Usually means: Sensitivity or aversion to light.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word photophobia:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. photophobia: Merriam-Webster
  2. photophobia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. photophobia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. photophobia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. photophobia: Vocabulary.com
  6. photophobia: Wordnik
  7. photophobia: Wiktionary
  8. photophobia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. photophobia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. photophobia: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. photophobia: Dictionary.com
  12. Photophobia (biology), Photophobia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Photophobia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. photophobia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. photophobia: Rhymezone
  16. photophobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Photophobia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. photophobia: FreeDictionary.org
  19. photophobia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. photophobia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. photophobia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. photophobia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. photophobia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Photophobia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Photophobia: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  10. Photophobia: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  11. photophobia: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  12. photophobia: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  13. photophobia: Medical dictionary
  14. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  15. Photophobia: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Photophobia: The Phobia List

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. photophobia: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See photophobias as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (photophobia)

noun:  (medicine) Excessive sensitivity to light and the aversion to bright light; abnormal fear of light.
noun:  An aversion to or fear of being photographed, the dissemination of personal photographs, or viewing photographs.

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