xanthophobia

Noun

xanthophobia (uncountable)

1. (rare) Fear of the colour yellow.
   • For example, early Christian examples of xanthophobia, or fear of the color yellow, have been given artistic expression in the numerous examples depicting Judas Iscariot dressed in yellow betraying in the Garden of Gethsemane with a treacherous kiss [...]2016, Jonathan Faiers, May Westerman Bulgarella, Colors in Fashion, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 262
   • For example, he construed from my xanthophobia that I must first have serialised my reminiscences in the yellow-backed Holywell Street Journal, of dubious and questionable memory.2021, Nick Dunn-Meynell, edited by David Macrum, A Proof Reader’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Andrews UK, →ISBN, page 187
2. (rare) An aversion to yellow light.
   • One function of xanthophobia in loggerhead hatchlings may be to reduce the attraction of light sources with a substantial participation of long-wavelength light.1991 December 13, Blair E. Witherington, Karen A. Bjorndal, “Influences of Wavelength and Intensity on Hatchling Sea Turtle Phototaxis: Implications for Sea-Finding Behavior”, in Copeia, volume 1991...
   • The aversion to yellow light, or xanthophobia, that loggerhead hatchlings show sets them apart from other sea turtle species.1996, in FMRI Technical Reports number 2, Florida Marine Research Institute, page 10