catoptrophobia

英語

詞源

源自古希臘語 κάτοπτρον (kátoptron, 「鏡子」) + -phobia。

名詞

catoptrophobia (不可數)

1. 對鏡子的恐懼
   • 1999 6月 28, 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 2月 6, 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，頁號 72:

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

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近義詞

• eisoptrophobia
• spectrophobia