misophone

plural misophones

1. A person who suffers from misophonia.

   […] [Jane Gregory] likened misophones to meerkat super guards, “able to detect the slightest hint of danger while the others forage for food and entertain the kids”.

   2025 October 11, Samantha Weinberg, “Do you have to breathe so loudly?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19

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   One teen couldn’t stand the sound of her mother sighing and, after going on anti-depressants, attempted suicide three times. Psychologists have begun to call them misophones—people with an acute reaction to specific, usually low-volume sounds. But because the condition is still poorly understood, sufferers struggle to convince their families, friends, and employers that their problem isn’t just a heightened form of neuroticism.

   2013 July 19, Charles Bethea, “The Chewing Sound and the Fury”, in New Republic