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{{Short description|Dislike or fear of the past, antithesis of nostalgia}}

'''Nostophobia''' is repugnance or dislike of the past, the antithesis of [[nostalgia]].<ref name="Bakke">{{cite book|last=Bakke-Hansen|first=Martin|editor=Devika Sharma|title=Structures of Feeling: Affectivity and the Study of Culture|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gBfCAAAQBAJ&q=nostophobia&pg=PA121|date=Mar 5, 2015|publisher=[[Walter de Gruyter]]|isbn=9783110369519|pages=116–123|chapter=Nostalgia and Nostophobia: Emotional Memory in Joseph Roth and Herta Muller}}</ref> Nostophobic reactions are often encouraged to reduce resistance to workplace or similar changes.<ref>{{cite web |title = Optimist Minds Nostophobia |url = https://optimistminds.com/nostophobia}}/</ref> The fear of returning to one's childhood home is nostophobia combined with its comorbidity ecophobia: fear of house.

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