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xenophobia Definition

xeno·pho·bia (----fōbē ə)

noun

fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything foreign or strange

Etymology: ModL: see xeno- & -phobia

xenophobia Related Forms

xeno·phobe′ (----fōb′) noun xen′o·pho·bic (----fōbik) adjective

xenophobia Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • fuel: Stalin used anti-semitism to fuel Great Russian xenophobia after 1947.
  • promote: M y concern is how terrorism promotes xenophobia and racism; that destructive generalizations are drawn and incorrect conclusions arrived at.
  • disguise: At its most fanatical this was outright xenophobia disguised under a sheen of scientific legitimacy.
  • combat: These results should be seen as a wake up call for all right-thinking people to combat xenophobia in all its guises.
  • grow: By contrast, Aguilar argues that growing xenophobia against immigrants is a way of redefining and stabilizing Malaysian national identity.
  • increase: The documentary was immediately condemned by EFL teachers as evidence of increasing government xenophobia against English teachers.

Noun used with modifier

month: Iâve no doubt that during that month xenophobia will be running through everyoneâs veins at some point or another.

Adjective modifier

  • such: With such vile xenophobia expressed against Germany, how can we expect English football fans to behave differently?
  • paranoid: With the country also at war with the French and Dutch, paranoid xenophobia - a familiar English trait - was rife.
  • old-fashioned: Even Blyton's contemporaries thought the same ( the publisher Macmillan once rejected a manuscript for its " unattractive... old-fashioned xenophobia " ).
  • unpleasant: The FA's decision to award him the job was accompanied by a small eruption of unpleasant xenophobia.
  • racial: British attitudes shifted from relative openness to dislike and distrust, and even racial xenophobia.
  • increased: A.E. : How do you feel in the prevailing atmosphere of increased xenophobia in Germany?

Modifies a noun

today: Subsequently racism, prejudice and xenophobia today are to some extent part of the broader legacy of slavery.

Preposition: in

medium: DREAM - Discrimination, Racism, Equality and the Media Fighting against racism and xenophobia in the media.