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Hygienic vs Hyperhygienist - What's the difference?

hygienic | hyperhygienist |

As adjectives the difference between hygienic and hyperhygienist

is that hygienic is pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary while hyperhygienist is being too hygienic.

hygienic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary.
  • (computing, slang, of a macro) Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
  • Antonyms

    * unhygienic

    hyperhygienist

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being too hygienic.
  • (pejorative, 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.