misoneism
English edit
Etymology edit
From Italian misoneismo (after Cesare Lombroso). Equivalent to miso- + neo- + -ism.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
misoneism (usually uncountable, plural misoneisms)
- The distrust or hatred of new ideas or things.
- Synonyms: neophobia, neophobism
- Antonyms: neophilia, neophilism, philoneism
- 1923 May, “Pornolagny and Realism”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 322, column 2:
- In politics this type of philistine has more than once denounced the "golden rule" as an "iridescent dream" of a lunatic. Such philistinism pleases the misoneism of the mediocre, whence the enthusiasm over platitudes and the reign of the philistine in newspaper art, literature and science.
- 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland:
- What really got his attention was the Lombrosian concept of “misoneism”. Radicals, militants, revolutionaries, however they styled themselves, all sinned against this deep organic human principle, which Lombroso had named after the Greek for “hatred of anything new.”
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
distrust or hatred of new ideas or things
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French misonéisme.
Noun edit
misoneism n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of misoneism (singular only)
| singular | ||
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| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) misoneism | misoneismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) misoneism | misoneismului |
| vocative | misoneismule | |