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Noviophobia

2022-01-26T12:41:50Z

Orf34:

[[File:Nintendochris.JPG|thumb|Chris explains his "phobia". Note the text box in the screenshot.]]
[[File:142-QuizGirlfriend.jpg|thumb|"I'm sure she is already paired up with some [[jerk]]."]]
'''Noviophobia''' is a word [[Chris]] created that he describes as his general fear of girls being paired up. While normal people would suggest that this is a form of social anxiety or that Chris is just love shy, Chris of course felt the need to coin his own term for it.

Chris's noviophobia manifested 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 grounds that they "already had a boyfriend," due to the [[Infinitely-High Boyfriend-Factor]]. This eventually led to Chris's obsession with finding a [[boyfriend-free girl]]. In a moment of typical [[Chris and his Ego|egotism]], Chris decided his envy and resentment of men with girlfriends was a legitimate phobia, and so formed the word noviophobia by using the [[Spanish]] word ''novio'', meaning "boyfriend", and the English term ''phobia'', derived from the Greek word ''φόβος'' (phóbos), meaning fear. Chris uses this word often and simply assumes others will understand what it is without any explanation.

Noviophobia as a name has several problems. First and foremost, Chris uses it to describe jealous feelings towards men in relationships - something which in no way resembles a phobia, which is an ''irrational'' fear or hatred. It also simply refers to boyfriends in abstraction, which isn't an accurate summation of Chris's issue with women who are in relationships. Finally, the word itself is a linguistic abomination; the prefixes for ''-phobia'' should be Ancient Greek in origin unless the word does not exist in Greek and cannot be Hellenicised (in which case, an irregular word is formed using a Latin or English prefix, but still not a Spanish one). A more accurate term for Chris's illegitimate phobia would be ''herastophobia'', as ''ἐραστής'' (herastés) is the Ancient Greek word for a male, dominant lover; although as addressed he possesses no actual phobia at all.

The word has been alternatively spelt as "noiophobia", as it appears in Christian's letter to ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' about how ''[[Sprung]]'' has helped this condition. Chris later explained that this was an [[Chris and English|accidental misspelling]].

==Uses by Chris==
In addition to the infamous ''Nintendo Power'' letter, Chris has used this particular invented term on several occasions.

* Chris apparently described his noviophobia (spelled as "novio phobia" by the examiner) to the psychiatrist he spoke with during his [[autism papers|psychiatric evaluation]] from [[2004]].
* ''[[Sonichu's News Dash]]'' contains multiple references to noviophobia, in Chris's third-person description of himself and in a discussion of his letter to ''Nintendo Power'' (where he corrects the magazine's spelling of the term).
* Chris also mentions his noviophobia several times in the different editions of his [[Story of My Current Days]].
* Though he doesn't use the full term, Chris mentions his phobia of boyfriends during the [[Animal Crossing Documentary|''Animal Crossing'' Documentary]].
* In his [[Chris chan (CWCipedia)|edited version of his Encyclopedia Dramatica page]], published on the [[CWCipedia]] in [[December 2009]], Chris claimed that he had gotten over his fear of boyfriends in general, replacing it with a more specific fear and hatred of [[trolls]].

==See also==
* [[Chris and Spanish]]

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{{Love quest}}

[[Category:CWC-isms]]

Noviophobia

2022-01-26T12:41:18Z

Orf34:

[[File:Nintendochris.JPG|thumb|Chris explains his "phobia". Note the text box in the screenshot.]]
[[File:142-QuizGirlfriend.jpg|thumb|"I'm sure she is already paired up with some [[jerk]]."]]
'''Noviophobia''' is a word [[Chris]] created that he describes as his general fear of girls being paired up. While normal people would suggest that this is a form of social anxiety or that Chris is just love shy, Chris of course felt the need to coin his own term for it.

Chris's noviophobia manifested 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 grounds that they "already had a boyfriend," due to the [[Infinitely-High Boyfriend-Factor]]. This eventually led to Chris's obsession with finding a [[boyfriend-free girl]]. In a moment of typical [[Chris and his Ego|egotism]], Chris decided his envy and resentment of men with girlfriends was a legitimate phobia, and so formed the word noviophobia by using the [[Spanish]] word ''novio'', meaning "boyfriend", and the English term ''phobia'', derived from the Greek word ''φόβος'' (phóbos), meaning fear. Chris uses this word often and simply assumes others will understand what it is without any explanation.

