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homophobia

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Etymology 1

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From homo- (“from homosexual”) +‎ -phobia. Coined by American psychologist George Weinberg in 1971 in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

Noun

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homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

  1. Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals, or LGBTQ people in general. [from 1971]
    Synonyms: gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia, heterosexism, homoerotophobia, homomisia, homophobism
    Antonym: homomania
    Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:prejudice
    Hyponyms: gayphobia, lesbophobia, dykephobia
    Coordinate terms: acephobia, biphobia, transphobia
    • 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.
    • 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC‎[4]:
      Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.
  2. (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia. [from 2021]
    A beautiful cat with homophobia in her 💙 eyes 🧡
    • 2021 April 3, u/NotWurrmm, “A cat with homophobia in its eyes ♥️”, in r/aww‎[5], Reddit, archived from the original on 3 April 2021
    • 2023 September 11, @Radstads, Twitter‎[6], archived from the original on 5 August 2025:
      A dog with homophobia in its eyes ✨✨
    • 2024 June 4, (•˕ •マ.ᐟ (@lovesickdoe), Twitter‎[7], archived from the original on 4 June 2024:
      beautiful cat with homophobia 💛🩵
    • 2024 December 16, u/NintendoFanboy986, “my ex-cat had homophobia”, in r/notinteresting‎[8], Reddit, archived from the original on 30 January 2025
    • 2025 April 1, u/LostWithinChaos, “stray cat with homophobia 👀”, in r/notinteresting‎[9], archived from the original on 1 April 2025
    • 2025 July 31, u/Broccoletta666, “Polentina with homophobia and not a single though[sic] in her brain”, in r/catswithhomophobia‎[10], Reddit, archived from the original on 5 August 2025
    • 2025 August 2, anonymous author, /vg/ - Video Game Generals‎[11], 4chan, archived from the original on 7 August 2025:
      beautiful rabbit with homophobia
    • 2025 August 3, Leonata Ivan, Zenless Zone Zero Global‎[12] (group), Facebook, archived from the original on 7 August 2025:
      Alice's Homophobia eyes is what make her beautiful 😔
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Etymology 2

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Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

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homophobia (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A pathological fear of mankind.
    Synonym: anthropophobia
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References

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  1. ^ O'Donohue, William; Caselles, Christine (September 1993), “Homophobia: Conceptual, definitional, and value issues”, in Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment‎[1], volume 15, number 3, archived from the original on 28 March 2020
  2. ^ Byers, Dylan (26 December 2012), “AP nixes 'homophobia', 'ethnic cleansing'”, in Politico, retrieved 12 January 2018
  3. ^ Page, Clarence (5 December 2012), “Words with negative power”, in Chicago Tribune‎[2], retrieved 16 December 2012

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