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xenophobia|zɛnəˈfəʊbɪə|
Also ˈxenophoby, zenophobia (both rare).
[f. xeno- + Gr. ϕόβ-ος fear + -ia1, -y3.]
A deep antipathy to foreigners.
1909Athenæum 13 Mar. 325/3 Those whose sense of justice..is not impaired by prejudice or ‘xenophoby’. 1919Nation 20 Dec. 800/1 We are often told in criticism of the Nationalist movements in Egypt, Turkey, Persia, and China that legitimate agitation for self-government and democratic institutions is marred by xenophobia. 1934R. Macaulay Going Abroad xxix. 249 Violent and inhospitable outbursts of xenophoby have..characterised them [sc. the Basques] from their first appearance in history. 1936E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia i. 34 The zenophobia of the people was an insuperable barrier to all free co-operation. 1940E. Pound Cantos lvi. 67 Showed no zenophobia. 1963Economist 1 June 908/1 The mild xenophobia..which informed such Punch lines as ‘'e's a stranger: 'eave 'arf a brick at 'im’. 1971H. Macmillan Riding Storm ii. 49 This kind of isolationism or economic nationalism, amounting to xenophobia, seized all nations, great and small, from time to time. 1976N. Roberts Face of France iv. 49 Eight per cent of France's total working population is immigrant... Here were all the conditions needed for the release of latent xenophobia.
Hence xenoˈphobic a., pertaining to or exhibiting xenophobia; xenoˈphobically adv.; also ˈxenophobe, a xenophobic person; also as adj.
1912Nation 11 May 214/1 The popular attitude with regard to external politics is one of crude and xenophobic Imperialism. 1922Mail 24 May 327/1 The Afghans are said to be suspicious of foreigners, even to be xenophobes. 1937D. B. Wyndham Lewis in L. Russell Press Gang! 245 Grey, scrawny, xenophobe, oinophil NY chilled-steel tycoon. 1951H. Arendt Burden of our Time i. i. 3 The identification of antisemitism with rampant nationalism and its xenophobic outbursts. 1956P. Jennings Model Oddlies 34 The kind of London pub which..has a more closely-knit, xenophobe clientèle than the remotest village hostelry. 1977T. Heald Just Desserts vii. 146 It wasn't that he was..a xenophobe..but the foreignness was obtrusive. 1978Listener 8 June 724/2 Xenophobically named after the old Roman province, the Dacia is, in fact, a licence-built French Renault. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Aug. 937/5 At that moment [sc. the start of a major war], for discreditable xenophobic reasons, Haldane's reputation as a War Minister sank to its nadir, but from 1918 onwards it has always been high. 1983P. Lively Perfect Happiness vi. 72 A stubborn and unfashionably xenophobic refusal to attempt foreign languages. 1983N. Freeling Back of North Wind 77 ‘Another bloody foreigner! I hate a lot of foreigners,’ said Castang xenophobically. |