aporophobia

Meaning

Noun

  • A strong antipathy, aversion or hatred toward poverty or poor people.

Origin

  • From Spanish aporofobia, from Ancient Greek ἄπορος ("indigent, poor") + . Term coined by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina in the 1990s.

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