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misophobia

misophobia is the alternative form of mysophobia.

Meaning of mysophobia

Noun

mysophobia (usually uncountable, plural mysophobias)

  1. (usually) An abnormal fear of uncleanliness, dirt, or contamination.
    • Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia...2018 March 7, Chewie, “Artsploitation Acquires ‘A Taste of Phobia’”, in ScareTissue, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022

Questions about misophobia

What is misophobia the alternative form of?
Misophobia is the alternative form of mysophobia.

Words near misophobia in the dictionary

  1. misoperated
  2. misoperates
  3. misoperating
  4. misoperation
  5. misoperations
  6. misophobia
  7. misophone
  8. misophones
  9. misophonia
  10. misophonic
  11. misopinion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misophobia (page history and authors); mysophobia (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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