Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oikophobia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oiko-pho-bia
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.

Uncountable

noun

Dislike of one's own culture or compatriots.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"So, unlike the 60s, you have a dynamic in which both sides are behaving like radicals, in which the establishment isn’t yelling “stop,” and in which oikophobia is more evenly distributed, relative to its Boomer-era baseline."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos) + -phobia. In the political sense, coined in a 1993 journal article by Roger Scruton.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: οἶκος
Suffix: phobia

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

oikophobe oikophobic nostophobia

Questions

What does oikophobia mean?: Ecophobia; fear of a home environment.
Where does oikophobia come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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