technophobia

English

Etymology

techno- + -phobia

Noun

technophobia (countable and uncountable, plural technophobias)

  1. A fear of new technologies.
    • 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 121:
      I learned that, as Jane approached discharge, I would attend pump class, to learn how to program pumps in our apartment and infuse Jane with water, food, and drugs. My technophobia covered its eyes.

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