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::Clarification:  At issue are the meanings of the morphemes in "homophobia."  Historically, as to etymology, the word can be broken into the elements: hom- = same, -o- = connecting vowel for words of Greek derivation, phob- = fear, -ia = process, state, condition.  However, in terms of synchronic meaning, homo- = homosexual, phobia = irrational fear of, a type of mental disorder.  By way of comparison the word "understand" has the etymological elements under = under and stand = stand.  But by no stretch of the imagination does understand mean to "stand under."  In terms of synchronic linguistics, explanations about the etymological meanings of "stand" and "under" are irrelevant to synchronic meaning.  Synchronically "understand" has but one morpheme (element that has meaning).  I hope this clarifies why I think that this section should be called "Morphology and definition."  It is the present meaning which is much more significant that the etymology.  Alternatively, somehow the section could be revised to indicate that the meaning of -phobia is irrational fear, as a type of mental disorder and that the etymology is not faded in meaning so as to render it irrelevant semantically. ([[User:Thunkful|Thunkful]] 18:14, 16 June 2010 (EDT))

::Clarification:  At issue are the meanings of the morphemes in "homophobia."  Historically, as to etymology, the word can be broken into the elements: hom- = same, -o- = connecting vowel for words of Greek derivation, phob- = fear, -ia = process, state, condition.  However, in terms of synchronic meaning, homo- = homosexual, phobia = irrational fear of, a type of mental disorder.  By way of comparison the word "understand" has the etymological elements under = under and stand = stand.  But by no stretch of the imagination does understand mean to "stand under."  In terms of synchronic linguistics, explanations about the etymological meanings of "stand" and "under" are irrelevant to synchronic meaning.  Synchronically "understand" has but one morpheme (element that has meaning).  I hope this clarifies why I think that this section should be called "Morphology and definition."  It is the present meaning which is much more significant that the etymology.  Alternatively, somehow the section could be revised to indicate that the meaning of -phobia is irrational fear, as a type of mental disorder and that the etymology is not faded in meaning so as to render it irrelevant semantically. ([[User:Thunkful|Thunkful]] 18:14, 16 June 2010 (EDT))

==The Definition of Homophobia==

==The Definition of Homophobia==