cacothymia

/kakəʊˈθʌɪmɪə/

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noun

"‘This peevish attention to cleanliness, Jack, this busy preoccupation with dirt,’ said Stephen, shaking his head at the fire, ‘has something of the Brahminical superstition about it. It is not very far removed from nastiness, Jack – from cacothymia.’"

From caco- + -thymia. From Ancient Greek κακός (kakós, “bad”) + θύμος (thúmos, “warty excresence like a thyme bud; the thymus gland”).

cacothymias (plural)

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The recorded pronunciation is /kakəʊˈθʌɪmɪə/.

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Where does cacothymia come from?

From caco- + -thymia. From Ancient Greek κακός (kakós, “bad”) + θύμος (thúmos, “warty excresence like a thyme bud; the thymus gland”).

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