oikophobia


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oikophobia

[‚ȯik·ə′fō·bē·ə]
(psychology)
An abnormal fear of the home, or of a house.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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For Scruton, it is in part because of the rise of oikophobia that the locus of environmentalism has shifted away from local communities to remote centralized bureaucracies, international bodies, and NGOs.
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