automysophobia

Noun

automysophobia (uncountable)

1. An abnormal fear of being dirty.
   • Fears of flatulence with a less directly social focus were discussed by Kubota (1987), who used a form of hypnotic treatment to overcome fears of flatulence in an adolescent Japanese girl. Her dread was conceptualized as automysophobia, the pathological fear of being dirty.2012, Nick Haslam, Psychology in the Bathroom, →ISBN, page 59
   • His father physically abused him as a child (see Kürten and Gein), his mother mollycoddled him (see Gein), and his four sisters taunted and bullied him for his effeminacy, hypochondria, and fear of dirt —he suffered from automysophobia (fear of being dirty) and mysophobia (fear of dirt).2014, Steve Finbow, Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia, →ISBN