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[ah-bloo'-tah-FOE-bee-ah] 
1. pathological fear of washing or bathing: "Until Sasha discovered the joys of splashing, she would scream through her nightly bath like a baby with ablutophobia."
Origin:
Approximately 1880; from Latin, 'ablutio': a washing + Greek, '-phobia,' from 'phobos': fear. In action:
"The play, directed by Mark Rucker with wicked irreverence, is deliberately quirky and then some. The events in Edna's life include a badly written skit about date rape, the mischievous theft of a shipment of Handi Wipes and an attack of ablutophobia (which results in a repeated failure to shower). The issues include grief, forgiveness, fear of the negatively transforming powers of adulthood and the exhausting battle involved in fighting and forging identity."
Anita Gates. "Young Heroines, at Work and at Play," [Theater Review] The New York Times (November 12, 2006).
"Her character, Edna, is stuck in a dead-end job and begins to have flashbacks of her brother, who was killed in Iraq. The last time she saw him, he wouldn't get out of an empty tub. She, in turn, develops ablutophobia, refusing to bathe.
'She gets dirtier and dirtier,' Woodward says. 'I never leave the stage, which is kind of interesting. We're going to put grease in my hat and dirt on the stage. Not glamorous, really, at all.'"
Lisa Bornstein. "Play lures L.A. stars to Boulder," [Theater Review: 'The Mistakes Madeline Made'] Rocky Mountain News (August 2, 2007).
"Elizabeth Meriwether's discomfiting comedy concerns ablutophobia--the fear of washing. Edna's brother Buddy (Thomas Sadoski) had once spent several grubby weeks living in her bathtub, and he seems to have infected Edna with his neurosis. Buddy has equated ablution with absolution. He's seen terrible events in the Mideast-- events that he, as a Westerner, feels some culpability for. Since he can't absolve himself, he can't bear to bathe. In a flashback, he explains to Edna, 'You're going to take a shower and everything will fall off of you, everything that stuck to you...You can let yourself be clean, you can do that.'"
Alexis Soloski. "Naked angels play high jinks with hygiene; Radiohole lose their sea legs," The Village Voice (May 2, 2006).
"Seymour Segnit, of The Phobia Clinic, has never met a phobia that couldn't be overcome in less than 24 hours, from Ablutophobia (washing) to Zoophobia (animals). The Oxford educated expert's techniques have liberated hundreds of thousands from torment worldwide."
"ExpertSource: Experts Available to Discuss Tips on Keeping New Year's Resolutions," Business Wire (December 12, 2005).
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