Noun

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(rare) The persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of change.

*{{quote-book

, year=2007 , author=Susan Vaught , title=Big Fat Manifesto , chapter= citation , isbn=1599902060 , page=145 , passage=Then, metathesiophobia , fear of change.}}

*{{quote-book

, year=2008 , author=Gérald Zaltman, Lindsay H. Zaltman , title=Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers , chapter= citation , isbn=1422121151 , page=4 , passage=There is a related fear, metathesiophobia , the fear of change.}}

*{{quote-book

, year=2009 , author=Amy Jones , title=What Boys Like: And Other Stories , chapter= citation , isbn= , page= , passage=I felt myself growing dizzy. “I can't,” I whispered. “Meta . . . metathesiophobia .” Maggie sighed impatiently.}}

Noun

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The fear or hatred of new things.

* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 289:

the murdering of Mormons and the massacring of Armenians, express much rather that aboriginal human neophobia [...] than they express the positive piety of the various perpetrators.

* {{quote-magazine, passage=In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias'' arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither ''doxophobia'' (fear of expressing opinions) nor ''neophobia'' (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of ''catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).

, year=2001 , date=December , author=Barbara Wallraff , title=Word Fugitives , magazine=The Atlantic Monthly citation