Etymology

Adjective

1. Modern, new-fangled.
2. New; recent.

   quotations:

   • "Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?" — The Toronto Star, August 21, 1998
   • "A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext and ergodic, are in order." — Cybertext, 1997, Espen Aarseth.

Noun

1. A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 140:

     Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.

2. Someone with new or modern ideas.