different between genophobe vs puritan

English

Etymology

geno- +? -phobe

Noun

genophobe (plural genophobes)

1. A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse
   • 1986, David Grambs, Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe Life’s Indescribable People, Workman Publishing Company, unmarked page:

     Genophobes have been informed about the birds and the bees, but they don’t like (or aren’t cocksure about) what they’ve heard and tend to go catatonic when beyond the platonic.

   • 1996 July 16, Gary Goodman, "Re: Riefenstahl film on PBS", alt.censorship, Usenet:

     Like what happens when the genophobes try to censor video rental stores. THEN people get outraged. And say fuck off.

   • 2011 January 26, Nudiarist, “Re: Dan Ziegler finally professing what Peter Riden has long been preaching/stating”, rec.nude, Usenet:

     I do think that genophobes like "Anna", and misanthropes like "Zee" are in the minority, zealots who decry any form of sexual expression that is not behind a locked door with the lights out and the covers pulled all the way up.

Related terms

• genophobia

See also

• celibacist
• prude
• puritan
• erotophobe
• antisexualist

English

Etymology

See Puritan.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pj???t?n/, /?pj??t?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pj????t?n/, /?pj????t?n/
• Hyphenation: pu?ri?tan

Noun

puritan (plural puritans)

1. (often disapproving) A puritanical person.
   • 2016 5 August, Janet Street-Porter, "Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it", The Independent.

     These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.

Translations

Adjective

puritan (comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan)

1. (often disapproving) Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex.

   Synonyms: prude, puritanical

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• tanpuri, train up, uptrain

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puritan m (definite singular puritanen, indefinite plural puritanar, definite plural puritanane)

1. form removed by a 2016 spelling decision; superseded by puritanar

Romanian

Etymology

From French puritain

Noun

puritan m (plural puritani)

1. puritan

Declension