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A broad literature indicates that pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity relate to, among other things, political attitudes, moral condemnation, and symptoms of psychopathology. Consequently, disgust sensitivity has been widely assessed across subfields of psychology. Yet, no work has examined whether self-reports in disgust sensitivity reflect systematic trait variation that is detectable by others, and the extent to which such variation is distinct from broader personality. Here, we present the first study to examine self–other agreement in pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity. Romantic partners (n₁= 290), friends (n₂= 212), and acquaintances (n₃= 140) rated each other on these three domains of disgust sensitivity and on HEXACO personality. Correlations between dyad partners’ self and other ratings were calculated to estimate the magnitude of self–other agreement. We found self–other …