MYSOPHOBIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A morbid fear of dirt or contamination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mysophobia" is a kind of...):

simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)

Derivation:

mysophobic (suffering from mysophobia; abnormally afraid of dirt or contamination)

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