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Today's Word "xenophobia"

Fear or hatred of strangers on

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xenophobia \ZEN-uh-FOE-bee-uh\ (noun) - Fear or hatred of strangers, people from other countries, or of anything that is strange or foreign.

"Even if Indians had been accepting of mixed alliances, the xenophobia of the British warranted no other response to Anglo-Indian alliances..." -- Indu Sundaresan, 'The Splendor of Silence'

 

The word xenophobia was formed from the Greek elements xenos "guest, stranger, foreigner" + phobos "fear."


 

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