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NEOPHOBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does neophobia mean?
• NEOPHOBIA (noun)
The noun NEOPHOBIA has 1 sense:
1. a morbid fear of novelty
Familiarity information: NEOPHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A morbid fear of novelty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("neophobia" is a kind of...):
simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)
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