koumpounophobia

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The fear of buttons (clothing fasteners).

    不可数

    Meet mother-of-one Louisa Francis, whose bizarre phobia means she is terrified of buttons. The 30-year-old panics if faced with one, and is forced to flee if they are placed too near to her. To most people they are harmless but for Louisa they are a source of fear - because she has koumpounophobia.

词源

Modern Greek κουμπί (koumpí) + -phobia. The anomalous first element may be from a related form such as κουμπώνω (koumpóno), a verb.

来源:wiktionary