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Definition of Misoneism
1. Noun. Hatred of change or innovation.
Definition of Misoneism
1. Noun. The hatred or distrust of new things or ideas. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misoneism
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Misoneism
1. Dislike of and disinclination to accept new ideas. Origin: G. Miseo, to hate, + neos, new (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misoneism
Literary usage of Misoneism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pathology of Emotions: Physiological and Clinical Studies by Charles Féré (1899)
"Division : diffuse emotivity, systematic emotivity—Excess— Diminution of
Emotivity—-Apathy—Morbid Fears—misoneism—Agara- ..."
2. The Man of Genius by Cesare Lombroso (1896)
"... and brain—Stammering—Lefthandedness —Sterility—Unlikeness to Parents—Precocity—Delayed
development—misoneism—Vagabondage—Unconsciousness — Instinctive- ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1891)
"misoneism in manners.—This may be seen, for example, in the manners and customs
of the ... misoneism in religion—As much can be said of this in relation to ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"For misoneism is, from this point of view, as much a physiological ... Every violent
assault on the misoneism of society is therefore an assault on a ..."
5. The Child: A Study in the Evolution of Man by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1902)
"Everywhere he finds misoneism, it dominates in all ages, and among all peoples;
language, institutions, customs, laws, all human thoughts ..."
6. Outlines of Psychiatry by William Alanson White (1915)
"There is developed more and more as the years go on a true misoneism, so that
the patient ... With this misoneism and the lack of memory for recent events ..."
7. Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau (1895)
"misoneism protects man from changes of which the suddenness or the extent would
be baneful to him. But it does not only appear as resistance to the ..."
8. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of by Robert Michels (1915)
"misoneism, the rock upon which so many serious reforms have at all times been
... To this misoneism are superadded, and more particularly in the popular ..."
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