Word: chromophobia
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...most winning lost soul. The Constant Gardener, an exhilarating take on John Le Carré's novel, by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and screenwriter Jeffrey Caine, is one of five Fiennes films to be released in 2005 (see box). He's a decadent art historian in Chromophobia (still awaiting a U.S. distributor), an upper-class satire that involved three of the six Fiennes siblings: sister Martha wrote and directed; brother Magnus composed the music. (The brood also includes Joseph, who starred in Shakespeare in Love...
...infinitely inventive--and infinitely fearful--human mind can create, there is a word that has been coined to describe it. There's nephophobia, or fear of clouds, and coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. There's kathisophobia, fear of sitting, and kyphophobia, fear of stooping. There are xanthophobia, leukophobia and chromophobia, fear of yellow, white and colors in general. There are alektorophobia and apiphobia, fear of chickens and bees. And deep in the list, lost in the Ls, there's lutraphobia, or fear of otters--a fear that's useful, it would seem, only if you happen to be a mollusk...
...cacophobia: ... ugliness cainophobia: ... newness, novelty caligynephobia: ... beautiful women carcinophobia: ... cancer cardiophobia: ... the heart carnophobia: ... meat catagelophobia: ... being ridiculed catapedaphobia: ... jumping ceraunophobia: ... thunder chaetophobia: ... hair chemophobia: ... chemicals cherophobia: ... gaiety chionophobia: ... snow chiraptophobia: ... being touched cholerophobia: ... anger chorophobia: ... dancing chrometophobia: ... money chromophobia: ... colors chronomentrophobia: ... clocks cibophobia: ... food claustrophobia: ... confined spaces cleisiophobia: ... being locked in climacophobia: ... stairs clinophobia: ... going to bed coimetrophobia: ... cemeteries contreltophobia: ... sexual abuse coprastasophobia: ... constipation coprophobia: ... feces coulrophobia: ... clowns cremnophobia: ... precipices cryophobia: ... extreme cold crystallophobia: ... crystals, glass cyclophobia: ... bicycles
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