trypophobia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek τρῦπα (trûpa, “hole”) + -phobia (from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear, phobia”)), said to have been coined by a blogger from Ireland in 2005.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌtɹɪpəˈfəʊbi.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) enPR: trĭ'pə-fōʹbē-ə, IPA(key): /ˌtɹɪpəˈfoʊbi.ə/
- Rhymes: -əʊbiə
- Hyphenation: try‧po‧pho‧bia
Noun[edit]
trypophobia (uncountable)
- (psychology) An irrational or obsessive fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, such as those found in honeycombs. [from 2005]
- 2013 October, G[eoff] G. Cole, A[rnold] J. Wilkins, “Fear of Holes”, in Psychological science, volume 24, number 10, , →PMID, pages 1980–1985:
- Images of lotus seed heads are often reported as inducing trypophobia. Sufferers of trypophobia report that it is the visual percept that is particularly aversive.
- 2015, Irena Milosevic, Trypophobia (Fear of Holes), Irena Milosevic, Randi E. McCabe (editors), Phobias: The Psychology of Irrational Fear, ABC-CLIO (Greenwood), page 401,
- In particular, individuals with trypophobia are fearful of clusters of holes that are found in a variety of objects and matter such as skin, coral, honeycombs, seed pods, and even aerated chocolate.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
fear of holes
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “Louise” (2005 May 23) “Trypophobia”, in A Phobia of Holes, Yahoo! GeoCities[1], archived from the original on 16 March 2009: see Jennifer Abbasi (2011 July 26) “Is Trypophobia a Real Phobia?: We Investigate the Fear of Creepy Clustered Holes”, in Popular Science[2], archived from the original on 12 September 2017.
Further reading[edit]
- trypophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia