different between panophobia vs panphobia

English

Etymology

From Pan (“god who inspired fears”) +? -phobia or from pano- (“all”) +? -phobia.

Noun

panophobia (uncountable)

1. A condition of groundless fears.
2. (by confusion) Panphobia, pantophobia: fear of everything.

English

Etymology

From pan- +? -phobia.

Noun

panphobia (uncountable)

1. The fear of everything.
2. (by confusion) Panophobia, a condition of groundless fears.
3. (neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people and/or pansexuality.
   • 2013, anonymous, quoted in Ayisigi Hale Gonel, "Pansexual Identification in Online Communities: Employing a Collaborative Queer Method to Study Pansexuality", Graduate Journal of Social Science, Volume 10, Issue 1 (2013), pages 51-52:

     I would say that I’ve probably encountered more disbelief/disrespect/panphobia from the queer community than from my straight friends, which I think is really interesting.

   • 2016, Zoe Godden, "What Is Pansexuality?", The Courier (Newcastle University), 15 February 2016, page 13:

     Panphobia has arisen via accusations they're trying to 'one up' bisexuals, […]

   • 2020, Hope, quoted in Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens (ed. Leigh Finke), page 197:

     Biphobia / panphobia is still very real and alive today. As a pansexual woman, my identity and experiences have been denied many times […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:panphobia.

Derived terms

• panphobe
• panphobic

Related terms

• pantophobia
• biphobia