different between aversion vs photophobia

English

Etymology

From Middle French aversion, from Latin ?versi?. Doublet of aversio.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v??n/
• Hyphenation: aver?sion

Noun

aversion (countable and uncountable, plural aversions)

1. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike.

   Synonyms: antipathy, disinclination, reluctance

2. An object of dislike or repugnance.

   Synonym: abomination

3. (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

Related terms

• averse
• avert

Translations

See also

• adverse

Anagrams

• vairones, veraison

Finnish

Noun

aversion

1. Genitive singular form of aversio.

Anagrams

• versiona

French

Etymology

From Latin aversionem

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.v??.sj??/

Noun

aversion f (plural aversions)

1. aversion

English

Alternative forms

• photophobism

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??bi?

Etymology 1

photo- +? -phobia

Noun

photophobia (usually uncountable, plural photophobias)

1. (medicine) Excessive sensitivity to light and the aversion to bright light; abnormal fear of light.

Translations

Etymology 2

photo (“photograph”) +? -phobia

Noun

photophobia (uncountable)

1. An aversion to or fear of being photographed, the dissemination of personal photographs, or viewing photographs.
   • 1947, Ella K. Maillart, The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939, University of Chicago Press (2013), ?ISBN, page 152:

     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.

   • 1998, Barry Didcock, "How to score with Madonna (or U2 or Leonard DiCaprio)", The Scotsman, 2 April 1998:

     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, […]

   • 2013, Douglas Crimp, "'Tell a Story, Save a Life' (Montage 1987-89)", in The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (eds. Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie, & Thomas Waugh), McGill-Queen's University Press (2013), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     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).