molysmophobia

molysmophobia

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek molysma, filth, infection, + phobos, fear.

Noun

molysmophobia (uncountable)

1. A morbid fear of dirt, germs or contamination.
   • 1995, Charles R. Howell, Ancestral House (page 488)

     And the psychiatrist himself did not feel totally devoid of some symptoms of molysmophobia, the obsessive fear of contagion.