hygeiolatry

== English == === Etymology === hygiene +‎ -o- +‎ -latry. Attested as early as 1882. === Noun === hygeiolatry (uncountable) (archaic, derogatory) Excessive attention paid to bodily health, at the expense of morality or religion. “Hygeiolatry,” in The Peak in Darien (Boston, 1882), pp. 81–91. By Frances Power Cobbe