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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
xenophobia
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In an atmosphere of growing xenophobia many foreigners were deported or even imprisoned.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Emmen's result indicates that the process is institutionalising xenophobia.
▪ Finance is again king, cemented by romanticism about retaining political sovereignty over the pound and laced with not a little xenophobia.
▪ Money was a less direct factor here: high unemployment and reliable xenophobia were sufficient justifications.
▪ One form this took was xenophobia.
▪ This sense is often identified with nationalism and patriotism which can be dangerously close to racism, chauvinism and xenophobia.
▪ Was it an outburst of fanatical xenophobia led by monks and friars?
▪ We ourselves were unaware of the dimensions of this new xenophobia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
xenophobia

1903, from xeno- "foreign, strange" + -phobia "fear." Earlier (c.1884) it meant "agoraphobia."

Wiktionary
xenophobia

n. 1 A fear of strangers or foreigners. 2 A strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners.

WordNet
xenophobia

n. an irrational fear of foreigners or strangers

Wikipedia
Xenophobia

Xenophobia is the fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup, including a fear of losing identity, suspicion of its activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate its presence to secure a presumed purity. Xenophobia can also be exhibited in the form of an "uncritical exaltation of another culture" in which a culture is ascribed "an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality".

The terms xenophobia and racism are sometimes confused and used interchangeably because people who share a national origin may also belong to the same race. Due to this, xenophobia is usually distinguished by opposition to foreign culture.

Xenophobia (disambiguation)

Xenophobia is the fear of people who are different from one's self.

Xenophobia or Xenophobe may also refer to:

  • Xenophobia (Why?), a 1988 rock album.
  • Xenophobe (video game), a 1987 video game.
  • Xenophobe (EP), a 2015 metalcore song.
Xenophobia (Why?)

Xenophobia (Why?) is the third studio album by Australian rock band Spy vs Spy, it was produced by Les Karski (Boys Next Door, Midnight Oil, Nauts) and Guy Gray, and released through WEA on 21 March 1988. For this album Spy vs Spy were known as v. Spy v. Spy, and the line-up was the original trio Craig Bloxom on bass guitar/ lead vocals, Cliff Grigg on drums/ percussion and Mike Weiley on lead guitar/vocals.

After having toured for A.O. Mod. TV. Vers., WEA demanded another album immediately, so Xenophobia (Why?) was written and recorded in just six weeks, the title was inspired by race issues surfacing in the lead-up to Australia's Bicentennial year. The album peaked at #15 on the Kent Music Report for the Australian albums chart, and released in 14 countries. It provided three singles, "(Forget about the) Working Week", "Clarity of Mind" and "Waiting". None of the singles peaked in the Top 40 of the Kent Music Report for the Australian singles charts.

Usage examples of "xenophobia".

Phelps and Phelps, The Cults of the Unwavering I: A Field Guide to Cults of Currency Speculation, Melanin, Fitness, Bioflavinoids, Spectation, Assassination, Stasis, Property, Agoraphobia, Repute, Celebrity, Acraphobia, Performance, Amway, Fame, Infamy, Deformity, Scopophobia, Syntax, Consumer Technology, Scopophilia, Presleyism, Hunterism, Inner Children, Eros, Xenophobia, Surgical Enhancement, Motivational Rhetoric, Chronic Pain, Solipsism, Survivalism, Preterition, Anti-Abortionism, Kevorkianism, Allergy, Albinism, Sport, Chiliasm, and Telentertainment in pre-O.

Subsequent migrations composed of dissident ethnic elements from other Terran cultures, unassimilable, fractious, and quarrelsome in their own way, only intensified the warlike xenophobia of the first settlers.

He had agreed, against his deepest instincts as a soldier, to accept this diplomatic post in the hope he might be able to help turn Earth and Minbar away from a dangerous militarism and xenophobia he had perceived growing on both worlds, attitudes that could threaten the cooperation between them that until now had kept the peace among many different worlds.

Whenever two tribes met, in the history of Station Seventeen, they were all too intelligent to suffer from xenophobia or other nonlogical motivations to murder, and certainly they had no logical reason to fight.

Le Jeu du Prochain Train was itself substantially simpler than 5 in Phelps and Phelps, The Cults of the Unwavering I: A Field Guide to Cults of Currency Speculation, Melanin, Fitness, Bioflavinoids, Spectation, Assassination, Stasis, Property, Agoraphobia, Repute, Celebrity, Acraphobia, Performance, Amway, Fame, Infamy, Deformity, Scopophobia, Syntax, Consumer Technology, Scopophilia, Presleyism, Hunterism, Inner Children, Eros, Xenophobia, Surgical Enhancement, Motivational Rhetoric, Chronic Pain, Solipsism, Survivalism, Preterition, Anti-Abortionism, Kevorkianism, Allergy, Albinism, Sport, Chiliasm, and Telentertainment in pre-O.

She might so easily have loved a fool or a boor and found out too late, as had Jane, or her sister Angela, a man with no ability to imagine how things might be for the female principal in his life - a lack of comprehension amounting to xenophobia.

Xenophobia was not encouraged by Mitford or Easley, or any of those involved in introducing the new world to its whilom residents.

Also entries in the anthro files under genocide, slavery, cultural pathology, xenophobia and societal devolution.