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islamophobia

islamophobia is the alternative letter-case form of Islamophobia.

Noun capitalized: Islamophobia

Islamophobia (usually uncountable, plural Islamophobias)

  1. (usually) Fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims.
    • No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...

Synonyms of islamophobia

Forms of islamophobia

pluralislamophobias
pluralIslamophobias
alternative formislamophobia
alternative formIslamaphobia

Origin of islamophobia

From Islamo- + -phobia. Attested since the 1920s, but popularized by a 1976 article by Georges Chahati Anawati.

Words formed from islamophobia

Questions about islamophobia

What does islamophobia mean?
Islamophobia means fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims.
What is islamophobia the alternative letter-case form of?
Islamophobia is the alternative letter-case form of Islamophobia.
What part of speech is islamophobia?
Islamophobia is a noun.
What is the plural of islamophobia?
The plural of islamophobia is islamophobias.

Words near islamophobia in the dictionary

  1. Islamophiles
  2. Islamophilia
  3. Islamophilic
  4. islamophobe
  5. islamophobes
  6. islamophobia
  7. Islamophobiac
  8. Islamophobiacs
  9. islamophobian
  10. Islamophobians
  11. islamophobias

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: islamophobia (page history and authors); Islamophobia (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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