xenophobia
/zɛnəˈfəʊbɪə
/noun [mass noun]
Dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries: racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe...
- If categorization and bias come so easily, are people doomed to xenophobia and racism?
- Religious or racial prejudice and xenophobia are not likely to go away as long as human nature is what it is.
- How low has this country fallen in that it now embraces the fears and xenophobia of right wing shock jocks.
Synonyms
racism, racialism, racial hatred, ethnocentrism, ethnocentricity;
nationalism, jingoism, isolationism;
prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, bias
in South Africa, historical apartheid
rare xenophoby
Derivatives
xenophobe
/ noun ...- If you disagree with them on Europe, you are a racist or a xenophobe or a little Englander.
- The rise to power of xenophobes and racists in the past has been in times of economic catastrophe.
- When we first started discussing this in the House people called us racist and xenophobes.