mysophobia
mysophobia noun: an abnormal fear of uncleanliness, dirt, or contamination.
Noun
mysophobia (usually uncountable, plural mysophobias)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- rhypophobia, ablutomania
mysophobia meaning in Tamil
mysophobia in Tamil
- தூசி பற்றிய கிலி, அழுக்கு அச்சம், தூய்மையின்மை அச்சம்
Synonyms of mysophobia
Forms of mysophobia
| plural | mysophobias |
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Origin of mysophobia
From myso- + -phobia.
Words formed from mysophobia
Questions about mysophobia
- What does mysophobia mean?
- Mysophobia means an abnormal fear of uncleanliness, dirt, or contamination.
- What is mysophobia in Tamil?
- Mysophobia in Tamil is தூசி பற்றிய கிலி, அழுக்கு அச்சம், தூய்மையின்மை அச்சம். See Mysophobia meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is mysophobia?
- Mysophobia is a noun.
- What is the plural of mysophobia?
- The plural of mysophobia is mysophobias.
Words near mysophobia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mysophobia (page history and authors); mysophobia (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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