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Catalanophobia en · NOUN

Etymology

From Catalano- + -phobia.

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable) Dislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.
   • Yet in a mood of catalanophobia, stirred up by sections of the Madrid press against separatist tendencies in the Principality, Catalan proposals for the economic regeneration of Spain were rejected as special pleading. 2000, Joseph Harrison, “Tackling national decadence: economic regeneration in Spain after the colonial débâcle,”, in Spain's 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-Colonialism, Eds. Joseph Harrison and Alan Hoyle, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 61:
   • Against a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, the middle classes of the Principality, represented in their guilds (gremios), retaliated by declaring a taxpayers' strike and the closure of all shops, a movement which became known as the tancament de caixes. 1990, Élites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Carr, Eds. Frances Lannon and Paul Preston, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 52:
   • Villaverde's refusal to concede a concierto económico to the region, backed by a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, brought on a taxpayers' strike in Barcelona and throughout Catalonia, coupled with the closure of shops. 1979, European studies review, volume 9, Macmillan, page 15:

Forms

Synonyms

anti-Catalanism

Translations (8)

es catalanofobia (Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language) · ka კატალანოფობია (Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language) · fr catalanophobie (Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language) · ca anticatalanisme (Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language) · ka ანტიკატალანიზმი (Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language) · es anticatalanismo (Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language) · ca catalanofòbia (Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language) · fr anticatalanisme (Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language)