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aporophobia

noun

Etymology

From Spanish aporofobia, from Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos, “indigent, poor”) + -phobia, by analogy with xenophobia. Term coined by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina in the 1990s.

  1. derived from ἄπορος
  2. borrowed from aporofobia

Definitions

  1. The fear of poverty or poor people

    The fear of poverty or poor people; antipathy toward them both.

    • It's easy calling somebody a racist (and I'm not talking about skinheads or assholes shouting racist things at matches), but the problem I think it's more aporophobia (sp?) than xenophobia.
    • In Latin America, the most dramatic results of discrimination have an element of aporophobia, that is, revulsion and hatred for the poor.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA