English

Alternative forms

• cainotophobia

Noun

cainophobia ‎(uncountable)

1. The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
   • 1962, Liberal Education, Volume 48, page 518:

     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.

   • 2002 September 4, maf1029 [username], “Re: Homosexuals have phobias”, in alt.politics.homosexuality, Usenet:

     Sounds like a raging case of cainophobia with a large side helping of gnosiophobia.

   • 2009, Bruce I. Reiner, "The Challenges, Opportunities, and Imperative of Structured Reporting in Medical Imaging", Journal of Digital Imaging:

     The question to ask is whether this free text fixation is the result of report optimization, inertia, or cainophobia.

Synonyms

• neophobia