pronounphobia

English

Etymology

pronoun +‎ -phobia

Noun

pronounphobia (countable and uncountable, plural pronounphobias)

1. (chiefly sarcastic) Fear, hatred, or aversion to pronouns, especially as relates to gender.
   • 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.