Cainophobia

Alternative forms

• cainotophobia

Origin

From the roots καινός or καινότης en + - + phobia.

Full definition of cainophobia

Noun

1. The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
• 1962, Liberal Education, Volume 48, page 518: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.
• 4 September 2002, maf1029 username, Re: Homosexuals have phobias, Sounds like a raging case of cainophobia with a large side helping of gnosiophobia.
• 2009, Bruce I. Reiner, "The Challenges, Opportunities, and Imperative of Structured Reporting in Medical Imaging", Journal of Digital Imaging:The question to ask is whether this free text fixation is the result of report optimization, inertia, or cainophobia.