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ethnophilia

ethnophilia noun: unnatural obsession with ethnicity or race.

Noun

ethnophilia (uncountable)

  1. Unnatural obsession with ethnicity or race.
    • "Non-Russian nationalism of all kinds appeared so natural and the Russian version of marxist universalism appeared so natural or so universalist, that most of these scholars failed to notice the chronic ethnophilia of the Soviet regime…"1994, Yuri Slezkine, "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review, Vol. 53, No. 2., 414-415...
    • "This shift from National-Socialism and "racist ethnophobia" to cultural ethnophilia does not transform the New Right into a non-racist movement."2000, Alberto Spektorowski, "The French New Right: Differentialism and the Idea of Ethnophilian Exclusionism," Polity, Vol. 33, No. 2., 293...
    Synonyms:
    ethnomania

Synonyms of ethnophilia

Origin of ethnophilia

From ethno- + -philia.

Questions about ethnophilia

What does ethnophilia mean?
Ethnophilia means unnatural obsession with ethnicity or race.
What part of speech is ethnophilia?
Ethnophilia is a noun.

Words near ethnophilia in the dictionary

  1. ethnophaulic
  2. ethnophaulism
  3. ethnophaulisms
  4. ethnophile
  5. ethnophiles
  6. ethnophilia
  7. ethnophilic
  8. ethnophilosopher
  9. ethnophilosophers
  10. ethnophilosophical
  11. ethnophilosophies

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