-misia

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mēwdʰ-der. Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos)der. Latin -iader. English -ia English -misia From Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + -ia. First attested in the 1950s, in iatromisia (“hatred of doctors”). Devised as an alternative to the suffix -phobia, which etymologically (and clinically) denotes fear, though it is also widely used in English to denote hatred. Compare -misic (“hating something”), -misiac (“one who hates something”).