Usually means: Fear of new things, experiences.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word neophobia:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. neophobia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. neophobia: Collins English Dictionary
  3. neophobia: Vocabulary.com
  4. neophobia: Wordnik
  5. neophobia: Wiktionary
  6. neophobia: Dictionary.com
  7. Neophobia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. neophobia: Rhymezone
  9. neophobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  10. neophobia: FreeDictionary.org
  11. neophobia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. neophobia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. neophobia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. neophobia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Neophobia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Neophobia: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Neophobia: The Phobia List
  2. neophobia: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NeophobiA: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (neophobia)

▸ noun:  The fear or hatred of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.

Similar:
neophobe, neophobic, nostophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, technophobia, ideophobia, kenophobia, topophobia, tropophobia, more...

Opposite:
neophilia, love of new things

Adjectives:
enhanced, general, normal, induced, human



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Similar:
neophobe, neophobic, nostophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, technophobia, ideophobia, kenophobia, topophobia, tropophobia, more...

Opposite:
neophilia, love of new things

Adjectives:
enhanced, general, normal, induced, human



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