Scotophobian.1
/ˌskɒtə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə/, U.S. /ˌskɑdəˈfoʊbiə/ Intense aversion or hostility towards Scotland, its people, or its culture.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > fear or dislike of other nations > [noun] > specific nations
Anglophobia1793
Gallophobia1803
anti-Gallicanism1805
Scotophobia1828
Russophobia1836
anti-Americanism1844
Germanophobia1852
Francophobia1870
Russophobism1875
Sinophobia1876
Teutophobia1876
Judaeophobia1881
Teutonophobia1886
Germophobia1887
Teutophobism1904
anti-Britishism1909
Sovietophobia1955
1828 M. Dods Anglicanus Scotched 5 He has been driven to his pen by the influence of a sort of Scotophobia.
1862 Caledonian Mercury 18 Jan. No true-hearted Scot..would hesitate to contribute his mite to pay the physician who could work out a cure of this melancholy Scotophobia–Anglomania disease.
1895 J. M. Bulloch Hist. Univ. of Aberdeen vii. 57 Dr. Johnson found a fine opportunity for venting his Scotophobia when he had his fling at Boece's College salary.
1953 Times 3 June 26/2 A manifestation of English nationalism and of that Scotophobia, which the results of Flodden and of Solway Moss had done little to abate.
1974 Listener 25 Apr. 520/3 There is undoubtedly a strong streak of Scotophobia in the English character.
2006 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 12 Nov. d11 A faint whiff of Scotophobia, fuelled by gripes about excessive Scottish demands on the ‘English’ treasury.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scotophobian.2
/ˌskəʊtə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə/, U.S. /ˌskoʊdoʊˈfoʊbiə/, /ˌskoʊdəˈfoʊbiə/ Fear or dislike of the dark. Also (Zoology and Bacteriology): movement away from darkness; preference for an illuminated environment.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational fears
pneumatophobia1678
hydrophobia1760
aerophobia1771
panophobia1784
phobia1786
pantophobia1807
necrophobia1833
phoby1834
syphilomania1838
hippophobia1840
phonophobia1841
syphilophobia1842
scotophobia1844
astrophobia1855
sitomania1859
sitophobia1859
thanatophobia1860
Satanophobia1861
batrachophobia1863
panphobia1870
agoraphobia1871
bogyphobia1872
pathophobia1873
aquaphobia1875
toxiphobia1876
claustrophobia1879
cynophobia1879
mysophobia1879
siderodromophobia1879
phthisiophobia1883
sitiophobia1884
ochlophobia1885
sitiomania1887
acrophobia1888
zoophobia1888
leprophobia1889
nosophobia1889
pamphobia1890
bacteriophobia1894
tuberculophobia1894
taeniiphobia1897
thalassophobia1897
topophobia1899
dysmorphophobia1900
akathisia1903
cremnophobia1903
musicophobia1903
ailurophobia1905
brontophobia1905
phobism1914
arachnophobia1925
school phobia1930
coprophobia1934
mycophobia1957
arachniphobia1966
computer phobia1972
coulrophobia1997
1844 Downside Mag. Sept. 102 This dread, or the undefined vestiges of it, is the cause of this, if we may coin the word, Scotophobia.
1895 Med. Bull. (Philadelphia) Aug. 308/2 Such are, for instance,..the fear of solitude, or monophobia; of obscurity, or scotophobia.
1938 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 372 Photo-phobia (in some animals) sufficiently strong to make them go always to D; the opposite trait, ‘a-photo-phobia’ or ‘scoto-phobia’ being present in an equal proportion of the animals.
1985 Copeia No. 4. 1004/2 There is a marked transition from scotophilia (preference to remain in the shaded areas of an experimental tank) to scotophobia (preference to remain in the light area) in some fishes.
2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 4 Aug. (Features section) 18 Celebrity phobias. Joan Collins and Margaret Thatcher—scotophobia (fear of the dark).
Derivatives
scotoˈphobic adj. of, relating to, or exhibiting scotophobia.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > having irrational fears
hydrophobous1748
necrophobic1857
pantophobic1857
agoraphobic1878
claustrophobic1889
pantophobous1893
phobic1897
ailurophobic1905
claustrophobiac1934
scotophobic1936
phobiac1944
mycophobic1957
school-phobic1960
aquaphobic1968
ochlophobic1976
computer-phobic1983
arachniphobe1984
1936 S. Ishida in Sci. Papers Inst. Physical & Chem. Res. 30 196 I shall call hereafter in the present paper the individuals which swim toward light as ‘skotophobic’.
1971 New Scientist 3 June 559/3 The scotophobic effect seems to be very specific for this structure.
1994 Nature 14 July 104/1 Scotophobic behaviour is typical of motile purple bacteria, is independent of the direction of illumination, and does not occur if the light intensity is reduced only gradually.
2005 Photosynthesis Res. 83 25 Engelmann..discovered..the scotophobic response, photokinesis, and photosynthesis of purple bacteria.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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