Automysophobia
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An abnormal fear of being dirty. uncountable
"Fears of flatulence with a less directly social focus were discussed by Kubota (1987), who used a form of hypnotic treatment to overcome fears of flatulence in an adolescent Japanese girl. Her dread was conceptualized as automysophobia, the pathological fear of being dirty."
- 2 a morbid fear of being dirty wordnet
Example
More examples"Fears of flatulence with a less directly social focus were discussed by Kubota (1987), who used a form of hypnotic treatment to overcome fears of flatulence in an adolescent Japanese girl. Her dread was conceptualized as automysophobia, the pathological fear of being dirty."
Etymology
From auto- + mysophobia.
More for "automysophobia"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.