cainophobia

noun

1. The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.

   uncountable

   It is not by means of a social xenophobia and cainophobia that we shall succeed in junking our sawdust goals but only by a sincere and passionate openness to new experience.

Where it comes from

From the Ancient Greek roots καινός (kainós, “new”) or καινότης (kainótēs, “newness”) + -phobia.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry cainophobia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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