homophobia
/ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ · noun
Meaning
- Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.
- Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBT+ persons in general.
- Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia.
- A pathological fear of mankind.
Etymology / origin
From homo- (short for and prefix of homosexual) + -phobia. Coined by American psychologist George Weinberg in 1971 in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.
- homo(Latin)→
- homophobia (English)
- Relations: uder
Related words
Descendant words
- հոմոֆոբիա(Armenian) (uder)
- homofòbia(Catalan) (bor)
- 恐同(Chinese) (cog)
- homofobie(Dutch) (bor)
- homofobia(Galician) (der)
- hómófóbía(Icelandic) (bor)
- ホモフォビア(Japanese) (bor)
- 호모포비아(Korean) (bor)
- homofobie(Romanian) (bor)
- homofobia(Spanish) (bor)
- โฮโมโฟเบีย(Thai) (bor)
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