Behavior
xenophobia Audio
xen·o·pho·bi·a [ zen-uh-foh-bee-uh, zee-nuh- ]
Definitions related to xenophobia:
  • Abnormal fear of strangers.
    Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and Psychology
    BJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
  • Intense or irrational dislike or fear of anything that is strange or foreign, particularly of people who are strangers or foreigners. It is an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population that includes attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject, exclude or vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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