Hoplophobia is not a true phobia, and it is not recognized as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association.

The word Gringo is widely used in parts of Latin America in reference to U. S. residents, often in a pejorative way but not necessarily.

Yanqui ( Yankee ) is also very common in some regions, but it is usually pejorative.

It is popularly reported that Hoyle, who favored an alternative " steady state " cosmological model, intended this to be pejorative, but Hoyle explicitly denied this and said it was just a striking image meant to highlight the difference between the two models.

I ’ m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay.

The term is also commonly used as a pejorative to criticize the use of clever but unsound reasoning ( alleging implicitly the inconsistent — or outright specious — misapplication of rule to instance ), especially in relation to moral questions ( see sophistry ).

In journalistic usage, the pejorative use is ubiquitous and examples of the neutral usage are not found.

The term is usually used in a pejorative sense, often in conjunction with a call to reject such influence.

Moser and Catley explain, " In America, ' liberal ' means left-of-center, and it is a pejorative term when used by conservatives in adversarial political debate.

Its use is generally pejorative.

One example is " berk ", a mild pejorative widely used across the UK and not usually considered particularly offensive, although the origin lies in a contraction of " Berkeley Hunt ", as the rhyme for the significantly more offensive " cunt ".

Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).

The word disaster is derived from Middle French désastre and that from Old Italian disastro, which in turn comes from the Greek pejorative prefix δυσ -, ( dus -) " bad " + ἀστήρ ( aster ), " star ".

In the United States, the term " Darwinism " is often used by creationists as a pejorative term in reference to beliefs such as atheistic naturalism, but in the United Kingdom the term has no negative connotations, being freely used as a short hand for the body of theory dealing with evolution, and in particular, evolution by natural selection.

In this sense, it is similar to the pejorative connotations that have likewise arisen with the term tyrant.

Just as the word Byzantine is often used in a pejorative way, so the word despot now has equally negative connotations.

In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is sometimes considered pejorative and has been replaced by the term Inuit.

Nevertheless, it is commonly felt in Canada and Greenland that the term Eskimo is pejorative.

In Canada and Greenland the term Eskimo is widely held to be pejorative and has fallen out of favour, largely supplanted by the term Inuit.

The label of formula fiction is used in literary criticism as a mild pejorative to imply lack of originality.

In this case, the term " folklore " is being used in a pejorative sense.

" Fundamentalism " is sometimes used as a pejorative term, particularly when combined with other epithets ( as in the phrase " right-wing fundamentalists ").

The term " fundamentalism " is sometimes applied to signify a counter-cultural fidelity to some simplistic principle, as in the pejorative term " market fundamentalism " applied to an exaggerated religious-like faith in the ability of unfettered laissez-faire or free market economic views or policies to solve economic and social problems.

This neologism is based on the prefix u-( as in the word utopia, a place that does not exist ) and the Greek for time, chronos.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

" Humanure " is a portmanteau neologism designating human excrement ( feces and urine ) that is recycled via composting for agricultural or other purposes.

Generation Flux is a neologism and psychographic ( not demographic ) designation coined by Fast Company for American employees who need to make several changes in career throughout their working lives due to the chaotic nature of the job market following the 2008 – 2012 global financial crisis.

It is a neologism coined in the late 1960s as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, and refers to history ( reinterpreted as " his story ") written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view.

However, as the growing number of speakers employ different strategies to express themselves, it is often unclear as to what level of neologism is permissible.

Once a neologism or a compound is introduced in one languages if successful it will often diffuse across geographical boundaries.

Open content or OpenContent is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify.

In some contexts ( such as descriptions of camera sensors ), the term pixel is used to refer to a single scalar element of a multi-component representation ( more precisely called a photosite in the camera sensor context, although the neologism sensel is sometimes used to describe the elements of a digital camera's sensor ), while in others the term may refer to the entire set of such component intensities for a spatial position.

A common neologism in the Python community is pythonic, which can have a wide range of meanings related to program style.

The word pompatus (), also spelled pompitous, is a neologism used in the lyrics of Steve Miller's 1973 rock song " The Joker ".

A retronym is a type of neologism that provides a new name for an object or concept to differentiate its original form or version from a more recent form or version.

Where satan is used of human enemies in the Hebrew Bible, such as Hadad the Edomite and Rezon the Syrian, the word is left untranslated but transliterated in the Greek as satan, a neologism in Greek.

* Goldenberg's neologism as a political stance that marks the androcentrism of historical theology that summons her reader to think about the possibilities of a discourse about the Divine that is post-patriarchal.

Populitism is a neologism coined by Nelson, a portmanteau combining " populism " with " elite.

Scots in Ireland is known in official circles as Ulster-Scots ( Ulstèr-Scotch in revivalist Ulster-Scots ) or " Ullans ", a recent neologism merging Ulster and Lallans.

If the highest echelons of the governments also take advantage from corruption or embezzlement from the state's treasury, it is sometimes referred with the neologism kleptocracy.

The term E-Learning 2. 0 is a neologism for CSCL systems that came about during the emergence of Web 2. 0 From an E-Learning 2. 0 perspective, conventional e-learning systems were based on instructional packets, which were delivered to students using assignments.

It is widely agreed to distinguish collaborative learning from the traditional ' direct transfer ' model in which the instructor is assumed to be the distributor of knowledge and skills, which is often given the neologism E-Learning 1. 0, even though this direct transfer method most accurately reflects Computer-Based Learning systems ( CBL ).