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XENOPHOBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does xenophobia mean?
• XENOPHOBIA (noun)
The noun XENOPHOBIA has 1 sense:
1. a fear of foreigners or strangers
Familiarity information: XENOPHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fear of foreigners or strangers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("xenophobia" is a kind of...):
social phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with situations in which you are subject to criticism by others (as fear of eating in public or public speaking etc))
Derivation:
xenophobic (suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign)
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