cinemaphobe

English

Etymology

cinema +‎ -phobe

Noun

cinemaphobe (plural cinemaphobes)

  1. One who dislikes movies.
    • 1956, Elliot Paul, Film flam, page 79:
      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.
    • 1986, “Quarterly Quiz: I Heard It At The Movies”, in The opera quarterly, volume 4, numbers 1-2:
      Even a cinemaphobe operaphile ought to score twenty or more.
    • 2015, Bernard F. Dick, Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood, →ISBN:
      Although Diller was from television, he was neither a true New Yorker nor a cinemaphobe—only a media czar in the making, eager for any opportunity, whether in television or film, that would help him achieve his goal.
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