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Note: if you have trypophobia (fear/disgust of irregularly spaced holes - especially in organic things) watch out for the images in this article. The example of a 'chumbox' (grid of spammy links) includes an image which made me feel a bit ill, and because it's repeated all down the article, I had to just stop reading :(

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Yeah, the article actually mentions and links to trypophobia specifically and explains why it is used.

The act of translating some random noun ('hole' in this case) and the word 'fear' into Greek does not automatically mean that a recognised mental disorder involving fear of that particular thing exists. In fact, Wikipedia cites several sources that explain this is merely a 'proposed' mental disorder [0] and is not officially recognised.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia

The fear of any particular thing is recognized in the DSM as a "specific phobia". Irrational fear of cotton balls, holes in a pattern, the color orange etc. all fit under this umbrella.

OK, that's a good point, but I still think in this case it's better to simply say that people have "a phobia of holes or objects with a pattern of holes" rather than translating the word holes into Greek to create a complicated new word for no real reason except to sound 'medical' and impressive.

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