My girlfriend has a great distaste for washing dishes. She suggests this is due to her "dishphobia". I told her there had to be a better word but after looking I could not find a term for this phenomenon. Any suggestions?
I think the word lazy might fit nicely, but you're looking for something more subtle? People who hate to wash dishes are far too common to be a phenomenon. Dishphobia doesn't work because she's not afraid of dishes; I'm sure she had no problem eating the food on those same terrifying dishes.
Maybe we can help you find a better word if you give us more personal information. How do the two of you handle the cooking/cleaning part of your relationship? If she cooks, who cleans? And if you cook, who cleans? Hoosier, if you do all of the cooking and she expects you to do all of the cleaning as well, telling you stories about her dishphobia, I think it's time for you to find a new girlfriend rather than a new word!
I am not willing to assume that laziness is the root cause, and therefore I would offer up chinablutophobia if the issue is truly a fear of cleaning the dishes.
However in the event that it IS just laziness, perhaps chinapathy?
Well, I know that whatever it's called, I'm afflicted with the same thing.
Lavaplatophobia, maybe?
I have the same problem, I have a death fear of dirty dishes.
Dishes themselves do not scare me, it's just when they are dirty. When my own plate is dirty in front of me it's fine, but if you take that same plate away from me and then put it back 5 minutes later still dirty, I would be terrified of it.
People calling it lazyness are stupid. I clean the all floors, bathrooms and bedrooms in my house, but I just can't do the dishes. I literally gag at the sight of a dirty dish. So my husband just does them for me instead.