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Misanthropy

noun
1.
Hatred of mankind.
2.
A disposition to dislike and mistrust other people.





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... was not extirpated when the supposed cause was removed. The most memorable embodiment of the sentiment was Swift. The concentrated scorn of corruption in the Drapier's Letters was followed by the intense misanthropy of Gulliver's Travels. The singular way in which Swift blends personal aversion with political conviction, and the strange humour which conceals the misanthropist under a superficial playfulness, veils to some extent his real aim. But Swift ...
— English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century • Leslie Stephen


Words linked to "Misanthropy" :   misanthropist, hatred, misanthropic, unfriendliness, hate, misanthropical


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