homophobia
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhɒ.mə-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌhoʊ.məˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊbiə
- Hyphenation: ho‧mo‧pho‧bia
Etymology 1
[edit]From homo- (“from homosexual”) + -phobia, coined by George Weinberg in 1971 in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.
Noun
[edit]homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)
- Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals, or LGBTQ people in general.
- Synonyms: gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia, heterosexism, homoerotophobia, homomisia, homophobism
- Antonym: homomania
- Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:prejudice
- Hyponyms: gayphobia, lesbophobia, dykephobia
- Coordinate terms: acephobia, biphobia, transphobia
- 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.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Heterochromia.
- a cat with homophobia
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]
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
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See also
[edit]Further reading
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homophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
[edit]Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)
Noun
[edit]homophobia (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A pathological fear of mankind.
- Synonym: anthropophobia
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pathological fear of mankind
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ O'Donohue, William, Caselles, Christine (1993 September) “Homophobia: Conceptual, definitional, and value issues”, in Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment[1], volume 15, number 3, archived from the original on 2020-03-28
- ^ Byers, Dylan (2012 December 26) “AP nixes 'homophobia', 'ethnic cleansing'”, in Politico, retrieved 2018-01-12
- ^ Page, Clarence (2012 December 5) “Words with negative power”, in Chicago Tribune[2], retrieved 2012-12-16
Further reading
[edit]- “homophobia”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “homophobia”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “homophobia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “homophobia”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “Beautiful Cat with Homophobia”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007
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