xenophobia
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S: OSCE – http://www.osce.org/odihr/44453 (last access: 28 February 2013); UNESCO – https://bit.ly/1zmcBNk (last access: 27 May 2017).

N: 1. 1903, from xeno- “foreign, strange” + -phobia “fear.” Earlier (c.1884) it meant “agoraphobia.”
2. Origin of XENOPHOBIA: New Latin. First Known Use: 1903.
3. Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.
4. Collocations:

  • to be doomed to, to embrace, to put an end to.

5. Cultural Interrelation: Manhattan Transfer (1925) by John Dos Passos (1896-1970).

S: 1. OED – https://bit.ly/2FRA4UC (last access: 1 September 2014). 2 & 3. MW – https://bit.ly/1UoxlOx (last access: 20 July 2014). 4. OD – https://bit.ly/1MdYAdX (last access: 20 May 2015); Goodreads.com – https://bit.ly/2Tj3DSi (last access: 20 May 2015). 5. Amazon – https://amzn.to/2DBKdCq (last access: 20 July 2014); FCB.

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CR: aporophobia, phobia, racism.