Cinemaphobe
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who dislikes movies.
"He, the dentist, had sat beside his cinemaphobe pal and as each foot of reel unfolded itself, piling banality upon trash, they had stood the abuse from the screen quite a while, because he insisted to his friend, who seemed to be losing his mind, that what I endorsed would turn out to be brilliant in the end."
Example
More examples"He, the dentist, had sat beside his cinemaphobe pal and as each foot of reel unfolded itself, piling banality upon trash, they had stood the abuse from the screen quite a while, because he insisted to his friend, who seemed to be losing his mind, that what I endorsed would turn out to be brilliant in the end."
Etymology
From cinema + -phobe.
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