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MYSOPHOBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mysophobia mean?
• MYSOPHOBIA (noun)
The noun MYSOPHOBIA has 1 sense:
1. a morbid fear of dirt or contamination
Familiarity information: MYSOPHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A morbid fear of dirt or contamination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("mysophobia" is a kind of...):
simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)
Derivation:
mysophobic (suffering from mysophobia; abnormally afraid of dirt or contamination)
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