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negrophilic

negrophilic adjective: characterized by negrophilia.

Adjective

negrophilic (comparative more negrophilic, superlative most negrophilic)

  1. Characterized by negrophilia.
    • These photographs, in social and historical conjunction with the black celebrity photos, as well as with much of the literature Van Vechten himself wrote prior to 1932, exemplify an attempt to satisfy and to resolve a conflicted need to legitimate his negrophilic sympathies publicly and to satisfy...1997, Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, Ellen E. Berry, Sex Positives?: Cultural Politics of Dissident Sexualities (Genders (Austin, Tex.)), NYU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 150
    • Poe condemned Poems on Slavery as “intended for the especial use of those negrophilic old ladies of the north” who were so cozy with Longfellow and William Ellery Channing, leader of the Unitarian church, to whom the volume was dedicated.2013, Kevin J. Hayes, Edgar Allan Poe in Context (Literature in Context), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17

Forms of negrophilic

comparativemore negrophilic
superlativemost negrophilic

Origin of negrophilic

From negro + -philic.

Questions about negrophilic

What does negrophilic mean?
Negrophilic means characterized by negrophilia.
What part of speech is negrophilic?
Negrophilic is an adjective.

Words near negrophilic in the dictionary

  1. negrophil
  2. negrophile
  3. negrophiles
  4. negrophilia
  5. negrophiliac
  6. negrophilic
  7. negrophilism
  8. negrophilist
  9. negrophilists
  10. negrophils
  11. negrophobe

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