1. An obsessional fear of bathing: "Activities based on ablutophobia may include avoidance by long periods without washing, an abnormal anxiety when even considering washing or when they are actually trying to wash, and even their excessive dread when they see other people who are washing."
2. Those people who fear water or are afraid of being seen in the nude: "Some people who have ablutophobias are overly anxious that their bodies will be criticized or compared with those of others; while some other ablutophobiacs simply have an abnormal fear of being in warm or cold water."

"The ablutophobias which the patient suffered included being terribly afraid of going near swimming pools."