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Genophobic vs Xenophobic - What's the difference?

genophobic | xenophobic |

As adjectives the difference between genophobic and xenophobic

is that genophobic is relating to or characteristic of genophobia or genophobes while xenophobic is suffering from xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

As a noun xenophobic is

a xenophobe.

genophobic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to or characteristic of genophobia or genophobes.
  • xenophobic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Suffering from xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
  • * "Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic'' attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses" ''Weekend Argus May 13/14 2006.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A xenophobe.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 16, author=, title=Don’t Give Up on the Games, or Olympic Ideals, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=So Buzz Bissinger sees fit that we give up on the ideal of Olympism and give in to xenophobics , terrorists, drug abusers, profiteers and human rights abusers? }}

    See also

    * racist