Meanings
nounmolysmophobia (uncountable)
- uncountableA morbid fear of dirt, germs or contamination.
And the psychiatrist himself did not feel totally devoid of some symptoms of molysmophobia, the obsessive fear of contagion.
1995, Charles R. Howell, Ancestral House, page 488
Origin
Ancient Greek molysma, filth, infection, + phobos, fear.
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