Xenophobia is fear and dislike of people from other countries. Rising xenophobia, xenophobia and racism, accused of xenophobia.
It is about foreignness rather than race, which is what separates it from racism, though the two travel together. The Greek is fear of the stranger, and it is not a phobia in the clinical sense at all.
1nounxenophobiaFear and dislike of people from other countries.
“The rise in xenophobia has made many foreign students feel unwelcome.”
xenophobia is a prejudice.
Greek xenos, a stranger, plus phobia, fear.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰegʷ-
Ancient Greek
φόβος — fear
English
phobia
English, today
xenophobia
From xeno- + -phobia. phobia comes from -phobia. c, from words ending in -phobia, ultimately from Ancient Greek φόβος (“fear”). Compare ism, from -ism, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA