mysophobia

1. 1.

   a morbid fear of dirt or contamination

   Broadersimple phobia

Other forms of mysophobia

plural

mysophobias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mysophobia

What does mysophobia mean?

mysophobia means "a morbid fear of dirt or contamination".

How many syllables are in mysophobia?

mysophobia has 5 syllables and divides as my-so-pho-bi-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.