Misanthropy

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  • noun. Hatred or mistrust of humankind.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Hatred or dislike of mankind; the habit of distrusting or of taking the worst possible view of human character or motives.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.
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  • noun. Hatred or dislike of people or mankind.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people
  • noun. hatred of mankind
    • Word Usage
    "Having been often ill-served on screen, Thompson's literary misanthropy is distilled in this tale of a psychopath who batters and kills those who love him with utter detachment; no wonder Stanley Kubrick called the book the most believable first-person depiction of the psychopathic mind."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    altruism  philanthropy  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hate  hatred  unfriendliness  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    acerbity  alcoholism  avarice  carnality  desperation  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Anglophobia  Russophobia  abhorrence  abomination  anti-Semitism  
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