mysophobia
\ mahy-suh-FOH-bee-uh \, noun;
1.Psychiatry . a dread of dirt or filth.
Quotes:
To a moderate degree he suffered from mysophobia , spending unusual time at his ablutions, teeth-cleaning, dressing, and in the care and arrangement of his clothes.
-- Charles K. Mills, "Some Forms of Insanity and Quasi-Insanity in Children," The American Lancet , Volume XVII, 1893
The insane symptom called " mysophobia ," or dread of foulness, which leads a patient to wash his hands perhaps a hundred times a day, hardly seems explicable without supposing a primitive impulse to clean one's self…
-- William James, "Some Human Instincts," The Popular Science Monthly , Volume XXXI, 1887
Origin:
Mysophobia is a New Latin term from the late 1800s based on the Greek mýsos meaning "filth" and phobos meaning "fear."
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