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111 relations: -phil-, Acidophile, Acidophobe, Alkaliphile, Ancient Greek, Anemophily, Anglophile, Anglophobia, Anti-German sentiment, Anti-Italianism, Anti-Japanese sentiment, Anti-Russian sentiment, Antisemitism, Audiophile, Austrophile, Bibliophilia, Biophilia hypothesis, Celtophile Records, China, Chinese culture, Cinephilia, Culture of Ireland, Culture of Japan, Dendrophilia (paraphilia), Electrophile, England, Entomophily, European Union, Europhile, Euroscepticism, Extremophile, Fennoman movement, Flower, Francophile, Francophobia, Gaijin, Gay, Gay liberation, Geophilic, Germanophile, Glossophilia, Haemophilia, Hair fetishism, Halophile, Hibernophile, Hispanophile, Homophile, Homosexuality, Hydrophile, Hyperthermophile, ..., India, Indomania, Ireland, Italophilia, Italy, Japan, Japanophile, Jewish culture, Jews, Kartvelophile, LGBT social movements, Lipophilicity, List of paraphilias, List of phobias, Lithophile, Logophilia, Love of God, Map, Mesophile, Microaerophile, Myrmecophila, Myrmecophily, Necrophilia, Negrophilia, Neophile, Nucleophile, Oenophilia, Opposite (semantics), Orchidaceae, Petrophile, Philadelphia, Philanthropy, Philately, Philhellenism, Philia, Phillumeny, Philo-Semitism, Philology, Philomath, Philosophy, Promiscuity, Protea, Psammophile, Psychrophile, Railfan, Rain, Retro style, Russophilia, Sinophile, Sinophobia, Slavophilia, Suecophile, Technophilia, Teddy bear, Thermophile, Tombstone tourist, Vorarephilia, Xenophilia, Xenophobia, Zoophilia, Zoophily. Expand index (61 more) »
-phil-
Suffixes with the common part -phil- (-phile, -philia, -phily, -philic) are used to specify some kind of attraction or affinity to something.
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Acidophile
Acidophiles or acidophilic organisms are those that thrive under highly acidic conditions (usually at pH 2.0 or below).
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Acidophobe
The terms Acidophobe/Acidophobia/Acidophoby/Acidophobic refer to intolerace to acidic environments.
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Alkaliphile
Alkaliphiles are a class of extremophilic microbes capable of survival in alkaline (pH roughly 8.5–11) environments, growing optimally around a pH of 10.
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Ancient Greek
The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.
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Anemophily
Anemophily or wind pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind.
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Anglophile
An Anglophile is a person who admires England, its people, and its culture.
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Anglophobia
Anti-English sentiment or Anglophobia (from Latin Anglus "English" and Greek φόβος, phobos, "fear") means opposition to, dislike of, fear of, or hatred towards England or the English people.
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Anti-German sentiment
Anti-German sentiment (or Germanophobia) is defined as an opposition to or fear of Germany, its inhabitants, its culture and the German language.
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Anti-Italianism
Anti-Italianism or Italophobia is a negative attitude regarding Italian people or people with Italian ancestry, often expressed through the use of prejudice or stereotypes.
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Anti-Japanese sentiment
Anti-Japanese sentiment (also called Japanophobia, Nipponophobia and anti-Japanism) involves the hatred or fear of anything Japanese.
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Anti-Russian sentiment
Anti-Russian sentiment or Russophobia is a diverse spectrum of negative feelings, dislikes, fears, aversion, derision and/or prejudice of Russia, Russians or Russian culture.
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Antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.
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Audiophile
An audiophile is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction.
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Austrophile
An Austrophile is somebody who is fond of Austrian culture and Austria in general but not born there.
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Bibliophilia
Bibliophilia or bibliophilism is the love of books, and a bibliophile or bookworm is an individual who loves and frequently reads books.
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Biophilia hypothesis
The biophilia hypothesis also called BET suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.
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Celtophile Records
Celtophile Records was a Danbury, Connecticut-based sublabel of Green Linnet Records that specialized in budget compilations of Celtic music.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese culture
Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago.
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Cinephilia
Cinephilia (also cinemaphilia or filmophilia) is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and film criticism.
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Culture of Ireland
The culture of Ireland includes customs and traditions, language, music, art, literature, folklore, cuisine and sports associated with Ireland and the Irish people.
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Culture of Japan
The culture of Japan has evolved greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric time Jōmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs influences from Asia, Europe, and North America.
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Dendrophilia (paraphilia)
Dendrophilia (or less often arborphilia or dendrophily) literally means "love of trees".
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Electrophile
In organic chemistry, an electrophile is a reagent attracted to electrons.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Entomophily
Entomophily or insect pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen of plants, especially but not only of flowering plants, is distributed by insects.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Europhile
A Europhile is a person who is fond of, admires, or loves European culture, society, history, food, etc.
