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Timonization

Timonization noun: the transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like Timon of Athens.

Noun

Timonization (plural Timonizations)

  1. The transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like Timon of Athens.
    • Among these lesser tragic influences the misanthropic concept of Timonization which seemed to obsess Melville so, and which has its origin in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, is mentioned twice in Pierre …1965, Raymond Ronald Long, The Hidden Sun
    • [The second half of Melville's Pierre] describes his growing misanthropy, his "Timonization" …1996, Christopher Sten, The Weaver-God, He Weaves
    Synonyms:
    Timonizing

Synonyms of Timonization

Forms of Timonization

pluralTimonizations

Origin of Timonization

From Timonize + -ation, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used by Raymond Ronald Long in his study The Hidden Sun (1965).

Questions about Timonization

What does Timonization mean?
Timonization means the transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like Timon of Athens.
What part of speech is Timonization?
Timonization is a noun.
What is the plural of Timonization?
The plural of Timonization is Timonizations.

Words near Timonization in the dictionary

  1. Timonism
  2. Timonisms
  3. Timonist
  4. Timonists
  5. Timonium
  6. Timonization
  7. Timonizations
  8. Timonize
  9. Timonized
  10. Timonizes
  11. Timonizing

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