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Meaning of doxophobia | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A fear of expressing one's opinion.
    uncountable
  2. A fear of being praised.
    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

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

doxorubicin doxorubicinol doxorubicinone doxpicomine doxribtimine doxxee

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