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Euroscepticism
Euroscepticism (also known as EU-scepticism) means criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration.
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Extremophile
An extremophile (from Latin extremus meaning "extreme" and Greek philiā (φιλία) meaning "love") is an organism that thrives in physically or geochemically extreme conditions that are detrimental to most life on Earth.
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Fennoman movement
The Fennomans, members of the most important political movement (Fennomania) in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland, built on the work of the fennophile interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries.
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Flower
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).
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Francophile
A Francophile (Gallophile) is a person who has a strong affinity towards any or all of the French language, French history, French culture or French people.
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Francophobia
Anti-French sentiment (Francophobia) refers to an extreme or irrational fear of France, the French people, the French government or the Francophonie (set of political entities that use French as an official language or whose French-speaking population is numerically or proportionally large).
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Gaijin
is a Japanese word for foreigners and non-Japanese.
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Gay
Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.
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Gay liberation
The gay liberation movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride.
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Geophilic
Geophilic means soil loving or preferring the soil.
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Germanophile
A Germanophile, Teutonophile or Teutophile is a person who is fond of German culture, German people and Germany in general or who exhibits German nationalism in spite of not even being either an ethnic German or a German citizen.
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Glossophilia
Glossophilia is a love of language, be it foreign or native.
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Haemophilia
Haemophilia, also spelled hemophilia, is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding.
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Hair fetishism
Hair fetishism, also known as hair partialism and trichophilia, is a partialism in which a person sees hair most commonly, head hair as particularly erotic and sexually arousing.
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Halophile
Halophiles are organisms that thrive in high salt concentrations.
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Hibernophile
A Hibernophile is a person who is fond of Irish culture, Irish language and Ireland in general.
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Hispanophile
An hispanophile (hispanófilo) is a person who is fond of Spain (or Spanish-speaking countries), its people, or its cultures.
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Homophile
The words homophile and homophilia are dated terms for homosexuality.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Hydrophile
A hydrophile is a molecule or other molecular entity that is attracted to water molecules and tends to be dissolved by water.
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Hyperthermophile
A hyperthermophile is an organism that thrives in extremely hot environments—from 60 °C (140 °F) upwards.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indomania
Indomania or Indophilia refer to the special interest India, Indians and Indian culture have generated in the Western world, more specifically the culture and civilisation of the Indian subcontinent, especially in Germany.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.
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Italophilia
Italophilia is the admiration, appreciation or emulation of Italy, its people, its ideals, its civilization or its culture.
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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Japanophile
Japanophilia refers to the appreciation and love of Japanese culture, people or history.
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Jewish culture
Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people from the formation of the Jewish nation in biblical times through life in the diaspora and the modern state of Israel.
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Jews
Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.
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Kartvelophile
A Kartvelophile (ქართველოფილი) is a person who is fond of, admires or loves Georgian culture, Georgian history, Georgian language, Georgian cuisine, Georgian people or Georgia in general or even exhibits Georgian nationalism in spite of not being an ethnic Georgian.
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LGBT social movements
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT+ people in society.
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Lipophilicity
Lipophilicity (from Greek λίπος "fat" and φίλος "friendly"), refers to the ability of a chemical compound to dissolve in fats, oils, lipids, and non-polar solvents such as hexane or toluene.
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List of paraphilias
Paraphilias are sexual interests in objects, situations, or individuals that are atypical.
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List of phobias
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g. acidophobia), and in medicine to describe hypersensitivity to a stimulus, usually sensory (e.g. photophobia).
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Lithophile
Lithophiles are micro-organisms that can live within the pore interstices of sedimentary and even fractured igneous rocks to depths of several kilometers.
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Logophilia
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Love of God
Love of God can mean either love for God or love by God.
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Map
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.
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Mesophile
A mesophile is an organism that grows best in moderate temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, typically between.
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Microaerophile
A microaerophile is a microorganism that requires oxygen to survive, but requires environments containing lower levels of oxygen than are present in the atmosphere (i.e. 2; typically 2–10% O2).
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Myrmecophila
Myrmecophila is a genus of plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae.
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Myrmecophily
Myrmecophily (literally "ant-love") is the term applied to positive interspecies associations between ants and a variety of other organisms such as plants, other arthropods, and fungi.
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Necrophilia
Necrophilia, also known as necrophilism, necrolagnia, necrocoitus, necrochlesis, and thanatophilia, is a sexual attraction or sexual act involving corpses.
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Negrophilia
The word negrophilia is derived from the French négrophilie that means love of the negro.
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Neophile
Neophile or Neophiliac, a term popularised by cult writer Robert Anton Wilson, is a personality type characterized by a strong affinity for novelty.
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Nucleophile
Nucleophile is a chemical species that donates an electron pair to an electrophile to form a chemical bond in relation to a reaction.
