homophobia

English

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Etymology

• (obsolete) Latin homo (“man”) + phobia (“fear”)
• homo (from homosexual) +‎ -phobia, coined in 1971, George Weinberg, Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌhɒ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, SAMPA: /%hQ.m@"f@U.bI.@/, /%h@U.m@"f@Ub.I@/
• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

homophobia (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.
2. Fear, dislike or hate of homosexuals.

Synonyms

• (fear of mankind): anthropophobia
• (fear of homosexuality): homoerotophobia

Derived terms

• internalised homophobia

Related terms

• homophobe
• homophobic

Translations

obsolete: pathological fear of mankind

Catalan: antropofòbia (ca) f. Finnish: antropofobia (fi)

German: Anthropophobie (de) f. Portuguese: homofobia (pt) f.

fear, dislike or hate of homosexuals

Arabic: رهاب المثلية (ar) (ruhaab al-mithlíyya) f., هوموفوبيا (ar) (humufubiya, homofobiya) f. Armenian: հոմոֆոբիա (hy) (homofobia) Azeri: homofobiya (az) Belarusian: гамафобія (be) (hamafóbija) f. Bosnian: homofobija (bs) f. Bulgarian: хомофобия (bg) (homofóbija) f. Catalan: homofòbia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 同性戀恐懼症 (zh), 同性恋恐惧症 (zh) (tóngxìngliàn kǒngjùzhèng) Croatian: homofobija (hr) f. Czech: homofobie (cs) f. Danish: homofobi (da) Esperanto: gejfobio (eo), homofobio (eo) Estonian: homofoobia (et) Finnish: homofobia (fi), homokammo (fi) (colloquial), (hatred) homoviha (fi) French: homophobie (fr) f. Georgian: ჰომოფობია (ka) (homop‘obia) German: Homophobie (de) f. Greek: ομοφοβία (el) (omofovía) f. Hebrew: הומופוביה (he) f. Hungarian: homofóbia (hu) Icelandic: (fear) hommafælni (is) f., (fear of homosexuality) ótti við samkynhneigð (is) m., (hatred) hommahatur (is) n. Irish: homafóibe (ga) f.

Italian: omofobia (it) Japanese: ホモフォビア (ja) (homofobia), 同性愛嫌悪 (ja) (どうせいあいけんお, dōseiai ken'o) Korean: 호모포비아 (ko) (homopobia) Latin: homophobia (la) f. Latvian: homofobija (lv) f. Lithuanian: homofobija (lt) f. Macedonian: хомофобија (mk) (homofóbija) f. Norwegian: homofobi (no) Persian: هوموفوبیا (fa) (humufubiyâ) Polish: homofobia (pl) f. Portuguese: homofobia (pt) f. Romanian: homofobie (ro) f. Russian: гомофобия (ru) (gomofóbija) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хомофобија (sh) f. Roman: homofobija (sh) f. Slovak: homofóbia (sk) f. Slovene: homofobija (sl) f. Spanish: homofobia (es) f. Swedish: homofobi (sv) Thai: โฮโมโฟเบีย (th) (hoh-moh-foh-bia) Turkish: homofobi (tr) Ukrainian: гомофобія (uk) (homofóbija) f. Vietnamese: ghê sợ đồng tính luyến ái (vi)

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See also

• misanthropy
• androphobia
• gynophobia
• heterosexism
• Wikipedia article on homophobia