Meanings
- uncountableFear or hatred of Czechs or Czechia.
There were attacks against the Czech community in the country – direct 'Czechophobia', to be understood as opposition to, or even hatred of, the Czechs.
2011, Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Eduard Nižňanský, “Jews and Non-Jews in the Aryanization Process: Comparison of France and the Slovak State; 1939–45”, in Beate Kosmala, Georgi Verbeeck, editors, Facing the Catastrophe: Jews and Non-Jews in Europe During World War II, Oxford; New York: Berg, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 153 more examples
Marx verlangt die deutsch-polnisch-madjarische Verbindung gegen die Slawen und predigt Russen-, Tschechen-, Kroatenhaß; und Bakunin fordert, gerade in dem von Marx so scharf kritisierten Aufruf an die Slawne (1848), die Slawen auf, sich gegen Windischgrätz für die Madjaren zu erklären.
1919 [1913], Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, “M. A. Bakunin. Revolutionary Anarchism”, in Eden Paul, Cedar Paul, transl., The Spirit of Russia, volume 2, New York: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.; Ruskin House, translation of original in German, via Wikisource, § 93, page 458No one will deny that [Franz] Grillparzer treats the question of German-Czech antagonism, but there is, in our opinion, no evidence of intentional or malicious Czechophobia.
1955 October 29, Edmund Kostka, Monatshefte, volume 47, number 6, University of Wisconsin Press, via JSTOR, →ISSN, page 276Apparently, this overall weakness of the Czechs and their lack of memory and dignity (values) can be the reason why they are adoring all their "naked little emperors" wich happen to be given power in their little protectorate - including the psychologically interesting example of that little guy Vasek (?) who always entertains and keeps the world updated about "political" diagnoses of his somewhat overblown Oedipus complex, "feelings," Czecho-phobia (oh, he is quite amusing, for example, when he keeps reassuring us about "the infantility of the Czech pub-lic"; do you say a typical case of "projection"?)[.]
1996 March 27, Tom Matys <an358813@anon.penet.fi>, “Czechs?! A funny nation, if any...”, in soc.culture.czecho-slovak (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2025
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Czechophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Czechophobia
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