Meanings
- uncommonuncountableAn irrational fear, hatred, or prejudice against Zionism.
Arabism or any Biblical romanticism about the Holy Land, were the fuel which fed his Zionophobia.
1978, Phillip J. Baram, The Department of State in the Middle East, 1919-1945, page 862 more examples
peculiar brood, happily few, which is infected with a peculiar form of rabies which may be termed "Zionophobia," nor yet, that smaller, ever dwindling, number whose only chance in the lime-light is by way of bitter, slanderous denunciations
[1919, Zionist Organization of America, Annual Convention, Volume 22, page 27So far, in fact, that the pitiful few within Reform who are afflicted with Zionophobia have found it necessary to cling with frantic compulsion to the rigid patterns of their past.
1952, Eugene Kohn, Ira Eisenstein (editors), Mordecai M. Kaplan, An Evaluation, page 238
Origin
- Biblical Hebrewצִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn)
- Koine GreekΣῑών (Sīṓn)
- LatinSīōn
- Old EnglishSyon
- Middle EnglishSion
- Early New High GermanZioninflu.
- EnglishZion
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰógʷos
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰógʷos
- Ancient Greekφόβος (phóbos)
- EnglishZionophobia
From Zion + -o- + -phobia. First use appears c. 1919. See cite below.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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