misoneism
Meaning
The distrust or hatred of new ideas or things.
Opposite of
neophilia, neophilism, philoneism
Translations
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/
Etymology
From Italian misoneismo (after Cesare Lombroso). Equivalent to miso- + neo- + -ism.
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