neophiliacadj.n.
/ˌnɪəˈfɪlɪak/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈfɪliˌæk/ A. adj.
Characterized by neophilia.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > fond of novelty or new things
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1942 Sociometry 5 212 We might speak of traditive and transitive, conservative and conversive,..neophobiac and neophiliac, and so on and on.
1971 ‘R. Petrie’ Thorne in Flesh xi. 142 From where Thorne had sat, without neophiliac needs, he had seen..not spangles but sweating flesh.
1993 M. Kantor Distancing iv. 44 Some avoidants are not neophobic but neophiliac; that is, they are not afraid of the new, but they are uncomfortable with the old.
B. n.
A person characterized by neophilia.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > novelty or unusual character of something > fondness for novelty > one who likes novelties
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1948 H. Becker in H. Becker & R. Hill Family Marriage & Parenthood i. i. 42 Such persons often do much to speed up social change, for their inferiority feelings demand it; they are permanent neophiliacs.
1969 C. Booker (title) The neophiliacs.
1972 Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 2/2 Neophiliacs suffer from a collective fantasy which leads them to describe every change as inevitable and an improvement on what preceded it.
1991 N.Y. Times 8 Oct. c5/2 Neophiliacs will want to grok both books.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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