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disposophobia

noun

Etymology

From dispose + -o- + -phobia.

  1. borrowed from disposer
  2. formed as disposophobia — “dispose + -o- + -phobia”

Definitions

  1. Fear or dislike of disposing of items

    Fear or dislike of disposing of items; a tendency to hoard things.

    • Compulsive hoarding (or pathological hoarding or disposophobia) is the selfish acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or discard them)...
    • The fear of throwing things away. Disposophobia, I remembered. A disease immortalized by the legendary Collyer brothers, who'd been found dead in their mess in a Harlem brownstone.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA