aporophobia
Meanings
noun
- The fear of poverty or poor people; antipathy toward them both.
Word forms
Etymology
From Spanish aporofobia, from Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos, “indigent, poor”) + -phobia, by analogy with xenophobia. Term coined by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina in the 1990s.
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