Meaning of gonophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

An excessive fear of gonorrhoea, especially when accompanied by a hypochondriacal belief that any genital discharge is a symptom of gonorrhea.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“This, in my opinion, was a true case of gonophobia, fostered and encouraged by a druggist for financial reasons.”

“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,...”

“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.”

CEFR level