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ablutophobia

ablutophobia noun: a pathological fear of washing or bathing.

Noun

ablutophobia (uncountable)

  1. A pathological fear of washing or bathing.
    • Others, such as ablutophobia, or the fear of bathing, are just plain anti-social.2008 October 1, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in The Daily Mail

ablutophobia meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

ablutophobia in Tamil

குளிக்க, கழுவ அச்சம், வெறுப்பு

ablutophobia in Indonesian

pathological fear of washing or bathing
ablutofobia

Origin of ablutophobia

From Latin ablutio (“a washing”) + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”) (equivalent to -phobia).

Words that rhyme with ablutophobia

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Questions about ablutophobia

What does ablutophobia mean?
Ablutophobia means a pathological fear of washing or bathing.
What is ablutophobia in Tamil?
Ablutophobia in Tamil is குளிக்க, கழுவ அச்சம், வெறுப்பு. See Ablutophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ablutophobia?
Ablutophobia is a noun.

Words near ablutophobia in the dictionary

  1. ablutomania
  2. ablutomanias
  3. ablutophilia
  4. ablutophobe
  5. ablutophobes
  6. ablutophobia
  7. ablutophobic
  8. abluvion
  9. ably
  10. ablykite
  11. ABM

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ablutophobia (page history and authors); ablutophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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