molysmophobia
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ancient Greek molysma, filth, infection, + phobos, fear.
Noun
[edit]molysmophobia (uncountable)
- A morbid fear of dirt, germs or contamination.
- 1995, Charles R. Howell, Ancestral House, page 488:
- And the psychiatrist himself did not feel totally devoid of some symptoms of molysmophobia, the obsessive fear of contagion.