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Chivalry Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Formal versions of "cleanliness nut"

Can anybody think of a formal expression to indicate somebody who's highly concerned about hygience?

And one more question,

What is a "antal-retentive" cleanliness nut? Sounds so dirty to me...
  

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Dear Chivalry, We rarely get any feedback from you - are you satisfied with the answers you get here? People are often compulsive about hygiene (not hygience). **** -retentive (not antal-retentive) is a psychiatric term used to describe symptoms of several diseases.

— JohnParis

  • Dear Chivalry, We rarely get any feedback from you - are you satisfied with the answers you get here?
  • People are often compulsive about hygiene (not hygience).
  • **** -retentive (not antal-retentive) is a psychiatric term used to describe symptoms of several diseases.
  • You might wish to Google the term - it's complicated but it is not "dirty".
  • Being a "nut" for something is slang for being really interested in something.
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Dear Chivalry,

We rarely get any feedback from you - are you satisfied with the answers you get here?

People are often compulsive about hygiene(not hygience).

****-retentive (not antal-retentive) is a psychiatric term used
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Some formal adjectives are: Fastidious, meticulous, or scrupulous concerning their personal hygiene

****-retentive (somewhat pejorative now) is a term from Freudian psychology in the height of its popularity in the 1960s-70s. It describes a person with personality traits (as frugality and obstinacy) held to be the adverse psychological consequences of toilet training.

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AlpheccaStarsSome formal adjectives are: Fastidious, meticulous, or scrupulous concerning their personal hygiene

****-retentive (somewhat pejorative now) is a term from Freudian psychology in the height of its popularity in the 1960s-70s. It describes a person with personality traits (as frugality and obstinacy) held to be the adverse psychological consequenc
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chivalry"adverse psychological consequences of toilet training",
During toilet training, children can be punished for making mistakes and being dirty. This might have life-long psychological consequences (at least, according to the Freudians) - such as guilt, fixation on self-control and being clean, etc.
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