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Fear of novelty washer in replacement of a hip bone
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neophobia
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n. The fear or hatred of new things.
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Neophobia is the fear of anything new, especially a persistent and abnormal fear . In its milder form, it can manifest as the unwillingness to try new things or break from routine. In biomedical research, neophobia is often associated with the study of ...
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n. a morbid fear of novelty
Usage examples of neophobia.
He does not know what he has killed and it is only chance and neophobia that he does not eat the child.
The baiting of Jews, the hunting of Albigenses and Waldenses, the stoning of Quakers and ducking of Methodists, the murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia, that pugnacity of which we all share the vestiges, and that inborn hatred of the alien and of eccentric and non-conforming men as aliens, than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators.