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oikophobia en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + -phobia. In the political sense, coined in a 1993 journal article by Roger Scruton.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
  2. (uncountable) Dislike of one's own culture or compatriots.
    • So, unlike the 60s, you have a dynamic in which both sides are behaving like radicals, in which the establishment isn’t yelling “stop,” and in which oikophobia is more evenly distributed, relative to its Boomer-era baseline. 2020 October 26, Aaron Sibarium, “The Weimarization of the American Republic”, in American Purpose, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2020:

Relateds

nostophobia · oikophobe · oikophobic