Meaning

(rare) Fear of the colour yellow..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Fear of the colour yellow.
2. (rare) An aversion to yellow light.

Example Sentences

For example, early Christian examples of xanthophobia, or fear of the color yellow, have been given artistic expression in the numerous examples depicting Judas Iscariot dressed in yellow betraying in the Garden of Gethsemane with a treacherous kiss [...]

For example, he construed from my xanthophobia that I must first have serialised my reminiscences in the yellow-backed Holywell Street Journal, of dubious and questionable memory.

'Way I heard it, the dad has xanthophobia,' Koenig said.

The aversion to yellow light, or xanthophobia, that loggerhead hatchlings show sets them apart from other sea turtle species.

In contrast, loggerhead hatchlings showed an aversion to light in the green-yellow to yellow region of the spectrum (560 to 600 nm) (Figure 5.2). Although this xanthophobia (yellow light aversion) is unique to loggerheads, green turtles are less strongly attracted to yellow light than to light of other wavelengths.

One function of xanthophobia in loggerhead hatchlings may be to reduce the attraction of light sources with a substantial participation of long-wavelength light.

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