The internet, of course, helped. I quickly discovered that the condition has a name, trypophobia, though it was only given this name in 2005, and the scientific literature about the condition only ...

Trypophobia, which may affect many people, is a term coined from the Greek words "trypa" (hole) and "phobos" (fear). The term ...

And hundreds of smartphone users now claim the new design has triggered their "trypophobia", an aversion to the sight of clusters of small holes. The term "trypophobia" was first coined in 2005 in ...