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him | homophobia |

As nouns the difference between him and homophobia

is that him is male (someone of masculine gender) while homophobia is fear, dislike or hatred of gays and lesbians or homophobia can be (obsolete|individual occurrences) a pathological fear of mankind.

As an adjective him

is male.

him

English

(wikipedia him)

Pronoun

  • # With dative effect or as an indirect object.
  • #* '1897' (578 m)'', (Bram Stoker), ''Dracula :
  • ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
  • # Following a preposition.
  • #* '1813' (553 m)'', (Jane Austen), ''Pride and Prejudice :
  • She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
  • # With accusative effect or as a direct object.
  • #* '1853' (565 m)'', (Charles Dickens), ''Bleak House :
  • ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
  • * '1526' (465 m)'', (William Tyndale), trans. ''Bible , Acts XII:
  • Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym' in royall apparell, and set ' hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
  • * '1765' (538 m)'',
  • Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
    He sees his little lot the lot of all;
    [...]
    But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
    Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
  • With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after (be), or following a preposition.
  • * 'c. 1616' (493 m)'', (William Shakespeare), ''Macbeth , First Folio 1623, V.10:
  • Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him , that first cries hold, enough.
  • * '2003' (611 m)'', Claire Cozens, ''The Guardian , 11 Jun 2003:
  • Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him .
  • See also

    * he * his * her * them

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    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

    See also

    * heterosexism * heterophobia * ("homophobia" on Wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.
  • Synonyms
    * (fear of mankind) anthropophobia

    See also

    * misanthropy * androphobia * gynophobia