photophobia

1. 1.

   a morbid fear of light

   Broadersimple phobia
2. 2.

   pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)

   Synonymsphotalgia

   Broaderpain

Other forms of photophobia

plural

photophobias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about photophobia

What does photophobia mean?

photophobia means "a morbid fear of light". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in photophobia?

photophobia has 5 syllables: pho-to-pho-bi-a. The stress falls on "pho".

What is another word for photophobia?

Close synonyms include photalgia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is photophobia a common word?

photophobia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.