Neophobia
//niːəˈfəʊbɪə// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations. countable, uncountable
"[T]he murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia, […] than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators."
- 2 a morbid fear of novelty wordnet
Example
More examples"[T]he murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia, […] than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators."
Etymology
From neo- + -phobia.
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