Meanings
- uncountableFear of, or aversion to, the colour blue.
While one person may have arachnophobia (fear of spiders), someone else may have arachibutyrophobia (fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of their mouth), or cyanophobia (fear of the color blue).
2012, Heather Quintana, Momentum: Moving in the Right Direction, →ISBN, page 1281 more example
Von Hasner cites a case of aversion to blue, or cyanophobia, in a woman, fifty years old, in whom it had existed since childhood. Looking at blue objects always brought on he ache, vertigo, nausea, and even vomiting.
1881, Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Frank Pierce Foster, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics
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cyanophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyanophobia
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