Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An irrational fear of adolescent people.
Examples
“Speaking at the annual forum of the Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel, the industry body that regulates sexual content in publications for young people, Professor Byron disclosed that she believes that Britain is suffering from ephebiphobia - the fear of young people.”
“Such quotes illustrate what I believe has become a historically nurtured and culturally damaging phenomenon: ephebiphobia - the fear of youth.”
“It is also important to tackle head on the thankfully minority adult culture of ephebiphobia as presented in the article.”
“Adults are suffering from ephebiphobia - fear of young people - says psychologist and TV presenter”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ephebiphobia’.
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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words found in recent reading
antebellum, paschal, peradventure, dolichocephalic, brachycephalic, haply, hapless, coup de foudre, peccant, pentimento, parthenogenesis, passepartout and 20 more...
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crazy like me
apologies to this list of manias and this list of phobias
bibliomania, megalomania, ennui, melancholia, pantophobia, acronymania, ailuromania, agromania, cheromania, clinomania, ergasiomania, hyperpolysyllabic... and 24 more...
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Gallimaufry
...words to be reassigned as time allows.
vade, viduity, surd, thropple, horary, sorites, ancile, roscid, spraints, birl, marmite, voxel and 69 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir This word contains 5 different letters that occur twice - e, p, h, b, i. Singles are o and a. Dec 14, 2011
garyth123 'We see children as pestilent' Mar 17, 2009
reesetee Ooooh! *shiver* Feb 20, 2007
kenspeckle Fear of...teenagers! Feb 20, 2007