ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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,.

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Related dictionary entries include germophobia, spermatophobia, pathophobia, gelotophobia, monopathophobia, odynophobia.

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