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NEOPHILIA
Etymology
Noun
neophilia (usually uncountable, plural neophilias)
The love of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
Antonyms: neophobia, traditionalism, cainophobia, cainotophobia, misoneism
(biology) The preference for any new foods not forming part of the diet associated with an earlier nutritional deficiency or other illness.
Coordinate term: paleophobia
Source: Wiktionary
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SUMMIT
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”
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