Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A love of novelty; a preference, sometimes amounting to an insane desire, for what is new.
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Examples
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Superficially, the United States seems to suffer from an endless and astounding neophilism; actually all its thinking is done within the boundaries of a very small group of political,
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Books rushed into print to satisfy our neophilism -- or our neophilistinism -- we can live comfortably without.
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That definition may not capture the appeal of this book as nicely as its definition of neophilism:
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If the distinction imposed by these definitions can be trusted, it is neophilia that makes a book like this one pleasurable, but it is neophilism that seems to create it.
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