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bromidrosiphobia

bromidrosiphobia noun: a fear that one has an offensive body odour.

Noun

bromidrosiphobia (uncountable)

  1. A fear that one has an offensive body odour.
    • ORD has been described around the world since the 1800s under a variety of rubrics, such as bromidrosiphobia, "fear of emitting bad odors,"...2025, Phillips, Katharine A. MD, “What Is Olfactory Reference Disorder, and How Should We Treat It?”, in Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, volume 45, number 5

bromidrosiphobia meaning in Tamil

bromidrosiphobia in Tamil

உடனாற்றவச்சம், உடல் நாற்ற வெருளி

Origin of bromidrosiphobia

From brom- (“stench, stink”) + (h)idros(is) (“sweat”) + -phobia (“fear”).

Questions about bromidrosiphobia

What does bromidrosiphobia mean?
Bromidrosiphobia means a fear that one has an offensive body odour.
What is bromidrosiphobia in Tamil?
Bromidrosiphobia in Tamil is உடனாற்றவச்சம், உடல் நாற்ற வெருளி. See Bromidrosiphobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bromidrosiphobia?
Bromidrosiphobia is a noun.

Words near bromidrosiphobia in the dictionary

  1. bromidically
  2. bromidiom
  3. bromidioms
  4. bromidism
  5. bromido
  6. bromidrosiphobia
  7. bromidrosis
  8. bromids
  9. bromigo
  10. bromigos
  11. Bromilow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bromidrosiphobia (page history and authors); bromidrosiphobia (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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