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Etymology

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From techno- +‎ paranoid.

Adjective

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technoparanoid (comparative more technoparanoid, superlative most technoparanoid)

  1. Exhibiting an unreasonable fear of modern technology.
    • 2013, Caetlin Benson-Allott, Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing:
      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.
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