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progressophobe en · NOUN

Etymology

From progress + -o- + -phobe.

Meanings

1. One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.
   • 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. 2018 July 8, “Are academics to blame for the rise of populism?”, in Times Higher Education:
   • The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379). 1984, Business International - Volume 31, page 386:
   • 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. 2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN:

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