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ereuthophobia

ereuthophobia is the alternative form of erythrophobia.

Meaning of erythrophobia

Noun

erythrophobia (uncountable)

  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.2013, Mabel Dawn Van Niekerk - Erythrophobia, The Blushing Phobia - Erythrophobia
  2. Abnormal and persistent fear of the colour red.
    • As they passed through the upper hall J. noticed that the carpet was red. This immediately brought back to her mind the recollection of the suicide and produced a peculiar feeling of fear,—erythrophobia,—which was immediately followed by pain in the back of her head...
    • The erythrophobia and the suicidal obsession, which did not yield to the influence of hypnotic suggestion, entirely disappeared and sank at once into the background.1908, William A. White, “Mental Dissociation in Psychic Epilepsy”, in Boris Sidis, editor, Psychopathological Researches: Studies in Mental Dissociation, pages 150 and 154

Questions about ereuthophobia

What is ereuthophobia the alternative form of?
Ereuthophobia is the alternative form of erythrophobia.

Words near ereuthophobia in the dictionary

  1. erethizontoids
  2. Eretria
  3. Eretrian
  4. Eretrians
  5. Eretz Yisrael
  6. ereuthophobia
  7. ereuthrophobia
  8. EREV
  9. Erevan
  10. EREVs
  11. Erewan

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