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		Definition of homophobia in English: homophobianounˌhɒməˈfəʊbɪəˌhəʊməˈfəʊbɪəˌhoʊməˈfoʊbiə mass nounDislike of or prejudice against homosexual people.  Example sentencesExamples -  The situation has changed a lot, but homophobia runs deep in this society.
 -  While the police once raided gay clubs to arrest people, today they cruise them to encourage the reporting of homophobia.
 -  At the same time, I counted more casual/ clusmy homophobia in the American media than ever before.
 -  She is hardly the first woman to battle sexism and homophobia in the ring.
 -  I wrote about coming out in the family and about the insidious homophobia of siblings.
 -  Along with the atrocity of holy wars, there are other questionable things such as sexism, racism and homophobia.
 -  I want to remind people that homophobia stills exist and that we still must watch out.
 -  Many young people are taking an active role in fighting homophobia and intolerance.
 -  It remains true that homophobia should not be encouraged any more than any other phobia.
 -  The erosion of homophobia by degrees will take many decades more.
 -  Strategies to confront class inequality, sexism, racism and homophobia started to be discussed.
 -  Though the film's homophobia, bullying and brutality are fictional, they resonate with truth.
 -  I lost a career in law enforcement and later one in accounting due to homophobia.
 -  Unfortunately, society as a whole is still homophobic and there is homophobia in the Church.
 -  Acts of racism, homophobia, xenophobia or just plain discrimination happen all the time.
 -  It was a time of rampant discrimination, racism, homophobia and sexism.
 -  In other words, homophobia is to gays and lesbians what racism is to people of color.
 -  To purposefully remove such material from the syllabus can surely only lead to homophobia or ignorance in the minds of pupils?
 -  It's not subtly or covertly homophobic for a soap to have a gay character experience homophobia, is it?
 -  The conference discussed the impact of sexism, racism, homophobia and war on women.
 
  Synonyms prejudice, partiality, partisanship, favouritism, unfairness, one-sidedness 
 Origin   1960s: from homosexual + -phobia. Rhymes   agoraphobia, claustrophobia, hydrophobia, phobia, technophobia, xenophobia, Zenobia    Definition of homophobia in US English: homophobianounˌhoʊməˈfoʊbiəˌhōməˈfōbēə Dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people.  Example sentencesExamples -  Unfortunately, society as a whole is still homophobic and there is homophobia in the Church.
 -  The conference discussed the impact of sexism, racism, homophobia and war on women.
 -  I want to remind people that homophobia stills exist and that we still must watch out.
 -  Acts of racism, homophobia, xenophobia or just plain discrimination happen all the time.
 -  It was a time of rampant discrimination, racism, homophobia and sexism.
 -  While the police once raided gay clubs to arrest people, today they cruise them to encourage the reporting of homophobia.
 -  I wrote about coming out in the family and about the insidious homophobia of siblings.
 -  The situation has changed a lot, but homophobia runs deep in this society.
 -  She is hardly the first woman to battle sexism and homophobia in the ring.
 -  In other words, homophobia is to gays and lesbians what racism is to people of color.
 -  I lost a career in law enforcement and later one in accounting due to homophobia.
 -  Strategies to confront class inequality, sexism, racism and homophobia started to be discussed.
 -  It's not subtly or covertly homophobic for a soap to have a gay character experience homophobia, is it?
 -  It remains true that homophobia should not be encouraged any more than any other phobia.
 -  Though the film's homophobia, bullying and brutality are fictional, they resonate with truth.
 -  The erosion of homophobia by degrees will take many decades more.
 -  Many young people are taking an active role in fighting homophobia and intolerance.
 -  To purposefully remove such material from the syllabus can surely only lead to homophobia or ignorance in the minds of pupils?
 -  Along with the atrocity of holy wars, there are other questionable things such as sexism, racism and homophobia.
 -  At the same time, I counted more casual/ clusmy homophobia in the American media than ever before.
 
  Synonyms prejudice, partiality, partisanship, favouritism, unfairness, one-sidedness 
 Origin   1960s: from homosexual + -phobia.     |