It’s pretty dang effective! Thanks so much for listening and for the comments!

Thanks for the assist, and xenophobia is close. It’s like a really close cousin of the word I was trying (and still am) trying to remember. It’s more a reaction to something’s “wrongness” rather than it’s “foreign-ness.” Like a spider with human eyes. I only heard the word once (talking about something Lovecraftian, no doubt) and I loved it, but apparently not enough to memorize it.