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Prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality
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homophobia
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Word definitions for homophobia in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Issues of racism, sexism, and homophobia were discussed. ▪ The lives of many young gay people are ruined by unthinking and widespread homophobia in society. ▪ There's still a lot of homophobia in American society. ▪ There ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Fear, dislike(,) or hatred of gays and lesbians. Etymology 2 n. (context obsolete individual occurrences English) A pathological fear of mankind.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian , gay , bisexual or transgender ( LGBT ). It has been defined as contempt , prejudice , aversion, hatred or ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
homophobia \hom`o*pho"bi*a\, n. A strong dislike or fear of homosexuals, especially to an unreasonable degree.
Usage examples of homophobia.
It was embarrassing at times and always boring, but her view was that casual racism, sexism and homophobia always had to be confronted.
You would have thought he was guilty of racism, homophobia, antienvironmentalism, antivegetarianism and anti-Americanism.
Psychoanalysis suggests homophobia arises because we fear or hate our own unconscious homosexual tendencies.
Lesbian and gay novels have their own protocols, their own coming out layers, their own tackling of homophobia and so forth.
And, as it happens, all these male subcultures share a particular set of features: homophobia, coupled with an oddly ironic, complete, childlike trust in male authority.