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Definition of Mysophobic
1. Adjective. Suffering from mysophobia; abnormally afraid of dirt or contamination.
Definition of Mysophobic
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from mysophobia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mysophobic
Literary usage of Mysophobic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1894)
"(A very common belief among women during the climacteric period, who are insane,
and it is not at all uncommon for sane women to be mysophobic at this time) ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"... sane women to be mysophobic at this time). The odor to which this woman had
been accustomed suggested the means of defilement, and she insisted that ..."
3. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1893)
"Another boy,at the age of ten, began to develop the scrupulous and mysophobic
type of monomania; in fact he was, as so many of these cases are, ..."
4. Psychopathology by Edward John Kempf (1920)
"... 662; Comparison with mysophobic Compulsions in Attempts to Eliminate Anal
Erotic Cravings, 662; Case of Insidious Development. of Anal Eroticism and the ..."
5. Text-book of nervous diseases by Charles Loomis Dana (1901)
"... the arm or leg on acccount of this hallucination, just as the mysophobic
patient is afraid to touch anything on account of the fear of contamination. ..."
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