neophilia

plural neophilias

1. uncountableusuallyThe love of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.

   LIKE SOCIABILITY, conscientiousness, or any other trait, your particular expression of neophilia has potential advantagesand drawbacks. Exploiting its strengths and compensating for its limitations begins with an understanding of your […]

   2011, Winifred Gallagher, New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change, Penguin, →ISBN

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   On the one hand, it was certainly imbued with the desire for change (rampant neophilia). On the other hand, it argued that what ordinary people wanted — rather than what planners, architects and other aesthetic judges said they ought to want […]

   2013, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler, Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2

   Antonyms: neophobia, traditionalism, cainophobia, cainotophobia, misoneism

2. uncountableusuallybiologyThe preference for any new foods not forming part of the diet associated with an earlier nutritional deficiency or other illness.

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   In order to account for the appearance of a novelty response in the deficient or recovered rat, Rozin and Rodgers (1967) suggest that either the state of deficiency triggers an innate neophilia, or that the deficient rat develops an aversion to the deficient diet and thus shows a strong preference for any new food. […] The neophilia of thiamine-deficient rats could be a direct consequence of a specific aversion for familiar deficient diet (paleophobia). On the other hand, it is also possible that a true neophilia exists along with the paleophobia.

   1967, Paul Rozin, “Specific aversions as a component of specific hungers”, in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, volume 64, number 2, →DOI, page 237; 242