negrophiliac
negrophiliac adjective: exhibiting an affection for, or interest in things related to, the black race.
Adjective
negrophiliac (comparative more negrophiliac, superlative most negrophiliac)
- Exhibiting an affection for, or interest in things related to, the black race.
- On the other hand, very little attention has been paid to Victor Hugo's negrophiliac novel Bug-Jargal (1826) and to its links with Gómez de Avellaneda's celebrated novel, Sab (1841).1999, Adriana Méndez Rodenas, A Place in the Sun? Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba, JSTOR, →ISSN
- Consequently, this book focuses primarily and critically on the actions of the white or European partner in the negrophiliac relationship, unlike other approaches that are more preoccupied with mythologizing the black and black culture2000, Petrine Archer-Straw, “Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s”, in New York: Thames
Forms of negrophiliac
| comparative | more negrophiliac |
|---|---|
| superlative | most negrophiliac |
Origin of negrophiliac
From negro + -philiac.
Questions about negrophiliac
- What does negrophiliac mean?
- Negrophiliac means exhibiting an affection for, or interest in things related to, the black race.
- What part of speech is negrophiliac?
- Negrophiliac is an adjective.
Words near negrophiliac in the dictionary
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