different between gynophobia vs homophobia

English

Alternative forms

• gynaephobia
• gynephobia

Etymology

gyno- +? -phobia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??bi?

Noun

gynophobia (uncountable)

1. Fear or hatred of women.

Antonyms

• gynophilia (love of women)

Related terms

• gynophobe
• gynophobic
• androphobia (fear of men)

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?.m??f??.bi.?/, /?h??.m??f??.bi.?/
• Rhymes: -??bi?

Etymology 1

homo- (from homosexual) +? -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

Noun

homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

1. Fear of, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals.

Usage notes

• In the 1990s, behavioral scientists William O'Donohue and Christine Caselles argued that the term homophobia was pejorative. In 2012, the Associated Press Stylebook was revised to advise against using -phobia words in non-clinical ways, and AP editor Dave Minthorn suggested replacing "homophobic" with "anti-gay".

Synonyms

• (fear of homosexuality): homoerotophobia, heterosexism, homophobism, gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia
• (dislike of homosexuality): gay-hate

Hyponyms

• gayphobia
• lesbophobia
• dykephobia

Derived terms

• internalized homophobia
• liberal homophobia

Related terms

• homophobe
• homophobic
• homophobism

Translations

See also

• heterosexism
• heterophobia
• heterophobism
• gaycism
• homophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

Noun

homophobia (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.

Synonyms

• (fear of mankind): anthropophobia

Related terms

• homophobe
• homophobic

Translations

See also

• misanthropy
• androphobia
• gynophobia

References