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
12 May 2025
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
