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heteroprejudice

heteroprejudice noun: prejudice against heterosexual people.

Noun

heteroprejudice (uncountable)

  1. Prejudice against heterosexual people.
    • Recognize and address the effects of externalized and internalized homoprejudice or heteroprejudice and biprejudice.2002, Bob Barret, Robert L. Barret, Colleen Logan, Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: A Practice Primer, page 119
    • Counselors who are tuned to recognizing homoprejudice may be surprised to encounter heteroprejudice when working with gay clients.2014, Matt Englar-Carlson, Marcheta P. Evans, Thelma Duffy, A Counselor's Guide to Working With Men, page 124
  2. Prejudice expressed by heterosexual people against other groups.
    • You can emotionally support survivors by sharing that they are the victims of heteroprejudice and, regardless of whom we are, nobody has a right to violate our property or us.2001, Daya Singh Sandhu, Faces of Violence

heteroprejudice meaning in Bengali

heteroprejudice in Bengali

বিষমকামী ব্যক্তিদের প্রতি বিদ্বেষ, পূর্বগ্রহ

Origin of heteroprejudice

From hetero- + prejudice.

Questions about heteroprejudice

What does heteroprejudice mean?
Heteroprejudice means prejudice against heterosexual people.
What is heteroprejudice in Bengali?
Heteroprejudice in Bengali is বিষমকামী ব্যক্তিদের প্রতি বিদ্বেষ, পূর্বগ্রহ. See Heteroprejudice meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is heteroprejudice?
Heteroprejudice is a noun.

Words near heteroprejudice in the dictionary

  1. heteropolytungstates
  2. heteropopulation
  3. heteropopulations
  4. heteroporous
  5. heteropraxy
  6. heteroprejudice
  7. heteroprotein
  8. heteropter
  9. heteropteran
  10. heteropterans
  11. heteropterology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heteroprejudice (page history and authors); heteroprejudice (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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