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panphobia en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From pan- + -phobia.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The fear of everything.
  2. (qualifier:by confusion, uncountable) Panophobia, a condition of groundless fears.
  3. (neologism, uncountable) Fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people and/or pansexuality.
    • Biphobia / panphobia is still very real and alive today. As a pansexual woman, my identity and experiences have been denied many times […] 2020, Hope, quoted in Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens (ed. Leigh Finke), page 197
    • Panphobia has arisen via accusations they're trying to 'one up' bisexuals, […] 2016 February 15, Zoe Godden, “What Is Pansexuality?”, in The Courier, Newcastle University, page 13:
    • I would say that I’ve probably encountered more disbelief/disrespect/panphobia from the queer community than from my straight friends, which I think is really interesting. 2013, anonymous, quoted in Ayisigi Hale Gonel, "Pansexual Identification in Online Communities: Employing a Collaborative Queer Method to Study Pansexuality", Graduate Journal of Social Science, Volume 10, Issue 1 (2013), pages 51-52

Deriveds

panphobe · panphobic

Relateds

pantophobia · biphobia

Translations (2)

pt panfobia (fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people) · fr panphobie (fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people)