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cainotophobia

cainotophobia is the alternative form of cainophobia.

Meaning of cainophobia

Noun

cainophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
    • It is not by means of a social xenophobia and cainophobia that we shall succeed in junking our sawdust goals but only by a sincere and passionate openness to new experience.1962, Liberal Education, volume 48, page 518
    Synonyms:
    neophobia

Questions about cainotophobia

What is cainotophobia the alternative form of?
Cainotophobia is the alternative form of cainophobia.

Words near cainotophobia in the dictionary

  1. cainophobia
  2. cainotheriid
  3. cainotheriids
  4. cainotherioid
  5. cainotherioids
  6. cainotophobia
  7. Cainozoic
  8. cains
  9. Cainscross
  10. Cainta
  11. Caiola

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cainotophobia (page history and authors); cainophobia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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