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Definition of heterophobia in English English dictionary
- Fear or resentment of the opposite sex
- Fear or resentment of heterosexuals
a panel of teenagers of LGBT parents voiced concern about what they called heterohobia—they wished their parents weren't so negative and distrusting of straight people. Even suggesting that heterophobia exists for these children understandably evokes angry and skeptical responses because homo-hostile people have used the same word to support a bogus claim that gay rights discrimination against heterosexuals.
- Fear or resentment of what is different
Taguieff writes synonimically of racism and heterophobia (resentment of the different). Heterophobia seems to be a focused manifestation of a still wider phenomenon of anxiety aroused by the feeling that one has no control over the situation,.
- fear of the opposite sex