Meaning of cainophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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.”

“Sounds like a raging case of cainophobia with a large side helping of gnosiophobia.”

“The question to ask is whether this free text fixation is the result of report optimization, inertia, or cainophobia.”

CEFR level