Germanophobia

English

Alternative forms

• germanophobia

Etymology

From Germano- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

Germanophobia (uncountable)

1. The hatred or fear of Germany and anything German.
   • 1996, Panikos Panayi, Germans in Britain Since 1500, page 115:

     If we deal with state Germanophobia, the first observation concerns the uniqueness of war in the sense that it means that the government became overtly rather than covertly xenophobic in order to create a level of support on the home front necessary for victory on the battlefield, especially before conscription was introduced at the beginning of 1916. In Britain during the First World War, the government established various agencies for the propagation of Germanophobia.

   • 1997, Michael Lawrence Roi, Alternative to Appeasement, page 1:

     "Van," as he was known to friend and foe alike, has been accused of Germanophobia, criticized for being indifferent to events outside of his Eurocentric perspective, and castigated for possessing an inflexible mind.

   • 2017, Juliet Johnson, Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia:

     In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.

Synonyms

• Anti-German sentiment
• Teutonophobia, Teutophobia

Antonyms

• Germanophilia

Related terms

• Germanophobe
• Germanophobic

Translations

hatred or fear of Germany or anything German

• Dutch: germanofobie f
• French: germanophobie (fr) f, antigermanisme (fr) m
• German: Germanophobie f, Deutschfeindlichkeit f
• Italian: germanofobia (it) f
• Romanian: germanofobie f
• Russian: германофо́бия (ru) f (germanofóbija), германофо́бство (ru) n (germanofóbstvo)