homophobia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɒ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Etymology 1

homo- (“from homosexual”) +‎ -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

Noun

homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

1. Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals.
   • 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎^[3], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 45–46:

     He lost his racism when he worked with a black man in Chicago. He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.

   1. Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against LGBTQ+ people in general.

Usage notes

• In the 1990s, behavioral scientists William O'Donohue and Christine Caselles argued that the term homophobia was pejorative. In 2012, the Associated Press Stylebook was revised to advise against using -phobia words in non-clinical ways, and AP editor Dave Minthorn suggested replacing "homophobic" with "anti-gay".

Synonyms

• (fear of homosexuality): homoerotophobia, heterosexism, homophobism, gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia
• (dislike of homosexuality): gay-hate, homomisia

Antonyms

• homomania

Hyponyms

• gayphobia
• lesbophobia
• dykephobia

Coordinate terms

• acephobia
• biphobia
• transphobia

Derived terms

• liberal homophobia

Related terms

• homophobe
• homophobic
• homophobism

Translations

fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals

• Arabic: رُهَاب اَلْمِثْلِيَّة f (ruhāb al-miṯliyya), هُومُوفُوبِيَا f (humufūbiyā, homofobiyā)
• Armenian: հոմոֆոբիա (homofobia)
• Azerbaijani: homofobiya
• Belarusian: гамафо́бія f (hamafóbija)
• Bulgarian: хомофо́бия (bg) f (homofóbija)
• Catalan: homofòbia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同性戀恐懼症／同性恋恐惧症 (zh) (tóngxìngliàn kǒngjùzhèng), 恐同 (zh) (kǒngtóng), 恐同症 (zh) (kǒngtóngzhèng)

• Corsican: omufubia f, omufubìa f
• Czech: homofobie (cs) f
• Danish: homofobi c
• Dutch: homofobie (nl) f
• Esperanto: gejfobio, homofobio
• Estonian: homofoobia (et)
• Finnish: homofobia (fi), homokammo (fi) (colloquial), (hatred) homoviha
• French: homophobie (fr) f
• Galician: homofobia f
• Georgian: ჰომოფობია (homopobia)
• German: Homophobie (de) f, Homofeindlichkeit (de) f, Schwulenfeindlichkeit f
• Greek: ομοφοβία (el) f (omofovía)
• Hebrew: הוֹמוֹפוֹבְּיָה (he) f
• Hungarian: homofóbia (hu)
• Icelandic: (fear) hommafælni f, (fear of homosexuality) ótti við samkynhneigð m, (hatred) hommahatur n
• Ido: homeofobio
• Irish: homafóibe f
• Italian: omofobia (it) f
• Japanese: ホモフォビア (homofobia), 同性愛嫌悪 (どうせいあいけんお, dōseiai ken'o)
• Korean: 호모포비아 (homopobia), 동성애 혐오 (dongseong'ae hyeomo)
• Latin: homophobia f
• Latvian: homofobija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: homofobija f
• Macedonian: хомофобија f (homofobija)
• Maltese: omofobija f
• Maori: mae takatāpui
• Mongolian: хомофоби (xomofobi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: homofobi (no) m

  Nynorsk: homofobi m

• Persian: هوموفوبیا (humufubiyâ)
• Polish: homofobia (pl) f
• Portuguese: homofobia (pt) f
• Romanian: homofobie (ro) f
• Russian: гомофо́бия (ru) f (gomofóbija)
• Sardinian: omofobìa f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хомофобија f

  Roman: homofobija f

• Slovak: homofóbia f
• Slovene: homofobija f
• Spanish: homofobia (es) f
• Swahili: ubaguzi wa mashoga class 14
• Swedish: homofobi (sv) c
• Thai: โฮโมโฟเบีย (hoo-moo-foo-bìia)
• Turkish: homofobi (tr)
• Ukrainian: гомофо́бія (uk) f (homofóbija)
• Vietnamese: ghê sợ đồng tính luyến ái
• West Frisian: homofoby

See also

• heterosexism
• heterophobia
• heterophobism
• gaycism

Further reading

• homophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

Noun

homophobia (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.

Synonyms

• (fear of mankind): anthropophobia

Related terms

• homophobe
• homophobic

Translations

obsolete: pathological fear of mankind

• Catalan: antropofòbia f
• Esperanto: homofobio
• Finnish: antropofobia (fi)
• German: Anthropophobie (de) f
• Ido: homofobio
• Portuguese: homofobia (pt) f

See also

• misanthropy
• androphobia
• gynophobia