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dysmorphophobia, n. Psychiatry.
Brit. |dɪsˌmɔːfə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə|, U.S. |ˈˌdɪsˌmɔrfəˈfoʊbiə|
[‹ ancient Greek δύσµορϕος misshapen (> prefix + -µορϕος -morph comb. form) + -phobia comb. form, after Italian dismorfofobia (E. Morselli 1891 in Boll. Accad. Med. (Genoa) 6 110).]
Originally: pathological fear of being or becoming physically deformed. Later: spec. = body dysmorphic disorder n. at body n. Additions
1900W. A. N. Dorland Med. Dict. 216/1 Dysmorphophobia, insane fear of becoming deformed. 1909W. F. Robertson & T. C. Mackenzie tr. E. Tanzi Text-bk. Mental Dis. xviii. 551 Dysmorphophobia.—This condition..is the teratological chapter of pathophobia, since it consists in the dread of being, or becoming, deformed. 1962Psychol. Abstr. 36 372/2 On the clinical significance of the syndrome of dysmorphophobia. 1977Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 134673 Patients with dysmorphophobia are usually young and perfectionistic and have both schizoid and narcissistic traits. 1994Daily Mail (Nexis) 18 Jan. 18 Imagined ugliness syndrome, or dysmorphophobia, has been indentified as a new disorder which, like anorexia and bulimia, can blight women's lives. 2000K. Phillips in W. K. Goodman et al. Obsessive-compulsive Disorder ii. 24 It has been described for more than 100 years and reported around the world under such rubrics as dysmorphophobia, beauty hypochondria, dermatologic hypochondriasis, and Hässlichkeitskümmerer (‘one who is worried about being ugly’). |