Photophobia was the latest affliction of Afghan officialdom—by contagion, probably, from Persia which tries to nip in the bud pictures that show her not yet entirely modern.
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Photophobia
Synonyms for "photophobia" (14 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (4)
Related words (7)
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4 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- страх от светлина noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
- фотофобия noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Catalan
1 entries- fotofòbia noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 畏光 noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 畏光 noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Czech
1 entries- fotofobie noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Dutch
1 entries- fotofobie noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Finnish
1 entries- valonarkuus noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
French
1 entries- photophobie noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
German
1 entries- Photophobia noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Greek
1 entries- φωτοφοβία noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Hebrew
1 entries- פוטופוביה noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Italian
1 entries- fotofobia noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Japanese
1 entries- 羞明 noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Korean
1 entries- 수명 noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Latin
1 entries- photophobia noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Norwegian
1 entries- lysømfintlighet noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Polish
1 entries- światłowstręt noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Portuguese
1 entries- fotofobia noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Russian
2 entries- светобоя́знь noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
- фотофо́бия noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- fotofobija noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
- фотофобија noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Spanish
1 entries- fotofobia noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Swedish
2 entries- fotofobi noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
- ljusskygghet noun (excessive sensitivity to light)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Craig Armstrong doesn't want to be photographed. His record company wouldn't like it, he says, and besides he has flu so he looks a little puffy. So "orders" and vanity combine to stop the shoot, due to take place in a trendy bar in Glasgow's West End. The cynic may see alternative reasons for the 39-year-old composer's photophobia, […]
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He concludes that Mapplethorpe blocks racist photophobia by making the nudes whose penises are not visible highly erotic, while using blatantly penis-focused images to force white viewers to recognize that when they see a black man, they see him not just in possession of a large penis, but actually as a penis (Mercer 1991; Fanon 1952/2008).
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