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neophilia|niːəˈfɪlɪə|
[f. neo- + -philia.]
Love for, or great interest in, what is new; a love of novelty. So neoˈphiliac, a person characterized by neophilia; also neoˈphili(a)c a.; neˈophily.
1932B. Malinowski in R. F. Fortune Sorcerers of Dobu p. xxvii, Terminological neophily..is a habit to which I have always been hostile. 1966R. & D. Morris Men & Apes vii. 217 There is a perpetual struggle going on inside the brain, between the fear of the new (neophobia) and the love of the new (neophilia). The neophobic urges keep the animal out of danger, while the neophilic urges prevent him from becoming too set in his ways. 1969C. Booker (title) The neophiliacs. 1971R. Petrie Thorne in Flesh xi. 142 From where Thorne had sat, without neophiliac needs, he had seen..not spangles but sweating flesh. 1972Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 2/2 The exaltation of novelty (neophilia) had been turned into a cult. Ibid., Neophiliacs suffer from a collective fantasy which leads them to describe every change as inevitable and an improvement on what preceded it. |