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technoparanoid

technoparanoid adjective: exhibiting an unreasonable fear of modern technology.

Adjective

technoparanoid (comparative more technoparanoid, superlative most technoparanoid)

  1. Exhibiting an unreasonable fear of modern technology.
    • Cronenberg made a technoparanoid movie about Americanization while the NVLA sensationalized horror movies as agents of Americanization, but that very similarity ironically made Videodrome unwelcome in the United Kingdom.2013, Caetlin Benson-Allott, Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing

Forms of technoparanoid

comparativemore technoparanoid
superlativemost technoparanoid

Origin of technoparanoid

From techno- + paranoid.

Questions about technoparanoid

What does technoparanoid mean?
Technoparanoid means exhibiting an unreasonable fear of modern technology.
What part of speech is technoparanoid?
Technoparanoid is an adjective.

Words near technoparanoid in the dictionary

  1. technonomy
  2. technopagan
  3. technopaganism
  4. technopagans
  5. technoparanoia
  6. technoparanoid
  7. technopark
  8. technoparks
  9. technopath
  10. technopathic
  11. technopaths

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