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progressophobe

noun

Etymology

From progress + -o- + -phobe.

  1. derived from prōgressus
  2. derived from progres
  3. inherited from progresse
  4. formed as progressophobe — “progress + -o- + -phobe”

Definitions

  1. One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.

    • The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379).
    • The political philosopher John Gray, an avowed progressophobe, has described the contemporary societies of Western Europe as “terrains of violent conflict” in which “peace and war [are] fatally blurred.
    • Academics are, apparently, “progressophobes” who chip away at the public's confidence in conventional politics and, through this, may have unwittingly created a vacuum that populism has filled.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA