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oikophobia

oikophobia noun: ecophobia; fear of a home environment.

Noun

oikophobia (uncountable)

  1. Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
  2. Dislike of one's own culture or compatriots.
    • So, unlike the 60s, you have a dynamic in which both sides are behaving like radicals, in which the establishment isn’t yelling “stop,” and in which oikophobia is more evenly distributed, relative to its Boomer-era baseline.2020 October 26, Aaron Sibarium, “The Weimarization of the American Republic”, in American Purpose, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2020

Origin of oikophobia

From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + -phobia. In the political sense, coined in a 1993 journal article by Roger Scruton.

Questions about oikophobia

What does oikophobia mean?
Oikophobia means ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
What part of speech is oikophobia?
Oikophobia is a noun.

Words near oikophobia in the dictionary

  1. oikology
  2. oikonym
  3. oikonyms
  4. oikophobe
  5. oikophobes
  6. oikophobia
  7. oikophobic
  8. oikos
  9. oiks
  10. oikumene
  11. oikumenes

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