misophonia

English

Etymology

From miso- (“hatred”) +‎ -phonia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌmɪ.səˈfəʊ.ni.ə/

Noun

misophonia (uncountable)

  1. A neurological disorder in which negative experiences, such as anger or disgust, are triggered by specific sounds.
    • 2013 January 23, Arjan Schröder et al., “Misophonia: Diagnostic Criteria for a New Psychiatric Disorder”, in PLOS One, →DOI:
      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.
    • 2025 October 11, Samantha Weinberg, “Do you have to breathe so loudly?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
      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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