Noviophobia
Noviophobia, sometimes spelled as Noiophobia, is a word Chris created that he describes as his general fear of girls being paired up. Chris's Noviophobia manifestated itself during the first months of his love-quest, and came to be because the girls he asked would often turn him down on the ground that they "already had a boyfriend". This eventually led to Chris's obsession with finding a Boyfriend-Free Girl. Chris formed the word Noviophobia by using the Spanish word novio, meaning "boyfriend", and the english term phobia, derived from the Greek word φόβος, meaning fear. The name Chris coined for his fear is therefore not completely logical, as it refers to the fear of boyfriends themselves, and not so much to the fear of girls being undateable. It also wouldn't suffice as a scientific medical term, because fears are usually derived from Greek words. An eligible term would be philophobia, using the greek word φίλος, meaning friend or boyfriend.
The word is alternately spelled Noiophobia, as it appears in Christian's letter to Nintendo Power about how Sprung has helped this condition. It is unclear if Chris (or Nintendo Power) misspelled it in the letter, but he has gotten it right in other documents.
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