misophonia
/ˌmɪ.səˈfəʊ.ni.ə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A neurological disorder in which negative experiences, such as anger or disgust, are triggered by specific sounds.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The misophonia patients shared a similar pattern of symptoms in which an auditory or visual stimulus provoked an immediate aversive physical reaction with anger, disgust and impulsive aggression."
- "Misophonia is suspected of having also triggered at least two episodes of what the newspapers termed “cinema rage”. In Riga, Latvia, in 2011, during a screening of Black Swan, a 23-year-old man shot the person sitting next to him apparently for eating popcorn."