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progressophobe

progressophobe noun: one who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.

Noun

progressophobe (plural progressophobes)

  1. One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.
    • The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379).1984, Business International - Volume 31, page 386
    • The political philosopher John Gray, an avowed progressophobe, has described the contemporary societies of Western Europe as “terrains of violent conflict” in which “peace and war [are] fatally blurred.2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN

Forms of progressophobe

pluralprogressophobes

Origin of progressophobe

From progress + -o- + -phobe.

Questions about progressophobe

What does progressophobe mean?
Progressophobe means one who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.
What part of speech is progressophobe?
Progressophobe is a noun.
What is the plural of progressophobe?
The plural of progressophobe is progressophobes.

Words near progressophobe in the dictionary

  1. progressivists
  2. progressivities
  3. progressivity
  4. progressless
  5. progresslessness
  6. progressophobe
  7. progressophobes
  8. progressor
  9. progressors
  10. progs
  11. proguanil

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