You searched for: “xenophobia”
xenophobia (s) (noun), xenophobias (pl)
1. An irrational fear or hatred of being around foreigners or strangers and of unfamiliar situations: When people are possessed with xenophobias, they usually cannot tolerate having anything to do with others or with situations that they have no knowledge or experiences with.

Xenophobias often involve dreads of things that are different from the normal habits or social environments of people who have such anxieties.

2. Etymology: from Greek xenos, "strange, foreign" + phobos), "fear, dread".
A fear or hatred of foreigners.
© ALL rights are reserved.

An abnormal fear of strangers.
© ALL rights are reserved.

Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.

This entry is located in the following units: phobo-, phob-, -phobia, -phobias, -phobe, -phobiac, -phobist, -phobic, -phobism, -phobous (page 43) xeno-, xen-, -xenic, -xenism, -xenist, -xenous, -xeny (page 7)
Word Entries at Get Words: “xenophobia”
xenophobia, xenophobias
An excessive fear or hatred of being around foreigners and strangers. (2)
This entry is located in the following unit: Word a Day Revisited Index of Cartoons Illustrating the Meanings of Words (page 83)