Paleophobia

Origin

From .

Full definition of paleophobia

Noun

1. (biology) The aversion to certain foods forming part of a diet associated with an earlier nutritional deficiency or other illness.
• 1967, Paul Rozin, Specific aversions as a component of specific hungers, The neophilia of thiamine-deficient rats could be a direct consequence of a specific aversion for familiar deficient diet (paleophobia). On the other hand, it is also possible that a true neophilia exists along with the paleophobia.