Progressophobe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Progressophobe is a noun meaning One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.
Meaning
One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.
Example Sentences
The tragedy is also likely to fuel the polemical fires of an expanding corps of antichemical "progressophobes" (BI '84 p. 379).
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.
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.
Word Forms
- progressophobes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antiprogressionist, antiprogressist, antiprogressive, pejorist, antioptimist, neo-luddite.
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