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Scotophilia

Scotophilia noun: a love for the Scots or for Scotland.

Noun

Scotophilia (uncountable)

  1. A love for the Scots or for Scotland.
    • As Linda Colley points out, Scotophobia rapidly turns into Scotophilia. The Highlands, instead of producing warriors who threatened the empire, as had happened in 1745, supplies the soldier who will defend and die for it[…]1998, Andrew Monnickendam, A Hypertextual Approach to Walter Scott's Waverley, page 126

Scotophilia meaning in Tamil

Scotophilia in Tamil

இருள் அச்சம்

Origin of Scotophilia

From Scoto- + -philia.

Questions about Scotophilia

What does Scotophilia mean?
Scotophilia means a love for the Scots or for Scotland.
What is Scotophilia in Tamil?
Scotophilia in Tamil is இருள் அச்சம். See Scotophilia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Scotophilia?
Scotophilia is a noun.

Words near Scotophilia in the dictionary

  1. scotoperiods
  2. scotophase
  3. scotophases
  4. scotophasic
  5. scotophil
  6. Scotophilia
  7. scotophilic
  8. scotophobe
  9. scotophobes
  10. scotophobia
  11. scotophobic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Scotophilia (page history and authors); scotophilia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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