Progressophobe

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.

    "The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379)."

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"The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379)."

Etymology

From progress + -o- + -phobe.

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