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
27 December 2024
(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
