{"id":2324,"date":"2005-11-06T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2005-11-06T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-06T22:24:00","slug":"neophiles-neophobes-and-cainotophiles-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/11\/06\/18\/24\/neophiles-neophobes-and-cainotophiles-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Neophiles, Neophobes, and Cainotophiles, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a puzzler. If there’s a Cainophobia<\/a>\/Cenophobia<\/a>\/Centophobia<\/a>\/Cainotophobia <\/a>(a pathological fear of new things, as ritualised in the DSM<\/a>) using a more proper Greek root+tail than the Latin-Greek compound neophobia<\/a>, why is there no matching cainotophilia<\/a>\/cainophilia<\/a> instead of the neophilia<\/a> hybrid?<\/p>\n

I blame Robert Anton Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a puzzler. If there’s a Cainophobia\/Cenophobia\/Centophobia\/Cainotophobia (a pathological fear of new things, as ritualised in the DSM) using a more proper Greek root+tail than the Latin-Greek compound neophobia, why is there no matching...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t