Medical Subject Headings

Last uploaded: March 22, 2026
Id http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D065806
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D065806
Preferred Name

Xenophobia

Definitions
Intense or irrational dislike or fear of anything that is strange or foreign, particularly of people who are strangers or foreigners. It is an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population that includes attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject, exclude or vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.
Synonyms
Fear of Strangers
Phobia, Strangers
Strangers Phobia
Type http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class
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