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xenofobia

xenofobia is the misspelling of xenophobia.

Meaning of xenophobia

Noun

xenophobia (countable and uncountable, plural xenophobias)

  1. A fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
    • The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew...2020 January 28, Mairov Zonszein, “Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2020
  2. (nonstandard, rare) A fear of aliens.

Origin of xenofobia

Compare Dutch xenofobie, Portuguese xenofobia, Spanish xenofobia, and Turkish zenofobi.

Questions about xenofobia

What is xenofobia the misspelling of?
Xenofobia is the misspelling of xenophobia.

Words near xenofobia in the dictionary

  1. xenofeminist
  2. xenofeminists
  3. xenofiction
  4. xenofobe
  5. xenofobes
  6. xenofobia
  7. xenofree
  8. xenogamic
  9. xenogamous
  10. xenogamy
  11. xenogender

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Adapted from Wiktionary: xenofobia (page history and authors); xenophobia (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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