Meanings
nounhygienism (uncountable)
- uncountableThe practice of hygiene.
The new hygienism beginning in the 1890s, on the other hand, dealt with the most private and intimate: clothing, the bedroom, personal cleanliness.
2005, Miriam R. Levin, Cultures of Control, page 96
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