Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cainophobia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cain-o-pho-bia
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek roots καινός (kainós, “new”) or καινότης (kainótēs, “newness”) + -phobia.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: -
Suffix: phobia

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

cainotophobia (alternative)

Synonyms

neophobia

Questions

What does cainophobia mean?: The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
Where does cainophobia come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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