catoptrophobia

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"I wondered what was at the root of Shingo's catoptrophobia - his irrational dread of mirrors."
"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."
"If someone suffers from catoptrophobia (fear of mirrors), he sees mirrors, and their reflections, as dangerous."

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

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