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Mysophobia

Definition: Mysophobia

Mysophobia

Noun

1. A morbid fear of dirt or contamination.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Mysophobia

Synonym by domain: toucher (medicine).

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Crosswords: Mysophobia

English words defined with "mysophobia": mysophobic. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mysophobia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mysophobia

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Mysophobia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-m-o-o-p-s-y"

-2 letters: yahooism.

-3 letters: hoboism, myopias, oompahs, phobias, shampoo, shopboy.

-4 letters: abmhos, abohms, bimahs, biopsy, bishop, bosomy, boyish, mishap, mopish, myopia, oompah, oomphs, phobia, poisha, shamoy, yahoos.

-5 letters: abmho, abohm, abysm, ambos, aphis, apish, bimah, bimas, booms, boomy, bosom, boyos, hobos, homos, hoops, hoyas, hypos, iambs, mashy, mayos, obias, ohias, oomph, opahs, pimas, poohs, psoai, sahib.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mysophobia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 79 73 6F 70 68 6F 62 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01111001 01110011 01101111 01110000 01101000 01101111 01100010 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#121 &#115 &#111 &#112 &#104 &#111 &#98 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0079 0073 006F 0070 0068 006F 0062 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47918581827481687567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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