatophobia, pathophobia, gelotophobia, monopathophobia, odynophobia.
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