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disanthropies

disanthropies is the plural of disanthropy.

Meaning of disanthropy

Noun

disanthropy (usually uncountable, plural disanthropies)

  1. (usually, literary criticism) A misanthropic desire for a world without human life, expressed in literature.
    • [pages 40–41] D. H. Lawrence, enthused and infuriated by [Friedrich] Nietzsche, entrusted to his alter ego Birkin in Women in Love a desire that I will call "disanthropy": […] Lawrence may have yearned for a world without people, but it was Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse that first explored...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...

Questions about disanthropies

What is disanthropies the plural of?
Disanthropies is the plural of disanthropy.

Words near disanthropies in the dictionary

  1. disanoint
  2. disanointed
  3. disanointing
  4. disanoints
  5. disanthropic
  6. disanthropies
  7. disanthropy
  8. DiSantis
  9. DiSanto
  10. DiSantos
  11. disapointed

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