neophobia
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Noun
neophobia (countable and uncountable, plural neophobias)
- The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
- Synonyms: cainophobia, cainotophobia, misoneism, traditionalism
- Antonym: neophilia
- 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. , →OCLC, page 338:
- 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.
- 2001 December, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in Michael Kelly, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).
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fear of new things
