homophobia

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhɒ.mə-/
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• General-American: /ˌhoʊ.məˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
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• rhymes with -əʊbiə
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• CMU ARPABET: HH OW2 M AH0 F OW1 B IY0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From homo- (short for and prefix of homosexual) + -phobia. Coined by American psychologist George Weinberg in 1971 in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رُهَاب اَلْمِثْلِيَّة (ruhāb al-miṯliyya) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Arabic: هُومُوفُوبِيَا (humufūbiyā, homofobiyā) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Armenian: հոմոֆոբիա (homofobia) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Azerbaijani: homofobiya — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Belarusian: гамафо́бія (hamafóbija) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Bulgarian: хомофо́бия (homofóbija) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Catalan: homofòbia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Chinese Mandarin: 同性戀恐懼症 /同性恋恐惧症 (tóngxìngliàn kǒngjùzhèng) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Chinese Mandarin: 恐同 (kǒngtóng) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Chinese Mandarin: 恐同症 (kǒngtóngzhèng) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Corsican: omufubia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Corsican: omufubìa — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Czech: homofobie — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Danish: homofobi — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Dutch: homofobie — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Esperanto: gejfobio — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Esperanto: homofobio — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Estonian: homofoobia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Finnish: homofobia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Finnish: homokammo — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Finnish: homoviha — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• French: homophobie — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• West-Frisian: homofoby — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Galician: homofobia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Georgian: ჰომოფობია (homopobia) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• German: Homophobie — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• German: Homofeindlichkeit — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• German: Schwulenfeindlichkeit — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Greek: ομοφοβία (omofovía) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Hebrew: הוֹמוֹפוֹבְּיָה — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Hungarian: homofóbia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Icelandic: hommafælni — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Icelandic: ótti við samkynhneigð — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Icelandic: hommahatur — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Ido: homeofobio — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Irish: homafóibe — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Italian: omofobia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Japanese: ホモフォビア (homofobia) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Japanese: 同性愛嫌悪 (dōseiai ken'o) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Korean: 호모포비아 (homopobia) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Korean: 동성애 혐오 (dongseong'ae hyeomo) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Latin: homophobia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Latvian: homofobija — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Lithuanian: homofobija — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Macedonian: хомофобија (homofobija) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Maltese: omofobija — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Māori: mae takatāpui — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Mongolian: хомофоби (xomofobi) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Norwegian Bokmål: homofobi — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Norwegian Nynorsk: homofobi — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Persian: هوموفوبیا (humufubiyâ) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Polish: homofobia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Portuguese: homofobia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Romanian: homofobie — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Russian: гомофо́бия (gomofóbija) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Sardinian: omofobìa — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Serbo-Croatian: хомофобија — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Serbo-Croatian: homofobija — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Slovak: homofóbia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Slovene: homofobija — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Spanish: homofobia — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Swahili: ubaguzi wa mashoga — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Swedish: homofobi — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Thai: โฮโมโฟเบีย (hoo-moo-foo-bìia) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Turkish: homofobi — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Ukrainian: гомофо́бія (homofóbija) — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Vietnamese: ghê sợ đồng tính luyến ái — fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
• Catalan: antropofòbia — pathological fear of mankind
• Esperanto: homofobio — pathological fear of mankind
• Finnish: antropofobia — pathological fear of mankind
• German: Anthropophobie — pathological fear of mankind
• Ido: homofobio — pathological fear of mankind
• Portuguese: homofobia — pathological fear of mankind