panphobia

English

Etymology

From pan- + -phobia.

Noun

panphobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of everything.
  2. (by confusion) Panophobia, a condition of groundless fears.
  3. (neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people and/or pansexuality.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 2016 February 15, Zoe Godden, “What Is Pansexuality?”, in The Courier, Newcastle University, page 13:
      Panphobia has arisen via accusations they're trying to 'one up' bisexuals, []
    • 2020, Hope, quoted in Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens (ed. Leigh Finke), page 197:
      Biphobia / panphobia is still very real and alive today. As a pansexual woman, my identity and experiences have been denied many times []
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:panphobia.

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