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Updated: Origins of the word "Islamophobia"

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wrenchwench1/31/2014 9:24:59 am PST

I wish people could get over the fact that ‘-phobia’ is NOT ALWAYS PROPERLY INTERPRETED TO MEAN FEAR.

-phobia
a combining form meaning “dread of,” “phobic aversion toward,” “unreasonable antipathy toward” a given object: agoraphobia; xenophobia.

NOTE: see the hyphen? this is the combining form, not the clinical psychological noun.