英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhɒ.mə-/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌhoʊ.məˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
• 韻: -əʊbiə
• ハイフネーション: ho‧mo‧pho‧bia

語源 1

From homo- (short for and prefix of homosexual) +‎ -phobia. Coined by American psychologist George Weinberg in 1971 in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

名詞

homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

1. (strictly) Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals. [from 1971]

   Synonyms: gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia, heterosexism, homoerotophobia, homomisia, homophobism

   Antonym: homomania

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:prejudice

   Hyponyms: gayphobia, lesbophobia, dykephobia

   • 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 45–46:

     He lost his racism when he worked with a black man in Chicago. He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.

   • 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC‎:

     Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.

2. (by extension, loosely) Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBT+ persons in general.

   Synonyms: LGBTphobia, LGBTQphobia

   Hyponyms: acephobia, biphobia, transphobia

3. (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia. [from 2021]

   A beautiful cat with homophobia in her 💙 eyes 🧡

   • 2021 April 3, u/NotWurrmm, “A cat with homophobia in its eyes ♥️”, in r/aww‎, Reddit, archived from the original on 3 April 2021
   • 2023 September 11, @Radstads, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 5 August 2025:

     A dog with homophobia in its eyes ✨✨

   • 2024 December 16, u/NintendoFanboy986, “my ex-cat had homophobia”, in r/notinteresting‎, Reddit, archived from the original on 30 January 2025
   • 2025 August 2, anonymous author, /vg/ - Video Game Generals‎, 4chan, archived from the original on 7 August 2025:

     beautiful rabbit with homophobia

使用する際の注意点

• 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".

派生語

関連する語

参考

• heterosexism
• heterophobia
• heterophobism
• gaycism

Further reading

• homophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

名詞

homophobia (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A pathological fear of mankind.

   Synonym: anthropophobia

関連する語

参考

• misanthropy
• androphobia
• gynophobia

参照

Further reading

• “homophobia”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “homophobia”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “homophobia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “homophobia”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “Beautiful Cat with Homophobia”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007