A philia is the love or obsession with a particular thing or subject. The suffix -philia is used to specify the love or obsession with something more specific. It is antonymic to -phobia.
Philia as a greek word for love refers to brotherly love, including friendship and affection. This contrasts to the Greek terms Eros, or sexual/romantic love, and agape, or detached, spiritual love. However, it should be noted that English usage differs in some cases from the eytmological use, and several of these words refer in English not to brotherly love but to sexual attraction.
The suffix -phile (or, in a few cases, -philiac) applies to someone who has one of these philia. It is the antonym of -phobic.
What follows is a list of words that have the suffix -philia.
lavacultophilia: Desire to stare at someone in a bathing suit
lexiconophilia: Love of dictionaries and wordbooks
limnophilia: Love of ponds or marshes
lithophilia: Love of stones
logophilia: Love of words - Logophiles may be interested in word games, such as crosswords, or Scrabble, and in the extreme, derive enjoyment from reading things commonly given less notice, such as labels
Look up xenophilia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
It can also mean someone being sexually attracted to a person of a different race.
Xenophilia is a theme found in science fiction, primarly the space opera sub-genre, in which explore the consequences of love and sexual intercourse between humans and extraterrestrials.
The second phase of "Xenophilia" focuses on Germany: on everyday life and language, on prejudices and minorities, nationality, and migration.
Especially in these sensitive points the designers of "Xenophilia" skillfully demonstrate that difficult questions about the politics of migration and asylum can be taught in a simple manner without losing the complexity of the whole picture, and not least of all in a way that breaks down prejudices.
In a time of abstract debates on integration, "Xenophilia" is very successful as an entertaining educational game that helps to break down the prejudices held by young people.
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