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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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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Progressophobe means One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress..
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The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379).
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