aporophobia
aporophobia noun: the fear of poverty or poor people; antipathy toward them both.
Noun
aporophobia (uncountable)
- The fear of poverty or poor people; antipathy toward them both.
- It's easy calling somebody a racist (and I'm not talking about skinheads or assholes shouting racist things at matches), but the problem I think it's more aporophobia (sp?) than xenophobia.2002 October 14, molecule, “I'm dissapointed ^([sic])”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet)
- In Latin America, the most dramatic results of discrimination have an element of aporophobia, that is, revulsion and hatred for the poor.2008, “Prejudice, discrimination and intergroup conflict”, in Actualidades en psicología, volume 22, number 109
- Synonyms:
- peniaphobia
aporophobia meaning in Bengali and Arabic
aporophobia in Bengali
- দারিদ্র্যের প্রতি ভয়, বিদ্বেষ
aporophobia in Arabic
- fear, dislike, or hate of poor people
- رهاب الفقراء rhāb al-fqrāʔ
Examples of aporophobia in a sentence
- We would like to introduce a term coined by Adela Cortina which arose recently and that is affiliated to that of exclusion: It is aporophobia (Cortina, 1997).2011, Xavier Mínguez López, “Local literature in a global world? Globalisation, exclusion and multiculturalism in Catalan literature for...
- Introducing aporophobia in the catalog of hate crimes is a debate that is still open.2017, V Ávila Vázquez, E Garrido Gaitán, La aporofobia como delito de odio y discriminación:
- It is necessary to confront together the populist discourses of intolerance, xenophobia, and aporophobia, which is hatred of the poor.2021, Pope Francis, Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements:
Synonyms of aporophobia
Origin of aporophobia
From Spanish aporofobia, from Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos, “indigent, poor”) + -phobia, by analogy with xenophobia. Term coined by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina in the 1990s.
Questions about aporophobia
- What does aporophobia mean?
- Aporophobia means the fear of poverty or poor people; antipathy toward them both.
- What is aporophobia in Bengali?
- Aporophobia in Bengali is দারিদ্র্যের প্রতি ভয়, বিদ্বেষ. See Aporophobia meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use aporophobia in a sentence?
- We would like to introduce a term coined by Adela Cortina which arose recently and that is affiliated to that of exclusion: It is aporophobia (Cortina, 1997).
- What part of speech is aporophobia?
- Aporophobia is a noun.
Words near aporophobia in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: aporophobia (page history and authors); aporophobia (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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