leukophobia
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leukophobia (uncountable)
- (rare) Pathological fear of or aversion to the color white.
- 1924, Theodore Koppånyi, Clyde Baker, “Further Studies on Eye Transplantation in the Spotted Rat”, in American Journal of Physiology, volume 71, number 2:
- Normal rats show leukophobia, ie, going away from strong light, while blind rats do not react to light in this manner.
- 2008, Paul Beatty, Slumberland:
- What had been the healthy fear of white people shared by most of the country's colored inhabitants had recently morphed into full-blown leukophobia, or fear of all things white.