antibathing

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ bathing.

Adjective

antibathing (comparative more antibathing, superlative most antibathing)

1. opposed to bathing.
   • 2012, John Ralston Saul, Dark Diversions: A Traveler's Tale, Penguin Canada, →ISBN:

     The old man belonged to the antibathing school once so popular in France.

   • 2014, Liam Leonard, Sya B. Kedzior, Occupy the Earth: Global Environmental Movements, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 106:

     There exists significant doubt about the practicability of an antibathing and antiworship campaign in a country with 800 million practicing Hindus who come to the river by the tens of millions each year to bathe and worship.

   • 2019, Pamela K. Gilbert, Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 153:

     Antibathing beliefs common in the eighteenth century—that bathing was dangerous, that dirt protected the skin and health of children—seem to have become completely outmoded among the middle and upper classes by the mid-nineteenth century, but are said by various writers to have persisted for a while among some working-class and rural people.