Xenophobia

“Xenophobia (ZEN-uh-FOH-bee-uh) - from the Greek for “stranger” + “fear” - is fear or hatred of anyone or anything that is strange or foreign.

Example (as used by Ruth Brandon in Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945): “In the embattled atmosphere of wartime France, [Guillaume] Apollinaire’s quenchless appetite for the new was not widely shared. Xenophobia reigned.”

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