germophobia
nounEtymology From germ + -o- + -phobia.
1
Pathological fear of germs.
- American democracy still prefers candidates to go from door to door and picnic to picnic, shaking hands. Trump is going have to conquer his self-confessed germophobia if he’s going to win2016 February 2, Timothy Stanley, “Donald Trump bid badly wounded in Iowa”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2016:
- Synonyms
- mysophobia, bacillophobia, bacteriophobia, ablutomania
- Related terms
- germophobe, germophobic