vaccinophobe
English edit
Etymology edit
From vaccine + -o- + -phobe.
Noun edit
vaccinophobe (plural vaccinophobes)
- A person affected by vaccinophobia; one who fears or opposes the practice of vaccination.
- 2011, Michael Bliss, Writing History: A Professor’s Life, Toronto: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 302:
- Scholars whose moral relativism, or fear of judging, amounted in my view to amoral intellectual solipsism, argued that instead of attributing anti-vaccination sentiment to fear, ignorance, and fatalism, I should have worked harder to understand the fundamental rationality of the vaccinophobes and their leaders.