neophilyn.
/nɪˈɒfᵻli/, /nɪˈɒfl̩i/, U.S. /niˈɑfəli/ rare.
= neophilia n.
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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
newfangledism1883
neophilia1899
neophily1932
1932 B. Malinowski in R. F. Fortune Sorcerers of Dobu p. xxvii Terminological neophily..is a habit to which I have always been hostile.
2000 Re: Programming Habits in Python in comp.lang.python (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Nov. While we do all have some level of neophily too, our overall biological roots are mostly neophobe, our rationalizations-of-what-we're-used-to pointing to each novelty as a danger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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