homophobia

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌhɒ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Etymology 1

homo- (from homosexual) +‎ -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

Noun

homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

Fear of, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals.

Usage notes

In the 1990s, behavioral scientists William O'Donohue and Christine Caselles argued that the term homophobia was pejorative.[1] In 2012, the Associated Press Stylebook was revised to advise against using -phobia words in non-clinical ways, and AP editor Dave Minthorn suggested replacing "homophobic" with "anti-gay".[2][3]

Synonyms

(fear of homosexuality): homoerotophobia, heterosexism, homophobism, gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia
(dislike of homosexuality): gay-hate

Hyponyms

Derived terms

internalised homophobia

Related terms

Translations

fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals

Arabic: رُهَاب اَلْمِثْلِيَّة‎ f (ruhāb al-miṯliyya), هُومُوفُوبِيَا‎ f (humufūbiyā, homofobiyā)
Armenian: հոմոֆոբիա (homofobia)
Azerbaijani: homofobiya
Belarusian: гамафо́бія f (hamafóbija)
Bulgarian: хомофо́бия f (homofóbija)
Catalan: homofòbia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 同性戀恐懼症 (zh), 同性恋恐惧症 (zh) (tóngxìngliàn kǒngjùzhèng), 恐同 (zh) (kǒngtóng), 恐同症 (zh) (kǒngtóngzhèng)
Czech: homofobie (cs) f
Danish: homofobi
Esperanto: gejfobio, homofobio
Estonian: homofoobia (et)
Finnish: homofobia (fi), homokammo (fi) (colloquial), (hatred) homoviha
French: homophobie (fr) f
Galician: homofobia f
Georgian: ჰომოფობია (homopobia)
German: Homophobie (de) f
Greek: ομοφοβία (el) f (omofovía)
Hebrew: הוֹמוֹפוֹבְּיָה‎ (he) f
Hungarian: homofóbia (hu)
Icelandic: (fear) hommafælni f, (fear of homosexuality) ótti við samkynhneigð m, (hatred) hommahatur n
Ido: homeofobio
Irish: homafóibe f
Italian: omofobia (it)
Japanese: ホモフォビア (homofobia), 同性愛嫌悪 (どうせいあいけんお, dōseiai ken'o)

Korean: 호모포비아 (homopobia), 동성애 혐오 (dongseong-ae hyeomo)
Latin: homophobia f
Latvian: homofobija (lv) f
Lithuanian: homofobija f
Macedonian: хомофобија f (homofobija)
Mongolian: хомофоби (homofobi)
Norwegian: homofobi (no)
Persian: هوموفوبیا‎ (humufubiyâ)
Polish: homofobia (pl) f
Portuguese: homofobia (pt) f
Romanian: homofobie (ro) f
Russian: гомофо́бия (ru) f (gomofóbija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хомофобија f

Roman: homofobija f
Slovak: homofóbia f
Slovene: homofobija f
Spanish: homofobia (es) f
Swahili: ubaguzi wa mashoga class 14
Swedish: homofobi (sv)
Thai: โฮโมโฟเบีย (hoo-moo-foo-biia)
Turkish: homofobi (tr)
Ukrainian: гомофо́бія f (homofóbija)
Vietnamese: ghê sợ đồng tính luyến ái

See also

Etymology 2

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

Noun

homophobia (uncountable)

(obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.

Synonyms

(fear of mankind): anthropophobia

Related terms

Translations

obsolete: pathological fear of mankind

Catalan: antropofòbia f
Esperanto: homofobio
Finnish: antropofobia (fi)

German: Anthropophobie (de) f
Ido: homofobio
Portuguese: homofobia (pt) f

See also

References

O'Donohue, William; Caselles, Christine (September 1993), “Homophobia: Conceptual, definitional, and value issues”, in J Psychopathol Behav Assess‎, volume 15, issue 3
Byers, Dylan (26 November 2012), “AP nixes 'homophobia', 'ethnic cleansing'”, in Politico‎, retrieved 12 January 2018
Page, Clarence (5 December 2012), “Words with negative power”, in Chicago Tribune‎, retrieved 16 December 2012

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