Hygeiolatry

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Excessive attention paid to bodily health, at the expense of morality or religion. archaic, derogatory, uncountable

    "“Hygeiolatry,” in The Peak in Darien (Boston, 1882), pp. 81–91. By Frances Power Cobbe"

Etymology

hygiene + -o- + -latry. Attested as early as 1882.

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