peniaphobia en · NOUN
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πενία (penía, “poverty”) + -phobia. Related to Latin penuria (“poverty”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) The fear of poverty or poor people; antipathy toward them; both.
Our strategy is not driven by brobdingnagian principles: it is quite simply to excel in whatever we do and my personal optimism for the future stems from the knowledge that our entrepreneurial Agencies are driven to achieve. Perhaps this is due to peniaphobia but more likely it stems from a passion to establish the mission™ as the most respected and regarded Agency group in the UK.
2013, The Mission Marketing Group PLC, Interim Report 2013: For the Six Months Ended 30 June 2013, page 6:Maybe you have peniaphobia, but God wants you live among and minister to the poor […]
1998, Brian Shipman, WWJD: Daily Time with Jesus, B & H Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 358:Piggy banks are helpful for persons with "peniaphobia," an abnormal fear of poverty.
1994, Charlotte Foltz Jones, Mistakes That Worked, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 38:
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de Peniaphobie (fear of poverty and/or poor people) · pl peniafobia (fear of poverty and/or poor people) · fr péniaphobie (fear of poverty and/or poor people)