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dysmorphophobia

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/ dɪsˌmɔːfəʊˈfəʊbɪə /

noun

an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so

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dysmorphophobia

The condition was first coined by Italian psychiatrist Enrico Morselli in 1891, when he described his patient's excessive worry over imagined defects as "dysmorphophobia" — a Greek word meaning misshapenness.

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