carnophobia

English

Etymology

From Latin carnis (“meat”) +‎ -phobia.

Noun

carnophobia (uncountable)

1. A strong fear or dislike of meat.
   • 1987 July 1, Tetsumaro Hayashi, Herman Melville: research opportunities and dissertation abstracts, McFarland & Co Inc, →ISBN:

     Unlike the ascetic idealists Emerson and Thoreau, Melville abandoned Pauline-Christian carnophobia and accepted man's body as part of his essential being.

   • 1999, Marsha A. Petty, The Silent Plague - Constipation‎^[1], Mo' Better Health, →ISBN, page 64:

     Carnophobia Anyone? About Eating Meat. Meat is a dead food. Not because the animal is no longer alive, but because meat is a "fiberless" food.

   • 2016, Andy Clark, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind‎^[2], Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page xiv:

     Such carnophobia aside, the aliens were surely right to be puzzled. Thinking meat, dreaming meat, conscious meat, meat that understands. It seems unlikely, to say the least.

   • 2015 December 20, Pauline Rowson, Fatal Catch: An Andy Horton Police Procedural‎^[3], volume 12, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN:

     ‘He seems to have an aversion to telling the truth.’ ‘And an aversion to meat so he told me when I finally caught up with him.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘He suffers from Carnophobia. The fear of meat.’ ‘You're kidding?’ ‘No. I looked it up. It exists all right but whether Nugent really suffers from it is another matter. I went to his flat. Had the devil of a job getting him to come to the door, but when I bellowed through the letterbox and asked him to look through the window he recognized me and let me in.’

References

• “carnophobia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.