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misoneisms

misoneisms is the plural of misoneism.

Meaning of misoneism

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
    Synonyms:
    neophobia, neophobism

Questions about misoneisms

What is misoneisms the plural of?
Misoneisms is the plural of misoneism.

Words near misoneisms in the dictionary

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

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