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septophobia (s) (noun), septophobias (pl)
1. An excessive fear of decaying matter: Septophobia refers to the anxieties that some people have about being in contact with dirt, impurity, pollution, and disease-producing substances.
2. Etymology: from Greek sep, "decay" + phobia."fear".
This entry is located in the following units: phobo-, phob-, -phobia, -phobias, -phobe, -phobiac, -phobist, -phobic, -phobism, -phobous (page 37) sepsi-, sep-, septi-, septico-, septo-, -sepsis, -septic, -septicemia, -septicemic (page 3)