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Neophilia vs Neophobia - What's the difference?

neophilia | neophobia | Antonyms |

Neophobia is a antonym of neophilia.



As nouns the difference between neophilia and neophobia

is that neophilia is love of new things while neophobia is the fear or hatred of new things.

neophilia

English

(wikipedia neophilia)

Noun

(-)
  • love of new things.

    • Related terms

    * neophilic * neophile, neophiliac

    Antonyms

    * (love of new things) neophobia * (love of old things) paleophilia

    neophobia

    English

    (wikipedia neophobia)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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

    Synonyms

    * cainophobia * cainotophobia

    Antonyms

    * (love of new things) neophilia * (fear of old things) paleophobia