pozphobe

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noun

One who exhibits pozphobia; one who is prejudiced towards HIV positive people.

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Meanings

nounpozphobe (plural pozphobes)

plural pozphobes

  1. One who exhibits pozphobia; one who is prejudiced towards HIV positive people.

    Quite the opposite: Sterling seems completely indifferent to who his girlfriend sleeps with when she's not with him—white dudes, black dudes, blue dudes, HIV+ dudes. (Johnson is HIV+, of course, so Sterling can't be faulted for being a pozphobe.)

    2014 April 29, Dan Savage, “SL Letter of the Day: Donald Sterling—Racism-Frosted Cuckold Fetishist?”, in The Stranger

Origin

From poz + -phobe.

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APA

pozphobe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pozphobe

MLA

“pozphobe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pozphobe. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pozphobe,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pozphobe.

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