symmetrophobia love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An imagined dread or supposed intentional avoidance of architectural or structural symmetry, or its result, as exhibited in the unsymmetrical structure of Egyptian temples, and very widely in Japanese art.

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  • JM is perfectly well balanced about his occasional symmetrophobia

    September 25, 2009

  • JM reckons symmetrophobia sufferers are unbalanced

    November 22, 2009