misophonia

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌmɪ.səˈfəʊ.ni.ə/

Definition of misophonia

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)A neurological disorder in which negative experiences, such as anger or disgust, are triggered by specific sounds.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From miso- (“hatred”) + -phonia.

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