cainotophobia
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cainotophobia — cai·no·to·pho·bi·a (kā nō tə fōʹbē ə) n. An abnormal fear of newness. [Greek kainotēs, newness (from kainos, new. See ken + phobia.] * * * … Universalium
List of phobias — This article is about the suffix phobia. For the class of psychological disorders, see Phobia. Contents 1 Psychological conditions 1.1 Animal phobias … Wikipedia
-phobia — The English suffixes phobia, phobic, phobe ( of Greek origin: φόβος/φοβία ) occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g., agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe… … Wikipedia
Neophobia — is the fear of new things or experiences. It is also called cainotophobia. In psychology, neophobia is defined as the persistent and abnormal fear of anything new. In its milder form, it can manifest as the unwillingness to try new things or… … Wikipedia
ken- — Fresh, new, young. 1. Suffixed form *ken t . recent, from Latin recēns, young, fresh, new (re , again; see re ). 2. Suffixed zero grade form *kn̥ yo . cene; cainotophobia, Cenozoic … Universalium
neophobia — noun /niːəˈfəʊbɪə/ The fear or dislike of new things. the 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. Syn:… … Wiktionary
