Fear change

Can anyone please tell me if there is a word which represents "fear change".

A freind of mine is so stuck in his ways and I need a this word to abuse him!

Thanks in advance.

Fear of change or making changes - tropophobia. From "There's a Word for It! A Grandiloquent Guide to Life" by Charles Harrington Elster, Pocket Books, New York, 1996.

what about your friend being a "neophobe" (frightened of the new)?

Thanks a lot...at last I have the ammo to destroy him! Many thanks.

There's also "mossback," "stick-in-the-mud," and "Republican."

And don't forget the classic "reactionary". :)

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