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
- dosh
- dosha
- do-si-do
- dosimeter
- dosimetric
- dosimetry
- do someone a favour
- do someone a good (or bad) turn
- do someone an injustice
- do someone a solid
- do someone credit (or do credit to someone)
- do someone dirt (also do dirt to)
- do someone fine
- do someone good
- do someone in
- do someone no favours
- do someone (or oneself) a mischief
- do someone out of
- do someone over
- do someone proud
- do someone's head in
- do someone/thing a power of good
- do someone/thing down
- do someone/thing justice
- do someone to death