Meanings
- uncountableA neurological disorder in which negative experiences, such as anger or disgust, are triggered by specific sounds.
The misophonia patients shared a similar pattern of symptoms in which an auditory or visual stimulus provoked an immediate aversive physical reaction with anger, disgust and impulsive aggression.
2013 January 23, Arjan Schröder et al., “Misophonia: Diagnostic Criteria for a New Psychiatric Disorder”, in PLOS One, →DOI1 more example
Misophonia is suspected of having also triggered at least two episodes of what the newspapers termed “cinema rage”. In Riga, Latvia, in 2011, during a screening of Black Swan, a 23-year-old man shot the person sitting next to him apparently for eating popcorn.
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
Origin
From miso- (“hatred”) + -phonia.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish misofonia
- misofonianeurological disorder
Greek μισοφωνία
- μισοφωνία (misofonía)neurological disorder
Polish mizofonia
- mizofonianeurological disorder
Turkish mizofoni
- mizofonineurological disorder
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misophonia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misophonia
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