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What does misoneism mean?

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Noun
  1. The hatred or distrust of new things or ideas.
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Blaming misoneism for retarding social and political change, Lombroso admired geniuses and even criminals who lacked this trait and therefore might serve as catalysts for progress.
Indeed, our educational system inculcates in us a generalized misoneism, which at first is difficult to observe, but is there nonetheless.
Philoneism may be nobler and more humane, but, unfortunately, it is only misoneism that is true.
The misoneism of crowds seems to me one of the strongest arguments in favor of the individual character of invention.
He proposed that misoneism reigns over everyone and everywhere, in customs and in religion, in morality and science, in art and politics.

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