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Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, mirror) + -phobia.

Noun edit

catoptrophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of mirrors.
    • 1999 June 28, Vctr113062 [username], “[TK3 fanfic] "Phoenix" Ch. 17, 2/3”, in rec.games.video.sony[1] (Usenet):
      I wondered what was at the root of Shingo's catoptrophobia - his irrational dread of mirrors.
    • 2008 February 6, Gordon (quoting Ed Naha), “We have nothing to fear...but these bozos”, in 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.
    • 2013, Macalester Bell, Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 72:
      If someone suffers from catoptrophobia (fear of mirrors), he sees mirrors, and their reflections, as dangerous.

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