On Thursday 04 July 2024 at 17:42:02, Rainer Weikusat via Dng wrote:

> xyzphobe is a pattern for forming terms supposed to suggest that people
> critical of opinions one happens to favour really suffer from mental
> health problems ("phobias").

I thought such words were based on the Greek suffix for "aversion" (in contrast
to the suffix "philia" meaning "love / attraction") and exist not only to
describe people but also things, for example in chemistry "hydrophobic" means
something that does not mix with water whereas "hydrophilic" means something
attracted to water.


Antony.

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