misanthropy
Noun
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Noun
misanthropy
- Hatred or dislike of people or mankind.
- 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, Author's Preface
- Hence gloom and misanthropy have become the characteristics of the age in which we live, the solace of a disappointment that unconsciously finds relief only in the wilful exaggeration of its own despair.
- 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, Author's Preface
- Timonism (bitter misanthropy)
- (dislike of people) altruism, philanthropy
- French: misanthropie
- German: Menschenhass, Menschenfeindlichkeit, Misanthropie
- Italian: misantropia
- Portuguese: misantropia
- Russian: человеконенави́стничество
- Spanish: misantropía
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