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technohorror

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Etymology

From techno- + horror.

Noun

technohorror (uncountable)

  1. A horror genre dealing with the harmful effects of technology.
    • 2016, Steffen Hantke, Monsters in the Machine: Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America after World War II:
      Springing from these roots, the Alien franchise was to become a vehicle for the permanent entrenchment of 1950s-style technohorror in American popular culture.
  2. The fear or loathing of modern technology.
    Hyponym: technoparanoia
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