OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9596

xenophobia

/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
xenofobia
A fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
The United States is not the only country where xenophobia pays dividends for politicians.
The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of wha…