homophobia
(noun) prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality
Source: WordNet® 3.1
homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)
Fear of, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals.
• 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".
• (fear of homosexuality): homoerotophobia, heterosexism, homophobism, gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia
• (dislike of homosexuality): gay-hate
• gayphobia
• lesbophobia
• dykephobia
homophobia (uncountable)
(obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.
• (fear of mankind): anthropophobia
Source: Wiktionary
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
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