Disanthropic
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of or pertaining to disanthropy; desiring a world without human life, or pertaining to such a world, as expressed in literature.
"There is, again, a peculiar beauty in the disanthropic moment. Of course, people are only temporarily absent—decentred from the narrative focus by war, rumbling just over the horizon—and by no means irredeemably banished."
Example
More examples"There is, again, a peculiar beauty in the disanthropic moment. Of course, people are only temporarily absent—decentred from the narrative focus by war, rumbling just over the horizon—and by no means irredeemably banished."
Etymology
PIE word *dwís From disanthropy + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns), probably modelled after misanthropic. The word was coined by the Canadian literary critic Greg Garrard in a 2012 article published in SubStance: see the quotation.
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