eisoptrophobia

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Noun

eisoptrophobia (uncountable)

  1. (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.

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