Americophobia

English

Etymology

Americo- +‎ -phobia

Noun

Americophobia (uncountable)

A fear or dislike of the United States of America or its culture.
- 1990: [Henry] James's internalised Americophobia led him to sound rather like Shaw's Professor Higgins as he lamented the indifference of the American people to the beauties of their language. — Transatlantic Manners: Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature, Mulvey, Christopher, Cambridge University Press, p133

Synonyms

Americanophobia

Translations

a fear of the United States of America and/or its culture

Chinese:
Mandarin: 反美 (zh) (fǎn-Měi)
Japanese: 反米 (ja) (はんべい, han-Bei)
Portuguese: americanofobia (pt) f
Russian: антиамерикани́зм (ru) m (antiamerikanízm), америкофо́бия f (amerikofóbija)

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