homophobia

homophobia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɒ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/

• Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Etymology 1

homo- (from homosexual) +‎ -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

Noun

homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

1. Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals.
   • 2005, Clinton, Bill, My Life‎, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, OCLC 60594427, pages 45-46:

     He lost his racism when he worked with a black man in Chicago. He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.

   1. Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against LGBTQ+ people in general.

Usage notes

• In the 1990s, behavioral scientists William O'Donohue and Christine Caselles argued that the term homophobia was pejorative.[1] In 2012, the Associated Press Stylebook was revised to advise against using -phobia words in non-clinical ways, and AP editor Dave Minthorn suggested replacing "homophobic" with "anti-gay".[2][3]

Synonyms

• (fear of homosexuality): homoerotophobia, heterosexism, homophobism, gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia
• (dislike of homosexuality): gay-hate, homomisia

Antonyms

• homomania

Hyponyms

• gayphobia
• lesbophobia
• dykephobia

Coordinate terms

• acephobia
• biphobia
• transphobia

Derived terms

• liberal homophobia

Related terms

• homophobe
• homophobic
• homophobism

Translations

fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals

Arabic: رُهَاب اَلْمِثْلِيَّة‎ f (ruhāb al-miṯliyya), هُومُوفُوبِيَا‎ f (humufūbiyā, homofobiyā) Armenian: հոմոֆոբիա (homofobia) Azerbaijani: homofobiya Belarusian: гамафо́бія f (hamafóbija) Bulgarian: хомофо́бия (bg) f (homofóbija) Catalan: homofòbia f Chinese: Mandarin: 同性戀恐懼症／同性恋恐惧症 (zh) (tóngxìngliàn kǒngjùzhèng), 恐同 (zh) (kǒngtóng), 恐同症 (zh) (kǒngtóngzhèng) Corsican: omufubia f, omufubìa f Czech: homofobie (cs) f Danish: homofobi c Dutch: homofobie (nl) f Esperanto: gejfobio, homofobio Estonian: homofoobia (et) Finnish: homofobia (fi), homokammo (fi) (colloquial), (hatred) homoviha French: homophobie (fr) f Galician: homofobia f Georgian: ჰომოფობია (homopobia) German: Homophobie (de) f Greek: ομοφοβία (el) f (omofovía) Hebrew: הוֹמוֹפוֹבְּיָה‎ (he) f Hungarian: homofóbia (hu) Icelandic: (fear) hommafælni f, (fear of homosexuality) ótti við samkynhneigð m, (hatred) hommahatur n Ido: homeofobio Irish: homafóibe f Italian: omofobia (it) f Japanese: ホモフォビア (homofobia), 同性愛嫌悪 (どうせいあいけんお, dōseiai ken'o) Korean: 호모포비아 (homopobia), 동성애 혐오 (dongseong'ae hyeomo) Latin: homophobia f Latvian: homofobija (lv) f Lithuanian: homofobija f Macedonian: хомофобија f (homofobija) Maltese: omofobija f Maori: mate mae takatāpui Mongolian: хомофоби (xomofobi) Norwegian: Bokmål: homofobi (no) m Nynorsk: homofobi m Persian: هوموفوبیا‎ (humufubiyâ) Polish: homofobia (pl) f Portuguese: homofobia (pt) f Romanian: homofobie (ro) f Russian: гомофо́бия (ru) f (gomofóbija) Sardinian: omofobìa f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хомофобија f Roman: homofobija f Slovak: homofóbia f Slovene: homofobija f Spanish: homofobia (es) f Swahili: ubaguzi wa mashoga class 14 Swedish: homofobi (sv) c Thai: โฮโมโฟเบีย (hoo-moo-foo-bìia) Turkish: homofobi (tr) Ukrainian: гомофо́бія (uk) f (homofóbija) Vietnamese: ghê sợ đồng tính luyến ái West Frisian: homofoby

See also

• heterosexism
• heterophobia
• heterophobism
• gaycism

Further reading

• homophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

Noun

homophobia (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.

Synonyms

• (fear of mankind): anthropophobia

Related terms

• homophobe
• homophobic

Translations

obsolete: pathological fear of mankind

Catalan: antropofòbia f Esperanto: homofobio Finnish: antropofobia (fi) German: Anthropophobie (de) f Ido: homofobio Portuguese: homofobia (pt) f

See also

• misanthropy
• androphobia
• gynophobia

References

1. O'Donohue, William; Caselles, Christine (September 1993), “Homophobia: Conceptual, definitional, and value issues”, in J Psychopathol Behav Assess‎, volume 15, issue 3, archived from the original on 2020-03-28, retrieved 11 February 2018
2. Byers, Dylan (26 November 2012), “AP nixes 'homophobia', 'ethnic cleansing'”, in Politico‎, retrieved 12 January 2018
3. Page, Clarence (5 December 2012), “Words with negative power”, in Chicago Tribune‎, retrieved 16 December 2012