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- acrophobe (n.)[acrophobe 词源字典]
- "one suffering from acrophobia," 1895, from acrophobia; also see -phobe.[acrophobe etymology, acrophobe origin, 英语词源]
- Negrophobe (n.)
- 1864, from Negro + -phobe.
- -phobe
- word-forming element meaning "one who fears or hates," from French -phobe, from Latin -phobus, from Greek -phobos "fearing," from phobos "fear, panic, flight," phobein "put to flight, frighten" (see phobia).
- Sinophobe (n.)
- 1919, from Sino- + phobe. Related: Sinophobic; Sinophobia (1876).
- technophobe (n.)
- by 1952, perhaps by 1946, from techno- + -phobe.
If the reader will consult such a book as Recent Economic Changes, by David A. Wells, published in 1889, he will find passages that, except for the dates and absolute amounts involved, might have been written by our technophobes (if I may coin a needed word) of today. [Henry Hazlitt, "Economics in One Lesson," 1952 edition]
- xenophobe (n.)
- 1897, from xeno- "foreign, strange" + -phobe. As an adjective from 1908.