chromophobia
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Chromophobia (also known as chromatophobia) is a persistent, irrational fear of, or aversion to, colors and is usually a conditioned response. While actual clinical phobias to color are rare, colors can elicit hormonal responses and psychological reactions.
Key facts
- Medical condition.synonym
- Chromatophobia
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- Bowl of Strawberries.jpg
- Medical condition.alt
- A bowl of red strawberries
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- The fear of the color red is called erythrophobia.
- Medical condition.specialty
- psychology
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Chromophobia (also known as chromatophobia) is a persistent, irrational fear of, or aversion to, colors and is usually a conditioned response. While actual clinical phobias to color are rare, colors can elicit hormonal responses and psychological reactions.
Chromophobia may also refer to an aversion of use of color in products or design. Within cellular biology, "chromophobic" cells are a classification of cells that do not attract hematoxylin, and is related to chromatolysis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chromophobia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.