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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 ...
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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 ...
悪女, 惡女 or 악녀 meaning "bad girl", "evil girl", "bad woman" or "evil woman". It may refer to: "Akujo" (悪女), track in Japanese album All Time Best: Utahime Cover by Akina Nakamori; Evil Girl (惡女), Taiwanese album by Amber An; Lost in Perfection (惡女), Taiwanese film starring Lin Mei-hsiu and Ivy Shao
Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女, 'Slit-Mouthed Woman') [1] is a malevolent figure in Japanese urban legends and folklore. Described as the malicious spirit, or onryō, of a woman, she partially covers her face with a mask or other item and carries a pair of scissors, a knife, or some other sharp object. She is most often described as a tall woman ...
Anthropologist David D. Gilmore argues that misogyny is rooted in men's conflicting feelings: men's existential dependence on women for procreation, and men's fear of women's power over them in their times of male weakness, contrasted against the deep-seated needs of men for the love, care and comfort of women—a need that makes the men feel ...
A woman diagnosed with panphobia, from Alexander Morison's 1843 book The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases. Panphobia, omniphobia, pantophobia, or panophobia is a vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil. [1] Panphobia is not registered as a type of phobia in medical references.
A woman came to the emergency room with a rapid, irregular heart beat. Dr. Kube looked to find the cause.