carnophobia
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin carnis (“meat”) + -phobia.
Noun edit
carnophobia (uncountable)
- A strong fear or dislike of meat.[1]
- 1987 July 1, Tetsumaro Hayashi, Herman Melville: research opportunities and dissertation abstracts, McFarland & Co Inc, →ISBN:
- Unlike the ascetic idealists Emerson and Thoreau, Melville abandoned Pauline-Christian carnophobia and accepted man's body as part of his essential being.
- 2016, Andy Clark, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind[2], Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page xiv:
- Such carnophobia aside, the aliens were surely right to be puzzled. Thinking meat, dreaming meat, conscious meat, meat that understands. It seems unlikely, to say the least.
- 2015 December 20, Pauline Rowson, Fatal Catch: An Andy Horton Police Procedural[3], volume 12, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN:
- ‘He seems to have an aversion to telling the truth.’ ‘And an aversion to meat so he told me when I finally caught up with him.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘He suffers from Carnophobia. The fear of meat.’ ‘You're kidding?’ ‘No. I looked it up. It exists all right but whether Nugent really suffers from it is another matter. I went to his flat. Had the devil of a job getting him to come to the door, but when I bellowed through the letterbox and asked him to look through the window he recognized me and let me in.’
References edit
- “carnophobia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ “carnophobia” (US) / “carnophobia” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.