XENOPHOBIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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