different between hyperhygienist vs hygiene

English

Etymology

hyper- +? hygienist

Adjective

hyperhygienist (comparative more hyperhygienist, superlative most hyperhygienist)

1. Being too hygienic.
2. (derogatory, agriculture, environment) Having an overemphasis on "safety" or "cleanliness" as defined only for the consumer, that effectively forces the use of pesticides, other chemicals, or even requires or encourages genetically modified organisms to prevent insects; and applied to certain agricultural policies, laws, food regulations, wholesale food buying rules, and tax, tariff and trade measures by advocates of organic farming.

English

Etymology

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ??????? (?????) (hugiein? (tékhn?), literally “art of health”), from ???????? (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ????? (hugi?s, “healthy, sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?'j?n, IPA^(key): /?ha??d?i?n/

Noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

1. The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
2. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.

3. Cleanliness.

4. (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• hygiene in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hygiene in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk