Dirt Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Dirt Information and Meaning

See also CLEANLINESS; SOIL

aischrolatreia

a devotion to or worship of filth and obscenity.

automysophobia

Rare. an abnormal fear of being dirty.

feculence, feculency

1. the condition of being befouled or besmirched.

2. the material causing this condition. —feculent, adj.

fuliginosity

1. the state or condition of being sooty or smoky.

2. soot or smoke. —fuliginous, adj.

maculacy

the state or quality of being blemished, stained, or spotted, as with dirt. Also maculation. —maculate, adj.

misophobia, musophobia, mysophobia

an abnormal fear of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt.

mysophilia

an abnormal attraction to filth.

rhypophobia

an abnormal fear of filth.