homophobia

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English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

homophobia

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˌhɒ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

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[edit]

In the 1990s, behavioral scientists William O'Donohue and Christine Caselles argued that the term homophobia was pejorative.^[1] 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".^[2]^[3]

Synonyms[edit]

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

Antonyms[edit]

homomania

Hyponyms[edit]

Coordinate terms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

liberal homophobia

Related terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

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[edit]

Further reading[edit]

homophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2[edit]

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

Noun[edit]

homophobia (uncountable)

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

Synonyms[edit]

(fear of mankind): anthropophobia

Related terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

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

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