Noviophobia as a name has several problems. First and foremost, Chris uses it to describe jealous feelings towards men in relationships - something which in no way resembles a phobia, which is an ''irrational'' fear or hatred. It also simply refers to boyfriends in abstraction, which isn't an accurate summation of Chris's issue with women who are in relationships. Finally, the word itself is a linguistic abomination; the prefixes for ''-phobia'' should be Ancient Greek in origin unless the word does not exist in Greek and cannot be Hellenicised (in which case, an irregular word is formed using a Latin or English prefix, but still not a Spanish one). A more accurate term for Chris's illegitimate phobia would be ''herastophobia'', as "ἐραστής" (herastés) is the Ancient Greek word for a male, dominant lover; although as addressed he possesses no actual phobia at all.

The word has been alternatively spelt as "noiophobia", as it appears in Christian's letter to ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' about how ''[[Sprung]]'' has helped this condition. Chris later explained that this was an [[Chris and English|accidental misspelling]].

==Uses by Chris==
In addition to the infamous ''Nintendo Power'' letter, Chris has used this particular invented term on several occasions.

* Chris apparently described his noviophobia (spelled as "novio phobia" by the examiner) to the psychiatrist he spoke with during his [[autism papers|psychiatric evaluation]] from [[2004]].
* ''[[Sonichu's News Dash]]'' contains multiple references to noviophobia, in Chris's third-person description of himself and in a discussion of his letter to ''Nintendo Power'' (where he corrects the magazine's spelling of the term).
* Chris also mentions his noviophobia several times in the different editions of his [[Story of My Current Days]].
* Though he doesn't use the full term, Chris mentions his phobia of boyfriends during the [[Animal Crossing Documentary|''Animal Crossing'' Documentary]].
* In his [[Chris chan (CWCipedia)|edited version of his Encyclopedia Dramatica page]], published on the [[CWCipedia]] in [[December 2009]], Chris claimed that he had gotten over his fear of boyfriends in general, replacing it with a more specific fear and hatred of [[trolls]].

==See also==
* [[Chris and Spanish]]

{{CWC-isms}}
{{Love quest}}

[[Category:CWC-isms]]

Talk:Noviophobia

2022-01-26T12:39:33Z

Orf34: /* Removing of "Agoriphobia" */ new section

==To do==
*add reference from his letter to Nintendo Power here --[[User:Champthom|Champthom]] 06:29, 10 February 2009 (CET)
*Get a complete list of references he's made to noviophobia - it's even in the [[autism papers]] for starters. --[[User:Champthom|Champthom]] 10:32, 2 December 2009 (CET)

==Origin of the "Novio" part==
Chris might have always called it Noiophobia and never Novio. I did edit the ED article last year (around August/September 2008) and it had a section on Noiophobia, and I added the caption along the lins of "Chris being retarded didn't realise that Novio means boyfriend, not Noio". Unless he read the article at a later date and actually did start using it. So I may be inadvertently responsible for this mistake.--[[User:UncleBastard|UncleBastard]] 08:51, 23 October 2009 (CEST)
*on [http://cogsdev.110mb.com/cwcipedia/index.php/Special:Search?search=noviophobia&go=Go CWCipedia] he calls it "Noviophobia" three times, which makes the spelling [http://cogsdev.110mb.com/cwcki/images/7/76/Nintendochris.JPG here] almost certainly a typo. while it is possible that he actually did use the term "Noiophobia" because he's retarded, it seems pretty unlikely(especially since it seems most of the stuff on CWCipedia is copy-pasted from old essays and shit) --[[User:Cogsdev|cogsdev/vedsgoc]] 14:15, 23 October 2009 (CEST)