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Oenophilia
Oenophilia (Greek for the love (philia) of wine (oinos)) is a love of wine.
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Opposite (semantics)
In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship, like the opposite pairs big: small, long: short, and precede: follow.
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Orchidaceae
The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.
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Petrophile
Petrophile is a genus of evergreen shrubs, in the family Proteaceae.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Philanthropy
Philanthropy means the love of humanity.
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Philately
Philately is the study of stamps and postal history and other related items.
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Philhellenism
Philhellenism ("the love of Greek culture") and philhellene ("the admirer of Greeks and everything Greek"), from the Greek φίλος philos "friend, lover" and ἑλληνισμός hellenism "Greek", was an intellectual fashion prominent mostly at the turn of the 19th century.
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Philia
Philia (φιλία), often translated "brotherly love", is one of the four ancient Greek words for love: philia, storge, agape and eros.
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Phillumeny
Phillumeny (also known as Phillumenism) is the hobby of collecting different match-related items: matchboxes, matchbox labels, matchbooks, matchcovers, matchsafes, etc.
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Philo-Semitism
Philo-Semitism (also spelled philosemitism) or Judeophilia is an interest in, respect for and an appreciation of Jewish people, their history and the influence of Judaism, particularly on the part of a gentile.
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Philology
Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics.
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Philomath
A philomath (from Greek φίλος philos ("beloved", "loving", as in philosophy or philanthropy) and μανθάνειν, μαθ- manthanein, math- ("to learn", as in polymath) is a lover of learning and studying. Philomathes, a "lover of learning", has been contrasted to philalethes, a "lover of truth". Philomathy is similar to, but distinguished from, philosophy in that -soph, the latter suffix, specifies "wisdom" or "knowledge", rather than the process of acquisition thereof. Philomath is not synonymous with polymath, as a polymath is someone who possesses great and detailed knowledge and facts from a variety of disciplines, while a philomath is someone who greatly enjoys learning and studying.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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Promiscuity
Promiscuity is the practice of having casual sex frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.
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Protea
Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of South African flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos) or Fynbos.
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Psammophile
A psammophile is a plant or animal that prefers or thrives in sandy areas.
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Psychrophile
Psychrophiles or cryophiles (adj. psychrophilic or cryophilic) are extremophilic organisms that are capable of growth and reproduction in low temperatures, ranging from −20 °C to +10 °C.
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Railfan
A railfan, rail buff, or train buff (American English), railway enthusiast or railway buff (Australian/British English), trainspotter or anorak (British English, usually derogatory), is a person interested, recreationally, in rail transport.
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Rain
Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.
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Retro style
Retro style (also known as "vintage inspired") is a style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, music, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the past.
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Russophilia
Russophilia (literally love of Russia or Russians) is individual or collective admiration of Russia and Russian culture.
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Sinophile
A Sinophile or a Chinophile is a person who demonstrates a strong interest and love for Chinese culture or its people.
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Sinophobia
Anti-Chinese sentiment, Sinophobia (from Late Latin Sinae "China" and Greek φόβος, phobos, "fear"), or Chinophobia is a sentiment against China, its people, overseas Chinese, or Chinese culture.
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Slavophilia
Slavophilia was an intellectual movement originating from 19th century that wanted the Russian Empire to be developed upon values and institutions derived from its early history.
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Suecophile
A Suecophile is someone with a great interest in the Swedish culture and the Swedish language.
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Technophilia
Technophilia (from Greek τέχνη - technē, "art, skill, craft" and φίλος - philos, "beloved, dear, friend") refers generally to a strong enthusiasm for technology, especially new technologies such as personal computers, the Internet, mobile phones and home cinema.
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Teddy bear
A teddy bear is a soft toy in the form of a bear.
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Thermophile
A thermophile is an organism—a type of extremophile—that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between.
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Tombstone tourist
Tombstone tourist (otherwise known as a "cemetery enthusiast", "cemetery tourist", "grave hunter", "graver", or "taphophile") describes an individual who has a passion for and enjoyment of cemeteries, epitaphs, gravestone rubbing, photography, art, and history of (famous) deaths.
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Vorarephilia
Vorarephilia (often shortened to vore) is a paraphilia characterized by the erotic desire to be consumed by, or sometimes to personally consume, another person or creature, or an erotic attraction to the process of eating in general practice.
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Xenophilia
Xenophily or xenophilia means an affection for unknown/foreign objects or people.
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Xenophobia
Xenophobia is the fear and distrust of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange.
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Zoophilia
Zoophilia is a paraphilia involving a sexual fixation on non-human animals.
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Zoophily
Zoophily is a form of pollination whereby pollen is transferred by animals, usually invertebrates but may include vertebrates, particularly by hummingbirds and other birds, and bats, but also by monkeys, marsupials, lemurs, bears, rabbits, deer, rodents, lizards, and other animals.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-
