technophobia

English

Etymology

From techno- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

technophobia (countable and uncountable, plural technophobias)

1. A fear of new technologies.
   • 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 121:

     I learned that, as Jane approached discharge, I would attend pump class, to learn how to program pumps in our apartment and infuse Jane with water, food, and drugs. My technophobia covered its eyes.

Antonyms

• technophilia

Related terms

• technophobe
• technophobic

Translations

fear of new technologies

• French: technophobie (fr) f
• Greek: τεχνοφοβία (el) f (technofovía)
• Romanian: tehnofobie (ro) f