misoneism

English

Etymology

From Italian misoneismo (after Cesare Lombroso). Equivalent to miso- +‎ neo- +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/, /ˌmaɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/

Noun

misoneism (usually uncountable, plural misoneisms)

The distrust or hatred of new ideas or things.
Synonyms: neophobia, neophobism

Antonyms: neophilia, neophilism, philoneism
- 1923 May, “Pornolagny and Realism”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 322, column 2:
  In politics this type of philistine has more than once denounced the "golden rule" as an "iridescent dream" of a lunatic. Such philistinism pleases the misoneism of the mediocre, whence the enthusiasm over platitudes and the reign of the philistine in newspaper art, literature and science.
- 1974, Bruno de Finetti, translated by Antonio Machí and Adrian Smith, Theory of Probability, volume 1, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1.2.2:
  Why do I myself not also conform to the introduction of such developments into the calculus of probability? Is it a question of incomprehension? Of misoneism? Of affectation in preferring to use the tools of the craftsman in an era of automation which allows mass production even of brains – both electronic and human?
  [original: Perché non mi adeguo all'introduzione di tali progressi anche nel calcolo delle probabilità, già universalmente accettata portando anche ivi grandiosi progressi? Si tratta di incomprensione? di misoneismo? di civetteria nel preferire utensili artigianali nell'era dell'automazione che permette la confezione in serie perfino di cervelli sia elettronici che umani?]
- 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland:
  What really got his attention was the Lombrosian concept of “misoneism”. Radicals, militants, revolutionaries, however they styled themselves, all sinned against this deep organic human principle, which Lombroso had named after the Greek for “hatred of anything new.”

Derived terms

misoneist

Translations

distrust or hatred of new ideas or things

French: misonéisme (fr) m
Georgian: მიზონეიზმი (ka) (mizoneizmi)
German: Misoneismus m
Italian: misoneismo (it) m
Romanian: misoneism (ro) n

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French misonéisme.

Noun

misoneism n (uncountable)

misoneism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	misoneism	misoneismul
genitive-dative	misoneism	misoneismului
vocative	misoneismule