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negrophilia

noun

Etymology

From negro + -philia.

  1. derived from *negʷ-✻ — “bare; night”
  2. derived from niger — “shiny black”
  3. borrowed from negro — “black”
  4. suffixed as negrophilia — “negro + -philia”

Definitions

  1. An affection for, or interest in things related to, the black race.

    • The above recollections were published in 1935, when his views about Afro-America had already hardened into dogma, and his negrophilia had long been left behind.
    • ‘But,’ says Gilroy, ‘negrophilia and negrophobia can be intertwined. [Colin] MacInnes seems to have imprisoned black people in his exotic conceptions of their blackness. […]’

  2. Alternative letter-case form of negrophilia.

The neighborhood

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