Usually means: Fear of being touched physically.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. haphephobia: Wiktionary
  2. haphephobia: Dictionary.com
  3. Haphephobia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. haphephobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. haphephobia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Haphephobia: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)

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  1. haphephobia: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (haphephobia)

▸ noun:  The fear of being touched.

Similar:
aphephobia, phobiaphobia, doraphobia, algophobia, phobe, chirophobia, phobophobia, philemaphobia, topophobia, phobic, more...

Opposite:
haphephilia

Types:
aphephobia, aphenphosmphobia, touch phobia, tactophobia, taphophobia, pteronophobia, cheirophobia, more...

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Similar:
aphephobia, phobiaphobia, doraphobia, algophobia, phobe, chirophobia, phobophobia, philemaphobia, topophobia, phobic, more...

Opposite:
haphephilia

Types:
aphephobia, aphenphosmphobia, touch phobia, tactophobia, taphophobia, pteronophobia, cheirophobia, more...



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