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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--gynophobia This week's theme: fear and desire. gynophobia or gynephobia (gyn-uh-FO-bee-uh, jyn-) noun The fear of women. [From Greek gyne (female, woman) + -phobia (fear).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Precluding women from such positions of leadership is not theologically substantiated, but a clear manifestation of misogyny and gynophobia." Kudakwashe Chirambwi; Church Should Welcome Women Into Leadership; The Herald (Harare, Zimbabwe); Nov 5, 2004. X-Bonus One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. -E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

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