Phobian

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

One who is phobic or antagonistic towards something..

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Some years ago when I concocted the word futurism (it was a Spring night in Paris), I should have balanced it with pasteurism, which process I now suggest as a sociological relief from mountebanks, utilitarians, egotistical snobs of progress, press phobians, news delirians and loquacious neurasthenics suffering from various forms of auto suggestion.

The time has now come to sever this connection between Western mediaeval phobians and Islam completely.

I am anguished to see the author, a votary of Hindutva restraining himself, advising Hindutva phobians to shed off their protest.

The cynics and phobians are “a diverse collection of anti-federalist politicians and observers who believe that the 'Europe' project cannot help but be an anti-national, anti-democratic, conspiracy-without-a-centre of bureaucratic social democrats, whose goal, perhaps unwitting, is to turn Europe into a superstate controlled by a technocratic managerial elite."

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