== Removing of "Agoriphobia" ==

I took the liberty of removing the part which claims the word "agoriphobia" would be the correct term. This is wrong firstly because compound words in Greek aren't just combinations of two words but are formed using the connective vowel omicron (e.g. the word glossophobia is a combination of glossa and phobia). Agoraphobia is only an exception to this rule, wherein the omicron gets contracted. The correct compound between agori and phobia would thus be agorophobia. Nonetheless, secondly, agori wouldn't be used for a medical term because the word only exists in Modern Greek, and its use to mean "boyfriend" is a colloquialism. For medical terminology, an Ancient Greek word would be used; in this case, probably ἐραστής (herastes), meaning a male dominant lover. Thus, the "correct" term would be Herastophobia.

sources: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/greeklatinroots2/chapter/%C2%A7109-general-principles-of-greek-compounds/
https://lsj.gr/wiki/%CE%B1%CE%B3%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B9
https://lsj.gr/wiki/%E1%BC%90%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AE%CF%82

Noviophobia

2022-01-26T12:35:13Z

Orf34: removed the part which claims the correct term would be Agoriphobia, replaced with Herastophobia; explained in Discussion post. Also specified that a Spanish prefix is still not used in cases where Greek prefixes don't exist

[[File:Nintendochris.JPG|thumb|Chris explains his "phobia". Note the text box in the screenshot.]]
[[File:142-QuizGirlfriend.jpg|thumb|"I'm sure she is already paired up with some [[jerk]]."]]
'''Noviophobia''' is a word [[Chris]] created that he describes as his general fear of girls being paired up. While normal people would suggest that this is a form of social anxiety or that Chris is just love shy, Chris of course felt the need to coin his own term for it.

Chris's noviophobia manifested 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 grounds that they "already had a boyfriend," due to the [[Infinitely-High Boyfriend-Factor]]. This eventually led to Chris's obsession with finding a [[boyfriend-free girl]]. In a moment of typical [[Chris and his Ego|egotism]], Chris decided his envy and resentment of men with girlfriends was a legitimate phobia, and so formed the word noviophobia by using the [[Spanish]] word ''novio'', meaning "boyfriend", and the English term ''phobia'', derived from the Greek word ''φόβος'' (phóbos), meaning fear. Chris uses this word often and simply assumes others will understand what it is without any explanation.

Noviophobia as a name has several problems. First and foremost, Chris uses it to describe jealous feelings towards men in relationships - something which in no way resembles a phobia, which is an ''irrational'' fear or hatred. It also simply refers to boyfriends in abstraction, which isn't an accurate summation of Chris's issue with women who are in relationships. Finally, the word itself is a linguistic abomination; the prefixes for ''-phobia'' should be Ancient Greek in origin unless the word does not exist in Greek and cannot be Hellenicised (in which case, an irregular word is formed using a Latin or English prefix, but still not a Spanish one). A more accurate term for Chris's illegitimate phobia would be ''herastophobia'', as herastes (ἐραστής) is the Ancient Greek word for a male, dominant lover; although as addressed he possesses no actual phobia at all.

The word has been alternatively spelt as "noiophobia", as it appears in Christian's letter to ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' about how ''[[Sprung]]'' has helped this condition. Chris later explained that this was an [[Chris and English|accidental misspelling]].

==Uses by Chris==
In addition to the infamous ''Nintendo Power'' letter, Chris has used this particular invented term on several occasions.

* Chris apparently described his noviophobia (spelled as "novio phobia" by the examiner) to the psychiatrist he spoke with during his [[autism papers|psychiatric evaluation]] from [[2004]].
* ''[[Sonichu's News Dash]]'' contains multiple references to noviophobia, in Chris's third-person description of himself and in a discussion of his letter to ''Nintendo Power'' (where he corrects the magazine's spelling of the term).
* Chris also mentions his noviophobia several times in the different editions of his [[Story of My Current Days]].
* Though he doesn't use the full term, Chris mentions his phobia of boyfriends during the [[Animal Crossing Documentary|''Animal Crossing'' Documentary]].
* In his [[Chris chan (CWCipedia)|edited version of his Encyclopedia Dramatica page]], published on the [[CWCipedia]] in [[December 2009]], Chris claimed that he had gotten over his fear of boyfriends in general, replacing it with a more specific fear and hatred of [[trolls]].

==See also==
* [[Chris and Spanish]]

{{CWC-isms}}
{{Love quest}}

[[Category:CWC-isms]]