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All xenophobia synonyms

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noun xenophobia

  • chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
  • racism — a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
  • nationalism — spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation.
  • prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
  • animosity — Animosity is a strong feeling of dislike and anger. Animosities are feelings of this kind.
  • bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
  • bigotry — Bigotry is the possession or expression of strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions.
  • discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
  • enmity — The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
  • injustice — the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
  • preconception — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • sexism — attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of gender roles.
  • ageism — Ageism is unacceptable behaviour that occurs as a result of the belief that older people are of less value than younger people.
  • antipathy — Antipathy is a strong feeling of dislike or hostility towards someone or something.
  • apartheid — Apartheid was a political system in South Africa in which people were divided into racial groups and kept apart by law.
  • aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
  • contemptuousness — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
  • detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
  • disgust — to cause loathing or nausea in.
  • dislike — to regard with displeasure, antipathy, or aversion: I dislike working. I dislike oysters.
  • displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
  • illiberality — narrowminded; bigoted.
  • mindset — an attitude, disposition, or mood.
  • narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
  • partiality — the state or character of being partial.
  • pique — a fabric of cotton, spun rayon, or silk, woven lengthwise with raised cords.
  • prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
  • prepossession — the state of being prepossessed.
  • repugnance — the state of being repugnant.
  • revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
  • slant — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
  • spleen — a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
  • tilt — to furnish with a tilt.
  • twist — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • umbrage — offense; annoyance; displeasure: to feel umbrage at a social snub; to give umbrage to someone; to take umbrage at someone's rudeness.
  • unfairness — not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics: an unfair law; an unfair wage policy.
  • warp — OS/2
  • disrelish — to have a distaste for; dislike.
  • foregone conclusion — an inevitable conclusion or result.
  • misjudgment — An act of misjudging, a mistake in judgment.
  • one-sided — considering but one side of a matter or question; partial or unfair: a one-sided judgment.
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