ophthalmophobia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The primary concern that J.Y. presented was a symptom of ophthalmophobia (similar to social phobia)."
- "There is more to come' and Kundan's face got filled with ophthalmophobia (an anxiety disorder characterized by a morbid fear of revealing) as he heard the voice of Tanuja."
- "I knew, a form of illusion known as ophthalmophobia — fear of the eye. It ranged from mere aversion at being gazed at, all the way to the subjective development of real physical illness out of otherwise trifling ailments."
Etymology
From ophthalmo- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmós, “eye”) and φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).