Rupophobic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɹu.pəʊˈfəʊ.bik/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Rupophobic is an adjective meaning Suffering from rupophobia; having an irrational fear of dirt and rubbish.
Meaning
Suffering from rupophobia; having an irrational fear of dirt and rubbish.
Example Sentences
It all communicates that we're rupophobic.
His letters home from the voyage describe none of the eccentric passengers he would later evoke in his memoire, Going Solo: the nudist athletes Major Griffiths and his wife, for example, or the rupophobic Miss Trefusis.
We are so influenced by media-driven campaigns for absolute cleanliness that we risk becoming rupophobic, afraid to get anything soiled, to show dirt, to reveal those bad things inside of us, but also to be contaminated from contact from others, with people who are different from us.
Synonyms for rupophobic
Depending on context, synonyms include mysophobic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include whorephobic, germophobic, phobic, bacteriophobic, genophobic, cosmophobic.
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