neophilia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The love of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
The preference for any new foods not forming part of the diet associated with an earlier nutritional deficiency or other illness.

/niːəˈfɪ.li.ə/

neophilia neophilias

From neo- + -philia.

neophobia traditionalism cainophobia cainotophobia misoneism

neophile neophiliac neophilic ephemerality progressivism

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