U.S. [f. COLOR + Gr. -φοβια horror: see -PHOBIA.] Aversion to persons of color, i.e., the ‘colored’ or negro race.
1838. Liberator (Boston), 6 July, 3/5. They are bitterness and colorphobia personified.
1863. W. Phillips, Speeches, iii. 48. The Mayor and Aldermen … have been such slaves of colorphobia, that they did not choose to execute this law.
1886. Boston (Mass.) Jrnl., 23 Oct., 6/6. Colorphobia in Chicago.
