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fatphobia

fatphobia noun: fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.

Noun

fatphobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.
    • Near-synonyms: sizeism, weightism
    • This is because medical authorities and proponents of public health are drawing from and amplifying the Western cultural fear and loathing of fatness, or fatphobia, with claims about a global 'obesity epidemic' (WHO 1998).2008, Lee F. Monaghan, Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study, Routledge, published 2008, →ISBN, page 1
    Antonyms:
    fat acceptance
  2. Synonym of lipophobia (“fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat”)
    Synonyms:
    lipophobia

fatphobia meaning in Persian

fatphobia in Persian

fear or dislike towards fat people
چاقی-شرمی čâqi-šarrmey

Examples of fatphobia in a sentence

  • Celebrity culture is intricately tied to fatphobia.2009, Crystal Renn, Marjorie Ingall, Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, Simon and...
  • There are a lot of ways for people in the obese/eligible category to feel about it: […] Ambivalent about fatphobia in medicine working in their favor, for once.2021 March 9, Maura Judkis, “People are getting vaccinated due to their BMI. They have mixed feelings about it”, in Washington Post:

Synonyms of fatphobia

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Origin of fatphobia

c. 1980s, fat + -phobia

Questions about fatphobia

What does fatphobia mean?
Fatphobia means fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.
What is fatphobia in Persian?
Fatphobia in Persian is چاقی-شرمی (čâqi-šarrmey). See Fatphobia meaning in Persian.
How do you use fatphobia in a sentence?
Celebrity culture is intricately tied to fatphobia.
What part of speech is fatphobia?
Fatphobia is a noun.

Words near fatphobia in the dictionary

  1. fatpads
  2. fatphile
  3. fatphiles
  4. fatphobe
  5. fatphobes
  6. fatphobia
  7. fatphobic
  8. fats
  9. fats up
  10. fatshame
  11. fatshamed

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