Meanings
catalanophobia1
- uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Catalanophobia
Catalanophobia2
alternative catalanophobia
- rareuncountableDislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.
Yet in a mood of catalanophobia, stirred up by sections of the Madrid press against separatist tendencies in the Principality, Catalan proposals for the economic regeneration of Spain were rejected as special pleading.
2000, Joseph Harrison, “Tackling national decadence: economic regeneration in Spain after the colonial débâcle,”, in Spain's 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-Colonialism, Eds. Joseph Harrison and Alan Hoyle, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 612 more examples
Villaverde's refusal to concede a concierto económico to the region, backed by a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, brought on a taxpayers' strike in Barcelona and throughout Catalonia, coupled with the closure of shops.
1979, European studies review, volume 9, Macmillan, page 15Against a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, the middle classes of the Principality, represented in their guilds (gremios), retaliated by declaring a taxpayers' strike and the closure of all shops, a movement which became known as the tancament de caixes.
1990, Élites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Carr, Eds. Frances Lannon and Paul Preston, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 52Synonyms: anti-Catalanism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounDislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.
Origin
Translations
Catalan catalanofòbia, anticatalanisme
- catalanofòbiaDislike of Catalan people, culture of language
- anticatalanismeDislike of Catalan people, culture of language
French catalanophobie, anticatalanisme
- catalanophobieDislike of Catalan people, culture of language
- anticatalanismeDislike of Catalan people, culture of language
Spanish catalanofobia, anticatalanismo
- catalanofobiaDislike of Catalan people, culture of language
- anticatalanismoDislike of Catalan people, culture of language
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catalanophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catalanophobia
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