fatphobia

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noun

Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.

“Near-synonyms: sizeism, weightism”

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounfatphobia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableFear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.

    Near-synonyms: sizeism, weightism

    4 more examples

    This is because medical authorities and proponents of public health are drawing from and amplifying the Western cultural fear and loathing of fatness, or fatphobia, with claims about a global 'obesity epidemic' (WHO 1998).

    2008, Lee F. Monaghan, Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study, Routledge, published 2008, →ISBN, page 1

    Celebrity culture is intricately tied to fatphobia.

    2009, Crystal Renn, Marjorie Ingall, Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, unnumbered page

    From long-lost high school friends found on Facebook to total strangers whom I'll probably never meet in person, I get asked questions from where to buy a good bra (my minimizer days are dead and buried) to how to deal with a spouse's fatphobia.

    2012, Abby Weintraub, “Truce”, in Virgie Tovar, editor, Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion, Seal Press, →ISBN

    There are a lot of ways for people in the obese/eligible category to feel about it: […] Ambivalent about fatphobia in medicine working in their favor, for once.

    2021 March 9, Maura Judkis, “People are getting vaccinated due to their BMI. They have mixed feelings about it”, in Washington Post

    Synonyms: fatmisia, fattism, obesophobia, sizeism, weightism · Antonyms: fat acceptance

  2. uncountableSynonym of lipophobia (“fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat”)

    Synonyms: lipophobia

Synonyms & antonyms

nounFear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.

nounSynonym of lipophobia (“fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat”)

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Translations

Catalan grassofòbia
  • grassofòbiafear or dislike towards fat people
Esperanto grasfobio
  • grasfobiofear or dislike towards fat people
French grossophobie
  • grossophobiefear or dislike towards fat people
German Fettphobie, Obesophobie
  • Fettphobiefear or dislike towards fat people
  • Obesophobiefear or dislike towards fat people
  • Adipophobiefear or dislike towards fat people
Italian grassofobia
  • grassofobiafear or dislike towards fat people
Japanese 肥満恐怖症
  • 肥満恐怖症 (himankyōfushō)fear or dislike towards fat people
Persian چاقی-شرمی
  • چاقی-شرمی (čâqi-šarrmey)fear or dislike towards fat people
Polish fatfobia
  • fatfobiafear or dislike towards fat people
Portuguese gordofobia
  • gordofobiafear or dislike towards fat people
Romanian grasofobie
  • grasofobiefear or dislike towards fat people
Russian фэтше́йминг, фэтфо́бия
  • фэтше́йминг (fɛtšéjming)fear or dislike towards fat people
  • фэтфо́бия (fɛtfóbija)fear or dislike towards fat people
Spanish gordofobia
  • gordofobiafear or dislike towards fat people
Swedish fettfobi, fetmafobi
  • fettfobifear or dislike towards fat people
  • fetmafobifear or dislike towards fat people
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APA

fatphobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatphobia

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