mysophilia

[ mahy-suh-fil-ee-uh ]

nounPsychiatry.
  1. a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.

Origin of mysophilia

1
1955–60; <New Latin, equivalent to myso- (<Greek mýsos filth) + -philia-philia

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