Usually means: Fear of opening one's eyes.
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  1. optophobia: Wiktionary
  2. optophobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  3. optophobia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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  1. Optophobia: The Phobia List

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Definitions from Wiktionary (optophobia)

▸ noun:  The fear of opening one's eyes.

Similar:
catoptrophobia, oneirophobia, eisoptrophobia, odontophobia, scopophobia, clinophobia, phobiaphobia, tokophobe, scoptophobia, ecophobia, more...

Opposite:
photophobia, fear of light

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Similar:
catoptrophobia, oneirophobia, eisoptrophobia, odontophobia, scopophobia, clinophobia, phobiaphobia, tokophobe, scoptophobia, ecophobia, more...

Opposite:
photophobia, fear of light



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