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technohorror en · NOUN

Etymology

From techno- + horror.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A horror genre dealing with the harmful effects of technology.
    • Springing from these roots, the Alien franchise was to become a vehicle for the permanent entrenchment of 1950s-style technohorror in American popular culture. 2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II:
  2. (uncountable) The fear or loathing of modern technology.

Hyponyms

technoparanoia