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xenophoby

xenophoby is the dated form 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.

Questions about xenophoby

What is xenophoby the dated form of?
Xenophoby is the dated form of xenophobia.

Words near xenophoby in the dictionary

  1. xenophobics
  2. xenophobism
  3. xenophobist
  4. xenophobists
  5. xenophobous
  6. xenophoby
  7. Xenophon
  8. xenophone
  9. xenophones
  10. xenophonia
  11. Xenophonian

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