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technohorror

technohorror noun: a horror genre dealing with the harmful effects of technology.

Noun

technohorror (uncountable)

  1. A horror genre dealing with the harmful effects of technology.
    • Springing from these roots, the Alien franchise was to become a vehicle for the permanent entrenchment of 1950s-style technohorror in American popular culture.2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II
  2. The fear or loathing of modern technology.

Origin of technohorror

From techno- + horror.

Questions about technohorror

What does technohorror mean?
Technohorror means a horror genre dealing with the harmful effects of technology.
What part of speech is technohorror?
Technohorror is a noun.

Words near technohorror in the dictionary

  1. technographical
  2. technographically
  3. technographies
  4. technography
  5. technohead
  6. technohorror
  7. technoid
  8. technoids
  9. technoindustrial
  10. technoish
  11. technojargon

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