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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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."