coprophobia

English

Etymology

From copro- (“excrement”) +‎ -phobia (“from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos) (fear)”).

Noun

coprophobia (uncountable)

  1. A fear of feces.
    Synonym: scatophobia
    • 1997, Klaus Ewe, V.F. Eckardt, P. Enck, Constipation and Ano-Rectal Insufficiency‎[1]:
      Human coprophobia appears to have developed gradually, and was reflected in an increasing demand for, first, privacy for defaecation […]
    • 2018 March 7, Chewie, “Artsploitation Acquires ‘A Taste of Phobia’”, in ScareTissue‎[2]:
      Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia (fear of cooking) and oneirophobia (fear of dreams).
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