PHOTOPHOBIA

PRONUNCIATION: (fo-tuh-FO-bee-uh)

MEANING: noun: An abnormal sensitivity to light.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek photo- (light) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1772.
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PROTOPHOBIA - a fear that is as yet only half-formed

PHOBOPHOBIA - what Franklin D Roosevelt was warning about with his admonition "The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself"

PHONOPHOBIA - fear of the needle shrieking while skittering across an old 78-rpm record