It is a strange social phobia, since it is not only the reaction of pathological facial flushing to emotional stimuli but the fear felt when blushing before other people. Like all names of phobias (or near) this one comes from the Greek, by 949; 961; 949; 965; 952; 969; ( ereutho "blush" ) 966; 959; 946; 959; 962; ( fovos "fear" ) . It is also often called erythrophobia, although this is more associated with the "fear of the color red".
