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MYSOPHOBIA
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I. (noun)
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)