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Xenophobe vs Genophobe - What's the difference?

xenophobe | genophobe |

As nouns the difference between xenophobe and genophobe

is that xenophobe is xenophobe while genophobe is a person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.

As an adjective xenophobe

is xenophobic.

xenophobe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who fears that which is unknown; one who fears people who are different from oneself, especially in the case of foreign people.
  • Synonyms

    * xenophobian (rare), xenophobiac (rare)

    Antonyms

    *xenophile

    See also

    *bigot *racist

    genophobe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse
  • * 1986 , David Grambs, Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe Life’s Indescribable People , Workman Publishing Company, unmarked page:
  • Genophobes have been informed about the birds and the bees, but they don’t like (or aren’t cocksure about) what they’ve heard and tend to go catatonic when beyond the platonic.
  • * 1996 July 16, Gary Goodman, " Re: Riefenstahl film on PBS", alt.censorship, Usenet :
  • Like what happens when the genophobes try to censor video rental stores. THEN people get outraged. And say fuck off.
  • * 2011 January 26, Nudiarist, “ Re: Dan Ziegler finally professing what Peter Riden has long been preaching/stating”, rec.nude, Usenet :
  • I do think that genophobes like "Anna", and misanthropes like "Zee" are in the minority, zealots who decry any form of sexual expression that is not behind a locked door with the lights out and the covers pulled all the way up.

    See also

    * celibacist * prude * puritan * erotophobe * antisexualist