neophobia

Noun

neophobia (countable and uncountable, plural neophobias)

1. The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
   • [T]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.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. […]...
   • 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...2001 December, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in Michael Kelly, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2013

   Synonyms:

   cainophobia, cainotophobia, misoneism, traditionalism

   Antonyms:

   neophilia