eisoptrophobia
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
eisoptrophobia (uncountable)
- (rare) Fear of seeing one’s reflection in a mirror.
- 2010, Karen Linamen, A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: Loving Your Body, Accepting Yourself:
- Apparently I do not suffer from eisoptrophobia. I say this because last year I looked in the mirror and realized I was the heaviest I'd been in a long time.
- 20213, Jessica Sorensen, The Temptation of Lila and Ethan:
- Not because I hate my reflection or that I suffer from Eisoptrophobia. Mirrors see straight through my facade.
- 2014, Pauline Rowson, Shroud of Evil: An missing persons police procedural:
- She showed them through to the back of the shop where to his left Horton caught sight of a row of well-lit changing rooms with enough mirrors to terrorize anyone suffering from Eisoptrophobia.