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neophobias

neophobias is the plural of neophobia.

Meaning of 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. […]...
    Antonyms:
    neophilia

Questions about neophobias

What is neophobias the plural of?
Neophobias is the plural of neophobia.

Words near neophobias in the dictionary

  1. neophilologists
  2. neophilology
  3. neophobe
  4. neophobes
  5. neophobia
  6. neophobias
  7. neophobic
  8. neophobics
  9. neophyl
  10. neophytadiene
  11. neophytal

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