Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heteroprejudice

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: het-ero-prej-u-dice
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Prejudice against heterosexual people.

Uncountable

noun

Prejudice expressed by heterosexual people against other groups.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Recognize and address the effects of externalized and internalized homoprejudice or heteroprejudice and biprejudice."
"Counselors who are tuned to recognizing homoprejudice may be surprised to encounter heteroprejudice when working with gay clients."
"You can emotionally support survivors by sharing that they are the victims of heteroprejudice and, regardless of whom we are, nobody has a right to violate our property or us."

Etymology

From hetero- + prejudice.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: hetero

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

homoprejudice

Questions

What does heteroprejudice mean?: Prejudice against heterosexual people.
Where does heteroprejudice come from?: From hetero- + prejudice.

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