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heteroprejudice en · NOUN

Etymology

From hetero- + prejudice.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Prejudice against heterosexual people.
    • Recognize and address the effects of externalized and internalized homoprejudice or heteroprejudice and biprejudice. 2002, Bob Barret, Robert L. Barret, Colleen Logan, Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: A Practice Primer, page 119:
    • Counselors who are tuned to recognizing homoprejudice may be surprised to encounter heteroprejudice when working with gay clients. 2014, Matt Englar-Carlson, Marcheta P. Evans, Thelma Duffy, A Counselor's Guide to Working With Men, page 124:
  2. (uncountable) Prejudice expressed by heterosexual people against other groups.
    • You can emotionally support survivors by sharing that they are the victims of heteroprejudice and, regardless of whom we are, nobody has a right to violate our property or us. 2001, Daya Singh Sandhu, Faces of Violence:

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