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cyanophobia

cyanophobia noun: fear of, or aversion to, the colour blue.

Noun

cyanophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of, or aversion to, the colour blue.
    • Von Hasner cites a case of aversion to blue, or cyanophobia, in a woman, fifty years old, in whom it had existed since childhood. Looking at blue objects always brought on he ache, vertigo, nausea, and even vomiting.1881, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics
    • While one person may have arachnophobia (fear of spiders), someone else may have arachibutyrophobia (fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of their mouth), or cyanophobia (fear of the color blue).2012, Heather Quintana, Momentum: Moving in the Right Direction, →ISBN, page 128

cyanophobia meaning in Tamil

cyanophobia in Tamil

நீலவண்ண வெருளி

Origin of cyanophobia

From cyano- + -phobia.

Questions about cyanophobia

What does cyanophobia mean?
Cyanophobia means fear of, or aversion to, the colour blue.
What is cyanophobia in Tamil?
Cyanophobia in Tamil is நீலவண்ண வெருளி. See Cyanophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cyanophobia?
Cyanophobia is a noun.

Words near cyanophobia in the dictionary

  1. cyanophilia
  2. cyanophilic
  3. cyanophilous
  4. cyanophils
  5. cyanophily
  6. cyanophobia
  7. cyanophore
  8. cyanophores
  9. cyanophosphonate
  10. cyanophosphonates
  11. cyanophosphorylation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyanophobia (page history and authors); cyanophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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