noun
definition
A fear of strangers or foreigners.
definition
A fear of aliens.
definition
A strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners.
Examples of xenophobia in a Sentence
The group is assisting communities to promote positive images of refugees and combat racism and xenophobia.
Stalin used anti-semitism to fuel Great Russian xenophobia after 1947.
To perpetuate racism and xenophobia through our media is not only antisocial and grossly irresponsible, it is well nigh criminal.
The documentary was immediately condemned by EFL teachers as evidence of increasing government xenophobia against English teachers.
The FA's decision to award him the job was accompanied by a small eruption of unpleasant xenophobia.
Assisting communities to promote positive images of refugees and combat racism and xenophobia.
These results should be seen as a wake up call for all right-thinking people to combat xenophobia in all its guises.
With such vile xenophobia expressed against Germany, how can we expect English football fans to behave differently?
M y concern is how terrorism promotes xenophobia and racism; that destructive generalizations are drawn and incorrect conclusions arrived at.
Iâve no doubt that during that month xenophobia will be running through everyoneâs veins at some point or another.
At its most fanatical this was outright xenophobia disguised under a sheen of scientific legitimacy.
Subsequently racism, prejudice and xenophobia today are to some extent part of the broader legacy of slavery.
By contrast, Aguilar argues that growing xenophobia against immigrants is a way of redefining and stabilizing Malaysian national identity.
With the country also at war with the French and Dutch, paranoid xenophobia - a familiar English trait - was rife.
British attitudes shifted from relative openness to dislike and distrust, and even racial xenophobia.
Thankfully the English have, for the most part, risen above such xenophobia despite the extreme provocation of the Scottish Labor Party.
Even Blyton 's contemporaries thought the same (the publisher Macmillan once rejected a manuscript for its " unattractive... old-fashioned xenophobia ").
The FA 's decision to award him the job was accompanied by a small eruption of unpleasant xenophobia.
Even Blyton's contemporaries thought the same (the publisher Macmillan once rejected a manuscript for its " unattractive... old-fashioned xenophobia " ).