photophobia meaning

EN[-əʊbiə]

WPhotophobia

Photophobia is a symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light.

NounPLphotophobiasPREphoto-SUF-phobia
1. (medicine) Excessive sensitivity to light and the aversion to bright light; abnormal fear of light.
More Examples
1. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - Armand Marie, Pellagra (1910) p. 242. Certain of these “hydrophobias” are marked by a fear of flowing surfaces because of photophobia.

Meaning of photophobia for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "photophobia" is a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe and a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Morphemes
  - Prefixes
    - Words by prefix
      - Words prefixed with photo-
  - Suffixes
    - Words by suffix
      - Words suffixed with -phobia
2. Nouns
  - Countable nouns
  - Singularia tantum
    - Uncountable nouns

Difficultness: Level 9

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Definiteness: Level 6

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Definite ➨ Versatile