What phobia is the fear of change?

Answer 1

future shock

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I have not been able to locate an accepted "phobia" label for fear of change. The closest recognized label I have found is: cainophobia, the fear of newness.

There does seem to be another candidate, although its use appears to be limited to the "pop psychology" community: metathesiophobia

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i suggest "neophobia", another term for "fear of the new"; unlike all the other pseudo-classical terms i found in a quick Google, it's in use in a few places, andpeople may actually be able to guess what it means if they haven't heard it before

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If we're going to suggest changes, here's my proposal: allagiphobia, from the Greek for "change." The fear is not of new things, the fear is a change to the status quo. A fear of things getting worse, not a fear of things becoming new.

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The word for the fear of change is metathesiophobia