Definition of Neophile

1. one who loves novelty [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neophile

neoorthodoxies
neoorthodoxy
neopagan
neopagans
neopallium
neopathy
neopentane
neopentanoic acid
neopentoxy
neopentyl
neopentyl alcohol
neopentyl glycol
neopentylglycol
neopharmaphobia
neophile (current term)
neophiles
neophilia
neophiliac
neophiliacs
neophilias
neophobe
neophobes
neophobia
neophobic
neophrenia
neophyte
neophytes
neophytic
neopinone

Literary usage of Neophile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Child: A Study in the Evolution of Man by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1902)
"Even Lombroso, as Merlino wittily says, is 'neophile in anthropology, but neophobic in sociology.' Even amid the beginnings of human gregariousness, ..."

2. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1896)
"As 1 neophile Gautier says: " Having no clothes to embroider, they embroider their skin--. ..."

3. Putnam's & the Reader (1909)
"... the whole question of sympathy between nations depends first upon economic relations and secondly upon psychological states of the subject, neophile or ..."

4. The Poetical Works of Howitt, Milman, and Keats by Mary Botham Howitt, Henry Hart Milman, John Keats (1853)
"What means the gentle neophile i MARGARITA. Good sir, Thou host not heard Hark—hark ! they are to- hind me. FABIUS. Who, maiden, who ? MARGARITA. ..."

5. Geschichte des französischen Romans im XVII. Jahrhundert by Heinrich Körting (1891)
"Aurelie zeigt dann die grösste Liebenswürdigkeit; sie bedauert, dass neophile in ihrem Hause so Üble Erfahrungen gemacht, ... neophile verbringt mit ..."

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