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Meaning of catagelophobia | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Fear of being ridiculed

uncountable

Examples

“In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).”

CEFR level

C2
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