technophoben.
/ˈtɛknə(ʊ)fəʊb/, U.S. /ˈtɛknəˌfoʊb/ A person who fears technology.In quot. 1955 applied to an animal.
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society > occupation and work > worker > enthusiast for technology > [noun] > one who fears or opposes technology
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Luddite1970
the mind > emotion > fear > fear of particular things > [noun] > fear of technology > one who fears technology
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technophobic1985
1946 H. Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson vii. 48 If the reader will consult such a book as Recent Economic Changes, by David A. Wells, published in 1889, he will find passages that, except for the dates and absolute amounts involved, might have been written by our technophobes (if I may coin a needed word) of today.
1955 G. Sircom tr. H. Hediger Stud. Psychol. & Behaviour Captive Animals Zoos & Circuses 15 Even within a single group of animals..one may be a technophobe [Ger. Technophobe] (pine marten), the other a definite technophile (the common marten, Martes foina).
1965 New Statesman 27 Aug. 286/1 The incipient technophobe will rage against the motor-murder of 20 people a day in Britain, without once considering that cars also carry 50 million people and their goods.
1986 Electronic Musician May 43/3 If you are..a serious technophobe and want your introduction to computers to be absolutely painless, nay, even fun..then the Mac..will probably fit the bill.
2007 Christianity Today Oct. 102/1 I reserve intimacy for the incarnate realm, but I don't share technophobes' disdain for virtual ties.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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