As nouns the difference between ethnocentrism and homophobia
is that ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture while homophobia is fear, dislike or hatred of gays and lesbians or homophobia can be (obsolete|individual occurrences) a pathological fear of mankind.
ethnocentrism
Noun
(-)
The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
homophobia
Etymology 1
homo (from (homosexual)) , coined in 1971 by in Society and the Healthy Homosexual .
Noun
Fear, dislike or hatred of gays and lesbians.
Synonyms
* (fear of homosexuality) homoerotophobia, heterosexism
Hyponyms
*gayphobia
*lesbophobia
Derived terms
* internalised homophobia
Related terms
* homophobe
* homophobic
Etymology 2
(etyl)
Noun
(-)
(obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.
Synonyms
* (fear of mankind) anthropophobia
Related terms
* homophobe
* homophobic
See also
* misanthropy
* androphobia
* gynophobia