rupophobic

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/ɹu.pəʊˈfəʊ.bik/

adjective

Suffering from rupophobia; having an irrational fear of dirt and rubbish.

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Meanings

adjectiverupophobic (comparative more rupophobic, superlative most rupophobic)

comparative more rupophobic · superlative most rupophobic

  1. Suffering from rupophobia; having an irrational fear of dirt and rubbish.

    It all communicates that we're rupophobic.

    2022, Caleb Wilde, All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak, page 132
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    His letters home from the voyage describe none of the eccentric passengers he would later evoke in his memoire, Going Solo: the nudist athletes Major Griffiths and his wife, for example, or the rupophobic Miss Trefusis.

    2011, Donald Sturrock, Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, page 104

    We are so influenced by media-driven campaigns for absolute cleanliness that we risk becoming rupophobic, afraid to get anything soiled, to show dirt, to reveal those bad things inside of us, but also to be contaminated from contact from others, with people who are different from us.

    2022, Cosimo Schinaia, Psychoanalysis and Ecology, page 65

    Synonyms: mysophobic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveSuffering from rupophobia; having an irrational fear of dirt and rubbish.

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