Word.ws English Dictionary

misanthropia

misanthropia is the obsolete form of misanthropy.

Meaning of misanthropy

Noun

misanthropy (countable and uncountable, plural misanthropies)

  1. A negative view or hatred of the human race.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    Timonism

Questions about misanthropia

What is misanthropia the obsolete form of?
Misanthropia is the obsolete form of misanthropy.

Words near misanthropia in the dictionary

  1. misanswered
  2. misanswering
  3. misanswers
  4. misanthrope
  5. misanthropes
  6. misanthropia
  7. misanthropic
  8. misanthropical
  9. misanthropically
  10. misanthropies
  11. misanthropise

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misanthropia (page history and authors); misanthropy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “misanthropia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/misanthropia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.