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  • adjective Suffering from xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
  • noun A xenophobe.

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  • adjective suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign

Etymologies

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xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xenos, "foreign, strange") + φόβος (phobos, "fear")

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