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erythrophobia

noun

Etymology

From erythro- + -phobia.

Definitions

  1. abnormal and persistent fear of blushing

    • Erythophobia is no laughing matter if you are a sufferer of this phobia. It could tend to make the sufferer anti-social as it is a very real and serious concern that excessive blushing could occur at any moment.

  2. Abnormal and persistent fear of the colour red.

    • This woman exhibited erythrophobia, i. e., fear of red, and at the same time she believed that she was responsible for or had actually caused the death of her mother.
    • Red Coats. Red Cat. And she had erythrophobia...morbid fear of the color red...ailurophobia...morbid fear of cats.

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