misanthropy

Noun

Meaning

Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

malice meanness detestation enemy doubt hate hostility hatred dislike detachment distrust bitterness animosity alienation disgust
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Antonyms

amity friendship passion attachment devotion affection
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Hypernyms

hate hatred unfriendliness

Examples

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. Thomas Babington Macaulay

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage. Jonathan Franzen

...Daudet differs from the hate-filled Baudelaire and Maupassant in being gentle to fellow-sufferers from the disease of life. Syphilis in him did not engender misanthropy. Anthony Burgess

Misanthropy don't pay--thare aint no man living whoze hate the world cares one cuss for. Josh Billings

Gulliver's Travels is an anatomy of human nature, a sardonic looking-glass, often criticised for its apparent misanthropy. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

misanthropist misanthropize misanthropos misappear misappearance misappellation