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Hatred vs Xenophobic - What's the difference?

hatred | xenophobic |

As nouns the difference between hatred and xenophobic

is that hatred is strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil while xenophobic is a xenophobe.

As an adjective xenophobic is

suffering from xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

hatred

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
  • the very circumstance which renders it so innocent is what chiefly exposes it to the public hatred
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
  • * (David Crystal)
  • Fears and hatreds pay no attention to facts.

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    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