Melanophobia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Melanophobia is a noun meaning Fear, hate, or dislike of black people.
Meaning
Fear, hate, or dislike of black people.
More Meanings
- (rare) Fear of ink.
Example Sentences
Our press tells us daily of outrages and stupidities committed under pressure of melanophobia.
Acculturation and assimilation (“Creolization”), and their solvent action on traditional cultures and values, are under-emphasized; a broody melanophobia prevails.
Melanophobia, or fear of the black, may be pragmatically as valuable a racial defence for the white as the counter-instinct of philoleucosis, or love of the white, is a force of racial uplifting for the black.
Robert has hair a shade lighter than your lady’s, Nannee’s a shade or two darker. Both have black eyes. I am blacker than either. But I ought not to tell you so, for having become Yankee now, of course you are being steeped in their melanophobia.
Synonyms for melanophobia
Depending on context, synonyms include Negrophobia.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include negrophobia, colorphobia, melanoheliophobia, negrophobe, antiblackness, ethnophobia.
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