Uncommon
Oikophobia
Aversion to one's home or homeland
Oikophobia
Oikophobia (Ancient Greek: οἶκος, romanized: oîkos, lit. 'house, household' + φόβος, phóbos, 'fear'; related to domatophobia and ecophobia) is a tendency to criticise or reject one's own home or home society while praising others. It has been used in political contexts to refer critically to political ideologies that are held to repudiate one's own culture. This usage of the term was popularized by the English conservative writer Roger Scruton in his 2004 book England and the Need for Nations. In 1808 the English Romantic poet and essayist Robert Southey used it to describe a desire (particularly by the English people) to leave one's home and travel. Southey's usage is a synonym for wanderlust. It is not used in psychiatry, and is not listed in the DSM-5. If it were, it would be used to narrowly indicate a type of specific phobia or fear of specific items contained in a house, (e.g. appliances, bathtubs and electric switches) but not the fear of a house itself, which is domatophobia. In...
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