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# The BFD Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-9/
- Published: 2020-02-08T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-02-04T06:59:19.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

The word for today is…

xenophobia (noun) – Fear, hatred, or mistrust of that which is foreign, especially strangers or people from different countries or cultures.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/xenophobia?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : If you look back to the ancient Greek terms that underlie the word xenophobia, you’ll discover that xenophobic individuals are literally “stranger fearing.” Xenophobia, that elegant-sounding name for an aversion to persons unfamiliar, ultimately derives from two Greek terms: xenos, which can be translated as either “stranger” or “guest,” and phobos, which means either “fear” or “flight.” Phobos is the ultimate source of all English -phobia terms, but many of those were actually coined in English or New Latin using the combining form -phobia. Xenophobia itself came to us by way of New Latin and first appeared in print in English in the late 19th century.

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