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Philophobia (from Greek "φιλέω-φιλώ" and "φοβία" ()) is the fear of falling in love. [1] [2] [3] Not included in the DSM-5. [4]The risk is usually when a person has confronted any emotional turmoil relating to love but also can be a chronic phobia.
People with this fear are anxious about or afraid of intimate relationships. They believe that they do not deserve love or support from others. [3] Fear of intimacy has three defining features: content which represents the ability to communicate personal information, emotional valence which refers to the feelings about personal information exchanged, and vulnerability signifying their regard ...
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Gynophobia should not generally be confused with misogyny, the hatred, contempt for and prejudice against women, [2] [3] although some may use the terms interchangeably, in reference to the social, rather than pathological aspect of negative attitudes towards women. [4] The antonym of misogyny is philogyny, the love, respect for and admiration ...
This love term has to do with spirituality, and originates in the seventh or eighth century B.C.E., when it was mostly used by Christian authors to describe the love among brothers of the faith ...
Cher on Her ‘Love-Hate Relationship’ With Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction, Peter Frampton on Being ‘Scared’ to Come, and Other Highlights From the Cleveland Ceremony Annie Zaleski ...
Even more important, if using the term "love" denoted the presence of the state, there was the danger that absence of the state would receive negative connotations. Tennov addresses the issue of whether limerence is love in several other passages. [58] In one passage she clearly says that limerence is love, at least in certain cases: [59]
Image credits: Laura Gustafson #5. We had a couch in the living room. But the living room was carpeted so I was not allowed to walk on the carpet. And thus I was not allowed to sit on the couch.