鄰避症候群（Not In My Back Yard的首字母縮寫，指居民或在地單位因擔心建設項目對身體健康、環境質量和資產價值等帶來不利後果，而採取的強烈、堅決、高度情緒化的集體反對甚至抗爭行為）（a person who hopes or seeks to keep some dangerous or unpleasant feature out of his or her neighborhood）

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But to advocates of the mentally retarded, that kind of thinking, and all the hysteria surrounding E.G., are a reminder of the benighted days when all retarded people, even those who posed no threat to others, were seen as monsters and opening group homes for them triggered furious NIMBY campaigns.

—David M. Halbfinger, "Confidentiality Vs. a Warning Of Pedophilia," The New York Times, January 23, 2002