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misoneism

/ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/

misoneism noun: the distrust or hatred of new ideas or things.

Noun

misoneism (usually uncountable, plural misoneisms)

  1. (usually) The distrust or hatred of new ideas or things.
    • In politics this type of philistine has more than once denounced the "golden rule" as an "iridescent dream" of a lunatic. Such philistinism pleases the misoneism of the mediocre, whence the enthusiasm over platitudes and the reign of the philistine in newspaper art, literature and science.1923 May, “Pornolagny and Realism”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 322, column 2
    • Perché non mi adeguo all'introduzione di tali progressi anche nel calcolo delle probabilità, già universalmente accettata portando anche ivi grandiosi progressi? Si tratta di incomprensione? di misoneismo? di civetteria nel preferire utensili artigianali nell'era dell'automazione che permette la...1974, Bruno de Finetti, translated by Antonio Machí and Adrian Smith, Theory of Probability, volume 1, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1.2.2
    Synonyms:
    neophobia, neophobism

misoneism meaning in Tamil

misoneism in Tamil

புதுமைவெறுப்பு, தொடக்கச் சடங்கு வெறுப்பு, புதுமை வெறுப்பு, புதுமை மறுப்பி

Synonyms of misoneism

Antonyms

Forms of misoneism

pluralmisoneisms

Origin of misoneism

From Italian misoneismo (after Cesare Lombroso). Equivalent to miso- + neo- + -ism.

Words formed from misoneism

Questions about misoneism

What does misoneism mean?
Misoneism means the distrust or hatred of new ideas or things.
What is misoneism in Tamil?
Misoneism in Tamil is புதுமைவெறுப்பு, தொடக்கச் சடங்கு வெறுப்பு, புதுமை வெறுப்பு. See Misoneism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is misoneism?
Misoneism is a noun.
How do you pronounce misoneism?
Misoneism is pronounced /ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/.
What is the plural of misoneism?
The plural of misoneism is misoneisms.

Words near misoneism in the dictionary

  1. misomaniac
  2. misomaniacal
  3. misomaniacs
  4. misomusist
  5. misomusists
  6. misoneism
  7. misoneisms
  8. misoneist
  9. misoneistic
  10. misoneistics
  11. misoneists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misoneism (page history and authors); misoneism (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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