disanthropic
Syllables: dis·an·throp·icUK/ˌdɪsænˈθɹɒpɪk/US/ˌdɪsænˈθɹɑpɪk/
disanthropic adjective: of or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature.
Adjective
disanthropic (comparative more disanthropic, superlative most disanthropic)
- Of or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature.
- There is, again, a peculiar beauty in the disanthropic moment. Of course, people are only temporarily absent—decentred from the narrative focus by war, rumbling just over the horizon—and by no means irredeemably banished.2012, Greg Garrard, “Worlds Without Us: Some Types of Disanthropy”, in Ranjan Ghosh, editor, SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism: Issue 127: Globing the Earth: The New Eco-logics of...
- In contemporary ecological mobilizations of the weird, by contrast, we observe a tendency to celebrate the weird as a feature of a disanthropic world—a world in which human agency has been absorbed by nonhuman forces.2019, Kahn Faassen, Pieter Vermeulen, “The Weird and the Ineluctable Human”, in Collateral, number 15
Forms of disanthropic
| comparative | more disanthropic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most disanthropic |
Origin of disanthropic
PIE word *dwís From disanthropy + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns), probably modelled after misanthropic. The word was coined by the Canadian literary critic Greg Garrard in a 2012 article published in SubStance: see the quotation.
Words that rhyme with disanthropic
- topic
- microscopic
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- megascopic
- monotropic
- myopic
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- dystropic
- ectopic
- fibroscopic
- gonadotropic
- macroscopic
- microendoscopic
- monoscopic
- polytopic
- proctoscopic
- rhinoscopic
- thermoscopic
- thermotropic
- acroscopic
- adrenocorticotropic
- aerotropic
- Afrotropic
- allotropic
- amblyopic
- ametropic
- anascopic
- anoscopic
- anthropic
- antigonadotropic
- antitropic
- antroscopic
- apocopic
- arthroscopic
- arthrotropic
- asthenopic
- astroscopic
- atopic
- auriscopic
- autoscopic
- autostereoscopic
- baroscopic
- barotropic
- basiscopic
- bathmotropic
- bioscopic
- bronchoscopic
- brontoscopic
- chemotropic
- chromatophorotropic
- chromoendoscopic
- chromotropic
- chronoscopic
- chronotopic
- chronotropic
Questions about disanthropic
- What does disanthropic mean?
- Disanthropic means of or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature.
- What part of speech is disanthropic?
- Disanthropic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce disanthropic?
- Disanthropic is pronounced /ˌdɪsænˈθɹɒpɪk/ (UK).
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