catoptrophobia

英语

词源

源自古希腊语 κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, “镜子”) + -phobia。

名词

catoptrophobia (不可数)

1. 对镜子的恐惧
   • 1999年6月28日, Vctr113062 [username], “[TK3 fanfic] "Phoenix" Ch. 17, 2/3”, 出自 rec.games.video.sony‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I wondered what was at the root of Shingo's catoptrophobia - his irrational dread of mirrors.

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   • 2008年2月6日, Gordon (quoting Ed Naha), “We have nothing to fear...but these bozos”, 出自 misc.news.internet.discuss‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Pundit Bill O'Reilly grapples with "panophobia" (the fear of everything) while, strangely, Rush Limbaugh battles both "catoptrophobia," the fear of mirrors and "Walloonphobia," the fear of the Walloons.

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   • 2013, Macalester Bell, Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt, Oxford University Press, →ISBN，第 72 页:

     If someone suffers from catoptrophobia (fear of mirrors), he sees mirrors, and their reflections, as dangerous.

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近义词

• eisoptrophobia
• spectrophobia