misogamy
/mɪˈsɒɡəmi
/noun [mass noun] rare
Dislike of or aversion to marriage.Why can't you just get over your misogamy and marry Alex?...
- You never practice misogamy in front of a groom!
- The absence of a concluding discussion leaves the reader without a clear perspective on the literary treatment accorded to the themes of misogyny and misogamy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
Derivatives
misogamist
/ noun ...- The bleeding heart misogamists hate not only marriage between man and woman, but they also loathe the supremacy of the common man over the pretense of their oligarchic condescension.
- Ganymede frequently appears in the debate dialogues popular in the medieval period, as both a misogynist and a misogamist.
- I should hasten to point out that I am no misogamist, however near misogamy the attitude above brings me (but it is fatherhood alone I am avoiding).
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Greek misos 'hatred' + gamos 'marriage'.
Rhymes
- profit sharer
- profit-sharing
- profits motive
- profit squeeze
- profits tax
- profits warning
- profit taker
- profit-taking
- profit warning
- profit à prendre
- proflavin
- proflavine
- profligacy
- profligate
- profligately
- profligateness
- profligation
- profluence
- profluency
- profluent
- profluvium
- pro-form
- pro forma
- profound
- profoundly