pronounphobia

English

Etymology

From pronoun +‎ -phobia.

Noun

pronounphobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare, chiefly sarcastic) Fear or hatred of, or aversion to, pronouns, especially as relates to modern gender identities.
    • 2020 April 10, Charlie (@ThenonbinaryC), Twitter‎[1]:
      Pronounphobia omg. Do they realise that they’ve used pronouns in that tweet 🤦
    • 2020 November 11, 'Ala ad-Din (@IbnAbiQ), Twitter‎[2]:
      Fr [for real]. All this internalised pronounphobia, like duh, everyone has pronouns
    • 2021 May 19, Max Harvey (@max_harvey), Twitter‎[3]:
      I agree, there needs to be more research into pronounphobia. Why do so many people get so upset about a part of speech?
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pronounphobia.
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