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erythrophobia

erythrophobia noun: abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.

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

erythrophobia meaning in Tamil

erythrophobia in Tamil

சிகப்பு வெறுப்பு, சீண்டினால் முகம்சிவக்கம்

Examples of erythrophobia in a sentence

  • 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.1915, Dr. Shepherd Ivory Franz, Popular Science Monthly, page 88:
  • And she had erythrophobia...morbid fear of the color red...ailurophobia...morbid fear of cats.1988, Jacqueline Martin, Bryarly, page 276:
  • Or, maybe it's erythrophobia, which no real spanker/spankee should have. (For those who are logophobic, erythrophobia is an abnormal fear of the color red.1999 June 11, Nice But Naughty Boy Craves OTK w/SWF, “Has ANYONE had success meeting others on a.p.s.?”, in alt.personals.spanking...
  • ‘As in xenophobia?’ said Jack. ‘Or erythrophobia?2012, Xanna Eve Chown, The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis:

Synonyms of erythrophobia

Origin of erythrophobia

From erythro- + -phobia.

Questions about erythrophobia

What does erythrophobia mean?
Erythrophobia means abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
What is erythrophobia in Tamil?
Erythrophobia in Tamil is சிகப்பு வெறுப்பு, சீண்டினால் முகம்சிவக்கம். See Erythrophobia meaning in Tamil.
How do you use erythrophobia in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is erythrophobia?
Erythrophobia is a noun.

Words near erythrophobia in the dictionary

  1. erythrophiles
  2. erythrophilic
  3. erythrophilous
  4. erythrophils
  5. erythrophleine
  6. erythrophobia
  7. erythrophore
  8. erythrophores
  9. erythrophyll
  10. erythrophyllin
  11. erythropic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: erythrophobia (page history and authors); erythrophobia (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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