Meanings
- uncountableThe fear of marriage.
"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."
1997, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, Random House, published 1997, →ISBN, page 2432 more examples
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.
1808, Edward Dubois, Fashionable Biography; or, Specimens of Public Characters by a Connoisseur, W. Lewis, page xlvHe 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.
2005, C. L. McGranaghan, The Analyst, a Corporate Novel, →ISBN, page 57Synonyms: gametophobia
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe fear of marriage.
Origin
- Englishgamo-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰógʷos
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰógʷos
- Ancient Greekφόβος (phóbos)
- Englishgamophobia
Translations
Italian gamofobia
- gamofobiaTranslations
Cite this entry
gamophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gamophobia
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