English Dictionary

xenophobia

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A hatred of strangers or foreigners. / A fear of strangers or foreigners. / A strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners. / A fear of aliens.

日本語の意味

外国人や異文化の人々に対する恐怖や嫌悪感 / 異民族に対する強い反発や嫌悪感

Xenophobia can spread quickly when people are discouraged from communicating with newcomers.

地域社会が新参者との交流を阻むとき、見知らぬ人や外国人への憎悪は急速に広がることがある。

意味（1）

A hatred of strangers or foreigners.

意味（2）

A fear of strangers or foreigners.

意味（3）

A strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners.

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 what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”

意味（4）

A fear of aliens.

xenophobias （ plural ）