homophobia
Syllables: ho·mo·pho·bia/ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/US/ˌhoʊ.məˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
homophobia noun: hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals. Also the deliberate misspelling of heterochromia.
Noun (1)
homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)
- Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.
- He lost his racism when he worked with a black man in Chicago. He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 45–46
- Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC
- Synonyms:
- gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia, heterosexism, homoerotophobia, homomisia, homophobism
- Antonyms:
- homomania
- Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBTQ people in general.
- Synonyms:
- LGBTphobia, LGBTQphobia, queerphobia
Noun (2)
homophobia (uncountable)
- A pathological fear of mankind.
- Synonyms:
- anthropophobia
Also used as
homophobia is also the deliberate misspelling of heterochromia.
homophobia meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
homophobia in Hindi
- fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
- होमोफोबिया homophobiyā
homophobia in Tamil
- ஹோமோபோபியா
homophobia in Marathi
- होमोफोबिया
homophobia in Urdu
- fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
- ہوموفوبیا homofobyā
More languagesFewer languages
- homophobia in Bengali
- হোমোফোবিয়া
- homophobia in Telugu
- హోమోఫోబియా
- homophobia in Malayalam
- ഹോമോഫോബിയ
- homophobia in Kannada
- ಹೋಮೋಫೋಬಿಯಾ, ಹೋಮೊಫೋಬಿಯಾ
- homophobia in Punjabi
- ਹੋਮੋਫੋਬੀਆ
- homophobia in Gujarati
- હોમોફોબિયા, હોમોફોબીયા
- homophobia in Odia
- ହୋମୋଫୋବିଆ
- homophobia in Nepali
- होमोफोबिया
- homophobia in Arabic
- رُهَاب اَلْمِثْلِيَّة ruhāb al-miṯliyya, هُومُوفُوبِيَا humufūbiyā, homofobiyā
- homophobia in Indonesian
- homofobia
- homophobia in Persian
- هوموفوبیا humufubiyâ, همجنسگراهراسی hamjens-garâ-harâsi, همجنسگراستیزی hamjens-garâ-setizi
- homophobia in Thai
- โฮโมโฟเบีย hoo-moo-foo-bìia
- homophobia in Vietnamese
- ghê sợ đồng tính luyến ái
Examples of homophobia in a sentence
- The government also uses such state homophobia to divert public attention from domestic problems.
- After the deadly shooting attack at Barnoar, liberal homophobia surfaced along with support for the community.
- As Stephen Ducat explains, homophobia has its roots in femophobia, or men's fear of their own femininity.
Synonyms of homophobia
- gay-hate
- gaycism
- gayphobia
- heterosexism
- homoerotophobia
- homomisia
- homophobism
- LGBTphobia
- LGBTQphobia
- queerphobia
1 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Antonyms
Forms of homophobia
| plural | homophobias |
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Origin of homophobia
From homo- (short for and prefix of homosexual) + -phobia. Coined by American psychologist George Weinberg in 1971 in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.
Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)
Words formed from homophobia
Words that rhyme with homophobia
- aerophobia
- gerontophobia
- hydrophobia
- -phobia
- agoraphobia
- bathophobia
- Francophobia
- phobia
- radiophobia
- uxorophobia
- xanthophobia
- xenophobia
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ablutophobia
- acephobia
- acousticophobia
- acrophobia
- adverbophobia
- agraphobia
- aibohphobia
- aichmophobia
- algophobia
- altophobia
- amathophobia
- amaxophobia
- ambulophobia
- androphobia
- anthophobia
- aphobia
- apiphobia
- arachibutyrophobia
- arachnophobia
- astraphobia
- astrophobia
- aviatophobia
- aviophobia
- bacillophobia
- batrachophobia
- botanophobia
- brontophobia
- bryobia
- cacophobia
- cancerphobia
- carcinophobia
- claustrophobia
- clinophobia
- clithrophobia
- coulrophobia
- cynophobia
- decidophobia
- emetophobia
- epistolophobia
- erotophobia
- eurotophobia
- gephyrophobia
- graphophobia
- gymnophobia
- gynophobia
- heliophobia
- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
- hippophobia
Questions about homophobia
- What does homophobia mean?
- Homophobia means hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.
- What is homophobia in Hindi?
- Homophobia in Hindi is होमोफोबिया (homophobiyā). See Homophobia meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is homophobia?
- Homophobia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce homophobia?
- Homophobia is pronounced /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of homophobia?
- The plural of homophobia is homophobias.
Words near homophobia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: homophobia (page history and authors); homophobia (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homophobia (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homophobia (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homophobia (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homophobia (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homophobia (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homophobia (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homophobia (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homophobia (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); homophobia (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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