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xenophilia

xenophilia noun: an attraction to or love of foreign people, manners or culture.

Noun

xenophilia (uncountable)

  1. An attraction to or love of foreign people, manners or culture.
  2. Love (especially sexual love) between humans and extraterrestrials.
    • While it may appear that Sturgeon has thus become an advocate of homoeroticism, incest, xenophilia, and other exotic or decadent sexual practices, he remains committed rather to the ideals of understanding and tolerance.1983, Frank Northen Magill, Survey of modern fantasy literature, Volume 4, Salem Press, →ISBN, page 1707
    • An alien—seemingly just a tourist—lands in the middle of Washington, assumes human, male form, and is adopted by four college kids for fun and sex. The story is told in snatches of dialogue and scraps of poetry (the title is from e.e. cummings), and is all goofy juxtapositions, happy xenophilia...2007, Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, →ISBN, page 300

Antonyms of xenophilia

Origin of xenophilia

From xeno- + -philia.

Words that rhyme with xenophilia

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Questions about xenophilia

What does xenophilia mean?
Xenophilia means an attraction to or love of foreign people, manners or culture.
What part of speech is xenophilia?
Xenophilia is a noun.

Words near xenophilia in the dictionary

  1. Xenophanes
  2. Xenophanian
  3. Xenophanic
  4. xenophile
  5. xenophiles
  6. xenophilia
  7. xenophilic
  8. xenophilism
  9. xenophilous
  10. xenophily
  11. xenophobe

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