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Gamophobia vs Gametophobia - What's the difference?

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Gametophobia is a synonym of gamophobia.



As nouns the difference between gamophobia and gametophobia

is that gamophobia is the fear of marriage while gametophobia is the fear of marriage.

gamophobia

English

Noun

(-)
  • The fear of marriage.
  • * 1808 , Edward Dubois, Fashionable Biography; or, Specimens of Public Characters by a Connoisseur , W. Lewis (1808), page xlv:
    • 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.
  • * 1997 , Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters , Random House (1997), ISBN 0553575953, page 243:
    • "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."
  • * 2005 , C. L. McGranaghan, The Analyst, a Corporate Novel , ISBN 9781411606494, page 57:
    • He 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.
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    • Synonyms

    * gametophobia

    gametophobia

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The fear of marriage.
  • * 1998 , Rose Dorrance Beser, Why Some People Act So Stupid and What You Can Do About It , Dewey Publishing (1998), ISBN 9781575028248, page 69:
    • One phobia they don't have is gametophobia (marriage). No living-in-sin for them, only licit thrills.
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  • * 2008 , Spin , February 2008, page 30:
    • The Houston vet returns to the game to confess that he suffers from gametophobia , the fear of marriage.

    Synonyms

    * gamophobia