Taxonomy vs Neophobia - What's the difference?
taxonomy | neophobia |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
The fear or hatred of new things.
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 289:
* {{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
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and neophobia
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while neophobia is the fear or hatred of new things.taxonomy
English
(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologyneophobia
English
(wikipedia neophobia)Noun
(-)- 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.
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