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ethnophilia

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Unnatural obsession with ethnicity or race.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 1994, Yuri Slezkine, "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review, Vol. 53, No. 2., 414-415 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779%28199422%2953%3A2%3C414%3ATUAACA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V "Non-Russian nationalism of all kinds appeared so natural and the Russian version of marxist universalism appeared so natural or so universalist, that most of these scholars failed to notice the chronic ethnophilia of the Soviet regime..."
  • 2000, Alberto Spektorowski, "The French New Right: Differentialism and the Idea of Ethnophilian Exclusionism," Polity, Vol. 33, No. 2., 293 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0032-3497%28200024%2933%3A2%3C283%3ATFNRDA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q "This shift from National-Socialism and "racist ethnophobia" to cultural ethnophilia does not transform the New Right into a non-racist movement."

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History

Etymology

From ethno- + -philia.