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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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(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
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